This is an important document for Ralph of LI descendants of Ralph's son Edward recently received from Mitchell J. Hunt. ****************************************************************. Again, thanks for your letter and further enclosures. We have had a long and frustrating trip looking for the father of Edward of Fredon. It seems to me that the search has produced a lot of valuable information and narrowed the search to such an extent that I am 99% convinced that it must be Thomas-3, the son of Edward-2, (Ralph of LI-1)and I will try and state the conclusion concisely. I discount the possibility that Edward's father Thomas was of some other Hunt tribe than that of the descendants of Ralph-l of Long Island. From all that we have learned about Ralph's descendants only two Thomas Hunts appear likely to have been the father of Edward of Fredon. This was Thomas-3 (son of Samuel-2 of Maidenhead, who was the Thomas of Amwell) and Thomas-3 (son of Edward-2 by his second wife,(Hazzard), which Thomas appears to have been somewhat a mystery man because not much has been learned about him in any published works or records in LI and around Hunterdon Co., NJ) We can easily dismiss Thomas of Amwell. We know a lot about him and he had a son Edward of whom we know a lot. We know that Thomas of Amwell had a son Thomas, Jr., who obviously is the one of Greenwich who died in 1759. He obviously was not mentioned in the will of his father Thomas of Amwell because he would have died 30 years before his father, would have been only about age 19 when he died (if his baptism in 1740 as son of Thomas of Amwell and his wife Mary was close to his birth date which seems probable). He also appears to have been recently married inasmuch as he had a wife Jeanne but apparently had no children because none appearindicated in the settlement of his estate and none ~ mentioned in the Will of his father (who does mention children of his son Edward, which Edward also died before his father). So, if we eliminate this Thomas of Aniwell and his son Thomas, Jr., the only probability left is Thomas-3, son of Edward-2. We haven't found out much about him but what we have found is to me greatly significant. Thomas-3, son of Edward-2): We haven't found much on him in published works or in records in LI and around Hunterdon Co., NJ, but this is significant in itself. We know that he was born about 1703 in LI, oldest son of his father's 2d wife(Hazzard), that he was underage at the time of his father's will of 1715/16, and that the father's will left the family.homestead LI to Thomas and his.younger brother Jonathan. Presumably the mother contInued to live there until her death 1747 at which time Thomas -would have been about age 44 if living. That he was not mentioned in her Will. gives the impression that he might have died before then. But there are other possibilities, an obvious onebeingtliat he ha.4long left the family circle and her Will dealt with those closest to her at the time. She mentions her son Jonathan with whom she probably continued to live and also her two daughters. Jonathan appears to have removed to Hopewell, NJ, after the death of his mother, but Thomas had left for ilieremuch earlier. He appears to have been the Thomas who was admitted to the Hopewell Presby. CH in 1833 (at which time -. he would have been about age 30 and 14 years before the death of his mother. He is identified as the father of Margaret Hunt who m. Adam Ege (1728-1803), and inasmuch as their first child was b 6/24/1750, they were prob. m. about 1749 at which time Thomas would have been about age 46 and she was prob. b. 1730. Thomas would obviously have been married and probably had other children. An Edward b. in 1739 or 1744 could easily have been one of them. (I am intrigued, as I mentioned before, that the Jacob Hunt who died in Somerset Co. in 1757 might have been another son.) By legend Thomas moved up to around Fredon, Sussex Co., NJ, around 1756 or 1766 and nothing further has been learned of him. There is (to me) one very significant fact you have pointed out, which is the fact that six of the given names of Margaret (Hunt) Ege's children are the same names which Edward of Fredon gave to six of his children. I think this is more than a coincidence and it is highly probable that Edward and Margaret were brother and sister. It is also significant (to me) that in all of the places we might expect to find some record of Thomas and his wife and children (LI. Hopewell, Hunterdon Co., Greenwich, et. al.) no records have been tound, which would indicate that after leaving LI and briefly in Hopewell, he settled somewhere else, possibly in Somerset Co., and there are the puzzles you mention that you could find no record of Edward from 1756 to 1793 when he bought 470 acres in Fredon, and of course that no record has been found on what happened to father Thomas after 1756 or his wife, whoever she was. It is certainly an interesting puzzle which will continue to intrigue me. I do want to tell you that, thanks to all your good work, my present conclusion is that until someone can come up with some evidence to the contrary, Thomas-3, son of Edward-2, Ralph-of LI-1 is probably the father of your Edward of Fredon. With all best wishes, Cordially, Mitch Hunt