Mary Hunt

Anderson’s The Great Migration Project does not accept Mary Hunt as a wife of ‘Goodman’ Thomas Bonney (AncestryImage)

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Perez Hunt wrote: “Thomas's first wife was Mary Terry. Following her death, Thomas married Mary Hunt, the daughter of Edmund Hunt”. “Unfortunately the spouses "Mary Terry" and "Mary Hunt" are unproven, according to Anderson in "Great Migration." Those names were brought forth by "Perez Bonney's Chronicle of His predecessors and likewise His Own Posterity" in 1898.

Anderson says none of this has been confirmed. "Writing in 1935, Howard Dakin French stated that he 'had not yet been able to determine just what dependence may be placed' on the account of Perez Bonney. citing NEHGR 89:223.” AncestryImage

Mary Hunt who m. Thomas Bonney, Sr, of Duxbury in 1654, is presumed to have been a daughter of Edmund, probably born at Cambridge, MA, about 1634. There is some speculation that she might have been the widow of Edmund but he was still living at the time of this marriage and there was no other Hunt family around Duxbury at that time to tie her to.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonney-185

Thomas Bonney’s first wife was Mary Terry. Following her death, Thomas married Mary Hunt, the daughter of Edmund Hunt. [ (unproven - evidence inconclusive) m.1 Mary Terry and m.2 Mary Hunt, (Stratton, 1986, p. 247).

"I, the subscriber, Perez Bonney, the son of John Bonney, of Pembrook, having a mind to write an account of my predecessor, according to the best information that ever I had, I shall begin with my grandfather, Thomas Bonney, who came from Dover, in England, and was born about the year 1604, and married Mary Terry, but she died, and then he married Mary Hunt,[5] being as I have been told about 50 years old by whom he had, (Bonney, 1898, p. 7):[6]

Sources

• Bonney, Charles L. The Bonney Family, 2nd ed. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Legal. 1898. from archive.org. Accessed 08-01-2015