Captain Abraham Hunt (twin)

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CAPTAIN.
DAR Ancestor # A060117

Enlisted: January 1, 1777

Ranks: 2nd Lt., Adjutant

Rank at discharge: Capt.

Regt.: 1st Mass.

Hunt, Abraham:

Additional military information: Lieutenant, Capt. Child's co., 25th regt.; Jul 1776, at Mt. Independence; also, Captain, Col. John Patterson's regt.; commissioned 27 Mar 1777; also, Col. Joseph Vose's regt.; Dec 1777, at Valley Forge; also, Nov 1778 to Apr 1779, at Providence. Other: born 2 Jun 1748, Braintree, Middlesex, MA. Parents were Benjamin Hunt and Sarah Arnold. Married Mary St. Leger, 15 Oct 1771. Ref. FA01, MA01, SN01

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Biography

History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts; By Oliver Ayer Roberts; Boston; Alfred Mudge &Sons; 24 Franklin Street; 1897; pg.169

Abraham Hunt (1772), merchant of Boston, son of Benjamin1 and Sarah (Arnold) Hunt, was born in Braintree, Mass., June 2, 1748 ,and died Dec. 5, 1793. He married, Oct. 15, 1771, Mary St. Leger born, June 15, 1751, daughter of Garrick St. Leger of Halifax, N.S. She died Aug. 29, 1824, aged seventy- three years. They had ten children, all born in Boston.

In 1763 he was apprenticed to Edmund Quincy, who kept a wine store, and was afterward connected with him in that trade. June 24, 1788, the firm of Hunt (Abraham) & Bradlee (David) wine merchants was dissolved. They did business on State Street. Jan 23 1790, the advertisement of Abraham Hunt (1772) in the "CentinaI", said: He makes hats for Sale at his house in Middle Street, the corner of Center Street, also refines wines,Cyder, Porter &c & bottles the same. The directory of 1789 calls him "wine broker & cork cutter, Middle Street" 

Mr. Hunt (1772 ) received the Masonic degrees in 1777, in the Lodge of St. Andrew, and was proxy in Massachusetts Grand Lodge, for King Hiram's Lodge in 1783.

In 1789, his place of business was on Middle, now Hanover, Street, and his residence on Federal Street. He served as second lieutenant and adjutant at Prospect Hill in 1775 and 1776, and at the siege of Boston; was a captain in Vose's regiment in the Ticonderoga campaign, remaining some years in the service which he quitted with the rank of captain. He was a member of the Tea Party, and was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1774. June 24, 1781 he was agent for the privateer "Buckaneer" Capt. Hoysted Hacker. For a time he was inspector at the custom house of the ports of Boston and Charlestown.

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Genealogy of the name and family of Hunt, etc ; AUTHORIZED BY W.L.G. HUNT; COMPILED BY T. B. WYMAN, JR.; BOSTON; PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SONS; WATER STREET; 1862- 3

ABRAHAM of Boston, s. of Benjamin/ MARY St. Leger, Oct. 15, 1771

Children:

• 1772, July 13 Abraham . In British Navy
• 1774 May 11 Elisha, ob., a. 20, Aleandria, Va.
• 1776 Aug. 21 John St. Leger
• 1780, Jan. 28 Charles Hill
• 1781, Dec.30 Joseph Ruggles
• 1783, Sep.30 Maria
• 1783, July 15 Sarah Salibury
• 1787, Aug. 25 Antoinette d. 1790
• 1793, June 19 Ruth d. Nov., 1793
• 1794, Feb. 7 Antoinette

Link: https://books.google.com/books?id=1RxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&d...

Abraham Hunt was born in Braintee, Massachusetts on June 2nd, 1748 and was a member of the Boston Tea Party. He was apprenticed in 1763 to Edmund Quincy, who kept a wine store and who connected Hunt to trade later on. His place of business was in Middle [now Hanover] street and he lived on Federal Street. In the Revolutionary Army, he served as lieutenant at the Siege of Boston, was in the Ticonderoga Campaign, fought Valley Forge, and eventually rose to the rank of Captain. He also aided Captain Hoysted Hacker, a “Buccaneer”, and he was the inspector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. In 1777, he became a member of the St. Andrew’s Lodge of Freemasons. He later died December 5th, 1793. - See more at: http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/abraham-hunt#sthash.MrBDnSKB.dpuf