Christopher  HUNTINGTON

1624 Birth
25 July 1624
Norwich, Norfolk, England

1624 Baptism
Name: Christopher Huntinton
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 25 Jul 1624
Christening Place: SAINT ANDREW,NORWICH,NORFOLK,ENGLAND
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Father's Name: Simond Huntinton
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C10976-1
System Origin: England-ODM
GS Film number: 993970
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'England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,' index, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ J9W6-8QB : accessed 26 Nov 2013), Christopher Huntinton, 25 Jul 1624.
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Biography
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...Read MORE...


History of Norwich, Connecticut: From Its Possession by the Indians to the Year 1866 Author Frances Manwaring Caulkins Publisher By H.P. Haven, 1874

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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
Milwaukee: D.S. Harkness & Co., printers, 1889, 142 pgs.--

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....Read MORE...

1652 Marriage / Partner
Christopher HUNTINGTON and Ruth ROCKWELL 7 October 1652, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

He was 28 years old.

1653 Birth of Child
Christopher HUNTINGTON was born April 1653, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA (Saybrook Colony)

Christopher was 28 years old.

1653 Birth of Child
Ruth HUNTINGTON was born April 1653, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA (Saybrook Colony)

Christopher was 28 years old.

1658 Birth of Child
Ruth HUNTINGTON was born April 1658, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA (Saybrook Colony)

Christopher was 33 years old.

1660 Birth of Child
Christopher HUNTINGTON was born 1 November 1660, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 36 years old.

1664 Birth of Child
Thomas HUNTINGTON was born 18 March 1664, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 39 years old.

1666 Birth of Child
John HUNTINGTON was born 15 March 1666, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 41 years old.

1668 Birth of Child
Susannah HUNTINGTON was born August 1668, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 44 years old.

1672 Birth of Child
Lydia (Lydyah) HUNTINGTON was born August 1672, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 48 years old.

1675 Birth of Child
Ann HUNTINGTON was born 25 October 1675, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 51 years old.

1681 Marriage of Child
Ruth HUNTINGTON married 26 March 1681, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville) to Samuel PRATT

1681 Marriage of Child
Christopher HUNTINGTON married 20 May 1681, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville) to Sarah ADGATE

1683 Death of Child
Ruth HUNTINGTON died 14 February 1683, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

Christopher was 58 years old.

1683 Death of Spouse/Partner
Ruth ROCKWELL died 14 February 1683, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville)

1685 Marriage of Child
Susannah HUNTINGTON married 10 December 1685, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA (Saybrook Colony) to Samuel GRISWOLD

1686 Marriage of Child
John HUNTINGTON married 9 December 1686, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville) to Abigail LATHROP

1687 Marriage of Child
Thomas HUNTINGTON married 10 February 1687, Mansfield, Connecticut, USA (Storrs) to Elizabeth BACKUS