Samuel Huntington, born in Scotland, CT, had a notable career during the Revolutionary War and after. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he also served as the last President of the Continental Congress (1779-1781) and the first “President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled” under the Articles of Confederation in 1781. He was later the Chief Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1784-1785) and Governor of Connecticut (1786-1796). Buried in the Old Norwichtown Cemetery, located behind his Norwich home, Huntington was re-interred in the Samuel Huntington Tomb in 2003. There has been an effort in Norwich to create a Huntington Presidential Library. Huntington’s house, on East Town Street, was built in 1783-1785 and has been extensively modified over the years, with later Greek Revival style additions.
I met a descendant of Samuel Huntington at a Tea Party in Pomona, New York on October 15, 2011.
I believe, from all the research I’ve been doing,thatI I am a descendant of Samuel Huntington, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, through my grandmother, Eleanor Bevan Huntington, of Scranton, PA. The research process has been amazing.
Samuel Huntington had no descendents as he and his wife were childless. They did adopt nieces and nephews. There are MANY Huntingtons and many other prominant Rev. War heros (other than Sam Huntington) who did have descendents, you are probably desecended from one of those. For example, Jabez Huntington was one of two generals from Conn. during the Rev. War. He was a supply general to the Cont. Army. It was and is a VERY big family.
The closest relatives are descendants of Samuel and Martha’s adopted children who were born to his brother, and the collateral descendants of Martha Hungtinton’s siblings – the Devotions. I am a sixth great-grand nephew through the latter connection (Martha Devotion Huntington is my great aunt).