Samuel Hunt

Male12 November 1780–30 January 1846

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Hunt was born on 12 November 1780, in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, his father, Nathaniel Hunt, was 47 and his mother, Mary Phillips, was 52. He married Mary Hill on 23 April 1807, in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 30 January 1846, in his hometown, at the age of 65, and was buried in Lawrence, Mercer, New Jersey, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Hunt
1780–1846
Mary Hill
1790–1868
Marriage: 23 April 1807
Mary E. Hunt
1808–1873
Ralph Pitt Hunt
1810–1877
Eliza A. Hunt
1813–1896

Sources (6)

  • Samuel Hunt, "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985"
  • Samuel Hunt in entry for Ralph P. Hunt, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
  • Samuel Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"

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  • Marriage
    23 April 1807Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

    • Children (3)

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    Siblings (6)

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    World Events (8)

    1781 · The First Constitution

    Age 1

    Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

    1787 · New Jersey Plan

    Age 7

    "Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two ""houses"" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested)."

    1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

    Age 20

    While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

    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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