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Richard Harris HUNTLEY
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P-188624
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State of Service: CT
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service
1775, served as a Private, in Capt. Eliphalet Bulkley’s 3rd Co., Col. Jos. Spencer’s 12th Connecticut (Colchester Co. Militia) 5th Brigade. In 1782, he was paid in February for furnishing provisions to the Commissary of the Armies.
Richard Harris Huntley was one of the thirteen sons* of Beneger Huntley and Esther Howell who served in the American Revolutionary War. This family’s exceptional record of service was mentioned in, “The New England Chronicle” of September 21, 1776, “This past year, thirteen brothers, sons of one woman, in the Colony of Connecticut, each of them six feet tall, went into the War of Defense for their Country, and all were brave men. This is perhaps the most remarkable instance of that kind any country has ever produced. The name of this prolific and heroic family is HUNTLEY.” Married on 17 March, 1768 at Colchester, CT, to Rachel Little, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Little and Elizabeth Woodbridge (Little) The marriage performed by the bride’s father.
Patriot Index, Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution
4th Great-grandfather of SAR member #178895 David M. Lamb
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