Edmund Hunt (bef. 1613 - bef. 1657)

Born before 1613 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 24 Oct 1657 at about age 44 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

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Edmund Hunt migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 3, p. 469) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Edmund Hunt was born in England.

Edmund was born by 1613 (assuming he was 21 by the time of Cambridge land grant in 1634)

Edmund was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 1634; and he moved to Duxbury in 1637, where he was surveyor of highways in 1645 and constable in 1656.^[1]

Edmund died between 3 June 1656 (his appointment as constable) and 24 October 1657 (probate of his estate).^[1]

Marriage

"The recent Great Migration Project of NEHGS gathered information on Edmund Hunt of Duxbury, long identified as one of the first Hunts in New England, if not the first. With documentary evidence NEHGS came up with a family with 3 sons, John, Thomas, and Samuel ... spouse and mother unidentified."^[2]

Possible Children

• Edward Hunt, ... maybe b. in England abt 1632. ^[3]
• Hannah Hunt, m Daniel White, son of Peregrine White, on 19 Aug 1674 at Marshfield, Massachusetts. ^[4]
• Samuel Hunt, b. about 1640; m. Mary Glass.^[5]
• John Hunt, b. abt 1642.^[6]
• Thomas Hunt, b. abt 1644/50; killed in battle in King Philip's War, 26 March 1676, listed as a soldier from Duxbury.^[7]
• Mary Hunt, b abt 1634, m. Thomas Bonney^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert Charles "Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635" (Volume III, G-H) (2003) pp.469-471 American Ancestors (subscription)
2. ↑ Everett Hunt, "[HUNT] Edmund of Duxbury and Edward of Amesbury" Rootsweb Mailing List, 02/24/2008 Wayback Machine Archive
3. ↑ Per Mitchell J. Hunt notes (page 3): Edward Hunt (the names Edward and Edmund often confused in interpreting old handwriting but evidence that they were two different people), maybe b. in England abt 1632 and prob. the Edward who was chosen Constable in Duxbury in 1656, sold property on Houndsditch to Edward Barker in 1665
4. ↑ No documentary evidence has been found that she was a daughter of Edmund but he was the only Hunt in the area whose children are unaccounted for except for those of Edmund's son. Edward who appears to have moved from Duxbury area long before the m. date of Hannah.
5. ↑ deposed 22 >> December 1657 "aged 17 years or thereabouts" [PCR 3:125]); m. by an >> unknown date Mary _____ (in his undated will, made a bequest to "my >> dear and loving wife Mary" [PPR 2:172-73]).
6. ↑ alive on 22 December >> 1657 [PCR 3:125-26]; no further record.
7. ↑ He died unmarried and his estate was administered by Samuel Hunt and given to the latter's son Thomas who was also given land in Narraganset Twp., #7, at Gorham, ME, which was awarded to elder Thomas for his military service. It is uncertain that he was a son of Edmund and chronologically might have been a son of Edward whose presumed son Edward of Amesbury had a grandson Ichabod who was a pioneer settler at Gorham, ME, and start of a long line of Hunts at that place.
8. ↑ Mary Hunt who m. Thomas Bonney, Sr, of Duxbury in 1654, is presumed to have been a daughter of Edmund, probably born at Cambridge, MA, about 1634. There is some speculation that she might have been the widow of Edmund but he was still living at the time of this marriage and there was no other Hunt family around Duxbury at that time to tie her to.

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/y/Deborah-L-Bay/GENE1-0001.html
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~huntpage/edmund0001.htm NOTE: References Anderson primarily