Richard Huntington

• Born: 15 Oct 1786, Norwich CT
• Died: 12 May 1855, Utica NY

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1802 to Thomas Harland in Norwich CT
  

• He worked from 1811 to 1823 as a silversmith in Springfield MA ⁴

• He was a partner from 1812 to 1814 with Jonathan Packard in Northampton MA as HUNTINGTON & PACKARD. ³

• Alternate Mark for HUNTINGTON & PACKARD

• He worked from 1823 to 1855 as a silversmith in Utica NY making silver for Joseph Sewall Porter (1823-1836), James Murdock & Co and Horace Strong Bradley (1836-1838), Nicholas Nicholas Weaver, Murdock & Andrews, and Oliver Blanchard Cooley (1838-1843), and Perry Gallup Tanner (1842-1844).
  
  The mark shown has been tentatively attributed to Huntington's wholesale goods. ¹⁸

• He appeared on the 1850 census taken at Utica NY, listed as a silversmith.