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    1. Re: [HUNT-L] Joshua Hunt & Elizabeth Whittlesey
    2. SANFORD B HUNT
    3. Pleased to be of assistance on this one. Just a few short paragraphs for SCOTT BAKER to see if we are in the right ballpark re Joshua and Elizabeth Whittlesey. Thbis is MUCH more on this for the asking::: ***************************************************** Joshua Hunt, b. abt 1758, prob. at Kingston, NH., prob. came to Ryegate, VT, with his parents and some of his siblings, listed as "of Bath, NH" when he served in Timothy Barron's Company in one of Col. Timothy Bedel's regiments in period 10 April 1778 to 1 April 1779, a cook with rank of Sgt. There is legend that Joshua Hunt was at the Battle of Bunker Hill with his father and brothers Zebulon and Moses, but no confirmation of this has been found--he would have been only about age 16 at that time and his brothers one to three years younger. Joshua m. in 1787 Elizabeth Whittlesey of Newbury, VT, believed to be dau. of Josiah Whittlesey who served in the same Company with the Hunt brothers Joshua, Daniel, and Zebulon, and whose dau. Silena m. Daniel Hunt whose brother Zebulon is said in family records of descendants to have m. Lucy Whittlesey. Joshua is found in Ryegate in the 1791 census along with his father Daniel (incorrectly listed as Joshua); his mother died in 1795 and Joshua was the only Hunt found in Ryegate in the 1800 census, his father living with him at that time. The father died in 1807 and Joshua succeeded him on the family farm but died there in 1815, about eight years after his father. His widow died in 1823 and she and her husband are presumed to be buried in the Old Scotch Cemetery in Ryegate with Joshua's parents; no record of the death dates or place of burial of Joshua and Elizabeth has been found. They had nine children for whom a rather extensive record (for most) is possible from vital records, census, town histories, and family records. Children: a. Mehitable Hunt, b. 13 Oct 1788, m. abt 1811 Nathaniel Annis, lived several years in Ryegate and removed to the village of McIndoe Falls at the boundary of Ryegate and Barnet, buried with her husband in cemetery at McIndoe Falls. ****************************.. There is more--several pages. S3 in Lubbock TX.. SOURCE: Mitchell J. Hunt, Willow Grove PA. Author and historian.

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