When John Hunt was born on 26 November 1710, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joseph Hunt, was 45 and his mother, Ann Pengry, was 31. He married Anne Slate on 1 September 1743, in Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 6 February 1774, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63.
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English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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