Edward
Hunt
Sr.
Born in England
Son of Edmund Hunt
and Elizabeth Oxenbridge
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Unknown (Unknown) Hunt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 24
in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
This profile is part of the Hunt Name Study.
Edward or perhaps Edmond was at Cambridge Mass 1635 and removed to Duxbury Mass 1636-7 where he is said to have died in 1656. A land sale in Duxbury 1665 was likely Edward Jr who was his son[1]
His inventory is dated 20 March 1656 in Duxburrow and recorded 24 of the eighth month of 1657.[2]
Disputed Parentage
Another source says: Due to an early fire which destroyed the Duxbury, Massachusetts, public records, the parentage of Edward of Duxbury cannot be confirmed. The strength of available circumstantial evidence, however, led most Hunt researchers to conclude that Edward was the son of the pioneer Edmund Hunt, also of Duxbury. This cannot be confirmed and appears unlikely with the published findings of the NEHGS Great Migration project (see notes under Edmund of Duxbury). 'Edward Hunt ...lived near Edmund on Hounds Ditch in Duxbury, sold land in Duxbury in1665 (at which time the record shows he was married), and disappears from Duxbury and other records.' (Mitchell J. Hunt). He lived in 1664 at Houndsditch, Massachusetts.
Research Notes
DNA
DNA testers who have paper trails back to this family have reported a Haplogroup of G-M201. A DNA tester who descends from son, Edward, Jr., has taken a higher-level test which reports a downstream subclade of G-Y19951.[3]
Sources
- ↑ The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts ; with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton; Hoyt, David Webster, 1833-1921; 1897; Providence, R.I. : [Snow & Farnham, printers]
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-VSKD : 6 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 185 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Page 64
- ↑ Hunt DNA Group Project, FTDNA, Group 021. EDWARD HUNT of Amesbury, [1]
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And then there's the question if Edmund Hunt of Amesbury can be shown to be the son. This bio says "most Hunt researchers to conclude that Edward was the son of the pioneer Edmund Hunt, also of Duxbury" but Anderson in the Great Migration doesn't even mention a son Edmund. (It looks like what Anderson considers one person, has been split into a Sr and Jr).
My suggestion is to disconnect Edmund of Amesbury (unless there's some evidence connecting him), and then merge 3 and 4 into 1, or merge 4 into 1, and 3 into 2.
But I'm just jumping in and trying to make sense of this. Suggestions for better ways to handle this?
Mags