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1719 - 1786 (67 years)
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Jabez HUNTINGTON [1] |
- "Huntington Family Memoir": Graduated at Yale College, 1741. He was elected, in 1759, a member of the general assembly of his native state, for many years represented his native town to the universal acceptance of his fellow citizens, presiding, often, over the deliberations of the lower house. Early after his graduation he entered into the West India trade, and by an honorable and efficient business career, laid the foundations of one of the amplest fortunes of that age. At the commencement of our revolution he was the owner of a large amount of shipping, which of course was a very greatly endangered by the rupture with the mother land. but his patriotism prevailed over his commercial and pecuniary ambition. He cheerfully sacrificed his property and consecrated himself and his family to the cause of independence. He was one of the most active of the committee of safety during the war; and in the September session of the assembly for the year 1776, he was appointed one of the two major generals from Connecticut, for the militia of the sate, David Wooster being the other; and on the death of Wooster, from a wound received in the skirmish with the British, retreating from Danbury, in april of the next year, he was appointed major general over the entire Connecticut militia.
His great exertions, made for his country's cause, during those trying years of our national history, together with the great pecuniary losses which, in such a struggle, were inevitable, were too much even for his strong mind and vigorous frame. As the pressure of the early excitement and indispensable action passed away, it was soon seen how greatly they had impaired his physical and mental powers. "On finding himself disabled from public service, he resigned all his offices, and spent the remainder of his life in retirement, at his seat in Norwich. He was seized with a fatal complaint, in Feb. 1779, and after a gradual decline of more than seven years, he died, Oct. 5, 1786."
Gen. Huntington was a man of religious principle, having united with the church in 1741. It was very justly said in the funeral sermon delivered over his remains," he sustained an amiable and worthy character in the domestic relations and private walks of life." One other passage from that sermon, deserves transcribing for this notice: "As the train of melancholy distress which brought him to his end, probably originated from his painful and unremitted exertions for his country, in the time of danger; his country, surely, will not withhold the tear of grateful sorrow, but pay deserved respect to his memory, and teach succeeding generations to revere his dust; and as they pass his urn, to say, 'there lies the man who devoted his all to the public good; who sacrificed his ease, his health, and eventually his life, to serve and save his country."...... [1]
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Birth |
7 Aug 1719 |
Connecticut, USA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
5 Oct 1786 |
Connecticut [1] |
Person ID |
I69908 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
27 Oct 2012 |
Father |
Capt Joshua HUNTINGTON, b. 30 Dec 1698, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 26 Aug 1745 (Age 46 years) |
Mother |
Hannah PERKINS, b. 1701, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut d. 1788 (Age 87 years) |
Marriage |
16 Oct 1718 [1, 2] |
Family ID |
F28256 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
Elizabeth BACKUS, b. 21 Feb 1721 d. 1 Jul 1745 (Age 24 years) |
Marriage |
20 Jan 1741/42 [1] |
Children |
+ | 1. Andrew HUNTINGTON, b. 21 Jun 1745 d. 7 Apr 1824, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 78 years) [Birth] |
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Family ID |
F28253 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
26 Oct 2012 |
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Sources |
- [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).
- [S9403] Cornelia Bartow Williams, Ancestry of Lawrence Williams.
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