Person:David Hunter (1)

Capt. David Hunter

• William M. Clemens. Hunter Family Records: An Account of the First American Settlers and Colonial Families of the Name Hunter, and Other Genealogcial and Historical Data, Mosly New and Original Material, Including Early Wills and Marriages of Heretofore Unpublished. (New York: William M. Clemens, 1914), Page 4, 5.^S2

Andrew Hunter, of County Londonderry, Ireland, was born in 1640, and it was the family tradition that his birthplace was the ancestral home of the Hunters of Hunterston in Scotland.

His son, Hugh, married Isabella Semple, and their son was David Hunter.^S2

David Hunter, lived in York county, Pennsylvania. He married Martha Mcllhenny in 1745. He was a captain of a York county Company in the French and Indian War, and a member of the expedition against Fort Duquesne. Capt. Hunter mysteriously disappeared in the summer of 1776, and his family never saw or heard from him again. His fate was not known until nearly a century afterward, when, on the destruction of an old house in the Valley of Virginia by Union soldiers, a paper was discovered concerning him.^S2

It was given to his great-grandson, Captain David Hunter Strother, and was found to be a writ of habeas corpus, issued in the Name of King George III Rex, by Authority of the Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, driecting the sheriff of Berkely County, Virginia [ie. Berkeley County, West Virginia] to bring the body of David Hunter to the captiol at Williamsburg, Virginia. Captain Hunter was a patriot, and Lord Dunmore, last of the English Governors of Virginia, was notorious for his cruelties and injustice to the colonists.^S2

Captain David Hunter bore the arms of the family of Calderwood, Scotland [ie. Calderwood, East Kilbride],^S2

Shield: "Vert, three dogs of the chase courant argent collared or; on a chief of the second as many hunting horns of the first, stringed gules.^S2

Crest: A greyhound sejant argent collared or^S2

Motto: Cursum perficio. [Latin]; I have completed the course.^S2

The descendants of this line of the family are distinguished in the annals of Virginia, and allied with the Washington, Dandridge, Spottswood, and many other historic families.^S2

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm). (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.).

   Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc.

2.   William M. Clemens. Hunter Family Records: An Account of the First American Settlers and Colonial Families of the Name Hunter, and Other Genealogcial and Historical Data, Mosly New and Original Material, Including Early Wills and Marriages of Heretofore Unpublished. (New York: William M. Clemens, 1914)
   Pages 4, 5.
3.   Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and allied families. (New York: Frank Allaben, c1911)
   Vol. 2, Pages 131 to 157.