John ‘Stoneybrook’ Hunt, II, of Hopewell

John Hunt

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44948067/john-a.-hunt

• Gender: Male
• Birth: 1688 Newtown, Long Island
• Christening: 1688
• Parents: John Hunt and his wife Joanna
• Marriage: Spouse: Margaret Moore Feb 8 1714 Newtown, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: July 31 1738 Hopewell, New Jersey “Ran away, from John Hunt, of Hopewell, a negro man named Peet; calls himself Peter Waldren.”
• Death: Feb 11 1748 Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America
• Burial: Feb 13 1748 Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States

Family

Was Sarah Ely his first wife ?

From Everton’s Pedigree Sheets:

Wife: Margaret Moore (1695 - aft 1748); daughter of Benjamin Moore & Anna Sackett. [Disputed] Married 1714

Children:

1. Wilson Hunt. Married Susannah Price.
2. Colonel Jonathan Hunt. [Married 1) Margaret Lowrance 2) Mary Polly Frances Smith, 3) Isabel Hampton]
3. Charity Hunt. Married Edward Hunt (cousin)
4. Joanna (Hannah) Hunt. Married Jeremiah Greene.
5. John Hunt. Married 1) Esther Phillips [2%29 Eury Eaton 3) Mary Seaman]
6. Noah Hunt. Married Sarah Johnes.
7. Gershom Hunt. Married 1) Eunice Fitz Randolph 2) Elizabeth
8. Daniel Hunt. Married Susannah.
9. Enoch Hunt.

Origins

"The census of Newtown LI taken in August 1698. These are excellent sources proving that this John Hunt, who married Margaret Moore, is the son of John and Joanna Hunt of Newton, Long Island (Queens), New York. Joanna was living with her son, John, in Hopewell, New Jersey when she was admitted to the Presbyterian Church, as a widow, 31 Aug, 1733.

Note that John and Margaret have children name Joanna and Willson.

This John Hunt is NOT the son of Edward Hunt and Elizabeth Hazzard, or Samuel Hunt, who are both likely his uncles.

It should finally be laid to rest by the direct documentary evidence found through the WILLs (two of them) of John's brother Samuel Hunt of Hopewell NJ which identify the John Hunt who married Margaret Moor(e) as the son of John Hunt of LI and grandson of the pioneer Ralph Hunt.

His will is dated 1741 but proved 1748. Not sure which one to take for his death date. Were wills "proven" 7 years after death?? Many sites have 1748 for death date.

His will (from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tompkins/wills/wills_nj01....) :

1740-1, Feb 11. Hunt, John, of Hopewell, Hunterdon Co.; will of. Eldest son, Wilson, a negro slave "Peet," and an account due testator from Daniel Coxe.

Second son, Jonathan, plantation.

Wife, Margaret, negro wench Dinah. Two daughters, Johannah and Charity.

Sons, John and Noah, plantation where Richard Hudnut lived, adjoining George Smith.

Executors -- wife, and sons Willson and Jonathan.

Witnesses -- William Cornell, Gershom Moore and Rueben Armitage. Proved Oct. 1, 1748 Lib. 6, p. 82 1748, Oct 1. Inventory (£434.5.4) includes Bible, 28 cheeses (£2.6.8), negro wench Dinah (£60), two guns, 12 hives of bees, negro man Peet, (£30).

Made by Andrew Smith, Esquire and Vinson Runyon.

from http://www.stormpages.com/melissagenealogy/Hunt6.html :

John Hunt (John5, Ralph4, Thomas3, Richard2, Thomas1) was born 1693 in Newton, Elmhurst, Long Island, NY, and died 11 Feb 1740/41 in Hopewell, Hunterdon Co, NJ. He md Margaret Moore 8 Feb 1713/14 in Newton, Long Island, NY. She was born 1695 in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ, and died 1752 in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ.

At least one site says he married Sarah Ely in 1710, which might push his birth year back to the 1690 estimated by other sites.

There is interesting info on this line, later years especially, in A History of the Old Presbyterian Congregation of "The People of Maidenhead.

It is said that he owned a stone house, and that in 1778 Washington and his generals planned the battle of Monmouth there, and for that reason it is called the Hunt house, and the "house of decision". (It is now a private residence.)

comments

One site makes this John the son of a different son of Ralph, Samuel (& Mary Burroughs). However based on the following authoritative sounding opinion I am going with John, not Samuel, as the father:

Mary Lou Goehring reported this John as a son of Elizabeth Hunt,

links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hunt/archive/bios/ralph1.txt
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tompkins/wills/wills_nj01....
• http://www.stormpages.com/melissagenealogy/Hunt6.html

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When John Hunt was born in 1688, in Long Island, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Hunt, was 30 and his mother, Joanna Wilson, was 26. He married Margaret Moore on 8 February 1714, in Newtown, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 11 February 1741, in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 53, and was buried in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America.