Joseph Huntington (1735-1794)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says (in part):
 * 1. 3. 4. 2. 6. Joseph Huntington, born May 5, 1735, in Windham, Conn. He graduated at Yale in 1762, His father had destined him to be a clothier, and kept him at this trade through his minority, much against his own wishes. But, moved like his brother, Samuel, by a passionate love of books, and like him, though not to the same remarkable degree, gifted with unusual inquisitiveness and capacity for mastering whatever study he attempted, and moreover, encouraged by the kindly aids fuinished by his pastor, Mr. Devotion, he even at that late period commenced and completed successfully his preparation for college. He entered in his twenty-third year, 1758, and graduated honorably with the class. Within a year of his graduation, June 29, 1763, he was installed as pastor of the first church in Coventry, where he continued to labor in word and doctrine through his life.

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