Enoch HUNTLEY married Betsey BURGESS, daughter of Dennis and Betsey BURGESS of Bastard. Enoch and Betsey had at least 4 children: Asa (1803), Lovina (1812), Sally Ann (1821?) and Erwin (1825). Enoch remarried, later in life, but there were no children from that marriage.

Not much is known for sure about Betsey BURGESS, except the names of her parents. There were several BURGESSes is early Macomb and Lapeer Counties, MI, and they may have been among a group of families that migrated from Bastard to Macomb.

In 1814, Enoch HUNTLEY and family were in Port Talbot, London District, Upper Canada, when it was attacked by the American army on several occasions in 1814. American newspapers printed letters describing some of the attacks on Port Talbot and other loyalist settlements.

Between 1814 and 1820, Enoch HUNTLEY brought his family to Macomb County, MI, where he appeared in the Michigan Early Census Index for the years 1820, 1821, 1823 and 1825, in Macomb County. No township was given, except in the year 1823, when it was Mount Clemens Township.

In 1826, Enoch's eldest son, Asa HUNTLEY, purchased 267 acres of government land, near Utica, Macomb County, MI, and in 1828, Enoch purchased 32.6 acres.

In the 1820s, Utica was on the outskirts of Western civiliazation. Lapeer County, to the north, was a mostly uncharted wilderness, with its first white settler in 1828, and its second in 1830. In the mid 1830s, settlers started coming into Lapeer County, by the dozens at first, and then by the hundreds.

In 1837 the extended HUNTLEY family migrated about 20 miles north, from near Utica to the vicinity of Dryden village, in Dryden Township, Lapeer County, MI. Enoch's son Asa, and his sons-in-law, Ethan SQUIER and Aaron MOE, purchased land in Dryden Township, some in the part of Dryden that became Attica Township in 1842.

Benjamin HUNTLEY Sr had moved to Ontario about 1789, presumably with his wife and younger children, including Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr. A "document dated 12 July, 1796 in the County of Leeds, Ontario states that Benjamin Huntley, 17 years of age was born in Manchester but no State is given." [VH, p. 170] However, in a petition dated 26 Oct., 1830 Benjamin Jr stated that “I came to this country as one of Elder Steven’s settlers and was located for Lot #15 in the 9th concession of the Township of Bastard and to the best of my recollection in the year of our Lord 1797 or 1798.” Perhaps he stayed in Vermont with relatives until he was 17, and then joined his father in Ontario.

Abel STEVENS was an Elder of the Baptist Church, who led several hundred settler from Vermont and Connecticut, to Leeds County, staring in August 1794. Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr says he was with Elder Steven's settlers, but we know that Benjamin HUNTLEY Sr was already in the area by 1789. According to [ASK], Abel STEVENS, Jr, the son of Elder STEVENS, also became an Elder himself, and his first wife was Ruth HUNTLEY, daughter of Benjamin HUNTLEY. This Ruth HUNTLEY was born about 1783 and died about 1810. She can only have been another child of Benjamin Sr, possibly a twin sister of Enoch.

Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr married (1) 1800 in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario to Amy STEVENS, born about 1783 in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, died 1804 in Canada, and (2) Mary WHITLEY born about 1788 in Upper Canada, died after 11 Oct 1865.

If Amy (STEVENS) HUNTLEY died in 1804, she was probably the mother of the first 2 or 3 children of Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr.

Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr was still in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario when his son Reuben was born, on 29 Dec 1833. His brother Enoch had already moved his family to Lapeer County, Michigan by 1826. Benjamin and his mostly grown children moved their families to Lapeer County, mostly between 1833 and 1837, although it is not clear if they all went together. With all the children and grandchildren of brothers Enoch HUNTLEY and Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr, Lapeer County was swarming with HUNTLEYs, SPENCERs, BACHELORs and WILLIAMSes by 1840.

Benjamin Jr's son, Jenius HUNTLEY, was perhaps the first HUNTLEY in Lapeer County, as he purchased land on 24 Dec 1835, in Section 2, Dryden. The 1863 map of Lapeer County shows a 40-acre plot, the NE quarter of the SE quarter of Section 2, Dryden, under the name L. HUNTLY, probably Lucy, the widow of Jenius HUNTLEY.

Benjamin HUNTLEY Jr attended the first meeting of the Town of Lomond, now called Dryden, on 3 Apr 1837, where he was elected overseer of highways, district No. 1. He is also called the first settle in what is now Attica Township.