| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
Thomas Hunt Margaret Webster Clemence Hosmer September 3, 1662 Northhampton, Massachusetts Malster and cooper |
| Children: | Thomas | June 23, 1663 | † May 8, 1746 |
| Jonathan | 1664 | † 1664 | |
| Jonathan | Jan. 20, 1665 | † July 1, 1738 | |
| John | Dec. 22, 1667 | † Apr. 12, 1712 | |
| Hannah | Jan. 7, 1669 | † May 8, 1711 | |
| Clemence | Jan. 8, 1671 | † July 8, 1689 | |
| Ebenezer | May 3, 1673 | † 1675 | |
| Ebenezer | Feb. 6, 1675 | † Feb. 23, 1743 | |
| Mary | May 24, 1679 | † Nov. 12, 1767 | |
| Sarah | July 20, 1682 | † 1752 | |
| Samuel | Sept. 15, 1684 | † Feb. 1770 |
| Notes: | Jonathan Hunt was a malster and a cooper. He came to Northampton from Connecticut in 1659 or 1660 when he was a young man of 22 or 23. |
It was a very new settlement, and a
cooper was a very welcome acquisition to the community.
At that time some of the new settlers were paying as much
as 10 shillings for their homes. But young Hunt and
Medad Pomeroy, a blacksmith, had their land especially
granted to them by the town as an inducement to them to
ply their trades in Northampton. The record reads:
"At a legal towne meeting, 8.2.mo. 1681, it was then voted and granted to Modad Pumry and Jonathan Hunt that they should either of them have 16 acres of land, either of them 8 acres by the Hill Rive -- it is granted to them on the condition that they shall inhabit in this towne and possess it in ther owne persons for foure yearss from the day of the date afouresaid, and doe the worke that belong to ther trades, that is to say to supply the townes need of smithery and coopery ware."In order that their shares might be as nearly equal as possible, provision was made to make up in quantity what any portion of the land granted them might lack in quality. Jonathan's home lot was at the northwest corner of Elm and Prospect Streets. It extended 16 rods on Elm Street and 40 rods on Prospect. It embraced the property now owned (in 1898) by Drs. Seymour and Davenport, A. McCallum, and a portion of the Capen School lot. His house was very near that now owned by A. McCallum. At the first court session to be recorded in Northampton, on March 26th, 1661, Jonathan Hunt took the Oath of Fidelity, or the Freeman's Oath. He was chosen a selectman in 1665, and in 1667 he was appointed to be one of the tithing men. In 1684 Jonathan Hunt was granted permission to "set up a moult house in the highway, by the south end of Samuel Smith's hose lot nere the line betwne s'd Smiths Lot and William Clarks lot." This malt house was located nearly in front of what was in 1898 the Burnham house. In 1685 the boundry line between the towns of Northampton and Springfield had to be reestablished, and Jonathan Hunt was one of the committee to meet with the men from Springfield and settle the matter. A year later he was appointed one of the committee to consider the location of the ferry between Northampton and Hadley. In 1680 he was appointed fourth deacon of the church and continued in that office until his death eleven years later. In 1689 an epidemic of sickness broke out in the Connecticut Valley and raged for several years. Deacon Jonathan Hunt was one of the victims of the year 1691. He was 54 years old then and had just been chosen a deputy of the General Court. He is buried in the Bridge Street Cemetery, and his headstone reads: "Deacon Jonathan Hunt aged 54 years,Beside him is the grave of Thomas Hosmer, his father-in-law. |
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