Mary Painter

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Mary Hunt, the seventh child and eldest daughter of Abigail (née Pancoast) and Robert Hunt, was born in in 1768 in Evesham Township, Burlington County, Province of New Jersey. The Hunts were a Quaker family, and Evesham Township had been settled by Quakers in 1672.

The Robert and Abigail Hunt family around 1783 moved to a farm near Culpeper Court House, Virginia. Mary Hunt and Jacob Painter were married on 16 April 1789 in Culpeper County, Virginia, according to Quaker custom. Mary and Jacob Painter were the parents of 10 children, eight of whom lived to maturity. The two children who died young were: Joshua (1789-93), and Mary (1806-08).

Jacob Painter in summer 1802 traveled to the Northwest Territory's Jefferson County to view the land, and traveled back to Virginia. In autumn 1802 Jacob and Mary Painter, together with their five children, settled in the Northwest Territory, establishing a farm about a mile and half northeast of what would become Salem, Perry Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. Four more children were born there to Jacob and Mary Painter.

Charles Cummins Hunt, in A Genealogical History of the Robert and Abigail Pancoast Hunt Family, relates that Jacob and Mary Painter in 1818: "were journeying on horseback to attend a yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Mount Pleasant, some fifty miles southward in Jefferson County [Ohio]," where Mary's mother lived. Mary developed an acute infection on her face. "They were compelled to halt at Richmond, a small hamlet on the way, where she succumbed to the disease [on 9 September 1818] within two days after the beginning of the attack. To remove her remains back to her home on horseback and along the rugged path was evidently impracticable, and it was necessary to inter them at Richmond."

Although there is no burial record, Mary Painter was likely interred at the Quaker Cemetery in Richmond, which is known to have some very early burials.

Children not linked

• Joshua Painter, 1789-1793
• Mary Painter, 1806-1808

Notes

"Jacob Painter son of John and Susannah Painter of the County of Frederick and State of Virginia, And Mary Hunt daughter of Robert and Abigail Hunt of the County of Culpepper [sic ] and State aforesaid having signified their Intention of Marriage with each other at two of the monthly Meetings of the People Called Quakers at Crooked Run in the County of Frederick [...] this sixteenth day of the fourth month, One Thousand seven hundred & Eighty Nine." The witnesses signing the marriage record included Robert and Abigail Hunt and John Painter. (Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, Virginia. Births and Burials, 1785.)

"At crooked Run monthly meeting of women friend held the 4th day of the 4th month 1789 [...] Jacob Painter & Mary Hunt appeared at this meeting & signifyed they continued their intention of marriage inquiry being made & nothing appearing to hinder, they are left to their liberty to accomplish their said intention according to the good order used among friends therefore this meeting appoints Lilpha Moor & Hope Holloway to attend the marriage to attend the marriage & make report of their service to next monthly meeting."
"At Crooked Run monthly meeting held at Carter [?] Centre the 2nd Day of the 5th month 1789 [...] The friends that was appointed to attend the marriage of Jacob Painter & Mary Hunt report that it was orderly accomplished." (Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, Virginia. Minutes, 1782-1789.)

"To Westlands Monthly Meeting —
Dear Friends
Jacob Painter requests our Certificate for himself and Mary his wife and their five children namely David, Samuel, Robert Abigail and Joseph to join them to your Meeting [...]" 2 October 1802 (Crooked Run Monthly Meeting's Record of Certificates of Removal, Book A, 9 June 1784 (manuscript), p. 69.)

"Jacob Painter of Frederick County, Virginia" received the patent for Section 32—about 640 acres—in 1807.) A Quaker Monthly Meeting was established at Salem in 1804.

Charles Cummins Hunt, A Genealogical History of the Robert and Abigail Pancoast Hunt Family, with a Few Thumb-Nail Sketches of Some of the Heads of the Sub-Families (Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press, 1906), p. 76. The account of the Painter family's German origins is not correct. (p. 74). Jacob Painter's paternal grandfather, John Painter, senior, was born about 1710 in England, and was married in 1735 to Hannah Braddock; both were Quaker residents of Evesham Township, New Jersey.

"Jacob Painter, [the former Miss Lucinda Painter] Mrs. Grimmesey's paternal grandfather, was a native of Frederick county, Va., who settled in Perry township in 1802, locating on what is known as the "John Pow" farm, which he cleared and improved. His first wife was Mary Hunt, who bore eight children: David, Samuel, Robert, Mrs. Abigail Farquhar, Joseph, Jacob, Mrs. Agnes Pettitt, and Mrs. Susan Holloway. [...] Jacob Painter was a son of John Painter, of English birth, who came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. The Painters were all Friends or Quakers as far back as we have any account of them." (History of the Upper Ohio Valley, vol. 1 (Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1891), pp. 214-15.) The John Painter, junior, above, was born in New Jersey, his father was born in England.