Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Hunt was born on 27 September 1725, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joseph Hunt, was 59 and his mother, Elizabeth Huntington, was 30.
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- Samuel Hunt, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Samuel Hunt, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Samuel Hunt, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1785
Founded
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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