Family talk:John Hunt and Martha Neighbors (2)

Wrong husband? [18 July 2010]

I detached Person:John Hunt (34) from this family page because I do not think he is the right John Hunt. The indenture that I added as a source describes John Hunt as of Boston and a butcher, which as far as I known, does not match John Hunt of Weymouth (I am assuming Capt. John Hunt was a mariner). In fact, there is no sign that Martha is from Weymouth at all as her page said, her father living in Boston and Long Island according to Savage, suggesting some of this research was guided by assumptions.

As no sources were given, I was left to find them myself and found none, except a brief mention in Savage that says John was son of the first Ephraim, but did not mention a wife Ruth Quincy, nor of course, why Savage makes this connection. Some websites choose to reconcile this by giving John Hunt two wives, first Martha Neighbors, second, Ruth Quincy. However, this raises questions, namely when did wife Martha die? There are sons named John in both marriages? What happened to daughter Martha who is not mentioned in the will of John Hung of Weymouth? In summary, it is far from clear that these two John Hunts are the same person.

Specifically, Torrey's Marriages lists the John Hunt who married Martha Neighbors as a separate person than the John Hunt who m. Ruth Quincy. Source:Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt : Early Established in America from Europe : Exhibiting Pedigrees of Ten Thousand, p. 346, lists the John Hunt who married Martha Neighbors in the miscellaneous branches section (the other is p. 285, in the Weymouth branch). Importantly, he provides information on the son John of John & Martha, whose estate in 1708 was split between two "sisters of John Hunt, butcher, formerly of Boston, father of the deceased", these sisters living in England, making it fairly sure that this John was not of the Weymouth family. --Jrich 00:18, 19 July 2010 (EDT)