Brief Life History of Oliver
When Oliver Hunt was born on 8 June 1782, in Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Henry Hunt, was 32 and his mother, Rhoda Tidcomb, was 26. He married Anna Gilman on 12 August 1804, in Belmont, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 24 August 1857, in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Oliver Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
- Oliver Hunt, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Unknown, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
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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