Twelfth Generation

3360. Ralph HUNT^409,448 was born about 1613 in London, England.⁴⁴⁸ He died on 26 February 1676 at the age of 63 in Newtown, Long Island, NY. Arrived in NY about 1652. From: Colonial Dames, P. 221: "Ralph Hunt, Newtown, Long Island, Lieutenant under Gov. Nichols in 1655". Will recorded at Hall of Records in New York. Will admitted to probate Feb. 26, 1676/7. Wyman states he came to America in 1656 and helped found settlement at Newton, Long Island. Mitchell Hunt's Evaluation of the Furman Manuscript (Cook's) is probably the most authoritative source on this line (See pg. 11/12) His date of entry (1652) is disputed."His Will was probated 12 Jan. 1776/7, of which the oldest son, Edward, was the only son "of age" and made executor of the Will. The sons Ralph and Samuel were among the early settlers of Maidenhead (Lawrence) NJ. Children of Edward were also early settlers of Hopewell, NJ, next to Maidenhead; and four sons of John also settled along Stony Brook in Hopewell, NJ. John was a magistrate on Long Island and had a wife Joanna, last name not known, but a speculation that it might have been Wilson and the source of the name Wilson given to the eldest son of her son John of Hopewell and a name which appears frequently thereafter in the descendants of John and Margaret (Moore) Hunt of Hopewell, the parents of Col. Jonathan Hunt who also named a son Wilson." (Mitchell Hunt)
The book "Hunt Family on the American Frontier" has him coming to America in 1635, which seems more correct. "He seems to have been quite a leader among his neighbors. He, with several other Englishmen, secured a grant of land from the Dutch and removed to Long Island in 1852. He was one of seven men appointed to conduct the affairs of the town of Newtown, L. I. for the next year.
He was one of the outspoken opponents to the rule of the Dutch Governor, Stuyvesant. Ralph Hunt and six others were among the first to be given Land Grants on Long Island, by the new English Governor, Nichols. This confirmed the title to the land where they had already established the town of Newton, now called Elmhurst. The first Presbyterian Church on Long Island was erected upon a 'gere' of land donated by Ralph Hunt. It stood at what is now the corner of Main Street and Jamaica Road. He seems to have been quite a leading figure in the new colony. Not only was he a magistrate under Dutch rule, but was also Lieut.(?) to the English Governor, Nichols, and a member of the Assembly of the Province in 1675. He held numerous titles and offices.
During the period of contention between the Dutch and the English he made many contacts with the Connecticut Colony as this was also English.
He was one of the first surveyors appointed to lay out the different claims on Long Island."
G8 grandfather of Dan Rather
G9 grandfather of Tommy Lee Jones
G10 grandfather of Dolly Parton
G9 grandfather of Larry Steven Clapp

3361. Elizabeth Ann JESSUP was born in 1628. She died in 1665 at the age of 37.

Children were:

	i.	Anna HUNT was born about 1650. She died in 1681 at the age of 31.
	ii.	Edward HUNT was born in 1652. He died on 15 February 1715 at the age of 63 in Newtown, Long Island, NY.
	iii.	Mary HUNT was born in 1654. She died in 1735 at the age of 81.
	iv.	Ralph HUNT Jr. was born in 1656. He died in 1733 at the age of 77.
1680	v.	John HUNT.
	vi.	Samuel HUNT Sr. was born in 1660 in Newtown, Long Island, NY. He died in 1720 at the age of 60 in NJ. Source had Maidenhead, NJ but that place does not exist.