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ENOCH HUNT (d. by 1647)
DOROTHY UNKNOWN (d. 1652)
Enoch Hunt died by 1647 in England. [1, 312][2] He married second Dorothy (___) Barker in about 1639 in Weymouth. [2] He married an unknown first wife in England. [1, 312] He married second the widow Dorothy Barker about 1639 in Dorchester. [1, 312]
Dorothy Unknown died between 14 June and 21 October 1652. She married third John King of Weymouth. [1, 312][2] He was born about 1600, based on a deposition that he was about 57 on 24 June 1657. [3] He died after 14 June 1652.
John King was the master of a fishing boat in 1640. [3]
Enoch probably came to New England as early as 1639. [1, 312]
Administration on Enoch's estate was granted his son Ephraim on 18 November 1652. [4]
Enoch came from the parish of Lee in Buckinghamshire. On 2 July 1688 Jonas Humphrey and Robert Randall, both of Weymouth, deposed that they had lived in Wendover [in Buckinghamshire] and had known Enoch Hunt, blacksmith of Titenden in the parish of Lee, about two miles away, and his eldest son Ephraim Hunt. They said that Enoch and Ephraim came to New England. Enoch had returned to England but Ephraim settled in Weymouth, married there and had children. He had lived there until his death about 16 months before. [1, 312][5]
Dorothy, the wife of John King, made her will on 14 June 1652; her witnesses took oath on 21 October 1652; her will was proved on 21 October 1652. She left bequests to her daughters Sarah Hunt, Ruth Barker, and Susanna Heath. She said her debts were to be paid out of her estate; her husband John King was to be held harmless. The residual was to go to her son Joseph Barker, including any right in her servant Thomas Perricone. She named him her executor. She said if Ephraim Hunt successfully sued Joseph as executor, the whole estate should be liable. [4]
Children of Dorothy ___ and ___ Barker:
i. Joseph Barker was named in his mother's will.
ii. Ruth Barker was named in her mother's will.
iii. Susanna Barker married Peleg Heath. [6] Peleg, the son of William and Mary (Crampthorne) Heath, was baptized on 30 January 16124/5 in Nazing, co. Essex. [6] He died from a wound in the knee and was buried on 18 November 1671 . [6]
Children of Enoch Hunt and his first wife:
i. Ephraim Hunt was born about 1610, probably in Lee, Buckinghamshire. [1, 312] He died on 22 February 1686/7 in Weymouth. [1, 313] He was buried on 24 February 1687 in the Old North Cemetery. [1, 313] He married first Anne Richards about 1645. [1, 313] She died about 1645. [1, 313] He married second Ebbett Brimsmead. [1, 313] Ebbett, the daughter of William Brimsmead, died on 9 September 1712 in Milton. [1, 313]
Ephraim Hunt, blacksmith, appointed Thomas Richards, his attorney, to take possession of land in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, previously in possession of John Hunt of Winchmore Hill in Amersham. [1, 313]
ii. Peter Hunt married Elizabeth Smith in 1646. [1, 312]
Children of Enoch and Dorothy Hunt:
iii. Sarah Hunt was born on 4 July 1640 in Weymouth. She died on 3 August 1729. She married Matthew Pratt.
Endnotes:
1. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Weymouth, Mass., vol. 3 (Weymouth: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923).
2. Robert Charles Anderson, "Ancestry of President Calvin Coolidge," The American Genealogist 53 (1977): 65–74, 160–167.
3. Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998), 275.
4. "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (1851): 239.
5. W.B. Trask, "Humphrey, Randall and Hunt," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 8 (1854): 357.
6 Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, vols. 1–3 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), 2: 254–5.
Last revised: 11-Dec-2023