GENEALOGICAL and PERSONAL MEMOIRS
Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts
Prepared under the editorial supervision of William Richard CUTTER, A. M.
Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Librarian of Woburn Public Library; Author of “The Cutter Family,” “History of Arlington,” “Bibliography of Woburn,” etc., etc.
Volume I.; Illustrated
New York; Lewis Historical Publishing Company; 1908
Pages 109 - 110

HUNTINGTON

Simon Huntington, with his wife, who before marriage was Margaret Baret, of Norwich, England, and his three sons -- William Simon and Samuel -- sailed for New England in 1633. He died of small pox during the passage and his family probably landed in Boston. The earliest reference to them on this side of the ocean is found in the records of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, wherein is an entry in the hand-writing of the Rev. John Eliot as follows: "Margaret Huntington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband died by the way of small pox. She brought _______ children with her." It is quite probable that she was again married, in 1635-6, to Thomas Stoughton, then of Dorchester, and removed to Windsor, Connecticut.

(II) William probably eldest son of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, was of Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1640, and later lived in Amesbury. He appears to have been quite prominent in both places, owning considerable real estate, and died in Amesbury in 1689. He married Joanna, daughter of John Bayley, who went from Salisbury to Newbury in 1650. John Bayley was a passenger on the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked on the coast of Maine, having on board a considerable number of emigrants who found their way to the settlements in Massachusetts. William Huntington was father of John, James and Mary.

(III) John, eldest child of William and Joanna (Bayley) Huntington, born in Amesbury, August, 1643, died there about 1727. He married Elizabeth Hunt; children: Hannah, died young; Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Susannah, William, Samuel and Deborah.

(IV) William, seventh child and eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Huntington, was lifelong resident of Amesbury, Massachusetts. He married Mary Goodwin, January 27, 1708-09, and he probably was the same William Huntington who was married the second time, December 19, 1725, to Mary Colby, a widow. He was executor of his father's will. Children, all born in Amesbury: John, Lydia, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Deborah, William, Timothy and Judith.

(V) John, eldest son and child of William and Mary (Goodwin) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, January 5, 1709-10. He lived on the old homestead of his grandfather. His wife, Abigail Jones, was a member of the Society of Friends, and their children, some of whom married with members of their sect, were John, Mary, Merriam, Susannah, William, Sarah and Elizabeth.

(VI) John, eldest child of John and Abigail (Jones) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, August 15, 1737. He married Hannah Wood; children: Jacob, Benjamin, Moses, John, Hannah, Mary, Abigail, Daniel, Sarah and Judith.

(VII) Benjamin, second child of John and Hannah (Wood) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, April 24, 1760. In early manhood he went to Weare, New Hampshire, and purchased one hundred acres of land lying about a mile west of Clifton Grove, which is still known as the old Huntington farm, and he resided there for the remainder of his life. He also bought land in Henniker. He married Elizabeth Buxton; children: Hannah, born December 13, 1781; married Jonathan Purington, of Lincoln, Vermont; Jacob, born September 3, 1783; Sarah, born October 9, 1785, married Robert Gove, of Deering, New Hampshire; Betsey, born February 14, 1788, married Timothy Matthews; Thomas, born February 20, 1791, married Anna Johnson; Anna, born late in 1791, married Daniel Buxton; Lydia, died young; John, born August 5, 1797, married Peace Purington; Benjamin, born October 17, 1799, married Sally Buxton, and married second, Mary A. Beard.

(VIII) Jacob, second child and eldest son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Buxton) Huntington, was born September 3, 1783. At the age of nineteen years he went to live upon a tract of land containing one hundred acres, owned by his father, and after purchasing it in small lots he enlarged the property by the addition of adjoining land, leaving at his death, which occurred July 15, 1857, a good farm of one hundred sixty acres. He was noted for his physical strength and power of endurance, also as a staunch Whig and a leader in the anti-slavery movement, which latter was prompted by his belief in the Quaker doctrine, and he was instrumental in establishing the Friends' Meeting at what is known as the Friends' Settlement in Henniker. He married, May 4, 1809, Huldah Gove, of Weare, died October 20, 1819; married, second, February 1, 1823, Mehitable Hedding, died March 4, 1827. In October, 1829, he married third, Lavinia B., daughter of Theophilus Breed, of Lynn, Massachusetts; she died October 3, 1859. He had eight children, four born of his first marriage, and four of the second: Elijah Brown, born June 15, 1811; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1813, married Jacob Huntington, probably a relative, and died September 16, 1838; Sarah G., born May 31, 1815, died June 15, 1834; Robert G., born May 21, 1817, died October 22, 1819; Franklin Theophilus, born August 21, 1830; Hulda G., born March 23, 1834, married Joshua Buxton, died in 1906; a son, born July 25, 1838, died September 27, 1838; Joseph John, born March 16, 1840, married Mary T. Gordon and had Henry, Alice and Arthur Gordon.

(IX) Hulda Gove Huntington, daughter of Jacob and Lavinia B. (Breed) Huntington, born March 23, 1834, in Henniker, New Hampshire, died March 22, 1906, in Peabody, Massachusetts. She married Joshua Buxton (see Buxton family); two children: Horace Francis Buxton, born in Peabody, March 1, 1858; and Henry Herbert Buxton, born in Peabody, April 13, 1869.