Dorcus Hunt

Not the same as Dorcas Hunt

Family

Name unknown. Wife of Edmund Hunt, of Duxbury , his parents unknown.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-841

"The recent Great Migration Project of NEHGS gathered information on Edmund Hunt of Duxbury, long identified as one of the first Hunts in New England, if not the first. With documentary evidence NEHGS came up with a family with 3 sons, John, Thomas, and Samuel ... spouse and mother unidentified."[2]

Possible Children

• Edward Hunt, ... maybe b. in England abt 1632. [3]
• Hannah Hunt, m Daniel White, son of Peregrine White, on 19 Aug 1674 at Marshfield, Massachusetts. [4]
• Samuel Hunt, b. about 1640; m. Mary Glass.[5]
• John Hunt, b. abt 1642.[m
• Thomas Hunt, b. abt 1644/50; killed in battle in King Philip's War, 26 March 1676, listed as a soldier from Duxbury.[
• Mary Hunt, b abt 1634, m. Thomas Bonney

Disputed ancestry

It is believed by some that the wife of Edmund Hunt is Dorcas Oxenbridge, b. 1580 in England, d. 1655 Duxbury, Massachusetts. The write-up on the following web page lists some very interesting points for and against on the subject:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oxenbridge-4 (this site refers to the following two)
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=allthefam...
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/y/Deborah-L-Bay/GENE1-0001.html
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/y/Deborah-L-Bay/GENE1-0001.html

Correction: Edmund Hunt of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

From https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/v8... Posted by Nathan Murphy 7/17/2017

Robert Anderson published a very helpful biography for Edmund Hunt in his The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 series. He concludes that Edmund Hunt of Cambridge and Duxbury, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts, United States) was born by about 1613, place unknown, he arrived in the colony in 1634, his wife's name is not identified in colonial records, and he died at Duxbury in 1656 or 1657. (Vol. 3 (2003), pp. 469-472)

Notwithstanding Anderson's excellent research, many descendants of Edmund Hunt continue to perpetuate the idea that he returned to England and married Dorcas Oxenbridge in 1641, by London marriage licence, and brought her back to the colonies. Dorcas was the daughter of Daniel Oxenbridge, M.D., through whom a royal descent can be traced. (For Daniel's ancestry, see Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013), 4:299-300.) Edmund Hunt of Duxbury's wife does not appear on royal gateway lists prepared by Douglas Richardson, Gary Boyd Roberts, or lineage societies, such as the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, or the Baronial Order of Magna Charta.

Based on the following sources, the Hunt-Oxenbridge theory and royal descent for American descendants of Edmund Hunt of Duxbury must be considered disproven.

Marriage licence:

Die pr[e]d[icti] [8 Junij 1641] w[hi]ch day appeared p[er]sonally Edmund Hunt of the p[ar]ish of Upline in the County of Devon Clarke and a bachiller aged about 37 yeares & alleadgeth that hee intendeth to marry w[i]th Dorcas Oxenbridge of the p[ar]ish of St Bennett Sherhogg London Spinster aged about 22 yeares and w[i]th the consent of her father Daniell Oxenbridge … and desired licence to be m[ar]ried in the p[ar]ish church of St Stephens Coleman London Signature: Edmund Hunte [Bride misindexed Brenbridge] Source: London Marriage Licences, Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2056/32515_1831101883_0036-001...

So Edmund was born c1604 (aged about 37 in 1641).

Marriage in London parish register:

1641 Jun 10, Edmond Hunt and Dorcas Oxenbridge married the 10th of June 1641 Source: London St Stephen Coleman Street, parish registers, Ancestry [Misindexed: Edmond Hout married Dorcas Honbridge] https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_A102237-00081/10271471

Uplyme records:

Uplime is a variant spelling of the parish of Uplyme, Devon. Pre-1684 parish registers have been lost. Bishop's transcripts survive for the following years of interest: 1669, 1672, and 1675. No Hunts were found in those years.

Education:

Edmund Hunt, son of Philip, of Newton, Devon, pleb. Exeter College, matriculated 2 December 1631, aged 17; perhaps rector of Uplyme, Devon, 1639. See Foster’s Index. Eccl. 'Horrobin-Hyte', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 748-784. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 [accessed 18 July 2017].

Occupation:

Person: Hunt, Edmund (1635-1639), CCEd Person ID: 98286 (1) Ordination: Hunte, Edmundus, 20/12/1635 at Exeter Cathedral, qualification: lit., church: chapel, clerical status: deacon Source: Devon RO, Chanter 50 (Register) Lit=clergyman did not possess a degree, but bishop considered him sufficiently learned to qualify for ordination (2) Appointment: Hunt, Edmundus, MA, instituted 29/3/1639 as Rector of Uplime Source: Devon RO, Chanter 23 (Register) Source: Clergy of the Church of England Database, http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp

Conflicting timeline with Duxbury man:

(p. 470) ‘In the 8 February 1635/6 list of “those men who have houses in town at this present,” “Edmond Hunt” held one in the Westend’ [of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony]. (p. 469) ‘“Edmond Hunt” appears in the Duxbury section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of those who had taken the oath of fidelity.’

The Duxbury man is not known to have had any ministerial role in the colony.

References

• “Descendants of Edmund Hunt”

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