Simon Huntington Sr (bef. 1598 - 1633)

Born before 1598 in England

Husband of Margaret (Barrett) Stoughton — married 11 May 1623 (to 1633) in St. Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died 1633 after age 35 in Atlantic Ocean

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Simon Huntington Sr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 1044) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Simon Huntington was born "by about 1598 based on date of marriage".^[1] His parents are not known (see Research Notes).

He married Margaret Barrett on 11 May 1623 in England. She was the daughter of Christopher Barrett, mayor of Norwich in 1634, and sister of Peter Barrett and Thomas Barrett.

Because of the persecutions of Nonconformists by the high-handed administration of William Laud and Charles I in England, Simon Huntington and his wife and children emigrated to New England in 1633.

Anderson writes,^[1] "At the 1629 Bishop's Visitation of the Diocese of Norwich, Simon Huntington of the parish of St. Simon & Jude, Norwich, was presented 'for that he doth not use to stand up at the Creed, nor bow at the name of Jesus.' These were typical Puritan infractions."

Simon died of smallpox in 1633 on the voyage^[2] and was buried at sea.

The widow and her children settled first at Roxbury, Massachusetts, where she was admitted to Roxbury church as member #83. In Roxbury, she married (secondly) shortly after Dec 1634 Thomas Stoughton, a man of prominence and several times a Deputy to the General Court of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who died 25 March 1661. There is no record of any children by her second marriage.

Children

1. Christopher, bp St. Andrews, Norwich 25 July 1624; m in Windsor 7 October 1652 Ruth ROCKWELL, dau of William
2. Thomas, b. abt 1626 in England, settled in Connecticut; m by 1660 Hannah CRANE, dau. of Jasper CRANE.
3. Ann, b abt 1627; alive in 1649; no further record
4. Simon, bp St. Simon & Jude, Norwich, 6 Jul 1629; m in Saybrook Oct 1653 Sarah Clark
5. Henry, bp St. Andrew's, Norwich, 16 Dec 1631; bur. there 8 June 1632.

Research Notes

Disputed Parents: A frequently cited origin of Simon Huntington with a birth or christening date of 7 August 1583 and parents George Huntington and Anne Fenwick must be considered false. It is based upon the work of Gustav Anjou, who provided a genealogical report to Henry Edwards Huntington.^[3] Gustav Anjou is now known to have been a prolific peddler of genealogical fraud.^[4] Several respected sources state that Simon's lineage is unknown.^[5][6] Jacobus asserts that "The Huntington Family, published in 1915 to supplement the Memoir of 1863, includes (page 11) an English pedigree of the Huntington family, which we ignore as worthless."^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins..., Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 1044-1046. AmericanAncestors.org (with subscription)
2. ↑ Boston Record Commissioners. Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol. 6. Roxbury Land and Church Records page 79. Internet Archive
3. ↑ Huntington Family Association, The Huntington family in America : a genealogical memoir of the known descendants of Simon Huntington from 1633 to 1915, published 1915. Reference page 11
4. ↑ WikiTree.com Frauds and Fabrication Gustave Anjou Fraud
5. ↑ Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Pages 29 (Barrett), 169-170 (Huntington)
6. ↑ McCracken, George E., "President Grant's Ancestry" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Reference Volume 51 (1975), page 237. $Subscription
7. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, Hale, House, and related families, mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, published 1952. Reference page 648

See also:

• Fred. S. Pease. 1847. Notice of the Huntington Family.The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) 1(Oct): 343.
• Nelson Osgood Rhoades, ed. 1912. Colonial Families of the United States of America. Vol. VII. Grafton Press, NY (George Norbury MacKenzie edited the first six volumes; republ. 1966/1995 by Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD; online at GenealogyLibrary.com): p. 314
• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 865
• Cogswell, William, Rev., D.D. Notice of the Huntington Family, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1847) Vol. 1, Page 343
• Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Place: Boston, Massachusetts; Year: 1633; Page Number: 103. Record for Simon Huntington. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=744610&indiv=try.
• West, Randy. Updates from English Records for Some Great Migration Immigrants Who Came by 1635, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., Fall 2018) Vol. 172, WN 688, Page 356 AmericanAncestors.org (with subscription)
• Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 368-369)