Nathaniel Hunn of Salem

Parents unknown. Not the same as Nathaniel Hunn, Jr.

Biography

According to The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 3 by R. C. Anderson, G. F. Sanborn and M. L. Sanborn , the Nathaniel Hunn who married Priscilla Kitchen of Salem was not a descendant of George Hunn, the immigrant. AncestryImage

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Nathaniel Hunn and Priscilla Kitchen married in October, 1672.

Their children

1. Priscilla Hunn Walton was born on January 21, 1672/3.
2. Sara Hunn was born August 6, 1674.
3. Nathaniel Hunn was born about 1676.

Nathaniel was killed in June, 1677 in the Battle at Moore's Brook at Scarborough. The town was destroyed during King Philip's War. The Massachusetts militia was sent to secure it for resettlement. On June 29, 1677, the company was ambushed by warriors under Chief Squando. Of the one hundred soldiers, fifty to sixty were left dead.

The generous town of Salem sent four men at least. NATHANIEL HUNN was married to a strong-willed wife, Priscilla, whose family were Quakers. Her wealthy father was stripped of his rank of sergeant before the war because of his religious beliefs. Nathaniel’s father was a shoemaker and once a member of The Ancient and Honorable Artillery, but his son does not appear on any wartime records other than his participation here. Priscilla and Nathaniel had married five years before and now had two daughters and a son. Along with eleven other men in 1672, he was told by the town "not [to] frequent the Ordinaries, nor Spend ther tyme and Estates in Tipling." No further record is found about this transgression of excessive drinking. Nathaniel’s wife was not a stranger to trouble either and was censured by the church for "uncleanness" in 1675.34[1]

Father of Priscilla (Hunn) Walton, Sarah (Hunn) Bowman and Nathaniel Hunn

References

• The Battle at Moore’s Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677 by Sumner Hunnewell Originally published in two parts in the May 2003 and August 2003 issues of The Maine Genealogist., http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/military/mooresbrook.htm
• Priscilla Kitchen, Quakeress of Salem, Mass., and Kent County, Del., and Her Family by George Valentine Massey II, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume CVI. January, 1952, pp. 38-50.
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21423557/priscilla-kitchen/