Person:William Hunt (40)

m. Bef 1655
  1. William Hunt1655 - 1726/27
  2. Enoch Hunt1658 - 1707
  3. Joseph Hunt1670 - 1718/19
m. 1687
  1. Mary Hunt1687 - 1716
  2. William Hunt1693 - Bef 1769
Facts and Events
Name William Hunt
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1655 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 1687 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusettsto Mary Bradford
Death[3][4] 2 Jan 1726/27 Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestral File Number 8P80-RH
References
  1. Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910)
    1:154.

    HUNT, William, s. Ephriam, [born] ---, 1655.

  2.   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)
    pp. 273, 321.

    m. Mary Bradford; William was of Chilmark; lived on Martha's Vineyard.

  3. General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    Vol. 22 (William Bradford), p. 26.

    Will of William Hunt of Chilmark dated 13 Mar 1721/22, presented 5 Apr 1727, names son William; granddaughters Mary Knowles, Rebecca Knowles and Malatiah Knowles.

  4. Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904)
    88.

    HUNT, William Sr. [h. Jane], Jan. 2, 1727, a. abt. 73. GR
    [Birth about 1653. The brackets around "h. Jane" appear to indicate a comment added by the compiler, apparently because a separate gravestone for Jane identifies her as wife of William. If this is so, it is an error, as Jane was the first wife of the son. William Sr.'s will was probated in April 1727, suggesting this date as 1726/27, and it mentions no wife.]

  5.   There is much confusion over the wives of William the father and William the son, some caused by error, some by bad assumptions. As stated elsewhere on this page, the will of the father makes no mention of a wife, and there is no reason to think the father had a second wife.

    Chamberlain, p. 321, says "William Hunt (father or son?) m. Sarah, widow of Samuel Bradford". Whittemore, p. 27, removes the question mark and states, William "married Sarah, widow of Samuel Bradford, brother of Mary, his first wife". This is wrong. Besides the obvious age differences with the father, the marriage of William Hunt the son to Sarah (Gray) Bradford occurred in 1749, long after the father had died.

    The gravestones of the Hunt family, as reported by the Chilmark VRs, p. 88, also contains errors.
    1. The age at death of Jane Hunt is reported as 56. Find A Grave appears to show a 36, and says that. A simple misreading, but enough to cause confusion over whether Jane married the father or the son, because...
    2. The death of William Hunt Sr. has "[h. Jane]" added to it, apparently an error inserted by the compiler, compounding his misreading error above.

    MF5G, Vol. 22, p. 25, thinks the father William "probably" m. (2) Hannah (Skiff) Mayhew, whose gravestone in 1747 identifies her as "w. William". However, they add that "On 3 Nov. 1729 Hannah Mayhew and William Hunt of Chilmark divided land they had bought from the heirs of Nathan Skiff." Since the father had died by this time, and Hannah's name shows she was not yet remarried, she couldn't have married the father. She probably married the son after his first wife died in 1732, and then after she died in 1747, the son married his third wife Sarah (Gray) Bradford in 1749.