Jonathan Huntting Papers

According to Franklin Bowditch Dexter's Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Yale College, "Jonathan Huntting, youngest son of William and Puah (Osborn) Huntting, of East-Hampton, Long Island, and grandson of Nathaniel and Mary (Hedges) Huntting, of East-Hampton, was born on February 13, 1778. Jonathan Huntting (Yale 1735) was his great-uncle. He entered College after the opening the Sophomore year. After graduation he taught in the Academy in his native town, and in the meantime studied theology under the instruction of his pasto, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher (Yale 1797), and the Rev. David S. Bogart, of Southhampton. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Long Island on October 10, 1805, and supplied the pulpit in Fishkill for the first five months of 1806. In June, 1806, he began to preach in the Presbyterian Church in Southold, Long Island, where he was ordained and installed as pastor on August 20, 1807. On September 20, 1808, he married Julia, daughter of Abraham Sayre, of his native place. He fulfilled a long and useful ministry in Southold, until dismissed at his own request on August 27, 1828. He continued to reside there, but for much of the time served as stated supply to neighboring congregations. Thus, for the four years ending in the fall of 1832 he supplied the church on Shelter Island. He died at his home in Southold after ten days' illness, on December 30, 1850, in his 73rd year."