The Huntingtons of Norwich, CT: A New England Family is an engrossing generational history of a merchant family from Connecticut. The story begins with Margaret Barrett Huntington (1595-1665), a Puritan matriarch from Norwich, England keeping her family together after her husband, merchant Simon Huntington dies on the voyage to Boston.

 

Using an impressive array of primary sources, author Maggie Meahl follows the generational wealth, religious piety, social status, and political privilege of an observable family line. As devout patriot participants in the Revolutionary War, their wealth was greatly diminished by it. In the nineteenth century, as their family affluence and prestige declined, the final generation, moved as a family group, out of Norwich, in 1893.

 

The book is to be published in 2026.