Gurdon Huntington

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• Residence: 1790, Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1800, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA

Gurdon married Temperance Williams on 25 Dec 1785. Temperance (daughter of Samuel Williams and Margaret Huntington) was born on 7 Sep 1761 in Groton, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 25 Nov 1823 in Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Buckingham Huntington was born on 29 Aug 1787 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Jan 1862 in North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA.
2. Marvin Hezekiah Huntington was born on 14 Feb 1789 in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 6 Jun 1874 in Painesville, Lake, Ohio, USA.
3. Eunice Ripley Huntington was born in 1790 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA.
4. Ralph R Huntington was born in 1792 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA.
5. Elizabeth M Huntington was born on 26 Feb 1794 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1882 in Bloomfield, Lake, Ohio, USA.
6. Nancy Huntington was born on 15 Jul 1797 in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 24 Jul 1882.
7. Joseph Huntington was born on 8 Dec 1799 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 8 Dec 1833 in New Hartford, Oneida, New York, USA.

Notes:

Hezekiah was born Oct 3 1728 and married Nov 28 1754 Submit Murdock He was in service during the revolution going to Boston with the first troops raised in Connecticut with a major's commission. Seeing the miserable condition of the arms then in the hands of the soldiers, he went to Philadelphia and made a proposal to congress to return to Windham and open a manufactory for repairing muskets and other arms. On this condition Washington returned his commission, and he served the government many years in repairing and making arms. He claimed that he was the first man in America who made a gun. After exhausting his means in this service he went to Philadelphia and effected a settlement with the government, receiving as his pay 74,000 dollars of continental paper. The value of this suddenly depreciated. so that to use his own language; a hundred dollars of it would not buy a breakfast. The entire package was kept many years in hopes of its redemption by the government, and finally committed by one of his sons to the flames after his death. He and his wife lived about ten years in Walpole NH, but returned to Windham Conn about the year 1803, where he died Sept 17 1807, and his wife April 24 1808 aged 74 years.

Major married Submit Murdock. Submit was born on 13 Nov 1736 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 24 Apr 1808 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]