Joseph Huntley was born 13 Jan 1747 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut Colony. He was the son of Joseph Huntley and his second wife, Eunice Welch.[1]
On 4 May 1768, he was married to Lydia Sawyer in Lyme, by Benjamin Lee, Justice of the Peace.[2] They had four, possibly five, children, born in Lyme:
Lydia (Sawyer) Huntley died before 1 Apr 1798, when Joseph remarried in Lisbon, New London County, Connecticut. His second wife was Eleanor Greenslet.[8]
Joseph died at the age of 80, on 16 Jan 1826 in Groton, Connecticut.[9]
Sources
↑ "Huntley, Joseph, s. Joseph & Eunice, b. Jan. 13, 1746/7," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 56: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 89, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley, Joseph, m. Lydia Sawyer, b. of Lyme, May 4, 1768, by Benjamin Lee, J.P.," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 127: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 89, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley, Abraham, s. Joseph & Lydia, b. Mar. 30, 1769," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 127: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 86, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley, Olive, d. Joseph & Lydia, b. Oct. 6, 1771," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 127: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 91, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley, Joseph, s. Joseph & Lydia, b. July 19, 1775," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 127: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 89, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley, Hope, d. Joseph & Lydia, b. Jan. 15, 1778," citing Lyme Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 127: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lyme, p. 88, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required). Note that Huntley, John Huntley, Imigrant, Book I, Page 103, stated that Hope Huntley was male, not female, although he indicated that he had no data other than the birth date and did not cite a source.
↑ Huntley, John Huntley, Imigrant, Book I, p. 103, stated that Sally was only a possible child of Joseph and Lydia. She does not appear in the Lyme volume of the Barbour Collection.
↑ "Huntley, Joseph, m. Eleanor Greenslet, Apr. 1, 1798," citing Lisbon Vital Records, Volume 1, Page 9: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Lisbon, p. 26, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
↑ "Huntley. At Groton: Mr. Joseph Huntley,: 80 years. ( 16 January:" Bowman, "Connecticut Deaths: From Film of Connecticut Observer, 1826, Page 48, Connecticut: Marriages and Deaths, 1790-1833, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 7 Apr 2021 - subscription required).
Bowman, John Elliot, compiler. Connecticut: Marriages and Deaths, 1790-1833. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016.) Typescript. John Elliot Bowman, "Some Connecticut Marriages: 1820-1837, Items from the Norwich Courier, and other Connecticut newspapers," "Connecticut Deaths 1792-1833" 14 vols., 1928-1933 (subscription required).
Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928 (subscription required).
Huntley, Virgil W., compiler. John Huntley, Immigrant, of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Lyme, Connecticut, 1647-1977, and Some of His Descendants, Book I, published by author, Modus, Connecticut: Modus Print Shop, 1978, No. 28, Pages 81, 103-104. Material from the books used with written permission of the author. Collection of Phil Smith
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