Capt Joshua HUNTINGTON

Male 1698 - 1745  (46 years)


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  • Name Joshua HUNTINGTON  [1, 2, 3
    • "Huntington Family Memoir": He was allowed to take up "twenty feet square upon the water on the west side of Rocky Point, on the north side of Lieut. Lathrop's grant, if it be there to be had; not prejudicing the conveniency to be laid out by James Huntington and Daniel Tracy." He was highest on the list of subscribers to the bridge built in 1737, over the Shetucket to unite Norwich and Preston, an enterprise in which none but moneyed men in that day could engage. In his successful business career commenced that family distinction and wealth, which, at the opening of the Revolution, had placed his two surviving children at the head of the aristocracy, even of their own aristocratic town.... [1]
    Prefix Capt 
    Birth 30 Dec 1698  Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Aug 1745  [1
    Person ID I69912  Main Tree
    Last Modified 2 May 2022 

    Father Simon HUNTINGTON,   b. 6 Feb 1659, Saybook, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1736, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Lydia GAGER,   b. 8 Aug 1663, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1737, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 8 Oct 1683  Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F28260  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah PERKINS,   b. 1701, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1788 (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 16 Oct 1718  [1, 2
    Children 
    +1. Jabez HUNTINGTON,   b. 7 Aug 1719, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1786, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F28256  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Mar 2018 

  • Sources 
    1. [S5011] Rev. E.B. Huntington, A.M., "A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country: Embracing all the known Descendants of Simon and Margaret Huntington", (Stamford, Conn,; By the Author - 1863).

    2. [S9403] Cornelia Bartow Williams, Ancestry of Lawrence Williams.

    3. [S10825] Rev. E.B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the LO-LATHROP Family in this Country, Embracing the Descendants as far as known.