Thomas Huntington (1745-1835) graduated from Yale in 1768, and spent a month in 1769 as a missionary among the Six Nations tribes. He then lived in Ashford, CT from 1770 to 1799, and in Canaan, CT from 1801 until his death, earning his living as a physician and farmer. "Somewhat eccentric in his habits and manners, he was a pattern of persevering industry, temperance, frugality, and other virtues"--New England Historic and Genealogical Register, July 1856, 283.
Highlights include: a contemporary extract of a 1769 letter from the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, warning that "the Indians apear at present to be so universally inflam'd against the English it would be imprudent for Mr. Huntington to proceed any further among them . . . We fear that there are numbers of them that would be glad of an opportunity to take away his life." A fragment of a memorandum signed by Huntington describing his retreat from this mission, reading in part: "Ye 1 of July Mr. Kirkland acc[ompanied] me as far as Fort Stanwix." A manuscript family register of births, marriages and deaths from 1735-1794 16 receipts and subscription lists for a Canaan church, 1798 and 1816-1818 Huntington's 1831 will 3 leaves of scientific notes on water power 2 undated Canaan manuscript tax lists and various letters, deeds, receipts, and memoranda.
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