Simon  HUNTINGTON

Huntington.

The Huntington pedigree offers a good illustration of the uncertainty of tradition, even when the details appear to have been carefully preserved, and the lapse of time is not more than a century. The Rev. Joseph Huntington, of Coventry, Ct., of the fourth generation from the first emigrant, collected and embodied the reminiscences that had been preserved in the family concerning their progenitor, which were in substance these :

That the ancestor of the family, Simon Huntington, was a citizen of Norwich in England, who, during the reign of Charles tho First, (about 1640,) embarked with his wife and three sons for America; that he was a Puritan, suffering from persecution, but had a brother Samuel who was captain of the king's life-guard, and high in the royal favor ; that the said Simon Huntington was nearly fifty years of age, his. wife some years younger, and their three sons, Christopher, Simon, and Samuel, in the bloom of youth; and that they made their course

Simon Huntington
ORIGIN: Norwich, Norfolk
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
BIRTH: By about 1598 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: 1633 at sea.

MARRIAGE: St. Andrew's, Norwich, Norfolk, 11 May 1623 Margaret Barrett. She was admitted to Roxbury church as member #83: 'Margret Huntington widdow; she came in the year 1633. Her husband died by the way of small pox; she brought children with her' [ RChR 79]. She married (2) shortly after December 1634 THOMAS STOUGHTON of Dorchester (and later Windsor) [ NEHGR 14:104].

SOURCE: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III -- NEHGS

SIMON, for so tradition has named him, was born in England, and married, probably, Margaret Baret, of Norwich, or its immediate vicinity, in England. He died, while on the voyage to this country, of small pox, in 1633, and his body was consigned to its ocean grave.

With the exception of those mentioned in the Appendix of this work, he
was, undoubtedly, the ancestor of all the Huntingtons on this continent ; and it is much to be regretted that no record can now be found, to tell us of his parentage, his character, or of his estate. What has been believed respecting him, and what is most probable, a few lines will trace.

Beyond doubt he was an Englishman. Tradition has quite uniformly made
him a Norwich man ; and as uniformly, has ascribed his removal to this country to the persecutions to which nonconformists were subjected, during the high handed administrations of Laud and the first Charles. The character of his immediate descendants is perhaps in proof of both statements ;

According to Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Penn. By John W. Jordan, p. 901., Simon Huntington came from Norwich, England. He was the son of George Huntington (9 Jan 1538 - ) and Anne Fenwick.
He married Margaret Barett on 21 Jun 1627. Margaret was the daughter of Christopher Barett (13 APR 1562 - ) and Elizabeth Clarke.

Margaret was the daughter of of the Mayor of Norwich. Simon Huntington was harassed by the religious authorities and fled with his family to New England in 1633. He died on the passage.

Simon, Margaret and the children left Yarmouth, England for the American colonies on the ship 'Elizabeth Bonaventure' the first week in May, 1633. Simon died enroute, and his body was committed to the sea, but Margaret and the children landed in Boston on June 15th and settled in Roxbury, MA.

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Simon Huntington was born in England. He married Margaret Barrett on May 11, 1623 at St. Andrew's Parish in Norwich,