Christopher Huntington
1624 - 1691 (~ 66 years)-
Name Christopher Huntington [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] Birth England 
[16] Christening 25 Jul 1624 Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England [17] Gender Male Death 1691 Norwich, Connecticut [12, 13, 15, 16, 18] Burial Founders Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut [19] 
Headstone of Christopher Huntington (Founders of Norwich Connecticut Monument)
Image file from the Find A Grave website (findagrave.com), submitted by Scott Coyle on 6 January 2011.
Headstone of Christopher Huntington (Founders of Norwich Connecticut Monument)
Image file from the Find A Grave website (findagrave.com), submitted by Scott Coyle on 6 January 2011.
Headstone of Christopher Huntington (Founders of Norwich Connecticut Monument, Memorial Plaque)
Image file obtained August 2011 from the Find A Grave website (findagrave.com), submitted by Jan Franco on 3 October 2007.Notes - "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. James Fitch, he removed to the valley of the Yantic, and with his brother Simon, aided in laying the foundations of the new town of Norwich. He had now reached the prime of his manhood; and proved himself one of the most efficient and useful of the hardy pioneers. His name occurs often in the earlier records of this enterprising town, and always in honorable relations. His house lot was one of the prominent localities in the settlement. In 1668 the general court granted him 100 acres of land, not more than twenty acres of it to be meadow. In 1678, appointed town clerk. In 1685, he was one of the twelve patentees of the new town of Norwich. In 1686 his name occurs as one of the committee 'to make provision for maintaining the reverend minister.'
His death had occurred in 1691, as appears from the probate of his will. No stone marks the resting place of this pioneer of the Norwich settlement. He sleeps, doubtless, not far from the banks of the pleasant Yantic, in the meadow where rest, unmarked, the mortal remains of so many of the pioneers of the early settlement of Norwich." [18] - Christopher Huntington was living in Saybrook, in 1650, when he received a letter from his maternal uncle, Peter Baret, the letter which is preserved in the State library at Hartford. Christopher removed with his family to Norwich in 1659 or 1660, of which place he was an original proprietor. He died about 1691, and his body was probably interred in the Post and Gager burying place in the section known as Bean Hill, Norwich. The date of his wife's death is unknown. No memorial stones have ever been found. [16]
Person ID I67 The John and Tuly Huntington Family Last Modified 26 Apr 2017
Father Simon Huntington, b. 7 Aug 1583, London, London, England d. 11 May 1633, At sea (on ship coming to America) (Age 49 years) Mother Margaret Barrett, b. 29 Sep 1595, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. Aug 1649 (Age 53 years) Marriage 11 May 1623 Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England [21] Family ID F32 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Ruth Rockwell, b. 16 Aug 1633, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 14 Feb 1683, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 49 years) [12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23] Marriage 7 Oct 1652 Windsor, Connecticut [12, 13, 15, 16, 18] Children 1. Christopher Huntington, b. 13 Apr 1653, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. Saybrook, Connecticut 2. Ruth Huntington, b. 13 Apr 1653, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 3. Ruth Huntington, b. Apr 1658, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 14 Feb 1683/1684, Norwich, Connecticut (Age ~ 25 years)4. Christopher Huntington, b. 1 Nov 1660, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 24 Apr 1735, Norwich, Connecticut (Age 74 years)5. Thomas Huntington, b. 18 Mar 1664, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 7 Nov 1732, Windham, Connecticut (Age 68 years)+ 6. John Huntington, b. 15 Mar 1666, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. Between 1695 and 1703 (Age 28 years)7. Susannah Huntington, b. Aug 1668, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 6 Mar 1727, Norwich, Connecticut (Age ~ 58 years)8. Lydia Huntington, b. Aug 1672, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 9. Ann Huntington, b. 25 Oct 1675, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 20 Aug 1756, Windham, Connecticut (Age 80 years)Family ID F31 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Apr 2017
Family 2 Mrs. Mary Bushnell [12] Family ID F323 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Feb 2009
- "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. James Fitch, he removed to the valley of the Yantic, and with his brother Simon, aided in laying the foundations of the new town of Norwich. He had now reached the prime of his manhood; and proved himself one of the most efficient and useful of the hardy pioneers. His name occurs often in the earlier records of this enterprising town, and always in honorable relations. His house lot was one of the prominent localities in the settlement. In 1668 the general court granted him 100 acres of land, not more than twenty acres of it to be meadow. In 1678, appointed town clerk. In 1685, he was one of the twelve patentees of the new town of Norwich. In 1686 his name occurs as one of the committee 'to make provision for maintaining the reverend minister.'
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Documents 
Parish register of Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1653; Image 28 of 73.
From "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997." Image file obtained July 2016 from the FamilySearch.org website.
Town of Windsor records from Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Births, marriages, deaths 1638-1910, Volumes 1-4; FHL microfilm 1316427, Image 34 of 544.
Microfilmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, at: Town Clerk, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; date filmed: 15 October 1982. Image file obtained April 2017 from the FamilySearch.org website.
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Sources - [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S1] Elizabeth Ross Huntington, Personal family history of Elizabeth Ross Huntington.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S3] Huntington Family Association, The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir, (Hartford Printing Co., Elihu Geer Sons, Hartford, Connecticut, 1915), 77.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S5] Rev. E. B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family, (Mrs. Julia M. Huntington, Ridgefield, Conn., 1884), 48.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S55] Headstone of Christopher Huntington (Founders of Norwich Connecticut Monument).
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S1783] Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House, and Related Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2001), 647-651.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S1785] Parish register of Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1653; Image 28 of 73.
Name recorded as "Christopher" - [S1786] George Shepard Porter, English Ancestry of Margaret Baret, (George Shepard Porter, Norwich, Connecticut, 1906).
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S1787] Joseph James Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families, Volume II, (Exeter: William Pollard & Co. Ltd., Printers & Lithographers, North Street, 1908), 153-160.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S2029] Town of Windsor records from Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Births, marriages, deaths 1638-1910, Volumes 1-4; FHL microfilm 1316427, Image 34 of 544.
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S2072] Don Blauvelt, "Abigail (Lothrop) Huntington's Second Husband, Samuel Baker, of Windsor, Connecticut," April 2007, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 161, pp. 123-126, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts).
Name recorded as "Christopher Huntington" - [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington.
- [S1] Elizabeth Ross Huntington, Personal family history of Elizabeth Ross Huntington.
- [S3] Huntington Family Association, The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir, (Hartford Printing Co., Elihu Geer Sons, Hartford, Connecticut, 1915), 12.
- [S1783] Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House, and Related Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2001), 647-651.
- [S1786] George Shepard Porter, English Ancestry of Margaret Baret, (George Shepard Porter, Norwich, Connecticut, 1906).
- [S1785] Parish register of Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1653; Image 28 of 73.
- [S3] Huntington Family Association, The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir, (Hartford Printing Co., Elihu Geer Sons, Hartford, Connecticut, 1915), 77.
- [S55] Headstone of Christopher Huntington (Founders of Norwich Connecticut Monument).
- [S3] Huntington Family Association, The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir, (Hartford Printing Co., Elihu Geer Sons, Hartford, Connecticut, 1915), 11.
- [S1784] Parish register of Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1653; Image 47 of 73.
- [S5] Rev. E. B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family, (Mrs. Julia M. Huntington, Ridgefield, Conn., 1884), 48.
- [S2072] Don Blauvelt, "Abigail (Lothrop) Huntington's Second Husband, Samuel Baker, of Windsor, Connecticut," April 2007, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 161, pp. 123-126, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts).
- [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington.