Hunt, Thomas

Notes:

From SAR Application for Charles Wayne Hunt:
"Thomas Hunt was born, we think somewhere in Dutchess County, New York, on July 27, 1746. Hamilton Child's Gazetteer of Saratoga County, New York, published about 1849, when Thomas Hunt's youngest son Ephraim was still living on the home farm states that he was a pioneer "from Dutchess County". His war service is fully set forth in Pension Application No. W18083, Archives Building, Washington, D.C. He received Bounty Land Warrrant No. 987 on July 18, 1791. He died at Stillwater on Dec. 25, 1818. Thirty years after his death, his widow Jerusha filed application for pension, two years before she died. This was granted Aug. 9, 1849, at $416.66 per year, a good sum, retroactive to March 4, 1831. With this moey the family bought the fee title to the farm, all titled prior thereto in that neighborhood being lease holds under N.. Law. Parts of the Thomas Hunt Family Bible are filed with the Pension Application. Enlisting first as a Sergeant in the 4th New York Continental Line, in 1775, he was promoted and commissioned Ensign in 1775, Second Lieutenant in 1776, First Lieutenant on Nov. 9, 1777, thirty days after the second battle of Bemis Heights (Saratoga), in all of which campaigns he participated and knew the terrain as if he owned it. Gates' Headquarters at the second battle was in his father-in-law's weaving house, the Ephraim Woodworth farm. The latter was in the battles as captain of the local militia company, the 4th N.Y. of 13th Regiment. On Jan. 1, 1781 the 5 New York Continental Line Regiments were consolidated into 2, and Thomas Hunt and his commander, Colonel Frederick Weissenfels of Rye, N.Y. were supernumerary. But they then as company captain and as a commanding Colonel, joined New York State troops (Levies) formed to clean up the western Indians. They were both served as such to 1784.

Thomas married Woodworth, Jerusha on 19 Feb 1773 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY. Jerusha (daughter of Woodworth, Ephraim and Moore, Anna) was born on 17 Apr 1758 in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT; died on 07 Apr 1849 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Scidmore, Wealthy Peachey in 1800 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY. Wealthy was born in 1780 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY; died in 1866 in Lewis Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]