Nathan Huntley
Nathan Huntley was born at Lyme, Connecticut, on 2 June 1726. He was the ninth of the eleven children of Aaron Huntley and Deborah DeWolf. His father had sat for Lyme in the General Assembly in 1720. His great-grandfather John Huntley had come to Lyme from Boston and Roxbury about 1661. His eldest sister Hannah married Ebenezer Mack in 1728, and her great-grandson was Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
His father's will of 1743 names "his sons, Aaron, Nathan and Timothy." His father and his brother Timothy died on the same day, 26 September 1748.
On 6 October 1746 he married Luce Smith at Lyme. Their children were born there over thirteen years. Azuba was born in June 1747 and died in October 1748. Rufus followed in 1749, Isaiah in November 1751 or 1752, Nathan in 1754, Lyman in 1756, Russell in 1758 and Elisha in December 1760.
On 17 February 1753 he took family land at Lyme by deed, recorded in the Lyme land records, volume 10, page 80. Eight years later he sold out. "Nathan Huntley in 1761 sold his property in Lyme and with his brothers and sisters and their families migrated to Marlow, N.H." The party included his brother Aaron, his sister Phebe and her husband Nicodemus Miller, and his sister Jemima and her husband Eber Lewis.
Marlow was a new township in the hills of Cheshire County, east of the Connecticut River. When the town was organised, Nathan Huntley and Eber Lewis were chosen its first selectmen. Selectmen were the elected officers who ran a New England town's business between town meetings. Nathan served again in 1770 and 1771, and he was a surveyor of highways. "His home was on Marlow Hill."
In the Revolution, a Huntley family history of the 1950s says, he "served in Capt. Jeremiah Stiles's Co., Col. Paul Dudley's Reg., and was present at the siege of Boston." He would have been nearly fifty. His son Nathan, born in 1754, was also a Revolutionary soldier.
His son Isaiah married Elizabeth Church of Saybrook in 1779 and settled at Marlow before moving on into Vermont. Lucy outlived her husband by four years.
Nathan died at Marlow on 30 April 1798, by the family histories. His slate in the West End Cemetery says he "died April 31st 1798, in the 72 Year of his Age". April has thirty days.
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Cite: Heirology, "Nathan Huntley (1726-1798)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/nathan-huntley-1726-1798-1e628b.