Capt. Ralph Hunt

Ralph HUNT

• [3850]
• ABT 1656 - 5 Nov 1733
• BIRTH: ABT 1656, Newtown, Queens, Long Island, NY
• DEATH: 5 Nov 1733, Maidenhead, Burlington , NJ
• Father: Ralph HUNT
• Mother: Ann JESSUP
• Family 1 : Susannah HART MARRIAGE: ABT 1690, Maidenhead, Burlington , NJ
• Family 2 : Elizabeth MARRIAGE: ABT 1712, Maidenhead, Burlington , NJ

Notes

[3849] "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey" Vol. XXX, Calendar of Wills, Administrations, etc. Vol. II, 1730-1750 A. Van Doven Honeyman, ed. 1918; p256

"1732, Nov. 5. Hunt, Captain Ralph, of Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co.; will of. Wife, Elizabeth. Eldest son, Edward, 150 acres of land in Hopewell, a gun, etc. Second son, Ralph, a minor, part of plantation above the King's road leading from Trenton to Brunswick, 5 acres of meadow between Samuel Hunt's widow and Powell Huff's, 4 acres of meadow at lower end of lot in great meadow; Ralph to pay legacies to testator's eldest daughter, Jemima Hunt, daughter Kezia, and son John. Third son, Samuel, part of plantation below the King's Road leading from Trenton to Brunswick, Samuel to pay legacies to testator's daughter, Elizabeth Hunt, when Samuel is aged 25 years and to fourth son, John, when John is aged 30 years."

"The Hunt Families of Vermont" Mitchell J. Hunt http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tompkins/manuscript_mitche...

"[Ralph] subsequently had four sons (Edward, Ralph, John, Samuel) and a daughter Mary b. on Long Island, identified in his Will of Jan. 1676/7... Most of his children and grandchildren were pioneer settlers at Maidenhead (Lawrence) and Hopewell Townships, NJ, in the years around 1700..."

References

• https://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Genealogy/Needham/d0000/I2944.html
• "The Annals of Newtown in Queens County, New-York" James Riker New York: D. Fanshaw, 1852; p85 "Of the sons, Ralph and Samuel settled in Jamaica."
• "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" James Savage Pub. Boston, 1860-1862, Vol. 2, p. 501
• [3913] "New England Marriages Prior To 1700" Clarence A. Torrey, (as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001) "HUNT, Ralph & Susannah (_____) SMITH?; Jamaica, LI/Maidenhead, NJ"
• [3914] [S250] "Early Northeast U.S. Hunt Families"