Brief Life History of Nathaniel
When Nathaniel Hunt was born on 15 August 1723, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Hunt, was 42 and his mother, Hannah Flint, was 28. He married Sarah Kittredge on 1 November 1753, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 14 January 1812, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Nathaniel Hunt, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Nathaniel Hunt in entry for Nathaniel Hunt, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Nathaniel Hunt in entry for Jonathan Hunt, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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."""""""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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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