Brief Life History of George
When Col. George Hunt was born on 17 August 1775, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, Charles Moore Hunt, was 33 and his mother, Francina Smith, was 29. He married Martha Whitehead about 1806, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 12 October 1842, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Wills Township Baptist Cemetery, Rolling Prairie, Kankakee Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States.
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- George Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Hunt, A corrected genealogy of Col. Jonathan Hunt (1716-1782) and his Rowan Co., North Carolina siblings and their descendants
- George Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
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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