Brief Life History of Gideon
When Gideon Hunt was born on 8 September 1763, in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ephraim Hunt, was 33 and his mother, Delight Mann, was 31. He married Prudence Crane on 15 June 1799, in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1779. He died on 10 June 1839, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Massachusetts, United States.
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- Gideon Hunt, "Find a Grave Index"
- Gideon Hunt, "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783"
- Gideon Hunt, "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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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