General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8MND-Z9
From Randall at Ancestry.com World Tree: Updated: Feb, 16, 2002 - Contact: William R. Randall  :

John Huntley was born Abt. 1624 in British Isles (Scotland), and died November 16, 1676 in Lyme Colony, Connecticut. He married (1) Sarah died about 1650. He married (2) Jane Curtis before 1669 in unknown. She was born Abt. 1630 in England, and died Abt. 1669 in Lyme Colony, Connecticut. He married (3) Mary (Hand) Barnes on June 3, 1669 in New London, Connecticut. She died July 5, 1687.

John Huntley, born about 1622-1626 in the British Isles, possibly Aberdeen, parentage, unknown, came to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony prior to July 1647; He originally settled in Boston, two years later he moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts and several years later moved to Lyme Colony, Connecticut, he died in Lyme Colony of Connecticut November 16, 1676. His first wife, Sarah, maiden name unknown, died in Boston of smallpox ca. 1650. John's second wife Jane Curtis, who would be
our relation, died in Lyme Conn. about 1669. John married, after 1669, a third wife, Mary (Hand) Barnes, divorced wife of Charles Barnes, who had abandoned his wife and returned to England, after he was caught fornicating with her, and fined 10 pounds, which was a lot of money in those days.
John apparently corrected the situation by doing the noble thing and marrying her. Mary was the Daughter of John and Alice (Gransden) Hand of Long Island.
John apparently had a brother or other close relative; William Huntley of St. Phillips Parish, Barbados, who owned a cotton plantation there and owned two slaves. Barbados was an English Island from 1605 until the middle 1900s.
"John Huntley, Immigrant of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut, 1647-1977, and some of his descendants"; compiled by Virgil W. Huntley; published by the author, Mystic, Connecticut; 1978 (78064967 LofC)

John Huntley, the immigrant, was in Boston by July 12, 164-7 when he signed as witness for a Power-of-Attorney for Thomas Bayes. On May 1, 1648, he and John Pease were associated in connection with a cargo of fish, shipped to Barbados in the Welcome. He has not been connected with any Huntley family in England.
John Huntley was married at this time. The evidence is a deposition made by John Pease at Boston on July 1, 1679, when Pease was 6$ years old. "29 or 30 years ago, Mr. Hanniford, Mariner, lived in Boston. . .and John Huntley. . .paid the said Hanniford rent for the same and said Huntley" a wife died there of small-pox."
The only clue to that first wife's name seems to be a petition signed in 1649 by "diverse women of Boston." One of the women who signed was a Sarah Huntley. John married (2) Jane, surname unknown, about 1651. She died before June 3, 1669 when John Huntley married (3) Mary Bames. Commissioner Thomas Minor of Stonington noted in his diary "The fouerth moneth is June and hath 30 day. Tuesday the first the day the Court (at New London) began, that court married Huntley and Marie Barons."
John Huntley was one of the original settlers at Lyme. He was chosen one of the surveyors at town meetings in 1671, 1672 and 1673. He was Townsman at a town-meeting on February 9, 1674. He took part in the New London-Lyme riot of March 12, 1671/2 when the two towns, forgetting their "Loving Parting" of February 13, 1665, fought over their boundaries with sticks.
It had cost John Huntley 100 Pounds to become a settler at Lyme. During his lifetime, he received about 140 acres worth 127 Pounds, according to the inventory of his estate made by William Mesuer and Joseph Peck. Additional land, about 130 acres, was granted his estate by the Town.
John Huntley made his will in Lyme on November 16, 1676 and may have died the same day. Aaron Huntley and John's "dear and beloved wife" were executors. The widow received the dwelling and one third of the estate during her life. At her death, Aaron received "all the lands and meadow of mine in the Town