JOHN HUNTER: Senator, b. in S. Carolina about 1760. He received an academic education, engaged in agriculture, and in 1792 was elected to Congress serving till 1795. He was elected United States Senator from South Carolina in 1796 in place of Pierce Butler who had resigned and served from February 1797 till 1798, when he resigned.

(Reference 19) ANDREW HUNTER: clergyman, b. in Virginia in 1752; d. in Washington, D.C. 24 February 1823. He was the son of a British officer, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1773, and immediately afterward made a missionary tour through Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He was appointed a Brigade Chaplain in 1775, and served throughout the Revolution, and received the public thanks of General Washington, for valuable aid in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1794, he was principal of a school near Trenton, N.J. In 1804 he was elected professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Princeton, but … Read more

Two wills of Hunters in New York State are thus recorded. Will of Alexander Hunter, Homer, Cortland Co., N.Y., July 15, 1833. To sons: William, Charles H., James, John, and Alexander; to daughters: Nancy, and Margaret; to nieces: Diane, and Sally, daughters of James Hunter. Will of John Hunter, of Ulysses, Cayuga Co., N.Y., November 3, 1802 to July 13, 1803. To wife, Eve; to daughters: Mary Warms, Catherine Sager, Jane Vomp, Elizabeth Vandergrist, and Eve Fleming; to sons: James, (eldest), Joheckem, and John, Jr.; to Benjamin Coyken dall and Walter Van Ornam, Exs.; Rhoda and Lydia Gardner and Richard … Read more

MISS CATHERINE STEWART HUNTER: who was born in New York, is a descendant of Capt. Elijah Hunter, of New York. She was a daughter of Dr. Abraham Thew and Adeline Morrison Hunter; granddaughter of Ezra and Rachel Thew Hunter; gr.granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Drake Hunter. Elijah Hunter, 1775, was Lieutenant in Capt. Daniel Mills’ Company, Col. James Holmes’ Regiment, and was Captain of grenadiers at the Battle of White Plains. He served as a delegate from Westchester County to the Assembly. He was born at New Castle, 1749, and died, 1815, at Mount Pleasant (Sing Sing).

GEORGE HUNTER: one of the earliest residents of New York City, married Ruth, the widow of John Broome, in 1777. Mr. Hunter died in 1799. They had one son, born 4th August 1788. He was named John Hunter. He was the Hunter of Hunter’s Island. He became very distinguished, and was well known to many of the last generation. In a convention to amend the Constitution of this State, John Hunter was the oldest member present.

WILLIAM HUNTER: was Assistant Secretary of the State. His son, Lieut. H. C. Hunter, of the United States Navy, died at Barcelona, Spain, in 1873. Revolutionary officers of the name are Alexander, Daniel, Ephriam and James, of Pennsylvania; David of South Carolina; James of North Carolina; Andrew of New Jersey; Elijah and John, of New York.

EDMUND P. HUNTER: died at Berkeley Springs, Virginia, in 1859. He was a lawyer and a member of the Legislature.

GENERAL ALEXANDER HUNTER: died at Washington, D.C., in 1849, aged fifty-nine. He was Marshall of the District of Columbia

WILLIAM L. HUNTER: a distinguished member of the family in America, died at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1849, aged seventy-five. He graduated at Brown University in 1791. He was admitted to the bar, at Newport, at the age of twenty-one. In 1799 he entered the State Legislature, and served at various times until 1811, when he became a Senator in Congress, in which office he remained until 1821. In 1834 he was appointed charge in Brazil, and continued there, as minister until 1844, when he returned to Newport, and resided there until his death.

JOSEPH HUNTER: of Nantucket, Mass., and Annah Hawes, of Chatham, Mass., published their marriage intention February 20, 1766. She was born 1738, and was living as Annah Hunter in 1781.

EDWARD HUNTER: of Marlboro, was born in 1716, and died there in 1797. He was a member of the General Court, 1776-77. His son, Jonathan Hunter, was born in Marlboro in 1753. He married Hannah Wallup, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. They removed to Plattsburg, New York. Their son Solomon, lived in Orwell, Ohio.

WILLIAM HUNTER: of Springfield; had sons, James and John, killed by Indians, July 4, 1676. Another William was in Barnstable at an early date.

WILLIAM HUNTER: of Boston, married first in 1657, Cicely . She probably died soon afterward. His second wife was Mary, only child of Richard Carter. By her he had children. Savage, in his “Genealogical Dictionary,” says that the four young passengers of the ship Blessing, the record of whose sailing appears above, may have been children of this William, sent to join him in New England.

ROBERT HUNTER: of Ipswich, Massachusetts, was a freeman October 7, 1640. His wife, Mary, was mentioned in his will, dated 1647, but no children. Another Robert Hunter, of Ipswich, had several children. Thomas the eldest died in 1687. It is believed that Thomas Hunter, of Marblehead, 1653, was his son. Another Thomas was in Springfield, in 1678.

JOHN HUNTER: was in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1644. He died in 1648-49.

(Reference 23) ANDREW HUNTER: of County Londonberry, Ireland, was born in 1640, and it was the family tradition that his birthplace was the ancestral home of the Hunters of Hunterston in Scot land. His son, Hugh, married Isabella Semple, and their son, David Hunter, lived in York County, Pennsylvania. He married Martha McIlhenny in 1745. He was a Captain of a York County Company in the French and Indian War, and a member of the expedition against Fort Duquesne. Capt. Hunter mysteriously disappeared in the summer of 1776, and his family never saw or heard from him again. His fate … Read more

(See Reference 24) A200 ROLLO, THE DANE: Duke of Normandy, A.D. 912. Married Lady Poppa, daughter of Berengarius, Count of Bayeaux, A201 WILLIAM THE LONGSWARD: second Duke of Normandy. A202 RICHARD I: third Duke of Normandy, married a daughter of a Danish Knight. A203 GODFREY: Count of Eu and Brion. A204 RICHARD FITZ GISLEBRET DE TONEBRIDGE: who accompanied William, Duke of Normandy, to England, and was created Earl of Clare, and made Justiciary of England. A205 GILBERT: second Earl of Clare, married Lady Adeliza, relative to Hugh Capet, King of France. A206 LADY ADELIZA DE CLARE: married Alberic, second Baron … Read more