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He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and was the son of Jabez Huntington. He graduated at Harvard in 1763, He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active Son of Liberty, and a member of the committee of correspondence that was established at a Norwich town meeting on 6 June 1774. He raised a regiment in which he was made captain, joined the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 26 April 1775, and aided in repulsing the British at Danbury, Connecticut, in April 1776. He "fought courageously during the Battle of Bunker Hill, from which he emerged a Colonel." Having been appointed brigadier general on 12 May 1777, he joined the main army near Philadelphia in September of that year, and in May 1778, was ordered to Hudson River.

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  • Jedediah Huntington
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  • He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and was the son of Jabez Huntington. He graduated at Harvard in 1763, He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active Son of Liberty, and a member of the committee of correspondence that was established at a Norwich town meeting on 6 June 1774. He raised a regiment in which he was made captain, joined the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 26 April 1775, and aided in repulsing the British at Danbury, Connecticut, in April 1776. He "fought courageously during the Battle of Bunker Hill, from which he emerged a Colonel." Having been appointed brigadier general on 12 May 1777, he joined the main army near Philadelphia in September of that year, and in May 1778, was ordered to Hudson River.
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  • He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and was the son of Jabez Huntington. He graduated at Harvard in 1763, He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active Son of Liberty, and a member of the committee of correspondence that was established at a Norwich town meeting on 6 June 1774. He raised a regiment in which he was made captain, joined the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 26 April 1775, and aided in repulsing the British at Danbury, Connecticut, in April 1776. He "fought courageously during the Battle of Bunker Hill, from which he emerged a Colonel." Having been appointed brigadier general on 12 May 1777, he joined the main army near Philadelphia in September of that year, and in May 1778, was ordered to Hudson River. In 1778 he was a member of the court-martial that tried Gen. Charles Lee and in 1780 of the one that condemned Major AndrĂ©. He entertained many distinguished officers in his house, among whom were Lafayette, Steuben, and Pulaski. When Lauzun's Legion was stationed at Lebanon during the winter of 1780/1, he invited that commander and his officers to a banquet. He was one of the first board of foreign missions, and a zealous supporter of charitable institutions. His first wife, Faith, was a daughter of Governor Trumbull, and his second wife was the sister of Bishop Moore of Virginia. He was one of the organizers of the Society of the Cincinnati. He became collector of the port of New London in 1789 and held the office 26 years. The Gen. Jedidiah Huntington House in Norwichtown, Connecticut, survives and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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