Brief Life History of George
When George Hunt was born in 1800, in Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Gideon Hunt, was 37 and his mother, Prudence Crane, was 29. He married Mary Bryant on 23 May 1824, in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. In 1850, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as a blacksmith in Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 4 September 1876, in Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- George Hunt, "United States Census, 1870"
- George Hunt, "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Geo. Bryant in entry for Oliver W. Hunt, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
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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Oliver W. Hunt (Biographical Sketch)
Oliver W. Hunt, blacksmith, is descended from an English family of that name who settled Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630. George Hunt was born in Canton, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, and married P …
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