When James was born George Washington was serving midway through his presidency. He was a youthful soldier of 19 in the War of 1812. This was a conflict with Britain not recognizing our naturalization laws. The impressment of American sailors from British descent, to use in that nations blockade with France.

Private James Huntley served under Captain Daniel Milholland's Company, New York Militia and Captain Miles Allen's Company, New York Militia.

James Huntley moved to Pierpont, Ohio when only a few families lived in the region and built a log cabin on Creek road. Later he built a frame house on the same location. James is shown on the map of 1856 as living on Creek Road, on the east side approximately where the road bends as you go south. He was a farmer and a prominent man in the community.

He was one of fourteen children and his mother was 42 when she gave birth to James and his twin sister Nancy Anne. Three years later she gave birth to an additional set of twins. His younger sister was Lucy, the first school teacher in Pierpont.

James Huntley was a farmer by occupation, a Republican in his political relations, and a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church and lived in the prominent Howland district. This was one of five school districts in the Pierpont area at the time. He held the elected position of Overseer of the Poor. He married Lydia Hart, a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, in Denmark, Ohio May 12, 1818. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut and moved to Kingsville, Ohio. She came to Ashtabula County from Connecticut on horseback.

He was the sixth generation of Huntley in America. It was John Huntley, James' third great-grandfather who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600s being one of the original families. James, possibly named after Captain James Huntley, his grandfather Jacob Huntley's brother. Captain Huntley served in the American Revolution. He served as a Captain of a militia at New York, in the fall of 1776. Captain Huntley later served in the Connecticut Legislature in 1793, the same year James Huntley was born.

James and Lydia Huntley were married for 43 years before Lydia died February 19, 1861 at the age of 66 years. They are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, in the old section, weathered tombstone marks the final resting place of these pioneering legend. James Huntley died six years later in Pierpont on, December 11, 1867, at the age of 74 years.

James is . . .

Grandson of Jacob Huntley (1723-1762) and Lydia Allen

1st Great Grandson of Daniel Huntley (1682-1732 CT) and Hannah Brown (b 1689 CT).

2nd Great Grandson of Aaron Huntley (1654 MA--1745 CT) and Mary Champion (1651-1732 CT).

3rd Great Grandson of John Huntley (1630 England--1676 CT) and Jane (1625-1668 CT).

3rd Great Grandson of Henry Champion (1611 England--1708 MA) and Sarah (b 1626).