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Nathaniel Huntoon (Philip⁴, Nathaniel³, John², Philip¹) was born May 10, 1785 in Unity, NH, and died 1852 in Clarendon, Orleans County NY. He married Sarah Buckman.   She was born Abt. 1788 in Claremont NH, and died 1864 in Clarendon, Orleans County NY.

Notes for Nathaniel Huntoon

Early Families of Unity NH and Cemetaries of Unity NH (Kathleen C. Beals) Birth recorded in Unity Town Records in batch with 4 other children.

Two tombstones of Philip (father) and Nathaniel (grandfather) erected 1832 by this Nathaniel and Hilton in East Unity Cemetary..

Died in NY State per Huntoon geneology.

"History of Clarendon From 1810 to 1888" by David Sturges Copeland, (Buffalo, The Courier Company, Printers, 1889), p. 105  (italics added).   Book is on web at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ANY7530

In the old orchard, south of the creek, not far from A. D. Cook's home, Isaac Hunton [sic] snored loud enough to awaken Rip Van Winkle, if he had been on earth at this time. To the east was the dwelling of Jeremiah Glidden, on the George Mathes estate, and he first planted the old fruit-trees and did the original clearing. The present frame-house was boarded by Simeon Howard, who laid his body, years ago, in a house of a different character, under Clarendon's soil. As the records show, Jeremiah Glidden was our supervisor in 1823 and 1824, and in 1821 his road-tax was four days. Nathaniel Huntoon, in the same year, lived in this district, and his abiding-place was where the pump of Col. N. E. Darrow sends forth its limestone draughts. Afterward, Nat, as the boys called him, moved to the eastward, and the settlement was known as Natville. Hard by Huntoon's first shanty was Daniel Avery, and these two residents were old chums. Huntoon was generally chosen as the lucky one to carry the whisky at all the logging-bees on this road, and Warren Glidden sometimes followed him with a jug of water, to cool the extract of corn or wheat. Warren required good legs to keep step with Uncle Nat, who thought the best way to fills the boys' stomachs would be to double the corners, which they successfully accomplished on what is now known as the John Downs farm, west of Bennett's Corners. In 1826, Nicholas E. Darrow moved into Huntoon's first shanty, after marrying Noah Sweet's daughter ...

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Further to the north is Martin Higgins, by the "big rock," which is now only one-half its former size and is even now twenty-six feet long, ten feet high, and ten feet in thickness, the house of Higgins just behind it. This is the same rock where Isaac Huntoon lay one dark night when he was two seas over, obstructing the highway. That night Valentine Tousley had a raging toothache, and, well-mounted on his good mare, was jogging toward Clarendon to have a turnkey hitch applied to the troublesome member. When the nag reached the "big rock" she would no further go, and Valentine turned backward. Once more he essayed the passage, when he heard a snoring sound as of some one in deep sleep. "who's there?" demanded Tousley. "Ikey Pikey," came forth from the mouth of Isaac Huntoon, as he rolled his body out of the road and allowed Valentine and his steed to pursue their way. This same Isaac once remarked to Morgan in the "Mills" schoolhouse that "unless a reformation soon took place in his life he would not have enough left to buy a neck-yoke.."

Individual: Hontoon, Nathaniel

County/State: Genesee Co., NY

Location: Sweden

Page #: 284

Year: 1820

Nathaniel married Sarah Buckman per Huntoon genealogy and Beals. 1800 Census of Leamington shows four Asa Buckman children, one male 11-15, 2 girls 0-10, and 1 in 11-15.  From 1855 NY State census, she has a 1788 birthdate. That puts her in the window for 11-15. Huntoon genealogy says she is "of Claremont".   

Burial: 1852, Buried 1 mi West Clarendon on Petingill Rd, at an old Christian graveyard¹

Notes for SARAH BUCKMAN:

New York State Census, 1855. Sarah Hunton [age] 67, [born in ] NH, W[idow], 35 [years in town]. Copied by Orleans Co DAR, shelved as NYGRC Vital Records Vol. 173 in DAR Library, Wash. DC

"Also on the Farwell front, I noticed in the 1860 census for Monroe Co., NY town of Chili, that Sally (Buckman) Huntoon the widow of Nathaniel was living with a George Farwell and family. Chili is a suburb to the southwest of Rochester, NY where I happened to grow up. It isn't too terribly far from Clarendon."  Patti Huntoon Schantz posted on Huntoon-L@rootsweb.com June 8, 1999

Burial: 1864, Buried 1 mi West Clarendon on Petingill Rd, at an old Christian graveyard²

Census: 1855, 67 yrs old, Widow, Clarendon NY³

Residence: 1820, Moved to Clarendon, Orleans County NY, aged 63, born NH⁴

1. David Sturges Copeland, Clarendon NY, History of from 1810 to 1888, p. 355.

2. David Sturges Copeland, Clarendon NY, History of from 1810 to 1888.

3. New York State Census, 1855.

4. New York State Census, 1855, Copied by Orleans Co DAR, shelved as NYGRC Vital Records Vol. 173 in DAR Library, Wash. DC.