William Hunt (1733 - 1772)

Born 18 Apr 1733 in Province of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Mills) Hunt — married about 6 Oct 1753 in Alamance, Orange County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1772 at age 39 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

Biography

William was a Friend (Quaker)

William was born about 1733, probably the son of William and Mary (Woolman) Hunt. The Memoirs of William and Nathan Hunt, edited by Enoch Lewis, editor of the Friends Review, states that William was orphaned at an early age with his father passing away when he was twelve and his mother even earlier. Lewis believed William was born in Pennsylvania but whether his parents were among the emigrants from the southern part of Pennsylvania that removed to North Carolina "is uncertain." Later research published in 2011 by Roger D. Hunt The History of the Hunt Family indicates that William would be the son of William Hunt and Mary Woolman and letters of William the younger are addressed to his "relations" the Woolmans.

He was a Quaker minister, and began his ministry at the age of 20. In 1752 he settled near New Garden, Province of North Carolina.^[1] Cane Creek MM records that he married Sarah Mills in 1753.^[2] He traveled to Virginia, the Carolinas, then in the New England states. He visited England on a religious tour of Europe and, while there, contracted small pox and died in 1772.^[3] He was buried in the Friends burial ground at Newcastle-on-Tyne. A cenotaph monument was erected at New Garden Friends Burial Ground, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.^[4]

Marriage

The original Quaker record (image at Ancestry) from the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (Alamance, North Carolina) shows them "left at liberty" to marry at the meeting of 1 Sep 1753. At the meeting of 6 Oct 1753, Quakers assigned to attend the marriage reported it had been "orderly accomplished." So the marriage took place between those two dates, but the exact date is unknown. I have used the second date (reported accomplished), but have marked it as uncertain for the above explained reasons.

Note that Alamance is currently in Alamance County, but that county was formed in 1849 from the western third of Orange County. At the time of their marriage, it was still Orange County.

An alternate marriage date/place was also given on one merged profile (April 6, 1753, Cane Creek, Mitchell, NC). The Quaker records above prove this to be an error.

Children

From Hinshaw, v. 1, p. 503 (New Garden Mtg, p. 20):

Father: William Hunt

Mother: Sarah Hunt (d. 7-14-1778, p. 73)

1. Uriah b. 10-14-1754, (d. 8- 1-1781, p. 73)
2. Isaiah b. 10-16-1756
3. Nathan b. 10-26-1758
4. John b. 10-30-1760
5. Eleazar b. 11-12-1762
6. Margaret b. 1-18-1765
7. Hannah b. 1-26-1767
8. William b. 2-11-1769

Death & Burial

The profile with the New Jersey birthplace also gave his place of death as Northumberland, England, again with no supporting source (see below).

LATER: Place of death was apparently in England. A memorial stone (image at Find a Grave) was erected by his descendants in 1935. The information on the stone, and the two duplicate memorial pages on Find a Grave, confuse the issue of exactly where in England he died, and where he was buried.

One page says he died at Tyne and Wear, England. Tyne and Wear is an English county (the Tyne and the Wear are rivers), but it wasn't established until 1974. That may be correct at present, but wasn't at the time of his death. Tyne and Wear includes the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It states that he was buried in the Friends burial ground at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Note that Newcastle upon Tyne was once part of Northumberland (first paragraph, this section), but not since 1400 (Wikipedia).

The second page gives his burial place as Quaker Burial Ground, Barking, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England. This seems unlikely since London is nearly 300 miles (500 km) south of Newcastle upon Tyne. The bio section of this page also states that he was buried in Newcastle-on-Tyne, contradicting the data entered below it.

Sources

1. ↑ 1935 Memorial Stone (https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-401612881-10-509809/sarah-hunt-in-myheritage-family-trees?s=440062301)
2. ↑ Hinshaw, William Wade, "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy" Volume I. Edward Brothers, Inc. : Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1936. Page 400.
3. ↑ death record
4. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 20918383

• Source: S49 Hinshaw, William Wade, et al., compilers. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 vols. 1936–1950. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991–1994. v. 1, p. 503. Source for birth date/place, parents names (no maiden name for mother). Also available online at Ancestry.com (pay site).
• Source: S53 U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original Data: Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Minutes, 1751-1796, Vol I.
• Source: S7 FindAGrave.com. Source for places of death and burial. There are two memorial pages for William on Find a Grave, with some conflicting information. The second page is here.

See Also:

• Hunt, William, 1733-1772; Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853, Memoirs of William and Nathan Hunt taken chiefly from their journals and letters, PhiladelphiaL Uriah Hunt & Son; London: Alfred Bennett, 1858.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Hunt-28 entered on Aug 6, 2009. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Hunt-1391 created through the import of heinakuu2011-6.ged on Jul 5, 2011 by Johanna Amnelin. See the Changes page for details of edits.

• WikiTree profile Hunt-4559 entered on Apr 21, 2013 by Katie Boosted. See the Changes page for details of edits.

• WikiTree profile Hunt-5048 created through the import of Hunt - Murrieta Family Tree.ged on Aug 2, 2013 by Bryan Link Hunt for WikiTree profile Hunt-5048. See the Changes page for details of edits.

Research Notes

• FSFTID L4T9-1J7.

• Brother of Thomas Hunt