Major Hezekiah Huntington

1728 - 1807  (78 years)

• Name	Major Hezekiah Huntington
  Birth	3 Oct 1728	Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Sep 1807	Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA
  Person ID	I18467	Master
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2012

  
  

  Family	Submit Murdock,   b. 13 Nov 1736, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 24 Apr 1808, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA (Age 71 years)
  Children	+ 1. Gurdon Huntington,   b. 30 Apr 1763, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA d. 26 Jul 1804, Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 41 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F4663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 3 Oct 1728 - Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA Death - 17 Sep 1807 - Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.