... Ruth Hall married secondly the Rev. James Hunt. The date of this marriage is not known. He kept a school in Montgomery County, Maryland, at his place called "Tusculum." Hunt was a graduate of Princeton and was a Presbyterian clergyman, having charge of a church near Rockville from 1761 to the time of his death June 2, 1793. William Wirt, the Attorney General of the United States, attended Hunt's school from 1783 to 1787 and has left an interesting picture of him in his diary (see Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, by John P. Kennedy, i860; also Wirt's Letters of the British Spy, 10th edition, 1832 — biographical sketch). He states that Hunt was a man of cultivated mind, liberal study and philosophic temper and that he was kindly indulgent and sympathetic. He had a good library. Wirt adds that Hunt "in his suit of black velvet was quite a stately and graceful person." His will, dated Dec. 19, 1785, was proved Dec. 28/95. ...
