Person:William Hunt (71)

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William Hunt was a famour Quaker minister, eventually settling in Guilfo rd Co., NC. For about a year he and his nephew, Thomas Thornbrough, trave led as Quaker emissaries in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Ireland and Holland. T hey met with John Woolman, "the Journalist" in London in June 1772. Willi am died of smallpox at New Castle-upon-Tyne, England. .............................................

Source of all children: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume I, North Carolina.

1752, 11, 4. Cane Creek MM - William received on certificate from Hopewell MM, Va., dated 1752, 6, 1.

The following is an extract of a letter written by William Wade Hinshaw to his cousin, Mr. Winford C. Hinshaw of Pleasant Garden, N.C. on July 5, 1941:

One of my ancestors in North Carolina was William Hunt, the great Quaker minister, who died in England while on a religious visit there in 1772 and he was the father of Margaret Hunt who married William Hinshaw at Deep River Meeting in 1782. He was also the father of Nathan Hunt who established the Quaker school which later became Guilford College, North Carolina. William and Margaret (Hunt) Hinshaw were my great grandparents. William Hunt (above) was the son of William Hunt and wife, Mary Woolman, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Borton) Woolman. She was an aunt of the John Woolman, the great Quaker minister whose Journal is published in Harvard Classics. This John Woolman and the above William Hunt were first cousins; both died of small pox in England in 1772. I personally wrote the inscription which was put on the memorial stone to William Hunt a few years ago through the efforts of Milly Pearl Idol of High Point, North Carolina who secured the money to erect this statue through subscriptions from various descendants.

Therefore, this makes William Wade Hinshaw our cousin.

According to Vena Willson he was a Quaker minister and spend his mature years in North Carolina near New Garden meetings. He began the ministry at 20 years. His first missionary travels were to Virginia and the Carolinas. In 1761-67 and 68 he traveled the New England states. In 1771 he visited England and the continent in the same service. While in England in 1772 he contracteed small pox and died at New Castle on the Tyne 9 Sept 1772. Buried at Friends burying grounds.

Decendants of John & Elizabeth (Borton) Woolman, Married 1684, of Burlington County, New Jersey, Published by John Woolman Memorial Association, 1991, says the following about William Hunt:

"This William Hunt was active in the Friends' ministry. The manuscript copy of his journal is on deposit at Haverford College, Haverford, PA. It was said that he had preached in nearly every Friends' meeting in America. He died of smallpox in England, while on a preaching mission, shortly before his cousin, John Woolman, the Journalist, died of the same disease, in England.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 World Family Tree Pedigree 3040, Vol. 9.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Research and Personal Knowledge of Michael Monroe, mmonroe@@qualcomm.com.