Person:Isaac Hunt (22)

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Rev. Isaac Hunt, Esq.
b.1751 Barbados, West Indies
d.1809 London, England
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  1. Rev. Isaac Hunt, Esq.1751 - 1809
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  1. James Henry Leigh Hunt1784 - 1859
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Name[1] Rev. Isaac Hunt, Esq.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1751 Barbados, West Indies
Marriage to Mary Shewell
Death[1] 1809 London, England
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 MATRICULATES. 1763., in University of Pennsylvania, Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College: Together with Lists of the Members of the College Faculty and the Trustees, Officers and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1749-1893. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1894)
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    + ISAAC HUNT, A. M., 1771 (and Columbia Coll., gratis causa, 1773).
    b. Barbadoes, W. I., 1751  ;
    d. London, Eng., 1S09.
    s. Rev. Isaac Hunt and .
    Entered May 9, 1760. Valedictorian.
    Tutor, 1763.
    Lawyer.
    Being an aggressive loyalist he was imprisoned in Phila., 1776, but escaped to Eng.  ; was ordained to the ministry (Ch. of Eng.) and became tutor to the Hon. Mr. Leigh, nephew of the Duke of Chandos.
    Some years before his death he became a Unitarian.
    He was the father of Leigh Hunt the poet.
    Author number of political and religious essays.
    m. Mary, dau. Stephen Shewell, Phila.
    See Autobiog. Leigh Hunt. Appleton. Autumn Leaves by Gen. Theo. F. Rodenbough, U.S.A.

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