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I find no satisfactory evidence of the relation, if any existed, between Elizabeth, John and William Curtis, who settled at Stratford, with either Ilenry, of Windsor ; Thomas, of Wethers- field ; Samuel, of Hebron, from Long Island, and John, of Woodstock, (or Roxbury.)
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CURTIS, CAPT. WILLIAM, son of Elizabeth, and brother of John, sen'r, of Stratford, d. at Stratford in his old age, Dec. 21, 1702. His will, dated Dec. 15, 1702, names his children, viz., Daniel, Ebenezer, Zachariah, Josiah, Joshua, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jonathan. There is found on Stratford record a William Curtis, who had chil- dren b. there, viz., Elizabeth, b. Feb. 26, -; Jenar Henry, b. Nov. 14, 1659 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1662. The father of these three children, perhaps was or might have been an unrecorded son of John, sen'r, or William, sen'r. Capt. Wm. Curtis was one of the leading men of Stratford. In October, 1667, the court (probably in consequence of the trouble in Mr. Walker's church at Stratford) gave liberty to Lieut. (Wm.) Curtis, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Fayrchild, Ensigu Judson, Mr. Hawley and John Minor, (then of Stratford, ) to purchase Potatue (now Newtown) and the adjoining lands to be reserved for a village or plantation. In May 9, 1672, the General Court, granted power to Lieut. Wm. Curtis, Mr. Samuel Sherman, Ensign Joseph Judson and John Minor, with their associates, to set- tle a plantation at "Pamperodge," (Woodbury,) if it injured no former grant to any other plantation, or person, with the privilege to other honest inhabitants of Stratford, to settle there within three years. Capt. Wm. Curtis, though an original proprietor of Woodbury, lived and d. at Stratford. Two of his sons Joshua and Israel Curtis, signed the fundamental agreement for the settlement and government of Pamparauge, Feb. 14, 1672. It was named Woodbury, by the General Court, in 1674. John Curtis, of Stratford, witnessed a deed from Tautannimo Sachem of " Pagassit," and other Derby Indians. To Lieut. Thomas Wheeler, dated April 20, 1659, embracing a large tract, extending into what is now Litchfield County. Israel Curtis, witness of a deed of a part of Woodbury, recorded May 29, 1699.
John Curtis, made a freeman in Conn., May, 1658. John and Thomas Curtis, in the list of freemen in Wethersfield, in 1669. William, John and Israel Curtis, in the Stratford list of freemen, in 1669, and Wm., one of the selectmen. Lieut. Wm. Curtis, deputy to the General Court from Stratford, in Oct., 1667, May, 1668, Oct., 1668, May, 1669, May, 1670, Oct., 1669, Oct., 1670, May, 1672, and frequently afterwards. He was commissioner for Stratford, with Mr. Samuel Sherman, and in May, 1672; Lieut. Wm. Curtis was confirmed Capt. " of the train-band of Stratford," June 26, 1672, with Joseph Judson, Lieut., and Steven Burritt, Ensign. At a spe- cial session of the General Court of Conn., Aug. 7, 1673, by an
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appearance of danger from the Dutch. The Legislature ordered that the committee then appointed by the assembly, composed of the Governor, Deputy Governor and Assistants, Capt. Benjamin New- bury, Mr. Giles Hamlin, Mr. Wm. Wadsworth, Capt. Wm. Curtice. Lieut. Wm. Fowler and Lieut. Thomas Munson, to act as the grand committee of the Colony, in establishing and commissioning military officers in pressing men, horses, ships, " barques," or other vessels, arms, ammunition, provision, carriages, or any thing needful for defending the Colony ; to manage, order and dispose of the militia of the Colony, in the best manner for the defence and safety of the Colony, &e. Many other scraps of record evidence, might be offered to prove the exalted standing of Capt. Wm. Curtis, in Conn., during his life. The Curtis family of Stratford, has been uniformly respectable from the first settlement of Wm. and John Curtis. The Curtis families of Fairfield County and New Haven, and Litchfield Counties, are generally descendants of the Stratford family. One or two of the Stratford Curtis family, removed and settled at Durham, after which, on the settlement of Granville, Mass., David, Aaron and Ebenezer Curtis, removed from Durham, to Granville, in company with Enoch, Aaron and Samuel Coe, of the Stratford family of Coe's, and Dan, Noah and Timothy Robinson, from Durham.
CURTIS, ZACHERIAH, b. Sept. 13, 1719, son of Joseph, of Wethersfield, removed to Goshen, in Litchfield County, where he purchased land in June, 1740. His children recorded at Goshen, are Joshua, b. Oct. 30, 1742 ; Salathiel, b. July, 1744, d .; Elias, b. Aug. 10, 1745. He removed after about five years residence.
CURTIS, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield, also removed from Wethers- field, to Goshen, on to land he purchased there in 1740, but in 1750, he sold his land in Goshen, and removed to Dutchess County, New York. His children recorded in Goshen, were Mary, b. May 22, 1733, b. at Wethersfield, and the following b. at Goshen, Hezekiah, b. May, 1735 ; Hannah, b. 1736, d. in infancy ; John, b. 1738; Honour, b. 1740 ; James, b. 1743; Dorothy, b. 1745 ; Joseph.
CURTIS, JOHN, of Durham, perhaps from Wethersfield, and perhaps one of the Stratford family, probably from Stratford, to Dur- ham, as many from Stratford moved to Durham. He m. Dinah Norton, dau'r of Samuel, Nov. 18, 1747, she was b. at Durham, Nov., 1723, his children b. in Durham, were
1. Abijah, b. March 2, 1750; in. Ann Bishop of Durham.
2. Phebe, b. June 18, 1752; m. David Scranton, of Durham.
3. Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1755 ; m. John Hall, of Durham.
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1. John, b. May 5, 1757; m. Lydia Hall and Ruth Parmak
5. Lois, b. July 15, 1760; m. Deacon John Johnson ; no issue.
6. Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1762; m. Elnathan Camp and Deacon Ab'm Pierson.
7. Dinah, b. Jan. 21, 1766 ; d. aged 20.
CURTIS, SAMUEL, son of Abijah, who was son of John and Dinah, of Durham, m. Lucretia Brooks, Oct. 10, 1810. He began life at Durham, and had children, John, Samuel, Anna, Elizabeth , Phebe, Sarah, Hannah, and David, b. 1823, d. young. The family removed to Medina, Ohio, and had several children b. there. Wil- liam Curtis was a Deacon at Medina.
CURTIS, HENRY, was an early and original settler at Wind- sor, Conn. He m. Elizabeth Abell, May 13, 1645. Ile lost one child in Windsor, in 1647. (Rowland.) He also had sons Samuel, b. April 26, 1649, and Nathaniel, b. July 15, 1651, at Windsor. Ile remained some years at Windsor, and little is recorded of his history. He became a proprietor and settler of Northampton, Mass., in 1653, where he d., Nov. 30, 1661. Henry Curtis had 5 lots of land in Watertown, Mass., carly. (See Watertown Record.) This Henry was from England at an early period.
CURTISS, DEACON'S, estate was assessed at Guilford, at £60, 17s., in 1642 or 1650.
CURTICE, JOHN, of Hampton, Conn., and Hannah, his wife, had children bap. there, viz., Frederick, bap. July 27, 1760 ; Epa- phras, bap. Oct. 17, 1762; Ebenezer, bap. in 1765; Anne, in 1767, and Elizabeth, March 1, 1770.
CURTICE, HOSEA, of Colchester, had a dau'r Abigail, bap. at Colchester, April 6, 1746 ; perhaps from Hebron, not traced.
At a General Court holden in Boston, Nov. 7, 1683, in answer to the petition of William Parke, John Boulds, Joseph Grigs, John Ruggles, and Edward Morris, selectmen of Roxbury, Mass., in their behalf, dated Oct. 10 and 17, 1683, for a tract of land for a village, to be laid out about Quialtesett. to the quantity of 7 miles square. The Court granted the petition, with two provisions : the second was. that thirty families should settle on the plantation within three years from that time, and maintain " amongst ym an able, and orthodox, Godly minister." (See Woodstock Propricter's Record. ) The first discovery of Woodstock for a plantation, " Oct., Anno Dom.," 168-4. The town of Roxbury, aforesaid, in prosecution of the above grant, empowered JOHN CURTICE, Lieut. Samuel Ruggles, John Rug- gles, sen'r, and Isaac Morris, to view the wilderness, and find a con- venient place, where they could take up said grant; and after due
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time they found, in 1684, a convenient place in the " Wapaquassen Country," westward of the " Myanekessen River," afterward called New Roxbury and Woodstock, in Conn. It appears John Curtis, one of the discoverers of New Roxbury, had no house-lot given him in the first division of the land, or in the good or bad meadow in 1686 or 1690, and from this fact it is supposed he did not settle at Woodstock, but continued in Mass.
CURTIS, DANIEL, of West Hartford, a descendant of Thomas, of Wethersfield, m. Rebecca, Oct. 14, 1736, and had issue baptized there, viz., Solomon, Jan. 30, 1737 ; Sylvanus, April 8, 1739; Lu- cretia, Dec. 20, 1741 ; Frederick, Sept. 30, 1744 ; Juliana, March 22, 1747 ; and Gabriel, April 8, 1750.
CURTIS, ICHABOD, of Durham, son of Abijah, and grandson of John and Dinah Norton, dau'r of Samuel Norton, of Durham, m. Silence Camp, and removed to Ohio after 1800. Samuel Cur- tis, son of Abijah and Ann, of Durham, m. Lucretia Brooks, and had children b. in Durham, and removed to Medina, Ohio.
CURTIS, REV. JEREMIAHI, graduated at Yale College, 1724, ordained in Southington, Nov. 13, 1728, m. Hannah Burnham, dau'r of Rev. William Burnham, of Kensington, Jan. 7, 1730-1, and had
1. Sarah, b. April 12, 1733, m. Noah Gridley, 1751. She d. 1805.
2. Hannah, b. Sept. 1, 1735, m. Job Lewis, March 13, 1755, d. 1810.
3. Samuel, b. Nov. 15, 1737, m. Margaret Root, May 13, 1766, d. 1769.
4. John, b. Jan. 20, 1739-40, m. Mary Lewis, Dec. 3, 1762.
5. Mary, b. August 20, 1742.
6. Lucy, b. August 5, 1744, m. Elisha Root, Jan. 16, 1764, d. 1773.
7. Jeremiah, Jr., b. Nov. 7, 1752.
8. Abigail, b .- no date.
This name has produced its full share of public men, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, as well as merchants, though a large portion have been farmers.
HON. WILLIAM CURTIS, and JOHN, his brother, sons of widow Elizabeth, of Stratford, tradition says were fromn Stratford- on-Avon, in England. I have no other evidence of their location in England. William d. in Stratford, Conn., Dec. 21, 1702. His will dated Dec. 15, 1702. Ilis children then living, and named, were Daniel, Ebenezer, Zachariah, Josiah, Joshua, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Jonathan. From these two Stratford families have descended most of those of the name in New Haven, Woodbury, Southbury, Dan- bury, Durham, Granville, Newtown; indeed, those of Fairfield County ; a large share of those in Litchfield County ; also, John
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Curtis, of Newark, New Jersey, who was a Deputy to the General Court there, with Thomas Huntington, Jan, 1, 1684-5, from New- ark. This John, son of John, sen'r, removed from Stratford to New- ark about 1667 or 8, and signed the regulations of the town. James Curtis and Samuel Fairchild, of Stratford, settled at Durham about 1707, and in 1766 James was a deacon, and d. there, aged 80 years. David, Aaron, and Ebenezer Curtis, left Durhanı about 1756, and settled in Granville, Mass., with the Baldwins, Coes, Bateses, Robin- sons, Parsons, Bartletts, Barneses. &c., from Durham. John Curtis and Asa Barnes, of Southington, were members of the convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States, in 1788, also Ebenezer Curtis, of Warren. Josiah, Benjamin, and Matthew Curtis, sons of Josiah, of Stratford, settled in Newtown, Conn., ancestors of Hon. Holbrook Curtis, and others, of Watertown, Conn.
The name of Curtis was numerous in the early settlement of New England. Farmer names Deodate Curtis, of Braintree, Mass., about 1643, who had a son Solomon. Henry, of Marblehead, from Eng- land ; his descendants in North Bridgewater. Henry, of Sudbury, where he d. May 8, 1678 ; son Ephraim, b. 1642. Henry, a pro- prietor of Northampton, (and Windsor,) 1653. Lieut. Philip, of Roxbury, slain by Indians, at Hassanamesset, (Grafton,) Nov. 9, 1675. Richard, of Marblehead, 1648. William, of Roxbury, free, 1633, d. Dec. 8, 1672, aged 80; sons, Thomas, d. 1652 ; Isaac, b. 1642; probably others, neither of whom appear to have come to Conn. Also, George, of Mass., free in 1640. The His- torical Register, with others, names Henry, aged 34 in 1654; Wil- liam, aged 34 or 37 in 1667; William, aged 37 in 1668 ; Zacheus, aged 53 in 1672 ; William, aged 40 in 1670 ; early settlers of Es- sex and old Norfolk, Mass. ; the last family connected with the Far- rar family, by the marriage of Thomas Farrar with Keziah Curtis, of Hanover. John Curtis "ex-representative," (was accepted into the town of Dover,) New Hampshire, in 1657. William and Richard free at Scituate, Mass., as early as 1650; they, with John Curtis, were approved inhabitants of Scituate in 1673, and had common land assigned them. William, a brother of Richard, bore arms in Seituate in 1640. Thomas had a dau'r Elizabeth, b. at Scituate, in 1649. (See History of Scituate.) Zacheus, of Downton, a laborer from England, shipped at Hampton, in the James of London, for New England, in 1635, William Cooper, master. Jo. Curtis, Richard Cotton, Martin Church, George Castell, Ann Crofts, &c., 'embarked in the ship Safety, for Virginia, in August, 1635. There
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appears to have been several distinct families of this name in Mass., as well as Conn., in the early settlement, and generally very respect- able families. Twelve by this name had graduated at Yale College in 1842, 12 at Harvard College in 1846, 1 at Amherst College, 8 at Dartmouth College in 1844.
Curteis, has 10 coats of arms ; Curtess, Curtiss, and Curteys' has 1; Curtisse, 1; Curteys, 1; Curtis, (Catecombe, county Hants, Bart.,) has 1 ; Curtis, (Culland's Grove, county Middlesex, Bart., Lord Mayor, 1796,) 1; Curtis, (Kent,) 1; Curtis, (London, con- firmed May 9, 1632,) 1; Curtis, (Tuddenham Hall, county Suffolk,) 1; Curtis, (borne by George Savage Curtis, of East Cliff House, Teignmouth, county Devon, Esq.,) 1; and 3 others for Curtis.
CURWIN, GEORGE, the first in New England, was b. in Work- ington, Cumberland, England, Dec. 10, 1610, as Camden says, " is the stately castle-like seat of this ancient, knightly family ;" and settled at Salem, with Hugh Peters, and became the founders of the mercantile enterprise of Salem, and built the first vessels there, and Curwin was largely engaged in commerce there during life. He was in the London trade, as early as 1653. Dr. Bently, in his sketch of Salem, says, " this year (1635) Salem lost another import- ant man, Capt. George Curwin, who came here in 1638, with his family, and was rich." Captain of a troop of horse, representative in General Court. His portrait was preserved in the hands of his great-grandson, Samuel Curwin, Esq., son of Rev. George. He d. Jan. 3, 1685. Estate inventoried at £5,964, 19s. 7d., which em- braced his homestead, four dwelling-houses, four ware-houses, two wharves, in Salem, and three farms in the vicinity, of 1,500 acres. A warehouse and wharf in Boston, and vessels, the George, the Swallow, John and William, valued at £1,050 ; merchandise, £2,232; gold and silver coin, &93, 7s .; 1621 oz. of plate ; a silver laced cloth coat ; velvet do .; a satin waistcoat, embroidered with gold, &c., &c. His widow Elizabeth, was dau'r of Hon. Herbert Pelham, one of the assistants, and sister-in-law of Gov. Josiah Wins- low. His fifth dau'r m. Hon. James Russell and Edward Lynde, Esq., of Boston, Win. Browne, Jr., Esq., and Josiah Wolcott, Esq., of Salem, and Wadsworthli, President of Harvard College. His son Capt. John Corwin, b. in Salem, July 28, 1638, was a merchant and deputy at Salem, m. Margaret, third dau'r of Gov. John Winthrop, of Conn., in May, 1665, and granddau'r of Rev. Hugh Peters, by his only child ; Capt. Corwin, d. in 1683, and left an only son George, b. 1666. Bartholomew Corwin, only son of the last Goorge, re-
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moved to, and settled at Amwell, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, m. Esther Burt, and had four sons, viz., George, John, Joseph and Samuel, and d. May 9, 1747. Joseph, removed to Canada. The family of George, removed to Kentucky ; this George d. 17-0. John, a great-grandson of Bartholomew, settled at Baltimore.
CORWIN, HON. JONATHAN, son of George, sen'r, was b. in Salem, Nov. 14, 1640; assistant in the Council at Boston, 1691 ; Judge of the Supreme Court, 1702; he resigned in 1715 ; he died July, 1718. His widow was a dau'r of Sir Henry Gibbs, of Dor- setshire. His children, Anne, d. young; Elizabeth, m. James Lin- dall, Esq., of Salem ; George, b. 1682, graduated at Harvard Col- lege, 1701, and settled in the ministry in Salem; d. at Salem, Nov. 23, 1717, aged 34. (See Mass. Collections,) m. Mehitabel Park- man ; sons Samuel, b. 1715 ; George, b. 1717 ; he m. Sarah Pick- man, dau'r of Benjamin, Esq., of Salem, and d. in St. Eustatia, in 1746 ; children, George, b. 1739, drowned on a voyage to the West Indies, in 1761 ; Sarah, d. single ; Mehitabel, m. Richard Ward, Esq., of Salem, and d. 1813, aged 72. (See Journal and Letters of the late Samuel Curwin, Judge of Admiralty and a Loyalist, Refu- gee in England, by Geo. A. Ward.) Jo. Curwin was an inhabitant of Southold, Long Island, and accepted to be made free by Coun., with others in Southold, Oct., 1662. (Col. Record.) It appears from the facts in this family, that the original name was Curwin, and the name in this family has changed to Corwin ; and both names are used in the same family. The last Jolin, of Southold, was probably son of George, sen'r, of Salem.
CURWITHEE, CALEB, and James Chichester, of Huntington, Long Island; John Carpenter, Thomas Carle, of Hempsted, and James Christy, of Newtown, Long Island, and others were accepted by Conn., to be made freemen in 1664; also, Jo. Curwin, Cory,
NOTE .- I here publish the Colony record, of Conn., upon Robert Coe's first coming to Conn., viz : " Whereas, there was a dismission granted by the Church) of Waterton, in the Massacliu- setts, dated 29th of March] last, to Andrewe Warde, Jo. Sherman, Jo. Strickland, Rob'te Coo, Rob'te Reynold, and Jonas Weede, wth intent to forme, a newe in a Ch. Covennte in this River of Conectecott, the waide prties have soe accordinly done wth the publicke allowance of the rest of the members of the saide Churches, as certificate nowe p'duced app'. It is therefore in this prsent cort ratified and confirmed, they prmissing shortlie publicquely to remove the (said) Covennte vppon notice to the rest of the Churches." Of the above named persons who came to Wethersfield, in 1636, Ward, Robert Coe, Reynold and Weede, went to Stamford, and WVard removed from Stamford, in 1644, to llempsted, Long Island, and returned and died at Fairfield.
About 1639-40, Connecticut, purchased Waranoke, (Westfield,) of the Indians, and began a plantation, and Mr. Hopkins built a trading-house there.
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John Conclin, sen'r, and Jr., of Southold, Long Island, were accepted to be made free in Conn., in Oct., 1662.
CUSHMAN, SOLOMON, and Easter, his wife, of Stafford, had a dau'r Sibbel, b. Feb. 5, 1752; Isaac, b. Feb. 11, 1753.
CUTLER, NATHANIEL, d. at Middletown, Conn., June 5, 1706, in the 100th year of his age; buried at Middletown; (grave- stone ;) this must have been the oldest of the name in Conn.
CUTLER, DANIEL, of Windham, m. Mary Woodard, July 9, 1736 ; issue, Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1738 ; Eliezer, b. Nov. 20, 1739, d. 1759; Daniel, b. Jan. 22, 1743; Samuel, b. Feb. 6, 1745 ; Mary, b. Oct. 8, 1746.
CUTLER, SETH, of Windham, m. Elizabeth Babcock, Oct. 22, 1734; issue, Elizabeth, b. July 19, 1735 ; Hannah, b. March 30, 1737, d. 1743 ; John, b. Jan. 17, 1738 ; Dinah, b. Nov. 12, 1740 ; 2d Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1743; Joanna, b. March, 20, 1746 ; Olive, b. Jan. 27, 1748 ; Sarah, b. July 18, 1750 ; Seth the father d. Feb. 9, 1751. Seth Cutler, was from Killingly, first church, to Hamp- ton, and joined the church in Hampton, Feb. 20, 1738, and his . children all recorded as bap. in Hampton Society.
CUTLER, REV. TIMOTHY, LL. D., graduated at Harvard College, in 1701; became a learned divine. He was in the Conn. Colony, soon after 1700, and became the third minister of Stratford, where he was ordained Jan. 11, 1709, and was made the second Rector of Yale College, in 1719, where he remained until 1722. He was the successor of President Pierson, at Yale. (See Yale Catalogue.) He became rector of Christ's Church in Boston, and d. in the 82d year of his age, Aug. 17, 1765. On the 30th of Sept., 1709, Joseph Curtis and John Hawley, of Stratford, by authority of the town, made a grant of 100 acres of land to Rev. Mr. Cutler, on conditions for his encouragement to become their minister, &c., which was confirmed by another instrument, Dec. 20, 1710, also executed by Joseph Curtis, &c., and at " ye same time to receive of ye s' Mr. Cutler, now Rector of Yale College, at New Haven, an instrument for the releasing and conveying back to ye town of Strat- ford, ye house and an acre and half of land, &c., which the town " had given him, when they gave the 100 acres, according to an in- strument, executed Feb. 14, by Joseph Curtis, Ambrose Simpson, Jno. Coe, Jno. Hawley and James Lewis, a committee of Stratford, with Mr. Cutler, &c., which settled the differences between Mr. Cutler and the town. The principal instrument between them was dated April 27, 1721, and then acknowledged. When the commit-
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tee laid out to the Rev. Mr. Joseph Webb, two parcels of land in Stratford, in lieu of his lot of land on the Great River, originally laid out to Mr. Isaac Nicholls, of 94 acres. After Mr. Cutler, located himself and family at New Haven, he sold his other lands in Stratford.
Rev. Timothy Cutler, is said to have been the son of Major John Cutler, of Boston, or Charlestown, Mass. He settled in the ministry at Stratford, Conn., in 1709. President of Yale College. in 1719; went to Boston, where he was pastor of Christ's church, in 1723, and d. Aug. 17, 1765, aged 82 years. While at Stratford, he in. Eliza- beth Andrew, of Milford, March 21, 1710-11, and had children b. in Stratford, and recorded, viz., Martha, b. Dec. 30, 1711, and an- other dau'r, twins ; John, b. June 19, 1713; Elizabeth, 2d, b. Aug. 1715, and Timothy, b. Oct. 22, 1718, perhaps others b. after he left Stratford.
MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. In the front rank of the female writers of America, stands the name of Mrs. Lydia Iluntley Sigourney. Her talents are of a high order, and her style in both prose and verse, is simple, chaste, and purely classical, charming the reader by its elegance, and winning the admiration of all who can fully appreciate the beautiful and the true.
The subject of this sketch, was the only child of Ezekiel Huntley, Esq., of Norwich, Connec- ticut, where she was born on the first of September, 1791. Her parents took especial pains with her early education and training, and lived to be more than repaid for all their care, and solicitude. She began as early as her eighth year to evince a decided talent for poetical com- position, inspired, as she doubtless was, by the wild and picturesque scenery about her native place, where nature has revelled in some of her wildest moods, and rock, and stream, and hill, and vale, assume every variety of aspect, and these haunts of early childhood, which are still among her fondest recollections she has thus feelingly commemorated in her verse,
- Sweetly will, Were the scenes that charmed me when a child : Rocks, gray rocks, with their caverns dark, Leaping rills, like the diamond spark, Torrent voices, thundering by, When the pride of the vernal floods swelled high, And quiet roofs, like the hanging nest, Mi'd cliffs, by the feathery foliage drest !"
She enjoyed all the advantages the schools of her native city afforded, and also attended a boarding-school in Hartford. Upon finishing her education, she returned to Norwich, where, in connection with an estecmed friend, Nancy Maria Hyde, she opened a school for young ladies, which was carried on for two years, and then relinquished. Miss Huntley. subsequently removed to Hartford, where she kept a select school for young ladies, which proved very suc- cessful, and acquired for her the reputation of being an able and kind instructor of the young. All her pupils became very warmly attached to her, and many now recollect with affection her gentle way of imparting knowledge to the tender, opening mind.
In the year 1815, the first volume of poems, by Miss Huntley appeared. Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., of Hartford, who was a particular friend of the authoress, and a great-admirer of her writings, selected the articles of which the volume was composed, and detrayed the expense of their publication. The volume was entitled, " Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse."
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ELIZABETH, wife of Samuel Cutler, at Gloucester, March 17, 1693 ; James, of Watertown, and Anna, his wife, had James, b. there 6th day of 9th mo., 1635, and owned land there. They also had dau'r Elizabeth, b. in Boston, in 1637, and dau'r Hannah, b. in 1638 ; Samuel, of Marblehead, in 1654. Samuel, aged 71, in 1700. Mr. Oliver, of Medfield, a soldier of the revolution, d. Aug. 25, aged 91. (Hist. Reg.)
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