Daniel Huntley III (1748 - abt. 1803)

Born 13 Oct 1748 in Lyme, Connecticut, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Ells) Huntley — married 3 Dec 1772 (to 1779) in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia

Husband of Elizabeth (Wickwire) Huntley — married 9 Aug 1780 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 7 Jun 1803 at about age 54 in Horton, Kings, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Daniel Huntley son of Daniel and Susannah Beckwith Huntley was born in Lyme, Connecticut,^[1] 13 Oct 1748. He married first, in Horton in 1772, Sarah Ells (or Ellis) Huntley of Lebanon, daughter of Joshua and Mary Bill Ellis of Connecticut.^[2][3] Sarah died 27 March 1779.^[3]

Daniel, a Cornwallis grantee, having arrived in Nova Scotia in 1861, married second, 9 Aug 1780, in Horton, Elizabeth “Betsey” Wickwire, born aboard ship in the harbor at Horton Sunday June 7, 1760 daughter of Peter and Rhoda (Schofield) Wickwire.^[3][4][5] Daniel died at Horton in 1803, while Betsey survived her husband and was living in 1816.^[3]

Children of Daniel and Sarah all born Horton

1. Ann b. 1773 m. David Pineo
2. Elizabeth b. 1775 m. Leonard Woodworth
3. Abigail b. 1776 m. Branch Woodworth
4. perhaps Prudence unm. In 1816

Children of Daniel and Betsey

Daniel and Betsey had 10 children, all born at Horton, Nova Scotia:^[3]

1. Daniel b. 1781
2. Peter W. b. 1783
3. Sarah (twin) b. 1786 m. Patrick Coffill
4. Betsey (twin) b. 1786
5. Enoch b. 1788
6. James b. 1790 prob died young
7. Susannah b. ? m. Thomas Pritchard
8. Rebecca b. ? m. David Jackson
9. Charlotte b. c. 1801 m. George Jess
10. Asa b. c. 1802

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7W-X6RS : 15 April 2022), Daniel Huntley, ; citing Birth, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272236.
2. ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZSV-YLN1 : 1 July 2022), Daniel Huntley, 1772.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Virgil W. Huntley. John Huntley, Immigrant of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut 1647-1977 and some of his Descendants. Books I, II, III. 1978, 1993, 1996. Vol. 1. pp 117-8. Material from the books used with written permission of the author. Collection of Phil Smith.
4. ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5C-NZF : 13 February 2020), Daniel Huntly, 1780.
5. ↑ Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton. 1910. The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land, giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion ; and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910. pp 868 and pg. 75 Salem, Mass: Salem Press Co. Eaton

• The People of Cornwallis 1760 to 1901 Huntley, Daniel Jr : accessed 8 Jan 2023
• Find A Grave: Memorial #171982969 Daniel Huntley
• Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Diebold, R. Bruce. New London Beckwiths in the Records of the East (Or Second) Congregational Society Of Lyme, Connecticut: The John² Beckwith Family Revisited, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 690, Page 184.