Person:Samuel Hunt (1)

Taken from http://home.comcast.net/~heidi.quinn/all_warrenline.htm b.1633 Eng d.1695 Ipswich MA According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "Good Wives", on the struggle to maintain status, "When Daniel Denison ordered the troops to clear brush on the militia field on training day, Samuel Hunt led a small rebellion, insisting that the Major-General had no right to demand such common labor. He picked a fight with another gentleman, Samuel Appleton, over the ownership of a horse. In the court actions which resulted, a rumor surfaced that Nathaniel Browne had boasted he would soon down Appleton because he worked for Hunt, who "kept them like lords for they wanted neither for meat nor drink." Similar pride was evident a few years later when Hunt, negotiating the marriage of his daughter, boasted that he would give her "as good a portion as any man in Ipswich should give any of their daughters Except four or five.""

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe: Exhibiting Pedigrees of ten thousand Persons: Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings: Enriched with Indices of Names and Places. (Boston, Mass.: John Wilson and Son, 1862-3)
   p. 82.