David Fleming Hunter (1720 - 1810)

Born 1720 in Aghadowey, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland

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Died 1810 at about age 90 in Ardoise, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Born 1720 in Aghadowey,Londonderry,Ulster,Northern Ireland Died 1810 in Ardoise, Hants County Nova Scotia Canada

David Hunter was aboard an Irish ship on its way to Philadelphia when the ship was wrecked on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. David, Margaret and their family were rescued and brought to Halifax. They settled at Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia then at Ardoise, Hants County, Nova Scotia. Here they built the first frame house and they ended up as one of the founding families of Ardoise, Nova Scotia. From Windsor and Ardoise, David Hunter's descendants spread through out Nova Scotia , Canada and the United States. The Hunter family originally came from Ayr, Scotland. Due to religious persecution in Scotland, the Hunter family moved to Northern Ireland.

David Hunter, the emigrant from Aghadowey, Londonberry County, was of Scotish-Irish descent. Before leaving Ireland he was to marry Margaret Martin, daughter of William, Province of Ulster.

Admiral Cochrane was then stationed on the North Atlantic Station, and as he was a fellow countryman of the shipwrecked immigrants, he interested himself in their welfare. He advised them to remain in Nova Scotia and did much to facilitate their settlement in the province.

David Hunter first settled near Windsor, but when the dykes broke and he was completely flooded, destroying his hay land, he moved to higher ground on Ardoise Hill, where the tides would not cause him such a loss again. Here his land joined that of Rev. Gillmore, so it is not surprising that the young Lodowick Hunter married Rev. Gillmore's daughter, Jane.

David & Margaret both lived to an advanced age and died at the old home in Ardoise, said to be the first frame house in that section. They are both buried in the old family plot in Windsor.

Sources

• Author: Smiley, Maribelle S. (Maribelle Smith), and Young, Iola S., "History of the Hunter family, 1769-1960", Publication: 1966, Owning Institution: Family History Library, Publisher Digital: FamilySearch International, http://www.familysearch.org/, Hunter Family

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
  Place: Nova Scotia, Canada; Year: 1775; Page Number: 119
  Ancestry Record 7486 #2642615 (accessed 28 March 2024)
  Name: David Hunter; Age: 55; Birth Year: [1720]; Arrival Year: 1775; Arrival Place: Nova Scotia, Canada; Primary Immigrant: Hunter, David; Source Publication Code: 8750.41; Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. Place of origin, birth date, occupation, reference to original source, and other genealogical data may also be provided.; Source Bibliography: SMITH, LEONARD H., JR., AND NORMA H. SMITH. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Volume II. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. 295p.;
  Household Members (Name) Age:
  David Hunter 55.

• Land Petition: "Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800"
  Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Land Petitions (1765-1800); Volume Number: 1
  Ancestry Record 5083 #288 (accessed 28 March 2024)
  Name: David Hunter Jr; Land Record Date: 1783; Land Record Place: Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; Details: All Inhabitants of Windsor Since 1761, "Without Receiving One Foot of Land As Settlers." Memorial For Grant to Four Shares of Land on the Halifax-Windsor Road. "Granted 2 Lots". (In Council, 1783).; Names on Land Record (Name): William Hunter
  David Hunter
  Lodowick Hunter
  James Hunter.

• 1791 Census: "Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, 1838"
  Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Ancestry Record 8809 #15172 (accessed 28 March 2024)
  David Hunter, Farmer, in Windsor, Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• Poll Tax record. 1791 Poll-Tax-Records Jube/Julee Hunter. 1791. Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. Category: Document / Certificate. Description: https://archives.novascotia.ca/census/polltax/returns/?ID=4153. Transcription: NOTE: Under David Hunter is name 'Julee' or 'Jube' Hunter and seems to be crossed off. Jube was a slave owned by David Hunter. Windsor, Hants County — 1791. Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 444 no. 38. Seen on Ancestry.com. Pete Erwin originally shared this on 17 Feb 2021. Media: Media.

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