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  Earliest Hunt Families #2.

 John Hunt, 1607, the map maker of the Popham Beach, ME settlement in
1607. Little is known of this short-lived settlement on the coast of
Maine which lasted less than a year. One John Hunt is listed as the
drafter of the only map showing the layout of the settlement, by which
it was assumed  that John Hunt must have been among the party which
attempted to establish a settlement there. The map is called the Spanish
Map because it was found in the archives in Spain where it was brought
by a Spanish ship which presumably captured and English ship bearing the
map, either going to or coming from the Popham Colony. Nothing has been
learned of this John Hunt. From Mitchell Hunt's, "The Hunts of
Vermont"preface. The next note #3 will cover Capt. Thomas Hunt, 1614,
captain of one of the ships led by John Smith(Pocahontas fame).