John Huntley (3)

John Huntley was born in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, about 1729. He married in Lyme on December 13, 1747, to Lois Beckwith, daughter of Mathew Beckwith and Elisheba Raynor. Together they had nine known children, including Williams Huntley, my paternal 5th great-grandfather, who was born in Lyme in 1755. That same year, John served in the French and Indian Wars in Capt. Joshua Abel's Co., 3rd Connecticut Regiment, from Sept. 8 to Dec. 13, 1755, to defend against the French. He also served in Capt. Jonathan Latimer's 5th Co., 3rd Connecticut Regiment from April 3 to Nov. 20, 1758, and is listed on the muster rolls of Capt. Zebulon Butler's 9th Co., 4th Connecticut Regiment, dated at Lyme, Connecticut, May 2, 1759.

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John and his family left Lyme, Connecticut, soon after 1761 and removed 94 miles northwest to Charlotte Precinct (now called Washington), Dutchess County, New York, where he is found on the tax lists from February of 1763 to June of 1767.

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Virgil Huntley provides a transcript of John's last will and testament in his book "John Huntley, immigrant of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut, 1647-1977, and some of his descendants", page 99-102.