The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 493
Huntington, b. Dec. 28, 1787, son of the Rev. David and Eliza-
beth (Foote) Huntington * of Hamburg, Lyme, Conn. The Rev.
Mr. Huntington, a graduate of Yale College in 1811, studied
theology at Princeton, N. J., and was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian
church in New Brunswick, N. J., in 1815, where he d. May
11, 1820. Phebe m. 2d, in Oct., 1839, the Rev. Urban Palmer, who
d. at Orwell, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1847. Phebe d. in Pittsburg, Penn., at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. William P. Jones, May 10, 1871,
and is buried in Allegheny cemetery at Pittsburg.
Children by first marriage:
1590 tJane Elizabeth Huntington, b. Jan. 23, 1817; m. William
Potter Jones.
1591 t Backus Wilbur Huntington, b. Nov. 3, 1818; m. 1st,
Anne E. Riggs, 2d, Helen E. Seavey.
617 JUDGE WILLIAM MARVIN (brother of the above), b. in
Lyme, May 12, 1788; m. Oct. 21, 1819, Sophia Griffin, b. at East
Haddam, Conn., May 26, 1793, second dau. of Col. Josiah and
Dorothy (Gates) Griffin of East Haddam.
Judge William Marvin was for many years deacon of the Congregational
church at Hamburg, Lyme, was for a long time a mem-
ber of the board of selectmen of the town and served several terms
as judge of probate. He also represented his town in the General
Assembly of the State. By occupation he was a farmer. He was
quartermaster sergeant at New London in the Conn. Militia, War
of 1812, from June 21 to June 25, 1813, and again filled the same
office from Aug. 15 to Aug. 25, 1811. Mrs. Sophia Marvin d. at
Lyme, Nov. 15, 1863; William d. there Apr. 16, 1876.
1 Ancestry op the Rev. Leverett I. F. Huntington
Simon Huntington, so named by tradition, b. in England, m. probably Margaret
Baret of Norwich in England; he d. while on the voyage to this country, of smallpox,
in 1633, and was buried at sea. His wife and family landed at Saybrook, Conn. Their
son Simon Huntington, deacon, b. in England in 1629, m. in October, 1633, Sarah,
dau. of Joseph Clark of Windsor, later of Saybrook, Conn., who d. in 1721, aged eightyeight
years. Simon d. in Norwich, June 28, 1706. Their son Lieut. Samuel Hunt-
ington, b. in Norwich, Conn., Mar. 1, 1665, m. Oct. 29, 1686, Mary, probably dau. of
William Clark of Wethersfield. They removed to Lebanon in 1700. He d. May 10,
1717; she d. Oct. 5, 1743. Their son John Huntington, b. in Lebanon, Conn.,
May 17, 1706, m. Mehitable Metcalf, b. July 26, 1706, and had the Rev. David Huntington,
b. in Lebanon, Nov. 24, 1745, who m. Nov. 5, 1778, Elizabeth Foote of Col-
chester, Conn. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1773; honorary degree
of A.M. from Yale; d. Apr. 13, 1812. Their son Leverett m. Phebe Marvin.