Samuel Huntington was born on July 5th, 1731 and died on January
5th, 1796. He was born at Scotland Parish; Windham, Connecticut.
His father, Nathaniel Huntington, was a farmer and helped to
settle a preacher in the area around Windham Connecticut. His
brother, Nathaniel, was sent to Yale to obtain an education and
later took an Pastoral position Congregational minister in
Ellington. Samuel began studying in his spare time with the
encouragement of the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion. Samuel
apparently devoted a lot of time to studying in the Reverend’s
substantial library. Of course it also helped that the Reverend
had a daughter whom Samuel had taken an interest in. Eventually,
Samuel had settled himself and married Martha Devotion, the
Reverend’s Daughter. On December 2, 1754, he was admitted to the
bar in Windham after expanding his studies from theology to the
law. In 1760 he moved to the much larger town of Norwich and
started his practice. A year later Martha and Samuel married.
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