Brief Life History of Enoch
When Enoch Hunt was born about 1784, in Davie, North Carolina, United States, his father, Wilson S Hunt, was 31 and his mother, Phoebe Bryan, was 22. He married Judith Hampton on 6 August 1806, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1850. He died on 1 February 1865, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Enoch Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
- Enoch Hunt, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- John Hunt, A corrected genealogy of Col. Jonathan Hunt (1716-1782) and his Rowan Co., North Carolina siblings and their descendants
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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.
1789 · Becomes 12th State
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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