Person:Ephraim Hunt (9)

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Colonel Ephraim Hunt
b.1650 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.26 Jun 1713 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1646
  1. Thomas Hunt1648 - 1722
  2. Colonel Ephraim Hunt1650 - 1713
  3. Capt. John HuntAbt 1654 - 1723/24
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Colonel Ephraim Hunt1650 - 1713
  • W.  Joanna Alcock1660 - 1746
m. Abt 1678
  1. John Hunt1679 - Bef 1685
  2. Rev. Samuel Hunt1681/82 - 1729/30
  3. Joanna HuntAbt 1684 - 1714/15
  4. Lt. John HuntAbt 1686 - 1761
  5. Peter Hunt1690 -
  6. William Hunt1692 -
  7. Ebenezer Hunt1694 - 1761
  8. Thomas Hunt1696 -
  9. Elizabeth HuntCal 1698 - 1782
  10. Sarah HuntAbt 1701 -
  11. Mercy HuntAbt 1704 - 1777
  12. Ephraim Hunt1707 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Colonel Ephraim Hunt
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1650 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Abt 1678 to Joanna Alcock
Death[1][3] 26 Jun 1713 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 28 Aug 1713
Estate Inventory[1] 1 Mar 1719
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 4. Capt. Ephraim3 Hunt, in Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923)
    3:313-14.

    "4. Capt. Ephraim3 Hunt (Ephraim,2 Enoch1) was born at Weymouth in 1650; died there 26 June, 1713. … He was captain in the expedition to Canada, 1690; colonel in 1706 and 1707; councillor to Gov. Joseph Dudley, 1703 to 1713.

    Ephraim Hunt's (Suffolk Probate, 21: 657) estate was represented as incapable of being divided into twelve parts according to the number of children; inventory 1 Mar. 1719. His sons John, William, Ebenezer and Thomas Hunt are to pay their brothers and sisters their shares (saving unto their mother Johanna Hunt, the widow, her right of dower). They to pay unto their brothers and sisters, namely, Samuel Hunt, eldest son (who accepts only a single share), Peter, the children and heirs of Johanna, deceased,—Elizabeth, Sarah, Mercy and Ephraim Hunt,—or their guardians, £139 5s. 5d. on or before 15 Mar. 1720. (Ibid., 21: 659.)

    Johanna Hunt, widow, John Hunt, husbandman, William Hunt, husbandman, all of Weymouth, and Thomas Hunt, anchorsmith, and Joshua Gee, shipwright, both of Boston, gave bond 28 Aug. 1713, for Johanna, John and William Hunt to administer upon estate of Ephraim Hunt, Esq., late of Weymouth.

    Joanna Hunt relinquished her right of dower in the estate to her four sons John Hunt, William Hunt, Ebenezer Hunt and Thomas Hunt, they to pay her £22 annaully and allow her the best room in the east end of her husband's mansion, 3 Mar. 1719-20.

    John Hunt, William Hunt, Ebenezer Hunt and Thomas Hunt, sons of deceased, agree to pay their brothers and sisters, namely, Samuel Hunt, eldest son (who accepts a single share), Peter, the children and heirs of Joanna,—Elizabeth, Sarah, Mercy and Ephraim Hunt,—or their guardians, £139 55. 5d., and upon the death of their mother Johanna Hunt the sum of £691 12s. 8d. (Ibid., N. S., 7: 285-288.)"

  2. ↑ Ephraim Hunt, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:500.

    "Ephraim (Hunt), Weymouth, perhaps s. of the preced. by w. Joanna, d. Thomas Holbrook the sec. of had John, b. 11 Dec. 1679; Samuel, 8 Feb. 1682; John, again, 23 Nov. 1687; Peter, 8 Mar. 1690; William, 14 Mar. 1692; Ebenezer, 6 Apr. 1694; and Thomas, 1 May 1696; was rep. 1689, 90, and 1, a Col. by this honor led on to partake in the preposterous exped. of Phips to the St. Lawrence, in command of a comp. soon after ret. was made in 1703 a couns. till d. June 1713.

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 3:637] [Vol. 2] P. 500 l. 15 for Thomas Holbrook the sec. r. John Alcock
    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 4:685] [Vol. 3] P. 500 l. 16 aft 1682, add , H. C. 1700, min. of Dartmouth, d. 1730"

  3. ↑ Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910)
    2:287.

    "Hunt, … Ephraim, Esq., [died] June 26, 1713."

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