Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Hunt was born in 1755, in Lawrenceville, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, his father, Lieut Richard Hunt, was 32 and his mother, Mercy Hull, was 21. He married Field in 1780, in Lawrenceville, Mercer, New Jersey, United States. He died from 1814 to 1819.
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Spouse and Children
1755–1819 Male
1759– Female
Parents and Siblings
1723–1819 Male
1734–1777 Female
Siblings (11)
1755–1819 Male
1757–1777 Female
1761–1829 Male
1762–1850 Male
1763–1827 Female
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1775
Age 20
1776
Age 21
1788 · The First Presidential Election
Age 33
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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