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Correction: Edmund Hunt of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
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Nathan Murphy
Jul 18, 2017, 1:09:16 AM7/18/17
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Robert Anderson published a very helpful biography for Edmund Hunt in his The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 series. He concludes that Edmund Hunt of Cambridge and Duxbury, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts, United States) was born by about 1613, place unknown, he arrived in the colony in 1634, his wife's name is not identified in colonial records, and he died at Duxbury in 1656 or 1657. (Vol. 3 (2003), pp. 469-472)
Notwithstanding Anderson's excellent research, many descendants of Edmund Hunt continue to perpetuate the idea that he returned to England and married Dorcas Oxenbridge in 1641, by London marriage licence, and brought her back to the colonies. Dorcas was the daughter of Daniel Oxenbridge, M.D., through whom a royal descent can be traced. (For Daniel's ancestry, see Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013), 4:299-300.) Edmund Hunt of Duxbury's wife does not appear on royal gateway lists prepared by Douglas Richardson, Gary Boyd Roberts, or lineage societies, such as the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, or the Baronial Order of Magna Charta.
Based on the following sources, the Hunt-Oxenbridge theory and royal descent for American descendants of Edmund Hunt of Duxbury must be considered disproven.
Marriage licence:
Die pr[e]d[icti] [8 Junij 1641]
w[hi]ch day appeared p[er]sonally Edmund Hunt of the p[ar]ish of Upline in the County of Devon Clarke and a bachiller aged about 37 yeares & alleadgeth that hee intendeth to marry w[i]th Dorcas Oxenbridge of the p[ar]ish of St Bennett Sherhogg London Spinster aged about 22 yeares and w[i]th the consent of her father Daniell Oxenbridge … and desired licence to be m[ar]ried in the p[ar]ish church of St Stephens Coleman London
Signature: Edmund Hunte
[Bride misindexed Brenbridge]
Source: London Marriage Licences, Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2056/32515_1831101883_0036-00123/748481
So Edmund was born c1604 (aged about 37 in 1641).
Marriage in London parish register:
1641 Jun 10, Edmond Hunt and Dorcas Oxenbridge married the 10th of June 1641
Source: London St Stephen Coleman Street, parish registers, Ancestry
[Misindexed: Edmond Hout married Dorcas Honbridge]
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_A102237-00081/10271471
Uplyme records:
Uplime is a variant spelling of the parish of Uplyme, Devon. Pre-1684 parish registers have been lost. Bishop's transcripts survive for the following years of interest: 1669, 1672, and 1675. No Hunts were found in those years.
Education:
Edmund Hunt, son of Philip, of Newton, Devon, pleb. Exeter College, matriculated 2 December 1631, aged 17; perhaps rector of Uplyme, Devon, 1639. See Foster’s Index. Eccl.
'Horrobin-Hyte', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 748-784. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 [accessed 18 July 2017].
Occupation:
Person: Hunt, Edmund (1635-1639), CCEd Person ID: 98286
(1) Ordination: Hunte, Edmundus, 20/12/1635 at Exeter Cathedral, qualification: lit., church: chapel, clerical status: deacon
Source: Devon RO, Chanter 50 (Register)
Lit=clergyman did not possess a degree, but bishop considered him sufficiently learned to qualify for ordination
(2) Appointment: Hunt, Edmundus, MA, instituted 29/3/1639 as Rector of Uplime
Source: Devon RO, Chanter 23 (Register)
Source: Clergy of the Church of England Database, http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp
Conflicting timeline with Duxbury man:
(p. 470) ‘In the 8 February 1635/6 list of “those men who have houses in town at this present,” “Edmond Hunt” held one in the Westend’ [of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony].
(p. 469) ‘“Edmond Hunt” appears in the Duxbury section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of those who had taken the oath of fidelity.’
The Duxbury man is not known to have had any ministerial role in the colony.
Father's family:
Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, parish register transcripts
1599 Jul 28, William Hunt son of Phillip Hunt baptized
1601 Apr 04, Symon Hunte son of Phillipe Hunte baptized
1603 Jun 14, Richard Hunte son of Phillipe Hunte baptized
1605 Jul 28, Alice Hunte daughter of Phillip Hunte baptized
1607 Apr 12, Anthony Hunt son of Philip Hunt baptized
1609 Oct 28, Anne Hunte daughter of Phillip Hunte baptized
1612 Nov 19, Edmond Hunte son of Phillip Hunte baptized
Source: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, FamilySearch.
This age agrees with the Edmund Hunt from Alumni Oxonienses, who was 17 in 1631 (born 1614). It disagrees with the London marriage licence, aged 37 in 1641 (born 1604). The age in the marriage licence was perhaps a clerical error and should have stated 27 rather than 37.
No wills are listed for Edmund or Philip Hunt in the Devon Wills Index, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonWillsProject/DWP-Hoo-Hy.
Wills of possible interest:
[Doesn't survive] Oliver Hunt, Newton St Cires, 1669, Will, Exeter.
Source: Fry, E.A. (ed.) Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the court of the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799, and of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799. British Record Society Index Library Vol 35 (1908).
Will of Symon Hunt of Uplyme in the County of Devon Husbandman being weake in Body
Will dated: 28 Apr 1657
Will proved: 26 Nov 1658 by oath of Grace Jones sole executrix
40s. to poor of Uplyme
Natural sister: Agnes 5s.
No relationship stated [NRS]: John, Mary, and Martha Jones children of Grace Jones of Uplyme Widdowe £10 each; she is appointed sole executrix
NRS: Seven children of John Jones of Weare 40s. each
NRS: Two sons of Robert Jones of Lyme Regis 40s. each
NRS: Six children of Richard Lock of Sandford Peverell that he hath by Martha his now wife 40s. each
NRS: Thomas Cooke and Johane Cooke children of Thomas Cooke of Uplyme 40s. each
NRS: Johane Streate the Wife of Thomas Streate of Uplyme 5s.
NRS: John Locke the elder of Uplyme clothing
Servant
NRS: William Hooper the elder of Uplyme clothing
Overseer: Thomas Cooke of Uplyme, 5s. for his pains
Witnesses: Thomas Cook, John Cook
PCC, 627-673 Wootton (1658) f. 94
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/5111/40611_310332-00197/765621
Newton St Cyres Protestation Returns, 1641:
John Hun, John Hunt
http://www.devonheritage.org/Places/Newton%20St.%20Cyres/NewtonSt.CyresProtestationReturn1641.htm
Protestation Returns, 1641, do not survive for Uplyme.
http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/History/DevonsmissingProtestationReturns.htm
Nathan
Notwithstanding Anderson's excellent research, many descendants of Edmund Hunt continue to perpetuate the idea that he returned to England and married Dorcas Oxenbridge in 1641, by London marriage licence, and brought her back to the colonies. Dorcas was the daughter of Daniel Oxenbridge, M.D., through whom a royal descent can be traced. (For Daniel's ancestry, see Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013), 4:299-300.) Edmund Hunt of Duxbury's wife does not appear on royal gateway lists prepared by Douglas Richardson, Gary Boyd Roberts, or lineage societies, such as the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, or the Baronial Order of Magna Charta.
Based on the following sources, the Hunt-Oxenbridge theory and royal descent for American descendants of Edmund Hunt of Duxbury must be considered disproven.
Marriage licence:
Die pr[e]d[icti] [8 Junij 1641]
w[hi]ch day appeared p[er]sonally Edmund Hunt of the p[ar]ish of Upline in the County of Devon Clarke and a bachiller aged about 37 yeares & alleadgeth that hee intendeth to marry w[i]th Dorcas Oxenbridge of the p[ar]ish of St Bennett Sherhogg London Spinster aged about 22 yeares and w[i]th the consent of her father Daniell Oxenbridge … and desired licence to be m[ar]ried in the p[ar]ish church of St Stephens Coleman London
Signature: Edmund Hunte
[Bride misindexed Brenbridge]
Source: London Marriage Licences, Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2056/32515_1831101883_0036-00123/748481
So Edmund was born c1604 (aged about 37 in 1641).
Marriage in London parish register:
1641 Jun 10, Edmond Hunt and Dorcas Oxenbridge married the 10th of June 1641
Source: London St Stephen Coleman Street, parish registers, Ancestry
[Misindexed: Edmond Hout married Dorcas Honbridge]
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_A102237-00081/10271471
Uplyme records:
Uplime is a variant spelling of the parish of Uplyme, Devon. Pre-1684 parish registers have been lost. Bishop's transcripts survive for the following years of interest: 1669, 1672, and 1675. No Hunts were found in those years.
Education:
Edmund Hunt, son of Philip, of Newton, Devon, pleb. Exeter College, matriculated 2 December 1631, aged 17; perhaps rector of Uplyme, Devon, 1639. See Foster’s Index. Eccl.
'Horrobin-Hyte', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 748-784. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 [accessed 18 July 2017].
Occupation:
Person: Hunt, Edmund (1635-1639), CCEd Person ID: 98286
(1) Ordination: Hunte, Edmundus, 20/12/1635 at Exeter Cathedral, qualification: lit., church: chapel, clerical status: deacon
Source: Devon RO, Chanter 50 (Register)
Lit=clergyman did not possess a degree, but bishop considered him sufficiently learned to qualify for ordination
(2) Appointment: Hunt, Edmundus, MA, instituted 29/3/1639 as Rector of Uplime
Source: Devon RO, Chanter 23 (Register)
Source: Clergy of the Church of England Database, http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp
Conflicting timeline with Duxbury man:
(p. 470) ‘In the 8 February 1635/6 list of “those men who have houses in town at this present,” “Edmond Hunt” held one in the Westend’ [of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony].
(p. 469) ‘“Edmond Hunt” appears in the Duxbury section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of those who had taken the oath of fidelity.’
The Duxbury man is not known to have had any ministerial role in the colony.
Father's family:
Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, parish register transcripts
1599 Jul 28, William Hunt son of Phillip Hunt baptized
1601 Apr 04, Symon Hunte son of Phillipe Hunte baptized
1603 Jun 14, Richard Hunte son of Phillipe Hunte baptized
1605 Jul 28, Alice Hunte daughter of Phillip Hunte baptized
1607 Apr 12, Anthony Hunt son of Philip Hunt baptized
1609 Oct 28, Anne Hunte daughter of Phillip Hunte baptized
1612 Nov 19, Edmond Hunte son of Phillip Hunte baptized
Source: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, FamilySearch.
This age agrees with the Edmund Hunt from Alumni Oxonienses, who was 17 in 1631 (born 1614). It disagrees with the London marriage licence, aged 37 in 1641 (born 1604). The age in the marriage licence was perhaps a clerical error and should have stated 27 rather than 37.
No wills are listed for Edmund or Philip Hunt in the Devon Wills Index, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonWillsProject/DWP-Hoo-Hy.
Wills of possible interest:
[Doesn't survive] Oliver Hunt, Newton St Cires, 1669, Will, Exeter.
Source: Fry, E.A. (ed.) Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the court of the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799, and of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799. British Record Society Index Library Vol 35 (1908).
Will of Symon Hunt of Uplyme in the County of Devon Husbandman being weake in Body
Will dated: 28 Apr 1657
Will proved: 26 Nov 1658 by oath of Grace Jones sole executrix
40s. to poor of Uplyme
Natural sister: Agnes 5s.
No relationship stated [NRS]: John, Mary, and Martha Jones children of Grace Jones of Uplyme Widdowe £10 each; she is appointed sole executrix
NRS: Seven children of John Jones of Weare 40s. each
NRS: Two sons of Robert Jones of Lyme Regis 40s. each
NRS: Six children of Richard Lock of Sandford Peverell that he hath by Martha his now wife 40s. each
NRS: Thomas Cooke and Johane Cooke children of Thomas Cooke of Uplyme 40s. each
NRS: Johane Streate the Wife of Thomas Streate of Uplyme 5s.
NRS: John Locke the elder of Uplyme clothing
Servant
NRS: William Hooper the elder of Uplyme clothing
Overseer: Thomas Cooke of Uplyme, 5s. for his pains
Witnesses: Thomas Cook, John Cook
PCC, 627-673 Wootton (1658) f. 94
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/5111/40611_310332-00197/765621
Newton St Cyres Protestation Returns, 1641:
John Hun, John Hunt
http://www.devonheritage.org/Places/Newton%20St.%20Cyres/NewtonSt.CyresProtestationReturn1641.htm
Protestation Returns, 1641, do not survive for Uplyme.
http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/History/DevonsmissingProtestationReturns.htm
Nathan
Nathan Murphy
Jul 18, 2017, 9:52:46 AM7/18/17
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According to the Clergy of the Church of England Database, the next Rector of Uplyme, Thomas Ayshford, served from 1662 to 1677.
His Oxford record:
Ayshford, Thomas, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, clerk of Wadham Coll. 1647, scholar 1651, B.A. 10 July, 1651, as Ashford, one of these names vicar of Axminster 13 Feb., 1660-1, and rector of Uplyme, Devon, 1662, father of John 1682. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & Gardiner, 164. [35]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp29-50
Had Edmund Hunt Rector died by 1662, or was he removed from office?
A few other corrections to my last post:
> (p. 470) ‘In the 8 February 1635/6 list of “those men who have houses in town at this present,” “Edmond Hunt” held one in the Westend’ [of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony].
Should state Westend of Cambridge, not Duxbury
> This age agrees with the Edmund Hunt from Alumni Oxonienses, who was 17 in 1631 (born 1614). It disagrees with the London marriage licence, aged 37 in 1641 (born 1604). The age in the marriage licence was perhaps a clerical error and should have stated 27 rather than 37.
Should state roughly agrees (baptism 1612, birth 1614).
Nathan
His Oxford record:
Ayshford, Thomas, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, clerk of Wadham Coll. 1647, scholar 1651, B.A. 10 July, 1651, as Ashford, one of these names vicar of Axminster 13 Feb., 1660-1, and rector of Uplyme, Devon, 1662, father of John 1682. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & Gardiner, 164. [35]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp29-50
Had Edmund Hunt Rector died by 1662, or was he removed from office?
A few other corrections to my last post:
> (p. 470) ‘In the 8 February 1635/6 list of “those men who have houses in town at this present,” “Edmond Hunt” held one in the Westend’ [of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony].
> This age agrees with the Edmund Hunt from Alumni Oxonienses, who was 17 in 1631 (born 1614). It disagrees with the London marriage licence, aged 37 in 1641 (born 1604). The age in the marriage licence was perhaps a clerical error and should have stated 27 rather than 37.
Nathan
wjhonson
Jul 19, 2017, 3:58:40 PM7/19/17
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To your list for future investigation I would suggest looking into the Oxenbridge side. It would be fairly common to mention brothers-in-laws in will there as well
Nathan Murphy
Jul 21, 2017, 12:30:59 AM7/21/17
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On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 1:58:40 PM UTC-6, wjhonson wrote:
> To your list for future investigation I would suggest looking into the Oxenbridge side. It would be fairly common to mention brothers-in-laws in will there as well
I’m not convinced this is the same man as Edmund Hunt, Clerk, of Uplyme, Devon, but he could be.
> To your list for future investigation I would suggest looking into the Oxenbridge side. It would be fairly common to mention brothers-in-laws in will there as well
Thanks for the tip to read siblings’ wills. I’ll add that to my to-do list.
EDWARD HUNT, Clerk, of Dunchideock, Exeter, and South Molton, Devon (d. 1694)
Calamy records:
‘Dunchidiock, [R. S.] Mr. Hunt. He had a legal right to this living; for Dr. W. owns, the sequestered minister, whom he succeeded, died in 1645. When he was deprived for Nonconformity in 1662, he lived near Exeter, and afterwards removed to South-Moulton, where he died a minister of a dissenting congregation.’(1)
1645 - Became minister of Dunchideock.(1)(2)
1656 - [Edward - marked out] William Hunt ye sonne of Edward Hunt Minister of ye Gospell & of Sara his wife was Baptized on ye Lordes day ye the twenty ninthe of June 1656 in ye parish Church of Dunchidiock.(3)
1660 - Isaac Hunt, son of Edward Hunt, clerk, born at Dunchideock.(4)
1662 - Ejected from Dunchideock for nonconformity, silenced; formed his own congregation.(1)
1665 - Residing at St Thomas, near Exeter, ‘whether he hath taken any Degree he cannot learne. But is informed that he liveth peaceably.’(2)
1672 - Licenced a General Presbyterian Teacher.(2)
1672 - Edward Hunt of Exeter signed Declaration of Indulgence.(5)
1677 - Isaac Hunt, son of Edward Hunt, clerk, matriculated, Sidney College, University of Cambridge.(4)
1694 Dec 04 - Will of ‘Edward Hunt of Southmolton in the County of Devon Clerke being sick and weake of body’ written. Daughter-in-law Elizabeth Hunt; grandchild Bryant Hunt; cousin William Yeo, Clerke; son and executor William Hunt, Merchant now living in Berbados.(6)
1694 Dec 13 - Mr Edward Hunt buried at South Molton.(7)
1695 Nov 20 - Will proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.(6)
This could be Edward’s son:
William Hunt Esq., of Barbados, the son and heir of William Hunt [Edward intended?] a minister in the west of England, dated 22 Nov 1714, proved 27 Jan 1715, bequests include kinsman Bryan Hunt.(8)
Sources:
(1) E. Calamy and S. Palmer, The Nonconformist’s Memorial (1702; rev. ed., 1775), 357.
(2) A. Gordon, Freedom After Ejection: A Review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in England and Wales (1917), 289.
(3) Dunchideock, Devon, parish registers, findmypast.
(4) Alumni Cantabrigienses 1:433.
(5) F. Bate, The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672 (1908), xxiii.
(6) PCC 179 Irby (1695), folio 107.
(7) South Molton, Devon, parish registers, findmypast.
(8) J. M. Sanders, Barbados Records: Wills and Administrations, Volume III, 1701-1725 (1981), 180, Ancestry.
Nathan
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