Aaron J. Hunt

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of SOLDIER.
DAR Ancestor # A060112

Military Service: Revolutionary War Soldier.

Aaron Hunt and his family were from Luzerne County, PA and traveled on the river to Newtown (Elmira, N.Y) and then by sled to the southern end of Honeoye Lake.

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David Minor/Eagles Byte

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New York: 1795 - Aaron Hunt and mill builder Jacob Holdren settle in the Canadice Lake area.

Name index to EARLY HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SPRINGWATER

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HUNT - (Dr.) AL ; Aaron ; Andrew . S ; Elanor ; Electa ; Jane ; Jennie ; Sarah

http://www.wemett.net/springwater/early_history_chapter_VII.htm

CHAPTER VII. HUNTS HOLLOW - THE FIRST SETTLEMENT IN THE PRESENT TOWN OF SPRINGWATER - WRITTEN BY D.B. WAITE.

Aaron Hunt, a soldier of the Revolution from New Jersey, who had a few years before taken up his abode in the once pleasant valley of Wyoming, thinking he could better his situation, with his wife and four children, Aaron J., Andrew, Jane and Sarah, and Jacob Holdren an enthusiastic admirer of Jane, in the early spring of 1795 left Wyoming and ascended the Susquehanna as far as Newtown, now Elmira. Here they put upon an ox sled necessary provisions and what articles of furniture they could conveniently carry, with the family on foot, and proceeded as far as what is now Blood's Corners, where temporary cabins had been erected by Richard Hooker and Joseph Blivin. Fearing the little snow remaining would leave, and thus make it almost impossible for them to bring the balance of their goods on their only land vehicle thus far towards their destination, they unloaded the sled, and the team and driver returned to Newtown for the articles left there. The company now six in number, with what provisions and articles they could carry on their backs, took the Indian trail that led from the Susquehanna to Honeoye lake. Night came on; they lost their way, and amid the howling of wolves, they spent a dreary night beside a fallen tree in the unbroken forest near the eastern line of the present town of Springwater. The next day they resumed their journey to what was after the subdivision of lands lot No. 2, in the present town of Richmond

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Chapter 8 THE FIRST WHITE FAMILY IN CANADICE

New York 1795 - The story of Aaron J. Hunt & Jacob Holdren, the first settlers of this area.

"Previous to the time before mentioned, a few families settled in Naples, then Middletown, from Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Aaron J. Hunt had become dissatisfied with the "limited bounds of the Jerseys" and resolved to try his fortune in the wilds of the west and had chosen as his home the sequestered and once lovely valley of Wyoming, lying snugly ensconced among the Pennsylvania hills. The storms and winters of sixteen years having passed and to him the stains of the butchered kindred and the crushed spirits of the few left to tell the tale of sorrow, made it an unpleasant dwelling place.

Early in the spring with all his worldly effects, his family and a yoke of oxen, he came up the Susquehanna River as far as Newtown, now Elmira. Here he put all his household property that could be conveniently taken on a sled, leaving the balance and with his family on foot, proceeded as far as what is now Atlanta, where a temporary cabin had been erected by Richard Hooker and Joseph Bivin. Here they unloaded the goods and the team and a driver took the sled and returned to Newtown for the possessions left, before the little snow remaining snow would leave and thus make it impossible with their only land vehicle to bring their goods to the place of their destination.

They were now at the end of the road and the remaining portion of their journey was to be thru an unbroken wilderness, save only a solitary trail of the red man leading from the Susquehanna to the head of Honeoye Lake.

The remainder of the company, seven in number, with what provisions and necessary articles they could carry on their backs, started for their new home. Anyone conversant with the rugged region thru which they were to pass would not be surprised to learn that they did not reach the valley of the Honeoye before nightfall. They lost their way and sought shelter beside a fallen tree. The howling wolves on that eventful occasion and the loneliness of their situation as told us in 1876 by the youngest and last survivor of that group, Mrs. Sarah Lincoln of Hopewell (Mrs. Lincoln died in July of 1878, at the age of 95.), then verging on her centennial birthday, painting a picture making desolation doubly solitary. The next day, the sound of the woodsman's axe was heard felling trees with which to erect a cabin on what is now lot 2 in the extreme southwestern corner of the "Pan Handle" of the present Town of Richmond." [Story goes on with story of Jacob Holdren [Holden].]

An Aaron Hunt is living in the next household to James Garlinghouse, husband of Eleanor Hunt, in the 1800 U.S. Census, Pittstown, Ontario Co. New York:

ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ny/ontario/1800/pg0310.txt

CENSUS YEAR: 1800 STATE: NY COUNTY: Ontario MICROFILM#: M32-28

Pages 331 & 333:

Hunt, Aaron; free white male to 10: 1; fwm 45 up: 1; fw female 10-16: 1; fwf 45 up: 1; District: Town of Pittstown [all other columns blank]

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Pittstown, afterward Richmond, had not been formed, Middletown, now Naples, and a portion of Springwater, had just cast off the cognomen of Walkinstown and nearly all of Livingston County was included in the County of Ontario [New York].