2) Balthazar is our Immigrant Ancestor for the US. It
is believed
by some, that
he was bor in Sagan, Selesia, and came
to the United States from England.
3) Recorded in Port Jervis Union, 21 Dec 1910: Balthazar
joined the New
Haven Colony but was too young to sign the
New Haven Compact in 1639.
4) The first record of Balthazar is at Wethersfield,
Ct in 1656-64;
He owned
property in Lyme and in Saybrook very early
in the history of the colony.
5) Balthazar's occupations include; Scrivener (writer
of contracts
and deeds)
of Wethersfield, CT., Attorney: 26 Sep
1656 became Attorney to Matthew
Price in Whethersfield to collect debts
owed, Horse Breeder, Tavern Keeper,
Townsman ( 24 Oct 1672, and 08 Jan 1673),
Commissioner and Scrivener of
Lyme (1674), Surveyor of Highways (08 Oct
1675 and 04 Mar1676), Tax
Assesor ( 05 Aug 1679), Rate / Debt Collector
(27 Dec 1686), He was also a
member of the Lyme Train Band and the local Millitia.
(In 1668 he signed
a Militia Petition).
6) Ct Records; Widow Whiting, wife of Merchant Major
Whiting of Hartford,
won a suit against Balthazar for non payment of a
debt.
7) Recorded in Colonial Records Vol 2: 11 May 1671 Court
of Election; He is
recorded as a Freeman: 30 Jan 1663 Whethersfield,
and Freeman 11 May 1671
Lyme. In 1677 he was chosen "Committee of
the town".
8) Recorded in "Genealogical Dictionary of the First
Settlers of New
England p 44; DeWolf, Bathazar, of
Wetherfield 1664,
removed to
Lyme 1668,
has a daughter of age to live in a neighbors
family. sons, Edward, William, and
Stephen join with him in 1678 as men of the
town train band.
9) (controversial and unproven): Marriage to Alice Peck
Recorded in
"Dolphs and DeWolffs"V 1 & 2, by Carol
Maginnis.(and on Broderbund
WFT V 6, Ed 1, Tree # 1667,Carol theorizes;
1) Alice
is identified by her ownership of land
in Saybrook,
2)
The close relationship between Joseph
Peck and the DeWolfs
3)
And the fact that only the Pecks believed
a woman should own property
in their own right.
4)
Few men who could give Alice a dower
in Saybrook were old enough
be her father
5)
And she was not found in the lines of
the bulls, Clarks, and birchards,
marvins, Lords, or Wallers.
9b) Balthazar's marriage to Alice PECK is recorded in;
"The Ancestors
of Alex Lorenzo Tremble" (FTM Gen Site) "Deacon William
PECK born
1601 Near London, died Oct 4th in Lyme,
New London, or New Haven, CT.
He married Elizabeth HOLT, born 1587-1609/died
Dec 5th 1683 in Lyme, New
London, CT. They had the following children;
1)
Jeremiah born Jan 1622/23
2)
Alice, born abt 1625 in England, died 1689
in Lyme, NL, CT, married
Balthazar DeWolf abt 1645 in Guilford,
CT. 3) Elizabeth born Apr 1643..."
9c) Although in; "Dolphs and DeWolfs" Vol 1 and 2, by
Carol Maginnis
Balthazar's wife is
recorded as being Alice
Peck.
10) William DeWolf is mentioned among the followers of
William the
Conquerer in the year 1066, and the DeWolf family appears
in English
history from that time forward. "Burke's
Complete Armory" gives
the DeWolf coat of arms.
11) From his penmanship, Balthazar appears to have been
English It is
also seen in the fact that his children
intermarried with those of the best
familiies of the English settlers, a thing
which would have been all but
impossible had he not been of English origin.
12) See my Pilgrims And Puritans Page for Balthazar's
connection to
the Salem Witch Trials.
13) Recorded in Saybrook Records; Vol 1 p141, 07 Jul
1662: Balthazar
sold to
Rev. (Joseph) Peck, 12 acres of calves pasture,
8 acres in 1,000 acres field
bounded East by William Lord, on the South
by the grean highway to Oyster
River, on the West by the highway to the
mill, and on the North by the
stone pits with 150 pounds right in ox pasture,
150 pounds commonagein Town
Commons, and 114 pounds right in Hamonasat,
now Madison whatsoever shall
LO belonging to the premises as above said
as specified in bill of sale. Note
signed by Joseph Peck above said record confirming
114 pounds of the right
of Hamonasat was a mistake and of no
validity. Rec. 01 May 1666.
14) On 31 Mar 1674 to 23 Dec 1678, Balthazar was licensed
to sell spirits
on Lyme Road.
John Huntley was born 15 Apr 1620 in Aberdeen, Scotland,
and died 16 Nov
1676 in
Lyme, New London, CT Colony.
1a) He married Sarah (surname unknown)
bef 1647 in Boston, Suffolk, MA Colony.
There are no known children of this union.
1b)
He married Jane Curtis. (WFT Est 1650/52)
in Lyme, New London,
CT Colony. Jane is believed to be
the daughter of John's business partner
Phillip Curtis. She was born (WFT Est
1625/30) in England, and died abt.
1668 in Lyme, New London, CT Colony.
John and Jane were married 17 years
and had four children together.
1c)
He married Mary (HAND) Barnes on 03 June
1669 in New CT Colony. She is
the daughter of John Hand and Sarah (surname
unknown).She was born (WFT Est
1622/48 in England, and died 05 Jul 1687 in Lyme,
New London, CT Colony,
following her divorce from her prior
husband, Charles Barnes who was a school
teacher in East Hampton, LI, NY. It is unknown
how many children Mary and
Charles had together, but Charles apparantely
abandoned his wife and children.
After Mary and John married the couple had
two daughters together.
2) Recorded in: "John Huntley of Lyme, CT, by Virgil
Huntley"; Our Huntley
family coat of arms comes from the personal arms
of John Francis Burra
Huntley of boxwell Court, Tetbury,
Gloucestershire, England. It an Argent,
on
a chevron between three stags' heads erased
sable,as many bugle-horns
stringed of thee field. Mantling, sable and
argent Crest- On a wreath of the
colours,a talbot passant proper, collared
and lined Motto - "Je voul droit avoir."
3a) Recorded in: The Genealogy Of Connecticut, Early
Families Page 223;
(John is thought to have arrived in Boston from
Scotland via Barbados about
1640) The 1st written record of John in
America appears in a legal document
of William Aspinwall,
a Notary Public of Boston, MA.
In this document, dated
12 Jul 1647, John signed as witness for a Power
of Attorney for Thomas
Bayes. He also bore witness for Thomas Foster.
In these records is also an
account dated 01 May 1648, between John
Pease and John Huntley, in regard
to a load of fish, John Huntley had shipped
to Barbados.
3b)
NOTE; Some believe John Huntley is the
brother of William Huntley who
was a resident of St. Phillip's Parish in Barbados.
According to the Smith
Collection on West Indian Families,located
in the London Genealogical
Society, there was a William Huntley
living in St. Philip's Parish, Barbados.
He was buried there 01 Aug 1679. He had owned
five acres of land and two
slaves. Barbados is in the Windward Islands
of the Caribbean Sea and claimed
by the British Empire in 1605. It has been
under British rule ever since that time.
Cotton, molasses, rum, and sugar were raised
as the main exports of the island,
and the theory is that William raised cotton on
his five acres and traded
it to John for fish.
4) John Huntley is also recorded with his wife first
wife, Sarah,
as living
in Roxbury, Suffolk, which is now a partof
Boston. In 1649 Sarah Huntley,
along with other women of Boston, signed
a petition. At the time of Sarah's
death (believed to have been the result of
Small Pox),the couple lived in a
house owned by Mr.Hanniford. Recorded in
the deposition of John Pease,
02 Jul.1679: "29 or 30years ago, Mr. Huntley
was Mr. Hanniford's tenant in
boston, and there Mr. Huntley's wife
died of small-pox."
4b) Recorded
in Ipswich Quarterly Court Records;
Richard Smith makes
deposition that John Huntley was in Salem,
MA at about 1650, being at the
Iron Works there.
5) Vital Records of the city of Boston, MA: Records
of John Elliot, Pastor of
the 1st Churchof Roxbury, MA, 27th day of the 10th month,
1657; baptized
Moses Huntley, Aaron HuntleyJr., & Elizabeth
Huntley.
6) Suffolk Co., MA Land Records; 27 Feb 1659 deeded land,
house, and
one acre, to Phillip Curtis for L23 worth
of cattle.
7) It is unknown why John and his family left Roxbury
to move to Saybrook,
New London, CT Colony about 1661. It appears
likely it was for business
reasons and possibly a partnership with Richard
Smith. On 12 Jul 1665
John purchased two parcels of land and
Richard Smith sold him 71 acres of
land when John moved to Lyme, New London,
CT Colony. Shortly after that
he purchased an additional 91 acres for
which he paid one hundred English
pounds. John's cattle were earmarked with
a "one half-pen cut on
the
underside of each ear, and a slit on the top of
the near ear".
8) BEING AMONG THE FIRST THIRTY SETTLERS OF LYME,
NEW OF LONDON, CT. He is recorded in the Town
Records,
Vol 1:30, 12 Jul 1665; JOHN IS RECORDED
AS SHARED IN THE
FIRST DIVISION Of LAND. It cost one hundred
pounds per family
to purchase a share of the town, and John had
71 acres for his lot plus
twenty acres for his calf pasture at that
time. John is listed as a
COOPER. The meadow within it is bounded
South by the land of William
Measurer; on the North by the commons, on
the West by the highway,
and on the East by the commons. (12 Jul 1665).
He also laid out a home
lot containing forty three acres of
upland more or less bounded West
upon the highway, North on Balthazar
DeWolf's land, South upon Mr.
Mesuer's land, East upon the commons laying
on both sides of Duck River
with one dwelling house. also three and
a half acres of meadow at the head
of Duck River bounded on the meadow of Mr. Meseur,
North on the swamp
of Balthazer DeWolf, and West with his one
land; attested by Mathew
Griswold and Renald Marviene.
9) On 12 Mar 1671 John participated in the "NEW LONDON
AND LYME RIOT", where
the two groups fought with sticks and staves
in a difficulty arising over the boundary
line between the two towns.
10) In 1673 "Goodman Huntley" is recorded as having been
chosen as a SURVEYOR.
11) 09 Feb 1674; John was elected to be a Townsman, also
called a
Selectman, at a Town Meeting. Joseph Peck, Lt. Renold
Marvin
(also chosen), and Mr. Chapman were also
present.
12) 14 Mar 1676/77: John Huntley laid out to his estate
on both side
four mile river twenty acres of upland
and meadow be it more or less
and is bounded West with the commons,
south with the land set out for
Henry Bennet, East with the commons, North
with the lands of John
Larebe, East and West 55 rods, North and South
49 rods, the
twenty acres being in the second division.
13) 15 Mar 1687: Laid out to the estate of John Huntley
and Aaron Huntley
at the cove commonly called Sunkapogusets, fifty
acres of upland be
it
more or less with allowance for surveyors
land, bounded North by
Thomas Champion, East with The Commons, it
has an Ash tree marked
at the Northeast corner and a Black Oak Tree
marked at the Southeast
corner, Southerly by the Smith's land,
Westerly by the highway, being
upon the account of their fourth division.
14) John's Will is dated 16 Nov 1676, the same day he
died;"Being
very
sick and weak of body, but of perfect memory, I
giveand bequeath my
soul to God that gave it, and my body
to the earth from whence it came,
to be decently buried at the discretion
of my executors herafter mentioned.
I give and bequeath to my dear and beloved
wife one third part of all my
estate and my dwelling house to live in peaceably
during her natural life.
I give to my son, Aaron, half an acre ofland
in the new lot adjoyning the
orchard fence on one side and thefront
fence on the other side, to set him
a house upon and part of the fruit of the orchard
of my wife, and he shall
agree and one third of all theincrease of
all my land unto him and his heirs
forever, he improving his time upon it; and
after the decease of my wife
all the lands and meadow of mine in the towne
of Lyme, he paying unto each
of my children on hispossessing of the lands, ten
pounds apiece, and I give
unto my said son five pounds towards
the building of his house... I give and
bequeath unto all my other children ten
pounds apiece; to my son Moses, ten
pounds, to my daughter Elizabeth ten pounds,
to my daughter Mary ten pounds,
to my daughter Sarah ten pounds and to my
daughter Alice ten pounds. And of
this my last will and testament I do appoint
and make my dear and loving wife
and my son Aaron joint executors." signed
and sealed and published in presence
of us; Balthazar DeWolf, William Measuer,
witnesses. This is the inventory of
John HUNTLEY'S estate; The house house 018:17,
wearing apparel 004:13,
and beding in the house 009:17. Thetotal
is L 218.00 15) with the lands and
meadows of the first
division 112: The second division
15L 127:00, horses and
cattle 034:00, Hogs and pigs 006:00 corn
and grain 002:00, culrature for
husbandry 008:00, old iron and stell and calke
001:00, carpenters and cooping
tools 004:15, furniture and materials in
the 1677: After John's deathe in 1676,
and his will was proven in court, his 2nd son,
Aaron Huntley became the executor
of his father's estate. This was apparently
not an easy task because it took over
25 years to dispose of the estate, to the
others.
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