Fleetwood: Your info is excellent; however, I don't believe anyone said he went to S.C. Later descendants went to N.C and on to SC. Rhoda's (widow of James Hunt) application is a real stickler! It gives deposition of two persons to verify her information: James Johnson, a Re. pensioner of Henry Co. and "On Oct. 22, 1841, Mrs. Lucy Wimbish, widow of James Wimbish, a Rev. pensioner who resided in Halifax Co., declares she is a cousin of James hunt, husband of Rhody (sic) who lived in the neighborhood of HER father, Elijah Hunt. So---Lucy was Lucy Hunt, daughter of Elijah, James BROTHER! Yes, I DO believe that James Sr. (b. 1703) served in the Rev. War with his nephew! He DID serve as you say, as senior Justice of the Peace, but this does not preclude his serving in the Rev. War. Clara and I have muddled over this puzzle for years and this is our conclusion. We always respect your work, Fleetwood, and either of us could be right. It is very ambiguous. Felicia -----Original Message----- From: Fleetwood M. Jones <fleet@rma.edu> To: HUNT-L@rootsweb.com <HUNT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [HUNT-L] Information please on Ralph Hunt of Virginia >Additional information which changes subject message: > >1) James Hunt (1703-1795) did not enlisted in the military during the Rev War but was the senior justice of peace in Charlotte County, Virginia during that war. He was as the senior justice of peace (sometime called the Presiding Justice) from the establishment of Charlotte County >in 1765 until he resigned at the age of 81 in 1784. He signed most of court minutes during this period if not all. He could only have been gone from Charlotte County during the this period for very short periods. In the James Hunt's the REV WAR veteran pension application that is >cited in the reference message there is an affidavit of Lucy Wimbush. She was James Hunt (1703-1795) granddaughter and a daughter of Elijah Hunt (James Hunt's son). She stated the James Hunt in the application was her cousin and had lived nearby. It highly unlikely she would have >referred to her grandfather as a cousin. It been determined she had no first cousin who could have been this James Hunt so it assume was referring to a more distance cousin. The likely candidates would be a descendant of Joseph Hunt or of one the Hunts that moved into the area >where she lived around the REV WAR from Charles County, Maryland. > 2) James Hunt's son Charles Hunt in referred message died in Charlotte County, Virginia and left a will which is recorded in Charlotte County Will Book 1 page 408. He did not moved to South Carolina prior to his death. There is a fair amount of information of him and his son James >Hunt a REV WAR veteran. This son James Hunt in his application after he moved to Tennessee gives us his father family and his. If anyone is interested I have this information which I am willing to share. > > >SANFORD B HUNT wrote: > >> Is this the family you are looking for??????His grandfather was Ralph. If this isn't right we will try grandfather Ralph and his family.. When we decide which is the right family I can give you the whole bit in GEDCOM or any way you want it or you can download it from the SITE. >> *************************************** >> Family Group Record >> ============================================================ ============== >> Husband: James HUNT >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> Birth: 1703 >> Death: 1795 Charlotte Co., Virginia >> Marriage: abt 1730 Virginia >> Father: Richard HUNT (b 11 Jan 1656) >> Mother: Elinor LINTON (b abt 1670) >> ============================================================ ============== >> Wife: Sarah WHITLOCK >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> Birth: abt 1710 Hanover Co., Virginia >> Father: James WHITLOCK >> Mother: Frances UNKNOWN >> ============================================================ ============== >> Children >> ============================================================ ============== >> 1 M Charles HUNT >> Birth: 1729 Virginia >> Death: bef 1785 S. Carolina >> Spouse: Tabitha Ann? UNKNOWN (m abt 1753) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 2 M James HUNT Rev. >> Birth: 1731 Virginia >> Death: 1793 Montgomery Co., Maryland >> Spouse: Ruth HALL (m abt 1755) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 3 M Elijah HUNT >> Birth: bet 1734-1737 Charlotte Co., Virginia >> Death: 31 Jan 1795 Halifax Co., Virginia >> Spouse: Sarah RICHARDSON (m 1761) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 4 F Sarah HUNT >> Birth: abt 1736 Virginia >> Spouse: William CRAGHEAD (m aft 1770) >> Spouse: James WIMBISH (m 1 Feb 1760) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 5 M Nathaniel HUNT >> Birth: abt 1740 Virginia >> Death: 1795 >> Spouse: Mary ALLEN >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 6 M David HUNT >> Birth: 1745 Virginia >> Death: 19 Feb 1826 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia >> Spouse: Ann RICHARDSON Nancy >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 7 M John HUNT >> Birth: abt 1747 Virginia >> Death: abt 1795 >> Spouse: UNKNOWN >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 8 M Gilbert HUNT >> Birth: abt 1749 Virginia >> Death: 1806 Charlotte Co., Virginia >> Spouse: Susannah MARTIN (m 9 Dec 1781) >> Spouse: Sarah HOARD (m 20 Dec 1787) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- >> 9 F Mary HUNT >> Birth: abt 1733 Hanover Co., Virginia >> Death: 1804 Halifax Co., Virginia >> Spouse: James MCCRAW >> ============================================================ ============== >> Prepared 9 Jul 1999 by: >> Sandy Hunt >> Lubbock Tejas >> ============================================================ ============== >> FAMILY NOTES >> >> HUSBAND NOTES: James HUNT >> General: James Hunt resided in Jamestown, Hanover, Lunenburg, Pittsylvania, >> Halifax and Charlotte Counties, Virginia. At the age of 74, he volunteered >> for the Revolutionary Army with his grandson, John Wimbish. He was a Pres- >> byterian, and his funeral was preached by Dr. Archibald Alexander, who wrote >> of Mr. Hunt (see The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D. PP. 137-) He was >> the father of Rev. James Hunt of Montgomery Co., Maryland. James Hunt had >> land deeded from King George II in Halifax Co., Virginia in 1761. He en- >> listed in Captain Thomas Tweatt's Co. of the 14th Va. Regt., as a Corporal. >> This regt. commanded by Col. Charles Lewis. He was promoted to Sergeant >> Major and in early Spring of 1779, he became a member of the 10th Va. Regt. >> His name is found last on the muster roll the 9th of Dec. 1779. He left a >> will in Charlotte Co., Va. Pittsylvania Co., Va. history says: "James & Ralph >> (?) of Hanover, Va., in 1746 bought land in Lunenburg Co., Va. There James >> Hunt reared a large family (m. Sarah Whitlock) leaving 7 sons. "He died at his >> home on the Staunton River". "Patrick Henry attended his funeral." His home >> was near Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Charlotte Co., Va. Andrea I, >> pg. 23 states "his family came from Virginia to N.C. and on into Spartenburg, >> S. Carolina. >> >> WIFE NOTES: Sarah WHITLOCK >> General: Sarah was the daughter of James and Frances Whitlock. >> >> CHILD NOTES: Charles HUNT >> General: See S.C. file: "Ancestral Home of the Hunt Family of South Carolina" >> "This plantation had been in the same family approximately 200 years when this >> marker was erected in 1965. It was a grant to Charles Hunt when he migrated to >> South Carolina from Virginia in 1770 and included all that land lying between >> Coneross and Little Beaverdam Creeks. Son of Sgt. Major James Hunt of Hanover >> Co., Va., Charles Hunt erected his home across the highway from the present >> home of William C. Hunt, his great-great grandson. >> " A half-mile East lies the original family cemetery which includes the grave >> and marker to Dick, forman of slaves." >> >> CHILD NOTES: James HUNT Rev. >> General: Rev. Hunt was a prominent Presbyterian minister of his day. He kept a school >> in Montgomery Co., Maryland, at his place called "Tusculum." He was a graduate >> of Princeton and was a Presbyterian clergyman, having charge of a church near >> Rockville from 1761 to the time of his death June 2, 1793. His will was dated >> Dec. 19, 1785 and was proved Dec. 28, 1795. See Wm. & Mary Quarterly, Series >> I, Vol. 22, pg 138-139. >> >> CHILD NOTES: Elijah HUNT >> General: Was a Justice of the Peace in Halifax Co., Va. 1776-1777. See D.A.R. >> Vol. 134, p. 263. Left will dated 7 Dec. 1793 in Halifax Co., Va. >> >> CHILD NOTES: Sarah HUNT >> General: Married (1) James Wimbish, (2) William Craghead. Her father James calls her >> Sarah Craghead (James Wimbish had died) in his will and leaves her negroes: >> Hannah, Gabriel and Jacob, as well as a featherbed and furniture. >> >> CHILD NOTES: Nathaniel HUNT >> General: Five children of Nathaniel are named in their Grandfather Jame's Will (18 Oct. >> 1794, Charlotte Co., Va. Cornwall Parish) Date of Nathaniel's Will was 1795, >> according to CHM. >> >> CHILD NOTES: David HUNT >> General: See Will Pr. 26 March 1826. (In folder Misc. wills by Andrea). >> Was Capt. of Pittsylvania Co. Militia, 1785. Inscription on his tombstone >> reads: "Soldier of the Revolution". His father, James, left him a featherbed >> and five negroes: Abby, Braddock, London, Ralph and Squire, in his will. This >> was on the condition that David pay to "my grandson John, son of John, 25 lbs. >> current Virginia money when the said John arives at lawful age or marries". >> >> CHILD NOTES: John HUNT >> >> CHILD NOTES: Gilbert HUNT >> General: 1000 acres ("homplace") in Charlotte Co. left to Gilbert by his father, James. >> He was on the tax list in 1782 in Pittsylvania Co., but he died in Charlotte >> Co. James stipulates that Gilbert is to pay John, "son of my son John" fifty >> pounds when he arrives at legal age. IGI states that Christopher is named in >> the will of Gilbert Hunt "1 Dec. 1798". >> >> CHILD NOTES: Mary HUNT >> General: Was left Negroes: Betty (or Letty), Dick, "little" Elias, Margery and Hannah, >> and also, a featherbed by her father. See notes for James McCraw. Mary and >> James had eleven children. >> >> SOURCES >> Felicia Gourdin File ON WEBSITE >> >> ==== HUNT Mailing List ==== >> The HUNT Document Archives: >> <http://www.c2i2.com/~tompkin/index.html> > > > > >==== HUNT Mailing List ==== >The HUNTList Support Staff >Doug Hunt <doughunt@writeme.com>, Sandy Hunt <sbh3@juno.com> and Courtney Tompkins <tompkin@c2i2.com> >