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has the lasting- gratitude of all historians
and genealogists for the excellent and
accurate manner in which he kept the
church records of his congregations. His
wife was Mary Green, of Boston.
Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, Jr., son of
Rev. Nathaniel and Mary (Green) Hunt-
ting, was born in August, 1702. He received
an excellent education, and was
prepared for the ministry, but through ill
health was obliged to forego this vocation
and take up an outdoor life. Accordingly
he engaged in farming and continued in
that occupation until his death in 1770.
He married, September 11, 1728, Mary
Hedges, a descendant of William Hedges,
the Puritan and the founder of the family
on Long Island.
William Huntting, fourth child of Rev.
Nathaniel and Mary (Hedges) Huntting,
was born in June, 1738, and died July 6,
1816. He married Puah Osborne, born
December 29, 1747, died August 24, 1809.
Jeremiah Huntting, son of William and
Puah (Osborne) Huntting, born in 1772,
and died June 19, 1845. He was the father
of three sons, the oldest of whom was
Jeremiah.
Jeremiah Huntting, Jr., son of Jeremiah
Huntting, was born at Easthampton in
181 2. As a youth he learned the trade of
shoemaker and continued in that capacity
for a few years. Feeling the greater at-
traction of outdoor life, he took up farming
with marked success and was engaged
thus until his death. He was originally a
believer in the principles of the Democratic
party, but at the time of the Mis-
souri compromise he, like thousands of
other staunch Abolitionists, joined the
ranks of the Republican party. He was
a heavy loser at the time of the deprecia-
tion of values preceding the outbreak of
the Civil War and was forced to sell at
a great sacrifice in order to meet his obli-
gations. He was a man possessed of the
highest integrity and moral principles,
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and had the respect and esteem of all who
knew him. At the rise in values to their
normal condition he recouped something
of his loss. In the community in which
he lived he was recognized as one of their
influential citizens, and in appearance he
resembled the Hedges family rather than
the Huntting line, being short in stature.
He married Joanna A., a daughter of
Charles R. Hand, and they were earnest
and consistent members of the Presbyterian
church of Easthampton. Mr.
Huntting died in 1867, and his widow in
December, 1898. They were the parents
of the following children : William L.,
born in 1841 ; Charles H., of further men-
tion ; Jeremiah, 1846; David H., 1852;
Samuel B., 1856; John P., i860; Mary E.,
1862, became the wife of Josiah Dayton;
and Edward.
Charles H. Huntting, son of Jeremiah
and Joanna A. (Hand) Huntting, was
born in Easthampton, Long Island, Janu-
ary 3, 1844. He has been the architect of
his own fortune and has won his way to
a foremost place in his line of business,
dealer in fruits, through his own native
energy, business ability and straightforward
methods of doing business. He is
a worthy member of one of the oldest and
most distinguished families of America.
Mr. Huntting married (first) Decem-
ber 13, 1871, Ann E. Fowler, who died
July 4, 1891, leaving two daughters, Janet
S. and Ella. Mr. Huntting married (second)
October 30, 1895, Mary A., daugh-
ter of Duane E. Newton, the ancestry
of whose family appears elsewhere in this
work. They have one daughter, Eliza-
beth.
NEWTON, Philo Woodhouse,
Merchant.
Philo Woodhouse Newton, president
and treasurer of the Newton Drug Com-
pany, of Hartford, is one of the oldest re-