A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
Notes for Ralph Hunt
Ralph Hunt was a Planter and slave owner; he was the town surveyor and overseer. During re-occupation by the Dutch was appointed Schepen or Magistrate. He died early in 1677 leaving sons Ralph, Edward and, John, Samuel and daughters Anne and Mary
Ralph Hunt married the sister of Edward Jessup. The 1666 Will of Edward Jessup of West Farms names John Burroughs and Ralph Hunt as his beloved brother in laws. In 1666 John Burroughs was married to Elizabeth the widow of Thomas Reed, the birth their son John Burroughs Jr. was recorded in the Newtown Court Minutes of 1665-- this proves that Elizabeth was the sister of Edward Jessup- Ralph Hunts wife's name could not have been Elizabeth -- The Will of Ralph Hunt does not mention the first name of his wife. She died before her husband. The first name of his wife is unknown perhaps her first name was Anne or Mary and named one her daughters after her.
"Ralph Hunt, pioneer of Long Island first appears on Long Island across Manhattan island in 1652, apparently at that time with a wife and one daughter" (Note) Manhattan was first mapped by the Dutch East India Company in 1609 and became a permanent settlement of New Amsterdam.
Ralph Hunt immigrated to Middleburg New Amsterdam with Edward Jessup from Connecticut in 1652. Rev John Moore was the minister of the Presbyterian Church of Hempstead in New Amsterdam and arrived in Middleburg New Amsterdam at the same time. It was not long after the English settlers arrived that the Dutch Anglo War began. The new English settlers decided return by ship to Connecticut and waited until 1654 when the war ended to return. It was not long after their return that Indian upheavals began that forced many to rush to and stay at the nearby Fort for their safety.
In 1655 Ralph Hunt served as an Officer in the colonial troops that were raised by the English during the Indian upheavals that began after the first Anglo-Dutch War. These same troops were with the British Troops when they seized New Amsterdam declaring it a English territory. After the seizure of the Dutch colony Gov. Nicholl raised English militias in the townships of Long Island, on the 21st of April 16 1665 he issued commissions, constituting Thomas Lawrence Captain, Ralph Hunt, Lieutaenant and Gershom Moore, Ensign.
Lewis D. Cook of Philadelphia, PA has made the most thorough examination and documentation yet found on the descendants of Ralph Hunt of Long Island. Work extending through the period 1940-1970, with an unpublished manuscript and two other volumes of supporting information filed with the Pennsylvania Historical Society Library in Philadelphia. Mitchell J. Hunt of Willow Grove PA has refined and corrected this material in March 1990.
(Note) Middleburg New Amsterdam is in present day Manhattan and the date 1652 the same date when Edward Jessup arrived.
"Ralph Hunt has variously been reported as a brother of pioneer Thomas Hunt of Westchester NY also as the same Ralph Hunt who appears in Virginia in 1635- a study claims to have demonstrated that the two were the same produces evidence to the contrary -- professional genealogists have failed to come up with a clue as where he came from and who his ancestors were."
There is a Ralph Hunt early settler who arrived in Virginia Colony on the ship Primrose but the only way to know if he is related to this Hunt family is through DNA testing.
Ralph Hunt of Virginia colony
Ralph Hunt age 22 by authority of certificate issued by the Minister of Gravesend, sailed from England to Virginia aboard the Primrose on July 27 1635. Ralph Hunt m. Elinore --- John Hunt 1612-1679 arrived in 1635 on the ship George to Virginia. John Hunt m. Margaret and had a son Ralph Hunt.
Ralph Hunt of Witney, West Oxfordshire, England
Witney is a historic market town on the River Windrush 10 miles east of Oxford and about 68 miles from London England. During the Saxon period the town was in Royal hands and was used as a meeting place for the Kings council. In 1044 the manor of Witney was granted to the Bishops of Winchester who built a palace near the current church. In the thirteenth century Witney grew to importance as a centre of the wool trade and built a thriving cloth industry.
Alumni Oxoniensis of Oxford 1500-1886 there is a Ralph Hunt; BA 17 Feb.1538-9; M.A. 7 March, 1541-2.(no other information)
The Hunt family who arrived in Virginia colony were likely tobacco planters and merchants. Possible members of the Joint Stock London Company and received a land grant in Virginia Colony???
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount of Sele & Saye was educated at Oxford College, Boughton Castle was twenty two miles from the township of Whitney, he established the Joint Stock Providence Island Company. He was influential in the founding of Connecticut colony and involved in many other ventures. William Jessop a London attorney was the secretary of the Providence Company and Robert Hunt a Military Officer was sent to Providence Island Colony and was administrator from 1636-1638
Immigration from Connecticut to Long Island
It was more profitable to immigrate to the Dutch Colonies, The New Haven colony merchants invested in the building of a 80 ton ship that was lost at sea during its maiden voyage to England and the colony lost about a third of Its wealth. Many of the settlers immigrated to Long Island.
In Middleburg New Amsterdam the Dutch allowed English merchants to profit from trade on the condition they use Dutch India Company ships. On Maspeth Creek there was the Trading House established by the Dutch West India Trading Company where several valuable cargos of beaver and other skins were shipped from the area. The Dutch also established a centre for milling building Tide mills along Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek, and their tributaries that served as a centre of trade in New Amsterdam
(The will of Ralph Hunt is recorded at the Hall of Records, New York, Liber 1-2)
First I "Ralph Hunt" bequeath my soule to God my Maker through my Lord Jesus Christ my redeemer and my body to the earth from whense it came and as for what earthly Estate the Lord hath bestowed on me I by this will of mine give and bequeath as follows;
First my will is that all my debts must be truly paid and the remainder to be disposed as followeth; It is my desire that my son Edward be sole administrator of my estate until his other three brothers come of age shall give their share of equal division; For my daughter Mary I do give to her two cows, six sheep and the feather bed which I now lye on. And as for my daughter Ann' three children I give to each of them a sheepe.
This Will of mine being ritt when I had my perfect memory although very sick and weak Captain Betts and John Burroughs I do desire to be overseers with my son-in-law Theophilus Phillips." Dated January 12, 1676/7. Witnesses, Edward Stevenson, John Hayter, Thomas Morell.
Codicil January 13, 1676/7, "my daughter Anna shall have as good a portion with that she hath already as any of the rest of my children. And as for the red coat she now has in possession, it is to be valued and one-half given to my daughter Mary."
His Ralph Hunt Mark---Witness _____Burroughs Edward Hunt
Note: it is very hard to sort out the Hunt descendants who left for New Jersey----Ralph Hunt the progenitor of the Hunt family had four sons Edward, Ralph Jr. John & Samuel who each had sons named Ralph Hunt.11
Ralph Hunt married the sister of Edward Jessup. The 1666 Will of Edward Jessup of West Farms names John Burroughs and Ralph Hunt as his beloved brother in laws. In 1666 John Burroughs was married to Elizabeth the widow of Thomas Reed, the birth their son John Burroughs Jr. was recorded in the Newtown Court Minutes of 1665-- this proves that Elizabeth was the sister of Edward Jessup- Ralph Hunts wife's name could not have been Elizabeth -- The Will of Ralph Hunt does not mention the first name of his wife. She died before her husband. The first name of his wife is unknown perhaps her first name was Anne or Mary and named one her daughters after her.
"Ralph Hunt, pioneer of Long Island first appears on Long Island across Manhattan island in 1652, apparently at that time with a wife and one daughter" (Note) Manhattan was first mapped by the Dutch East India Company in 1609 and became a permanent settlement of New Amsterdam.
Ralph Hunt immigrated to Middleburg New Amsterdam with Edward Jessup from Connecticut in 1652. Rev John Moore was the minister of the Presbyterian Church of Hempstead in New Amsterdam and arrived in Middleburg New Amsterdam at the same time. It was not long after the English settlers arrived that the Dutch Anglo War began. The new English settlers decided return by ship to Connecticut and waited until 1654 when the war ended to return. It was not long after their return that Indian upheavals began that forced many to rush to and stay at the nearby Fort for their safety.
In 1655 Ralph Hunt served as an Officer in the colonial troops that were raised by the English during the Indian upheavals that began after the first Anglo-Dutch War. These same troops were with the British Troops when they seized New Amsterdam declaring it a English territory. After the seizure of the Dutch colony Gov. Nicholl raised English militias in the townships of Long Island, on the 21st of April 16 1665 he issued commissions, constituting Thomas Lawrence Captain, Ralph Hunt, Lieutaenant and Gershom Moore, Ensign.
Lewis D. Cook of Philadelphia, PA has made the most thorough examination and documentation yet found on the descendants of Ralph Hunt of Long Island. Work extending through the period 1940-1970, with an unpublished manuscript and two other volumes of supporting information filed with the Pennsylvania Historical Society Library in Philadelphia. Mitchell J. Hunt of Willow Grove PA has refined and corrected this material in March 1990.
(Note) Middleburg New Amsterdam is in present day Manhattan and the date 1652 the same date when Edward Jessup arrived.
"Ralph Hunt has variously been reported as a brother of pioneer Thomas Hunt of Westchester NY also as the same Ralph Hunt who appears in Virginia in 1635- a study claims to have demonstrated that the two were the same produces evidence to the contrary -- professional genealogists have failed to come up with a clue as where he came from and who his ancestors were."
There is a Ralph Hunt early settler who arrived in Virginia Colony on the ship Primrose but the only way to know if he is related to this Hunt family is through DNA testing.
Ralph Hunt of Virginia colony
Ralph Hunt age 22 by authority of certificate issued by the Minister of Gravesend, sailed from England to Virginia aboard the Primrose on July 27 1635. Ralph Hunt m. Elinore --- John Hunt 1612-1679 arrived in 1635 on the ship George to Virginia. John Hunt m. Margaret and had a son Ralph Hunt.
Ralph Hunt of Witney, West Oxfordshire, England
Witney is a historic market town on the River Windrush 10 miles east of Oxford and about 68 miles from London England. During the Saxon period the town was in Royal hands and was used as a meeting place for the Kings council. In 1044 the manor of Witney was granted to the Bishops of Winchester who built a palace near the current church. In the thirteenth century Witney grew to importance as a centre of the wool trade and built a thriving cloth industry.
Alumni Oxoniensis of Oxford 1500-1886 there is a Ralph Hunt; BA 17 Feb.1538-9; M.A. 7 March, 1541-2.(no other information)
The Hunt family who arrived in Virginia colony were likely tobacco planters and merchants. Possible members of the Joint Stock London Company and received a land grant in Virginia Colony???
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount of Sele & Saye was educated at Oxford College, Boughton Castle was twenty two miles from the township of Whitney, he established the Joint Stock Providence Island Company. He was influential in the founding of Connecticut colony and involved in many other ventures. William Jessop a London attorney was the secretary of the Providence Company and Robert Hunt a Military Officer was sent to Providence Island Colony and was administrator from 1636-1638
Immigration from Connecticut to Long Island
It was more profitable to immigrate to the Dutch Colonies, The New Haven colony merchants invested in the building of a 80 ton ship that was lost at sea during its maiden voyage to England and the colony lost about a third of Its wealth. Many of the settlers immigrated to Long Island.
In Middleburg New Amsterdam the Dutch allowed English merchants to profit from trade on the condition they use Dutch India Company ships. On Maspeth Creek there was the Trading House established by the Dutch West India Trading Company where several valuable cargos of beaver and other skins were shipped from the area. The Dutch also established a centre for milling building Tide mills along Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek, and their tributaries that served as a centre of trade in New Amsterdam
(The will of Ralph Hunt is recorded at the Hall of Records, New York, Liber 1-2)
First I "Ralph Hunt" bequeath my soule to God my Maker through my Lord Jesus Christ my redeemer and my body to the earth from whense it came and as for what earthly Estate the Lord hath bestowed on me I by this will of mine give and bequeath as follows;
First my will is that all my debts must be truly paid and the remainder to be disposed as followeth; It is my desire that my son Edward be sole administrator of my estate until his other three brothers come of age shall give their share of equal division; For my daughter Mary I do give to her two cows, six sheep and the feather bed which I now lye on. And as for my daughter Ann' three children I give to each of them a sheepe.
This Will of mine being ritt when I had my perfect memory although very sick and weak Captain Betts and John Burroughs I do desire to be overseers with my son-in-law Theophilus Phillips." Dated January 12, 1676/7. Witnesses, Edward Stevenson, John Hayter, Thomas Morell.
Codicil January 13, 1676/7, "my daughter Anna shall have as good a portion with that she hath already as any of the rest of my children. And as for the red coat she now has in possession, it is to be valued and one-half given to my daughter Mary."
His Ralph Hunt Mark---Witness _____Burroughs Edward Hunt
Note: it is very hard to sort out the Hunt descendants who left for New Jersey----Ralph Hunt the progenitor of the Hunt family had four sons Edward, Ralph Jr. John & Samuel who each had sons named Ralph Hunt.11