William Huntington (1732-1816)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says:


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 * William Huntington, born August 20, 1732, in Lebanon, Conn. He married, October 27, 1757, Bethia Throop, by tradition a lineal descendant of Adrian Scrope, one of the judges who condemned Charles I., whose name on coming to this country was, it is said, changed to Throop. She was born in the year 1738. Her death, which was from a cancer in the breast, occurred July 12, 1799.
 * William Huntington, born August 20, 1732, in Lebanon, Conn. He married, October 27, 1757, Bethia Throop, by tradition a lineal descendant of Adrian Scrope, one of the judges who condemned Charles I., whose name on coming to this country was, it is said, changed to Throop. She was born in the year 1738. Her death, which was from a cancer in the breast, occurred July 12, 1799.


 * He enlisted May 10, 1775. in the Third (General Putnam's) Regiment, which was raised on the first call for troops by the special session of the Legislature of May. 1775, and was recruited mainly in Windham County. They marched in May by Companies to Camps around Boston, and were stationed during the siege in Putnam's center division at Cambridge till the end of their term of enlistment, December 10, 1775. A detachment was engaged at Bunker Hill.


 * Capt. William Huntington was a farmer, a useful and Christian man.
 * He died in Lebanon, May 31, 1816.

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