Christopher  HUNTINGTON

Christopher Huntington.

Christopher and Simon Huntington probably settled at Saybrook as soon as they attained their majority. Christopher was there in 1649, apparently engaged in trade, and had written to his uncle Baret in Eng-. land, for consignments of cloth and shot. In 1651, he was one of five persons who seized a Dutch vessel that was on the coast trading illegally with the Indians. He married Ruth, daughter of William Rockwell of Windsor, Oct. 7, 1652. They lost one child, and perhaps more than one, in infancy, and when the removal to Norwich took place, the parents had only their little daughter, Ruth, to carry through the wilderness. But a blessing soon descended upon their new home ; a son was born, a second Christopher, Nov. 1st, 1660.

The first born male in Norwich.

The children of Christopher Huntington were subsequently increased to seven in number, while Simon had a family of ten. They both lived to embrace their children's children, and to see the family

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One of the 35 original proprietors of Norwich, who came from England to Roxbury in 1633 -- source Genealogy of the family of Lt. Thomas Tracy, of Norwich, Connecticut : compiled from the genealogical works of the Hydes and Tracys by Chancellor Reuben H. Walworth and other reliable sources
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CHRISTOPHER HUNTINGTON, probably accompanied his mother to Windsor, Conn., where he must have spent his youth. He here married, October 7, 1652, Ruth, daughter of Wm. Rockwell, 'a prominent and highly respected member of the community.' He removed, probably, in the spring of 1654, to Saybrook, as the birth of one child appeared in 1653 on the Windsor records and the death of another in May, 1654, on those of Saybrook. Here he remained until the spring of 1660, when, with a company of the Saybrook colony who had organized themselves into a church, under the care of Rev.