Huntington family

John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Samuel Huntington, as one of the signers is featured.
The Declaration of Independence. Signed July 4, 1776.

Huntington is the surname of three prominent families from the United States of America. The first was active in the eastern region; the second played an important role in the early Latter Day Saint movement, and pioneered and founded the State of Utah with Brigham Young; the third was active on both coasts and the regions linking them. All three lines descend from Simon Huntington and his wife, Margaret Baret Huntington,[1] who immigrated to America from Norwich, England, in 1633.[2]

  1. ^ Porter, George Shepard (1906). English Ancestry of Margaret Baret: Wife First, of Simon Huntington Who Died on the Passage to New England in 1633, and Secondly, of Lieut. Thomas Stoughton of Dorchester, Mass; In 1630, and of Windsor, Conn; In 1635. author (typescript).[self-published source]
  2. ^ Huntington, Elijah Baldwin (1868). A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country: Embracing All the Known Descendants of Simon and Margaret Huntington, Who Have Descendants of Other Names. Stamford, Conn.: author.[self-published source]