From: veda <vgw@nr.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:01:29 -0700
Subject: Uriah Hunt

Below is a copy of a letter that has been in my family for several 
generations.  It may contain no new information; however it is authentic so 
am re-copying it for what its worth. Hettie Hunt died 8 February 1862.   

Veda Whittlesey
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This document of the work is the result of such correspondence as has been 
forwarded.  The earliest, No.40, April 16, 1861, from Miss Hetty Hunt of 
Princeton, forms the basis of authority from which we proceed.  The 
excellent writer passed from earth to the immortal state last February, 
accepting with joy the promised rest with the Saviour in heaven.

The cherished letter that we first get makes known that JOHN HUNT emigrated 
from Devonshire, Eng., to New York; then settled in New Jersey.  He married
an aunt of the first Bishop Moor.  The tables of pedigree duly show the 
process of the generations forward.  The coat of arms is extant; and a copy,
nicely made, was enclosed to us.  The figure of a mastiff chained surmounts 
the shield, which has three mastiffs' heads.  A more close description we 
may yet give.  The motto is, "Faithful to the end," - worth fields of 
emblazoment.

This line of family, it will be seen, has spread to Alabama, Kentucky, and 
North Carolina: some to Huntsville, Mo.


Philadelphia, 11 mo., 29, 1862

Respected Friend, - Thy favor in relation to the Hunt Family is at hand.  My
great-grand-father, William Hunt, was from Scotland; had, I believe, four 
sons and two daughters who emigrated from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to 
North Carolina.  My grandfather, William Hunt, was a much valued minister, 
as also his son Nathan Hunt, in the religious society of Friends.  The 
descendants are numerous, scattered over Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa.  None of 
them that I know of remarkably distinquished; but all I have seen were more,
I think, than average for their intelligence, and good-looking men and women.
The males far exceeded the femailes: hence the large increase of the name to
many hundred from the one pair.  About one hundred and twenty-five years 
since their emigration to North Carolina.

Very truly thy friend, 
URIAH HUNT