Huntington

company; in 1771 he became lieutenant, and in
May 1774 he was appointed captain of the com-
pany. Five months later he was made colonel
of the 20th Regiment of colonial militia. In the
spring of 1776 he marched to Boston and was
in service in that vicinity until after the British
evacuation. He then marched to New York,
where his men fought with conspicuous bravery
at the battle of Long Island. During this year
he was engaged at King's Bridge, Northcastle,
and Sidmun's Bridge. In Apr. 1777, he cooper-
ated with Arnold in harassing the British as
they withdrew from Danbury to the sea. He
was successively colonel of the 8th Connecticut
Regiment (1775), of the I7th Regiment of Con-
tinental Infantry (1776), of the ist Connecticut
Regiment (1777), and in May 1777 he became
a brigadier-general in the Continental Army.
He joined General Putnam at Peekskill in the
following July but returned to the main army
near Philadelphia in the fall. He was later sta-
tioned at various posts in the Hudson Valley. A
member of the court martial that tried Gen.
Charles Lee in July 1778, he was also on the
court of inquiry to investigate the case of Major
Andre. He was one of a committee of four that
drafted the constitution of the Society of the
Cincinnati. At the close of the war he was
brevetted major-general.

After his retirement from the army he re-
sumed his former business in Norwich but was
drawn into many civic employments. He served
as sheriff of New London county several months
before he became treasurer of the state and a
delegate to the state constitutional convention,
In 1789 his friend President Washington ap-
pointed him collector of the customs at the port
of New London and this post he retained until
shortly before his death. His first wife. Faith
Trumbull, daughter of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull
of Connecticut, had visited him in camp at Rox-
bury in the early days of the conflict. The scenes
of war affected her sensitive mind and she be-
came deranged and died Nov. 24, 1775. His
second wife was Ann Moore, daughter of a mer-
chant of New York who had been impoverished
by the Revolution.

[The Huntingdon Family in America (1915) ; Htmt-
ington Papers in Conn. Hist. Soc. Colls., vol. XX
(1923) ; Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., 5 sen, vol. IX (1885) I
Pub. Records of the Colony of Con*,, vols. XIII-XV
(1885-90) ; F. M. Caulkins, Hist, of Norwich, Conn,
(1845); Abel McEwen, A Sermon, Preached at the
Funeral of Gen. Jedediah Huntington (1818),]

F.M—n.

HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH VINCENT
(Jan. 20, i8i5-Mar. 10, 1862), novelist, editor,
the son of Benjamin and Faith Trumbull (Hunt-
ington) Huntingdon, was born in New York

Huntington

City. His paternal grandfather was Judge Ben-
jamin Huntington (1736-1800), a member of
the Continental Congress and a Federalist con-
gressman. His maternal grandfather was Gen.
Jedediah Huntington [q.v.~\. While of "stand-
ing order" stock of Connecticut, his maternal
grandfather married a sister of Bishop Moore
of Virginia, which accounted for the Episco-
palianism of the youth's family. As became a
broker's son, Jedediah was trained by tutors
and in an Episcopalian private school which pre-
pared him for Yale College. Transferring from
Yale, he was graduated in 1835 from the Uni-
versity of the City of New York (later New
York University) and then earned a medical
degreeat the University of Pennsylvania (1838).
Experiencing a call to the ministry, he taught
philosophy at St. Paul's School, Flushing, L. L,
and studied theology. In 1841 he was ordained
an Episcopalian minister and assigned to a
church at Middlebury, Vt. He married his first
cousin, Mary Huntington, in April 1842. In the
meantime he had won somewhat of a reputation,
especially in England, on the publication of a
sonnet sequence on the "Coronation Sonnets'*
(Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September
1838). This was followed in 1843 by Poems,
which a reviewer in the London Athenaeum for
Jan. 6, 1844, regarded as "classical and Words-
worthian." Becoming unsettled in creed because
of his interest in the Oxford Movement, he re-
signed his rectorship in 1846 and went to Eng-
land, where he accepted High-church princi-
ples. Still dissatisfied, he journeyed to Rome
where he lived with his brother, Daniel [g.?vj,
a painter. Here he wrote Lady Alice which was
published both in England and America in 1849
and was accepted as the work of an English
Puseyite, In America it received severe criti-
cism even on moral grounds (North American
Review, January 1850) and possibly because of
his conversion (and that of his wife) to Catholi-
cism (1849). At any rate this step cost Hunt-
ington many old friends if it did not lessen his
reputation as a litterateur and the earnings of
his pen. In a lecture some years later he de-
scribed the problems of converts whose oppor-
tunities as Catholics to earn a living with pen
or by teaching were then quite impossible, and
he suggested means in which they might be aided
without recourse to charity (St. Vincent dt P&&
Quarterly, May I9°S)-

Returning to America, he engaged in the
movement for an international copyright agree-
ment as a means of protecting American and
English authors from the piracy of publishing
houses. For a time he was editor of the sliort-

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