Joshua Hunt, Esq.

1683 - 1762  (~ 79 years)

• Name	Joshua Hunt  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Suffix	Esq.
  Birth	Abt. 1683	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Joshua Hunt Sr.  [1, 2, 4, 6]
  Also Known As	Joshua Hunt the Elder  [4]
  Residence	1698	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [8]
  Residence	6 Jun 1752	Throggs Neck, Westchester, New York, USA   [4]
  Occupation	27 Jul 1754  [4]
  	yeoman
  Residence	27 Jul 1754	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [4]
  Residence	24 Jul 1760	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 2, 6]
  Will	24 Jul 1760	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 2, 6]
  Death	Bef. 25 Mar 1762	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
  Probate	25 Mar 1762	White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 3, 6]
  	Surrogate's Court
  Title	Esquire  [4]
  Person ID	I783	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	John Hunt,   b. Abt. 1648, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Bef. 16 Jan 1711, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Grace Fowler,   b. Abt. 1650, Providence, Rhode Island, USA d. Bef. 8 Dec 1724, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt. 1681	Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Oakley,   b. Abt. 1692, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bef. 5 Jul 1762, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 70 years)
  Children	+ 1. Capt. John Hunt,   b. Abt. 1708, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA + 2. Caleb Hunt,   b. Abt. 1710, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bef. 12 Dec 1769, Eastchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 59 years)   3. Joshua Hunt, Jr.,   b. Abt. 1712, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   4. Israel Hunt,   b. Abt. 1714, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   5. Miriam Hunt,   b. Abt. 1716, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   6. Mary Hunt,   b. Abt. 1718, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   7. Enoch Hunt,   b. Abt. 1720, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   8. Elizabeth Hunt,   b. Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Joshua Hunt the Elder of Throgs Neck in Westchester, and Joshua Hunt the Younger, son of sd. Joshua Hunt, Senr., of the same place, yeoman; land on Throg's Neck; June 6, 1752. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922. Joshua Hunt, Senr., of Westchester, Esq., and Mercy his wife, to Joshua Hunt Junr., of the same place, yeoman, land on Throg's Neck; July 27, 1754. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922. In the name of God, Amen. I, JOSHUA HUNT, SR., of the Borroughtown of Westchester, being indisposed in body. I leave to my grandson, Joshua Hunt, son of John Hunt, 10 shillings. To my son, Caleb Hunt, £5, To my son Joshua £5, To my son Israel £3, To my daughter, Miriam Oakley, £5, To my daughter, Mary Hunt, £20. I leave to my wife, Mercy Hunt, £100, and a bed and furniture in full bar to all claim for dowry. I leave to my son, Enos Hunt, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts and legacies, and I make him and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated July 24, 1760. Witnesses, Philip Palmer, William Doty, Miles Oakley. Proved, March 20, 1762. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.

  
  

• Sources

  [S126] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766, (New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1898). [S289] Will of Joshua Hunt Sr., 24 Jul 1760, Westchester, Westchester County, New York. [S290] Probate of the will of Joshua Hunt, 25 Mar 1762, Surrogate's Court, White Plains, Westchester County, New York. [S10] John Reynolds Totten, ed., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922). [S349] Thomas Bellows Wyman, Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe, Exhibiting Pedigrees of Ten Thousand Persons, Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings, Enriched with Indices of Names and Places, (Boston, MA: John Wilson and Sons, 1863). [S21] Ancestry.com, New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 [database on-line]., (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015). [S388] Will of Grace Hunt, 26 May 1722, Westchester, Westchester County, New York. [S391] Frances Baxter, The Baxter Family: Descendants of George and Thomas Baxter of Westchester County, New York, as well as Some West Virginia and South Carolina Lines, (New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1913).