Ancestors March 31 2017

Times were tough and the ones who settled our country and fought for our country were the strongest and the best of men and women of their times.

4^th Great Grandfather  William Byrd Rowdy Richardson  Born   21 Aug 1764  Montgomery, Virginia, USA

William Richardson, the subject of this sketch, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1765.  His boyhood was passed during the exciting times of Indian wars and the American Revolution.  At the age of seventeen he served as scout and soldier in the Indian border wars of western Virginia and Pennsylvania.  Later, he served two years on the skirmish line in the Revolutionary War.  He was a cousin of General Anthony Wayne, their mothers having been Mattie and Nancy Hiddens.  He has the reputation of having been married seven times.  His first wife was a Miss Mary Adney, whom he married in 1784 (sic?), and who died in 1811.  In 1812 he entered Harrison's army and served during the war, with the exception of two or three months.  In 1815 he married Catharine Millhouse, a sister of Barbara Dillbone, who, with her husband, had been murdered by three Shawnee Indians.  Richardson avenged the death of Mr. and Mrs. Dillborne by shooting the three murderers.  Two of the Indians were killed near Piqua in Miami county - the third paying the death penalty on the Auglaize River two miles north of Buckland in Auglaize county.  Richardson was a man of powerful physique and of great endurance.  The indulgence of his appetite led to many quarrels and fights.  It is said of him that "he would rather fight than eat."  Owing to his pugilistic proclivities, he was called "Rowdy Richardson."  During the last twenty years of his life he resided at Hamar, Paulding County, Ohio.  He died in that village at the advanced age of one hundred and nine years from injuries received in breaking a colt on his son Oliver’ farm. He was planning on going to town on the new colt to buy some liquor.  He died three days after being thrown of a fractured skull.

He was first cousin to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne.  I have his picture and picture of his grave stone.

6^th Great Grandfather   Captain Nathaniel Fitch  Born Oct 1679   Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA   Died  04 May 1759  Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA

Son of Reverend James Fitch and Priscilla Fitch Husband of Anne Fitch (Abell) and Mindwell Fitch Father of Anna Partridge; Joshua Fitch; Latham Fitch; Nehemiah Fitch; Capt. James Fitch and 10 others; John Fitch; Captain Nathan Fitch; Mehitable Whitley; Elizabeth Bissell; Rachel Fitch; Abel Fitch; Caleb Fitch; Jabez Fitch; Ezekiel Fitch and Isaac Fitch « less Brother of Capt. Daniel Fitch; Capt. John Fitch; Capt. Jeremiah Fitch; Rev. Jabez Fitch; Anne Bradford and 2 others; Joseph Fitch and Eleazer Fitch « less Half brother of Maj. James Fitch, Esq.; Abigail Buttolph; Elizabeth Taylor; Hannah Fitch; Samuel A Fitch and 1 other; and Dorothy Fitch « less

Occupation:

Captain, Military

Dr. Charles Craycraft,  Major in Continental Army Born 1746  Harpers Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA,  one of the sons of Joseph Craycraft, located on Ten Mile creek, Washington county Pennsyvania before the Revolutionary War.
He married Miss Ellen Atkinson, daughter of George Atkinson, who then lived in what was called Atkinson's Fort, or Blockhouse, on Ten mile creek, two miles south of Dickinson's fort or blockhouse.The Atkinson's, Craycraft's, Dickinson's, Sheridan's, Lucas' and a few other families constituted a little colony about equal distance between the forts where Sheridan's was killed and scalped by Indians who were pursued to the forks of the creek now called Elm Grove, Ohio County, West Virginia, where the trail was lost .
Colonel Stokely, whose son Samuel was congressman from Steubenville, and Colonel Laughridge were going to reinforce St. Clair on the Miami. Laughridge encamped, waiting for Stokely and his troops, were surprised by Indians and he with many of his men were massacred. The next day Colonel Stokely arrived, and not knowing of Laughridges defeat, was surprised and also defeated. He and Dr. Charles Craycraft were taken prisoners and carried to Detroit, thence to Montreal and Quebec and given over to the British. After an absence of twenty-two months, they returned home to their families in Washington County, Pennsyvania where they lived and died about the same time in 1824 within six miles of each other.
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"Charles Cracroft, MD owned land in this township as early as 1785. In that year his land is mentioned as adjoining land of George Atkinson. He had three sons, Joseph, Charles, and William. Joseph settled in Buffalo township, where he built a mill on Buffalo Creek that was known many years as Cracroft's mill. William settled on the old homestead, where he lived and died, and left a numerous family. Three of the sons became physicians. Archibald, a son, now owns the Cracroft farm."
*Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882).
Transcribed by Janet Uber of Belleville, IL in September 1998. Published in October 1998 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com.
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East Finley Twp. (pp. 774-781)
History of Washington County, Pennsylvania*
Charles Cracraft was of Irish extraction, and originally a resident of Virginia. In 1781 he was the owner of a farm located on the waters of Ten-Mile Creek, and Feb. 11, 1792, he purchased the tract of land called "Content" of William Atchison, located in the vicinity of his other property. Charles Cracraft married Miss Atchison, and their children were three sons, ---Joseph, Charles, and William. Joseph married and removed to "Owl Creek;" Charles went to Virginia, where he was a miller, and married there; William married Miss Lackey, living and dying upon the old farm, which is now owned by his son Archibald. Charles Cracraft, Sr., becoming a widower, married the widow Ruple, but they had no children.
Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882).
Transcribed by Gina Nestor of Canonsburg, PA in March 1998. Published in March 1998 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com.
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After his first marriage, Mr. Rodgers continued on the home farm, engaged in general agriculture and stock raising, until 1870, when he removed to the old Cracraft farm, situated near Dunsfort, in Donegal township, on Buffalo creek, where he has since resided, now several years retired, the farm being operated by others. This property he had purchased some years before. In his political affiliations Mr. Rodgers is a stanch Republican, formerly a Whig, and has held numerous township offices pressed upon him by appreciative friends. In religious sentiment he is a member of and liberal contributor toward the Dutch Fork Disciple Church.
Text taken from page 754 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).
Transcribed April 1997 by Jack McNatt of Valrico, FL as part of the Beers Project.
Published April 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.
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JAMES STEVENSON ANDERSON was born in the year 1820, in Hopewell township, Washington Co., Penn. He received his early education in the subscription schools of the neighborhood. He came with his parents to Donegal township, where he assisted with the farm work. In 1847 he made a trip through the western States. He was married in 1856, to Mary E., daughter of John and Mary (Milligan) Miller, of Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio. John Miller was the son of John and Mary (Reed) Miller, the former of whom ....
In 1860 J. S. Anderson was chosen to succeed Capt. Cracraft as captain of the Claysville Blues, a company of Pennsylvania volunteers. Capt. Anderson was a commissioned officer in the Pennsylvania Militia for twenty-two years.
Text taken from page 1043 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).
Transcribed January 1997 by Dawn Marie Madsen of Boise, ID as part of the Beers Project.
Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.
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>CRACRAFT, Charles b. Md. 1746/8 d. PA 1824    Ensign PA Militia.
>    m. Ellen Atkinson - son William m. Sarah SAXE
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6^th Great Grandfather  William Alexander Craig The Covenanter  Born 1685  Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  Died 26 Nov 1759  Augusta, Virginia, USA  I have his picture. 

The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, and to a lesser extent that of England and Ireland, during the 17th century. Presbyterian denominations tracing their history to the Covenanters and often incorporating the name continue the ideas and traditions in Scotland and internationally.

They derive their name from the term covenant after the covenant sworn by Israel in the Old Testament. There were two important covenants in Scottish history, the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant.

Beginnings

The Covenanters are so named because in a series of bands or covenants they bound themselves to maintain the Presbyterian doctrine and policy as the sole form of religion of their country. The first "godly band" of the Lords of the Congregation and their followers is dated December 1557; but more important is the covenant of 1581, drawn up by John Craig in consequence of the strenuous efforts Roman Catholics were making to regain their hold upon Scotland, and called the King's Confession or Negative Confession. Based on the Scots Confession of Faith of 1560, this document denounced the Pope and the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church in no measured terms. It was adopted by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, signed by King James VI and his household, and enjoined on persons of all ranks and classes, and was subscribed to again in 1590 and 1596.

Upheaval and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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In 1637, Scotland was in a state of turmoil. King Charles I and William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, met with a reverse in their efforts to impose a new liturgy on the Scots. The new liturgy had been devised by a panel of Scottish bishops, including Archbishop Spottiswoode of St. Andrews, but a riot against its use was orchestrated in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, ostensibly started by Jenny Geddes. Fearing further measures on the part of the King, it occurred to Archibald Johnston (Lord Warriston) to revive the Negative Confession of 1581 in a form suited to the times. Together with the cooperation of Alexander Henderson, this National Covenant (as it was called) was finalized in early 1638.

Greyfriars Kirkyard where the National Covenant was signed in 1638

Edinburgh's copy of the National Covenant

Additional matter intended to suit the document to the special circumstances of the time was added, primarily a recital of the acts of parliament against "superstitious and papistical rites" and an elaborate oath to maintain the reformed religion. The Covenant was adopted and signed by a large gathering in the kirkyard of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, on 28 February 1638, after which copies were sent throughout the country for signing. The subscribers engaged by oath to maintain religion in the form that it existed in 1580, and to reject all innovations introduced since that time, while also professing loyalty to the King. It did not specifically reject episcopacy but in effect undermined it. The year 1638 marked an apex of events for the Covenanters, for it was the time of broad confrontations with the established church supported by the monarchy. Confrontations occurred in several parts of Scotland, such as the one with the Bishops of Aberdeen by a high level assembly of Covenanters staging their operations from Muchalls Castle. The General Assembly of 1638 was composed of ardent Covenanters, and in 1640 the Covenant was adopted by the Scottish parliament, its subscription being made a requirement for all citizens. Before this date, the Covenanters were usually referred to as Supplicants, but from about this time the former designation began to prevail. The Covenanters raised an army to resist Charles I's religious reforms, and defeated him in the Bishops' Wars. The crisis that this caused to the Stuart monarchy helped bring about the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War, the Scottish Civil War and Irish Confederate Wars.

For the following ten years of civil war in Britain, the Covenanters were the de facto government of Scotland. In 1642, they sent an army to Ulster in Ireland to protect the Scottish settlers there from the Irish Catholic rebels who had attacked them in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The Scottish army remained in Ireland until the end of the civil wars, but was confined to its garrison around Carrickfergus after its defeat at the Battle of Benburb in 1646.

The Solemn League And Covenant, as publicised in England

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A further Covenanter military intervention began in 1643. The leaders of the English Parliament, worsted in the English Civil War, implored the aid of the Scots, which was promised on condition that the Scottish system of church government would be adopted in England. Following considerable debate, a document called the Solemn League and Covenant was drawn up. This was in effect a treaty between England and Scotland which called for the preservation of the reformed religion in Scotland and the reformation of religion in England and Ireland "according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches", and the extirpation of popery and prelacy. It did not explicitly mention Presbyterianism and included some ambiguous formulations that left the door open to Independency. It was subscribed to by many in both kingdoms and also in Ireland, and was approved by the English Parliament, and with some slight modifications by the Westminster Assembly of Divines. This agreement meant that the Covenanters sent another army south to England to fight on the Parliamentarian side in the First English Civil War. The Scottish armies in England were instrumental in bringing about the victory of the English Parliament over the King.

In turn, this sparked the outbreak of civil war in Scotland in 1644–47, as Scottish Royalist opponents of the Covenanters took up arms against them. Royalism was most common among Scottish Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, who were opposed to the Covenanters' imposition of their religious settlement on the country. The Covenanters' enemies, led by James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose and aided by an Irish expeditionary force and Highland clans led by Alasdair Mac Colla won a series of victories over hastily raised Covenanter forces in 1644–45. However, the Scottish Royalists were ultimately defeated in September 1645, at the Battle of Philiphaugh, near Selkirk. The disaster at Philiphaugh was largely due to the Royalists' own disunity and the return of the main Covenanter armies from England. The civil war in Scotland was a bitter episode which exposed the religious divisions between Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Catholics, the political divisions between Royalists and Covenanters and the cultural divisions between the Highlands and Lowlands.

Replica Covenanter flag, National Museum of Scotland

The end of the first civil wars in Scotland and England left the Covenanters hopeful that their Solemn League and Covenant would be implemented in the Three Kingdoms. However, Charles I refused to accept it when he surrendered himself to the Scots in 1646. He was taken to Newcastle, where several attempts were made to persuade him to take the Covenants. When this failed, he was handed over to the commissioners of Parliament in early 1647. However, many Covenanters, led by James Hamilton, were suspicious of their English allies' intentions and opened secret negotiations with Charles I. He made important concessions to them in the "Engagement" made with the Scots in December 1647. The Engagement was rejected by the militant Covenanters known as the Kirk Party, who wanted the King to endorse their agenda explicitly before an alliance could be reached. A Scottish army invaded England in support of the Engagement, but was routed at the Battle of Preston, leaving the Kirk Party in the ascendant in Scotland. The Westminster Confession of Faith, which had been submitted for ratification in 1646, was in part adopted by act of the English Parliament in 1648 as the Articles of Christian Religion, while in Scotland it was approved with minor reservations in August 1647 and ratified by the Scottish Parliament in February 1649.

The Covenanters' insistence on dictating the future of both Scotland and England eventually led to all-out war with their erstwhile allies, the English Parliament, and to the Covenanters signing an alliance with Charles II known as the Treaty of Breda. Charles II, before landing in Scotland in June 1650, declared by a solemn oath his approbation of both covenants, and this was renewed on the occasion of his coronation at Scone in the following January.

However, the Covenanters were utterly defeated in 1650–52 by the forces of the English Parliament under Oliver Cromwell. Lowland Scotland was occupied by the New Model Army and the Covenanters were sidelined. From 1638 to 1651 the Covenanters, led by Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, had been the dominant party in Scotland, directing policy both at home and abroad. Their power had been seriously weakened, however, by Cromwell's victory at Dunbar in September 1650 and was practically destroyed after the Battle of Worcester and the English occupation of Lowland Scotland. Under Cromwell's Commonwealth, Scotland was forced into a temporary union with England and the General Assembly of the Kirk lost all civil power.

Restoration and "The Killing Time"

The murder of Archbishop Sharp on his memorial at St. Andrews

A conventicle in progress, from a children's history book published in 1906

A Covenanter's bible in the National Museum of Scotland

Covenanters Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard

Worse was to come for the Covenanters when Charles II was restored nine years later. Firmly seated upon the throne, Charles renounced the covenants, which in 1662 were declared unlawful oaths to be abjured by all persons holding public offices. Argyll himself was executed for treason, episcopacy was restored, James Sharp was appointed Archbishop of St Andrews and Primate of Scotland, the court of high commission was revived, and ministers who refused to recognize the authority of the bishops were expelled from their livings. Archbishop Sharp survived an assassination attempt in 1668 only to be killed by another group of Covenanters in 1679.

Following the restoration of Episcopacy, rebel ministers began to preach at secret open-air meetings in the countryside known as "conventicles". A period of sustained persecution began. Oppressive measures against these illegal field assemblies where attendance was made a capital offence^[1] led to an outbreak of armed rebellion in 1666, originating in Galloway. Advancing from the west towards Edinburgh, a small force of poorly armed Covenanters was defeated at the Battle of Rullion Green in the Pentland Hills, a location which caused the whole tragic episode to be misleadingly named the Pentland Rising. To quell unrest in south-west Scotland, the government brought in 6,000 Highland soldiers, described by its enemies as an "inhumane and barbarous Highland host", which were quartered on suspected Covenanters and were accused of committing many atrocities.^[1]

A further rebellion broke out in 1679, after the unexpected success of a group of covenanters, armed with pitch forks and the like, against government forces led by John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. For a time the authorities looked in danger of losing control of the south west of Scotland, as more and more people joined the rebel camp at Bothwell near Glasgow; but only a few weeks after Drumclog the rebels were defeated at the Battle of Bothwell Brig. In the weeks before the battle the Covenanters spent more time arguing among themselves than preparing for the inevitable counterstroke, which did much to contribute towards their downfall. Of 1,200 captured rebels taken to Edinburgh, some 400 were imprisoned in an area of Greyfriars Kirkyard over the winter months.^[2]

Inevitably, the government behaved harshly at first towards some of those caught in arms. On the initiative of James, Duke of Monmouth, who led the king's army to victory at Bothwell Brig, a more conciliatory policy was followed for a time, though this met with limited success.

Through the period of repression the Covenanters held their convictions with a zeal that was only intensified by the persecution. For them it was a matter of belief. For the government, in contrast, the whole conventicle movement was seen as a problem of public order, which they attempted to deal with often using very inadequate resources. However, after the collapse of the 1679 rebellion a more dangerous element entered into the whole equation.

A painting showing the last Covenanter martyr James Renwick being taken to execution in 1688.

In 1680 a more extreme mood appeared among sections of the Covenanter underground, which found expression in a document known as the Sanquhar Declaration. This was the manifesto of the followers of the Reverend Richard Cameron, soon to be known as the Cameronians. Hitherto, many in the Covenanter underground maintained an outward loyalty to the king, despite their opposition to the religious policy of his government; but the Cameronians took matters to a new height, renouncing their allegiance to Charles and denouncing his brother, James, as a papist. One extreme position inevitably led to another: the government in attempting to stamp out sedition authorized field executions without trial. This was the beginning of what Robert Wodrow later called the Killing Time. Although this period was to become an important part of Covenanter martyrology, it was far less ferocious than the name implies. Cameron himself was killed in a clash with government forces at Airds Moss in July 1680, but his followers, now a tiny part of the Covenanter movement, continued to exist. After the accession of James VII in 1685 the King issued a series of Letters of Indulgence allowing such "ousted ministers as had lived peaceably and orderly to return to their livings".^[3] This succeeded in luring many ministers away from the struggle, but those remaining became more determined. When William of Orange summoned a Convention of the Estates which met on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh to consider whether Scotland should recognise him or James, forces of Cameronians arrived to bolster William's support. In the subsequent Jacobite rising, the Cameronian Guard helped to defeat the Jacobite Highlanders, particularly at the Battle of Dunkeld. Although the Cameronians had helped to defend the Revolution, they were disappointed that their religious views were not adopted by the new government. The binding obligation of the National Covenant (1638) and the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) was passed over since the acts of parliament in favour of these had been rescinded by Charles and were not revived under William and Mary. For some Covenanters even William of Orange was an "uncovenanted" King since he was head of the Church of England which was an episcopal church. Perhaps 1000 people in the south west made an issue of the failure to maintain the covenants and also, with some justification, viewed the new establishment as tainted by Erastianism. They formed the United Societies refusing to recognise the "usurped" Church of Scotland.^[4]

Martyrs and memorials

Though the rebellion had ended and a degree of Presbyterian tolerance for other faiths had been suggested by thanks given for James's Indulgence of 1687, for allowing all "to serve God after their own way and manner",^[3] memories of 'the Killing Time' were now kept alive by monuments and tombstones at the many martyr graves across the south of Scotland, particularly the south west. "For the word of God and Scotland's work of Reformation. Scotland's heritage comes at a price which invokes our greatest heart felt thanks for the lives sacrificed on the anvil of persecution, when innocent blood stained the heather on our moors and ran down the gutters of our streets with sorrow and sighing beyond contemplation."

"Halt passenger, take heed what you do see, This tomb doth shew for what some men did die." Martyrs' Monument tablet, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh

Tombs are scattered around the moors and monuments were added later, for "if the authorities learnt that a murdered Covenanter had been given a decent burial, their bodies were usually disinterred and buried in places reserved for thieves and malcontents. Quite often the corpse was hanged or beheaded first", and burying the body in the kirkyard could result in another punitive death.^[1] In 1707 a monument was erected at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, near the open ground known as the 'Covenanters' Prison', where some twelve-hundred Covenanters were held captive after Bothwell.^[2] It gives a figure of 18,000 killed in the period 1661-1680, quoting an estimate which Daniel Defoe claimed was "Collected from the Accounts both Publick and Private" for his Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717).

The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution by Robert Wodrow, published in 1721-1722, produced a detailed record and denounced the persecution of the Covenanters. This martyrology would be brought forward again when elements in the Church of Scotland felt it to be suffering state interference, as at the Disruption of 1843.^[5]

The United Societies continued without preaching, sacraments, or government until they were joined by one ordained minister in 1706, then in 1743 the Reformed Presbytery was organised. Covenanters fleeing persecution had set up churches in Ireland and North America and several small denominations were founded, including the Reformed Presbyterian Church.^[4]

The "Burning Bush" emblem of the Church of Scotland bearing the motto "Yet it was not consumed"

From a religious perspective, "The king had been defeated in his attempt to dictate the religion of his subjects; Presbyterianism became the established religion. But it had been equally proved that the subjugation of the State to the Church, the supremacy, political as well as ecclesiastical, of the Kirk, was an impossibility. In this the Covenants had failed."^[3] While the exploits and the sufferings of these martyrs in the cause of religious dissent and scripture as the sole "infallible rule of faith and practice" are still remembered, often in a romantic light, their aim of denying the religious freedom they sought for themselves to other denominations is reflected in the terms of ministerial and Christian communion of some groups which include "an approbation of the faithful contendings of the martyrs of Jesus, especially in Scotland, against Paganism, Popery, Prelacy, Malignancy and Sectarianism."^[4]

Covenanters in North America

Covenanters started their migration to North America by way of Ireland. Having come to Ireland for religious, economic, and political reasons throughout the Seventeenth Century, Scottish Presbyterians, including Covenanters, once again for religious, economic, and political reasons felt compelled to migrate again. The migration is usually dated from the year 1717, when preacher William Tennant, founder of Log College, the first Presbyterian seminary in North America, came with his family to the Philadelphia area. In North America Covenanters became known as members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. They were among the most vocal agitators for independence from Great Britain and volunteered in large numbers as soldiers in the revolutionary armies. The Covenanters were opposed to slavery, and in 1800 the Reformed Church voted to outlaw slave-holding among its members.

See also

Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland Banner commemorating the National Covenant

• Religion in the United Kingdom
• Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• Plantation of Ulster
• Samuel Rutherford
• Archibald Johnston
• Alexander Henderson (theologian)
• James Sharp (bishop)
• The Killing Time
• David Hackston
• Richard Cameron (Covenanter)
• Donald Cargill
• Alexander Peden
• James Renwick (Covenanter)

• List of Presbyterian and Reformed denominations
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Heros ALL!

Times were tough and the ones who settled our country and fought for our country were the strongest and the best of men and women of their times.

4^th Great Grandfather  William Byrd "Rowdy" Richardson  Born   21 Aug 1764  Montgomery, Virginia, USA

William Richardson, the subject of this sketch, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1765.  His boyhood was passed during the exciting times of Indian wars and the American Revolution.  At the age of seventeen he served as scout and soldier in the Indian border wars of western Virginia and Pennsylvania.  Later, he served two years on the skirmish line in the Revolutionary War.  He was a cousin of General Anthony Wayne, their mothers having been Mattie and Nancy Hiddens.  He has the reputation of having been married seven times.  His first wife was a Miss Mary Adney, whom he married in 1784 (sic?), and who died in 1811.  In 1812 he entered Harrison's army and served during the war, with the exception of two or three months.  In 1815 he married Catharine Millhouse, a sister of Barbara Dillbone, who, with her husband, had been murdered by three Shawnee Indians.  Richardson avenged the death of Mr. and Mrs. Dillborne by shooting the three murderers.  Two of the Indians were killed near Piqua in Miami county - the third paying the death penalty on the Auglaize River two miles north of Buckland in Auglaize county.  Richardson was a man of powerful physique and of great endurance.  The indulgence of his appetite led to many quarrels and fights.  It is said of him that "he would rather fight than eat."  Owing to his pugilistic proclivities, he was called "Rowdy Richardson."  During the last twenty years of his life he resided at Hamar, Paulding County, Ohio.  He died in that village at the advanced age of one hundred and nine years from injuries received in breaking a colt on his son Oliver’ farm. He was planning on going to town on the new colt to buy some liquor.  He died three days after being thrown of a fractured skull.

He was first cousin to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. 

Ironic that he has horses on his headstone.

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More Hunt History and stories

4th Great Grandfather ... Thomas W Hunt Jr  Born 28 Aug 1745  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  Died 25 Jun 1814  Huntsville, Butler, Ohio, USA  He was a school teacher and farmer and served 7 years in the Revolutionary War

THOMAS HUNT 3-5-3-0-0

This is the same Thomas Hunt who is listed in Whitingham, Windham Co., albeit the family composition is listed somewhat different. He was an early settler of Whitingham, VT, where several of his children were born, and had later children born in Bennington shortly before he removed with his family to Butler Co., Ohio, where the village of Huntsville was named for him. Thomas Hunt was born 29 Aug 1745 (by family legend in Nova Scotia where his father, a soldier in one of the early French and Indian Wars, was granted land before the Rev. War but removed back to CT or MA at the time of the Rev. War), son of Thomas-5 and Mary Smith Hunt (William-4 and Sarah Emerson Hunt of Ipswich, MA, and Norwich, CT, William-3 Hunt of Ipswich, MA, Samuel-2 Hunt of Ipswich, MA, William-1 Hunt, the pioneer at Concord, MA).

Subject Thomas Hunt m. Anna Fitch abt 1773 because the 2d oldest son, Nathan, was b. 6 Dec. 1775 at Whitingham, VT, per Vermont Vital Records (VVR). There is family legend that Thomas served at Bunker Hill (June of 1775) and served seven years in the Rev. War. This does not necessarily mean seven continuous years which would appear unlikely from the births of five children recorded at Whitingham, Vt in the period 1775-1784. He was prob. the Thomas Hunt who was on the payroll of Capt. Joshua Hazen's Co. under command of Col. Peter Olcutt, enl. 23 Sept. 1777 and served 34 days--the only Thomas Hunt listed in Vermont Rev. War Records and he appears to be a resident of Vermont at that time.

Although Whitingham records show the birth of five children between 1775 and 1784, this is not conclusive that they were born in Whitingham. It was not unusual for families moving into new areas in the wilderness to record the names and birthdates of their children in the records of the town in which they settled. His sister Lydia m. in 1768 Hezekiah Newcomb of Bernardston, MA, and six years later his sister Hannah m. David Haynes (Haines) at Bennington, Vt, in 1774, and his brother John m. Martha Rider at Bernardston, MA, in 1775. The presence of so many siblings along the MA-VT border shortly before the Rev. War gives some credence to the possibility of Thomas Hunt settling in Whitingham by 1775.

It is reasonably certain that this is the Thomas Hunt who was in Whitingham in the 1791 census of Vermont and the same Thomas who also appears in the same census at Bennington, Vt, where his sister Hannah was m. in 1774 and where his son Isaac is said by family records to be born 14 March 1790. No Thomas Hunts are found in Vermont in the 1800 census and it is clear that before that date Thomas Hunt and his family moved to Butler Co., Ohio (NW of Cincinnati at the Indiana line). He settled with his family on a farm at what became the village of Huntsville, named for him. The farm was near the intersection of Princeton Road (H129) and Yankee Road, between Hamilton and Bethany on the Princeton Road. Local historical notes say there is no mystery where Yankee Road got its name--it was built by the Hunts and they were Yankees. Thomas Hunt was a census enumerator in the 1807 census of Butler Co., Ohio, and died there 25 June 1814, buried in the Hunt burying ground (private) on his farm at Huntsville with his wife Anne who died in 1832. His daughter Ruth and her husband Duran Whittlesey are buried in the same cemetery. Thomas and Anne had at least 12 children and descendants spread around Ohio and in the migration to other mid- and far-western states to the Pacific Ocean. His Will was made 11 April 1814 and proved 3 Aug. 1814. Children:

1. Thomas Hunt, Jr., b. abt. 1773, date not known but there appears to have been one son older than Nathan per the 1791 census of Whitingham, Vt, and is was common practice to give the first son the name of the father (and in this case also the name of the grandfather). He m. Sarah ___, but further not known. Thomas appears to have been given short-shrift in his father's Will and may have moved away before 1814.

2. Nathan Smith Hunt, b. "at Whitingham, VT" (per VVR) 6 Dec. 1775, m. abt 1810 Zephia (or Zelpha)___, died of malaria at Butler Co., Ohio, 2 Oct. 1819 while completing a bridge over the Miami River at Hamilton, Ohio. Had children: a. Nathan F. Hunt (1810-1871 who m. 1830 Sophia Kennedy (or Kinney); b. Zephia Ann Hunt (1812-1869) who m. 1830 James Rolfe (1809-1869).

3. Enoch Hunt, b. 1 Nov 1778 "at Whitingham, VT" (VVR); died at Whitingham 27 April 1785 (VVR).

4. Ruth Hunt, b. 12 Jan. 1781 at Whitingham, VT, m. Duran Whittlesey who was b. 24 Oct. 1775, son of Duran-4 Whittlesey (Duran-3, Joseph-2, John-1 of Saybrook, CT) of Haddam, CT, who removed to Butler Co., Ohio with brothers and sisters abt 1800. The Whittlesey Gen. gives the m. date as 3 Nov. 1799, place not mentioned, but possibly in Ohio. Had a large family of about 13 children.

5. Ira Hunt, b. 28 Nov 1782 at Whitingham, VT (VVR); some family records say he was b. in CT, but he is the fourth child listed as b, at Whitingham in VVR. Ira m. 12 March 1806 at Butler Co., Ohio, Elizabeth Vanduy. He was a bridge builder like his brother Nathan and some reports say he died the same day as his brother, but this is incorrect. He m. 2d in 1814 Mary Graham and had two children by his first wife and six children by his 2d wife:

a. Justice T. Hunt (1809-1892), m. 1828 Hannah McVey, and m.

2d 1870 Mary Conover (Faries) (1816-1885).

b. Ira F. Hunt (b.between 1810 and 1814), m. 1831 Rachel

McVey (b. abt 1809).

c. Phebe D. Hunt (1817-1848), m. 1836 Daniel Currier.

d. Heman R. Hunt (1819-1894), m. Anna Conover (1819-1899).

e. Eliza Jane Hunt (1822-1888?), m. 1843 George Conover.

f. Nancy W. Hunt, b. abt 1824, m. 1848 Abner Staley.

g. Mary E. Hunt (1826-1866), m. 1853 Michael Miller.

h. Rachal A. Hunt (1829-1910), m. 1851 David Sanders.

6. William Hunt, b. at Whitingham, VT, 28 Aug. 1784 (VVR), given land in Butler Co., Ohio, in his father's Will of 1814 but NFI.

7. Enoch Hunt, b. abt 1785 after an earlier son of this name died at Whitingham in 1785, m. 1st Cynthia ___and m. 2d, wife not known, had three children by each wife and died in 1842. Children:

a. Isaac W. Hunt, b. 1814, m. abt 1837-9 Sarah Marrs and m. 2d in 1850 Emmaline Wooley (1823-1908).

b. Thomas C. Hunt, m. in 1843 Mary Clark.

c. Samuel S. Hunt (1819-1895), m. 1850 Eliza Monroe (1830-1911) and m. 2d ____.

d. Sopronia Ann Hunt, b. 1825, m. ____.

e. George Washington Hunt, b. 1827, m. 1850 Nancy McKinnon.

f. John Ransom Hunt, (1829-1892), m. 1850 Nancy Stationer and m. 2d in 1860 Mary Dalton.

8. ?Hannah Hunt who m. James Daniel at Butler Co., Ohio, 26 Feb. 1811. She has not been identified as a dau. of Thomas Hunt and was not mentioned in his Will. However, Thomas had a sister named Hannah (otherwise accounted for) and this was the only Hunt Family in that area at the time of the m. and fits in with the marriages of the other children of Thomas. She may have died before 1814 and therefor not mentioned in Thomas's Will. On the other hand, no proof has been found that she was a dau. of Thomas.

9. Mary E. Hunt, b. abt 1787, m. prior to 1814 Charles West who died in 1878. She was mentioned in father's Will as Mary West.

10. Isaac C. Hunt, b. Bennington, VT 14 March 1790 (per family records, not found in VVR), moved with his family to Butler Co., Ohio, before 1800 and m. there 13 Oct 1808 Mary Squires Woodruff by whom he had at least 12 children (the 1850 census indicates two more) before her death 24 March 1848 at which time the family was living in Miami Co., Ohio. Isaac Hunt was a Methodist minister and lived at various places in Ohio. There are various versions of other marriages, some saying he m. 2d Elizabeth ___ and m. 3rd Jane McKinnon. One record says the 2d wife was Jane McKinnon (possibly the Jane Sharp who m. Uriah McKinnon in Logan Co., Ohio, in 1832--in the 1850 census a William McKinnon was living with Isaac and Jane Hunt). Jane died in Iowa in 1861 and Isaac died 7 Jan. 1874 at Eddyville, Lincoln Co., Oregon, and is buried in an old cemetery west of Eddyville along the river. (Lincoln Co., Oregon, is on the Pacific Ocean, west of Corvallis.) It is presumed that Isaac was living with his son Levi who died 11 June 1904 at Eddyville. The following are the reported children of the Rev. Isaac C. Hunt.

a. Enoch S. Hunt, b. 23 July 1809 at Huntsville, Ohio; m. 25 Dec. 1832 Ruth Ann Franklin at Shelby Co., Ohio; died 1 July 1833. Widow Ruth m. 2d 16 Oct. 1836 at Mercer Co., Ohio, John Miller and they removed to Oregon, where they arrived 16 Oct. 1847.

b. Duran Turl Hunt, b. 7 Oct. 1810 at Huntsville, Ohio, m. 25 July 1833 Sarah Franklin at Shelby Co., Ohio. She was sister of Ruth who m. Duran's brother Enoch. Duran died 4 March 1881 at Bennett City, Lancaster Co., Nebraska, buried in Bennett Cemetery. His will dated 17 Feb 1881 and proved 15 July 1881 lists six children: Vironicy, William, Mary, Duran, Winfield, and Sarah.

c. Silas W. Hunt, b. 24 July 1812, died 24 Sept. 1815.

d. Anna F. Hunt, b. 22 June 1815, m. 5 April 1834 Henry McVey at Miami Co., Ohio.

e. Lewis Jackson Hunt, b. 22 Dec. 1816, m. 8 April 1841 Lydia Dukeshine; is presumed to have died in the Civil War.

f. Sarah Ann Hunt, b. 31 Dec. 1818; m. 20 Jan. 1839 Hamilton Miller.

g. Ruth M. Hunt, b. 24 Feb. 1811; living unmarried in 1880.

h. Elizabeth Ann Hunt, b. 2 Jan.1824, m. April 1843 Simon Morse (or Moss).

i. Levi White Hunt, b. 18 Nov. 1825 at Champaigne Co., Ohio, married 23 Sept. 1847 Mary Priscilla Kenyon; died 11 June 1904 at Eddyville, Lincoln Co., Oregon.

j. Joshua B. Hunt, b. 25 March 1828.

k. Elizabeth Amanda Hunt, b. 27 Dec. 1829, m. 18 Nov. 1851 Isaac Van Horn; died 10 March 1874.

?l. Marion, b. 1834, twin, and ?m. Nancy, b. 1834, twin,living in family of Isaac Hunt in 1850 census.

n. Andrew W. Hunt, b. 3 Jan. 1832, died 3 Jan. 1832.

11. John Hunt, b._____. Was postmaster of Huntsville, Ohio.

12. Ann Hunt, b. abt 1800 as she appears to be the youngest child and was to wait four years before receiving the first installment of the $50 her father left in trust for her to her brother Ira.

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 Huntsville

"There are a few graves in Huntsville, Butler Co., Ohio on land once owned by Thomas Hunt. This graveyard is alongside a barn at the corner of Yankee Road and State Route 129 on the southeast corner. He is thought to have been buried there and his wife Anne (Fitch) Hunt was buried there. Her tombstone lies in the grass. Ruth (Hunt) Whittlesey, a daughter, was also buried there and probably her husband Duran Whittlesey."

Whitington, Vt

At the anual Town-meeting of March 26, 1781, Thomas Stearns was chosen INIoderator ; Amos Green, Town Clerk ; Leonard Pike, EHphalet Hyde, Thomas Blodgett, Selectmen ; Thomas Stearns, Treasurer ; Amasa Shumway, and Jabez Foster, Constables ; Thomas Stearns, Benjamin Blodgett, Grand Jurors ; Henry Lee, Eliphalet Gustin, Tithingmen ; Abner More, Jabez Foster, Leonard Pike, Thomas Stearns, John Nelson, Petit Jurors. The records show a town meeting holden on the 9th day of December, 1781, and after choosing a moderator, the record proceeds as follows : " Voted to make allowance to those that have done most in the present war." "Voted that the Selectmen be a committee to treat with Capt. Hambleton concerning his not petitioning the General

to have our provision rate taken of," At the annual Town meeting, JNIarch 4, 17S2, Thomas Hunt was elected Town Clerk, and five Selectmen were chosen, viz : Daniel Wilcox, Thomas Hunt, Jabez Foster, Henry Lee, and Amasa Shumway. Thomas Stearns, Treasurer

; Jonathan Barton, Amos Green, Constables. This meeting was adjourned to the 2Sth of the same month, when the town, as the record shows : " Voted to raise two men for the ensuing campaign for eight months." They also voted at the same meeting, " to raise &aid men bv a town rate,"

It will be seen by these votes of the town at that early date, that these pioneer settlers in Whitingham, took a deep interest in the struggle for freedom and independence, al- though Vermont was not a member of the confederacy of States, that declared their independence more than five years before. And the inhabitants of this town, as well as other sections of ^"ermont, had absolved themselves from all allegiance to the government of New York, or any other government, except that of their own creation. At the annual Town meeting, March 3, 17S4, it was voted "That the Selectmen iind the Senter of the town, and make report at the next annual Town meeting." It was also voted at the same meeting, " that Daniel Wilcox, Thomas Blodget, and James Roberts, be a committee to look out some suitable

 Butler County History

We have spoken of Princeton and Bethany, in Liberty township, but have not mentioned an Important .little village which lies between. This is Huntsville. A couple of miles east of Princeton is Gregory Creek, a much larger creek for­ merly than it is today. It has size­ able tributaries, one of which joins it near present Hughes Station. A short distance before coming to the railroad the Princeton Pike turns to the left and follows this tributary which is known as Hunt's Run. Where the Princeton Pike crosses Yankee Road is the group of houses known as Huntsville. It is well known why this road from Middletown to Cincinnati is called Yankee Road. The Hunts built it and the Hunts were Yan­ kees. Thomas Hunt was the first set­ tler in this neighborhood. His par­ ents were refugees from Arcadia, New Brunswick, Canada, made fa­ mous by Longfellow's poem "Evan­ geline." The exact date that Thom­ as came is not known, The earliest tombstone date found there is 1816, but the Hunts came earlier than that. Four Sons, Builders Thomas Hunt had four sons, all of whom were builders. This was not just in the sense that they were carpenters, but rather architects. Nathan and Ira were bridge build­ ers. Their names stand out dis­ tinctly in the pioneer annals of Hamilton and Rossville. Nathan was an original member of the Miami Bridge Company which re­ ceived its charter in 1816. There were seven sealed proposals for building the bridge. Nathan Hunt was awarded the contract at $17,- 000, the work to be finished by September 1819. The work progress­ ed finely. In the summer of 1819, Mr. Hunt employed William Dan­ iels to erect the superstructure. That summer and fall were the most unhealthful of any season ever known in fever-infested early Hamilton. Almost everyone was ill. Work on the bridge came to a standstill—none of the workmen was able to work. Mr. Hunt himself had the malaria and was among the number of those who did not recover. He died on October 2. Zel- phia Hunt, his wife, followed him in death, 36 hours later. They were buried on their home farm near Huntsville. Ira Hunt assisted Mr. Daniels in completing the bridge— the old covered bridge, one of the most famed of our early construc­ tions. Meeker Birthplace There were natives of Huntsville who became even more famed than the Hunts—at least their fame spread farther from home. An old red brick house, still standing con­ spicuously in the village, is pointed out as the birthplace of Ezra Mee­ ker. To how many does his name call up visions of oxen and old covered wagons! Ezra Meeker was born in Hunts­ ville on Dec. 29, 1830, and was a pioneer among those who sought the Oregon Trail. He made several return trips, telling all who would listen of the wonders of this coun­ try out on the Pacific Ocean. He conducted trains of immigrants over the trail. He did not confine his interests entirely to Oregon. The trail out was always the same, but he found fine country farther north than the boundaries of Ore­ gon were set. He "founded" Puy- allup, Washington, a thriving town near Tacoma. Ezra Meeker's "Ox Team Days on the Oregon Trail" was a best seller as a book and as a picture. He is said to have been the oldest movie star—and director. We must not forget that he was a Butler County boy who dared to do things. Daniel Vorhees Another note-worthy native of Huntsville was Daniel Vorhees. His activities were removed from our county. He did not get as far west as Ezra Meeker went, but was a popular congressman from Indi­ ana during the 1860s and 1870s, and is said to have taken a vital part in building the Library of Con­ gress in Washington, D. C. It was the custom in the early days to have family burial plots on CINCINNATI MINISTER TAKES COLUMBUS POST CINCINNATI WJ—The Rev. Eric L. A. Hill, pastor of the Madison- ville Baptist Church since 1947, is resigning to become pastor of the Tenth AveViue Baptist Church, Co­ lumbus, O. He is to assume his new duties shortly after Jan. 1. Mr. Hill came here from the First Baptist Church of Ironton, O. RELIGION NOT SISSIFIED, LAYMAN DECLARES DENVER Wl—Religion is not a sisslfied job, says Dick Van Voor- his of Mansfield, O. He told mem­ bers of the United Church Men, a part of the- National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S. A., that men as well as women must contribute to church work. "It's a man's job, too," the Evangelical Reformed layman said. the home farms. This was before chapel graveyards were provided. Moreover, the poor condition of the trails and roads made it next to impossible to reach such places with the dead. There were no un­ dertakers, no hearses. Perhaps de­ votion to the memory of the de­ parted caused a continuance of this practice even after there were im­ proved conditions. In time, farms exchanged owners. There was no one left who cared. The old mark­ ers crumbled to decay or were ruthlessly cleared away—destroy­ ing valuable records of many of our pioneers. Going out from Princeton, just before coming to Huntsville, is Spring Hill a ten-acre chapel bur­ ial plot. It is on an elevation with an attractive tree-lined drive "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow eell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Not just of any hamlet, but of the country-side for miles around. They were rude only in the sense that they were farmers, who today are not distinguished from urban- ites. Here the Rev. Arthur Elliott had his first charge—his parents were "forefathers" here, although their gifted orator son later made his home near Hamilton. How many stories are buried here!

Robert Hunt Family

I have taken my family tree information from Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker and will post the history with stories on this blog for all family members and guests to view.  I have started with myself and going back many centuries. Pictures are on Ancestry.com  This is going to be a very long  blog as I have traced our family tree for over 50 years and back to the year 209 BC.  Many great men and women are in the tree, including Kings, Queens.  ENJOY!

Bob Hunt

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Robert Gail Hunt (Gail was my grandfather)  Born Oct 13, 140 Bell, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Father) Herbert Post Hunt (Retired Major US Army)  Born 05 Mar 1915  Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, USA  (Died) 03 Feb 1984  Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, USA  (Bladder Cancer)
Highly decorated World War II veteran with battlefield commission after the Battle of the Bulge.

(Mother)  Mary Ruth Kitchen  Born 20 Apr 1920  Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada (Died) 24 Aug 1966 Mysterious Accident. Minot, Ward, North Dakota, USA

(Grandfather - Father's side) Samuel Craig Hunt Born 29 Dec 1889 Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, USA (Died) 24 Aug 1969  Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Married) 18 Nov 1912 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Had a stroke.  Farmer in Ohio until moving to California during depression. Loved to play pinochle.

(Grandmother - Father's side)  Ruth Post Born 08 Apr 1893  Spencerville, Allen, Ohio, USA  Died 05 Jul 1976  Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, USA  She owned many properties including hotel and restaurant in Los Angeles County, Ca.

(Grandfather - Mother's side)  Gail Prentiss Kitchen (Adopted)  Born 26 Feb 1893 West Liberty, Logan, Ohio, USA  Died 03 Aug 1938 Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA.  Electrician , Railroad worker and magician.  He made many of his own tricks and boxes.

(Grandmother - Mother's side) Ruth Elizabeth Barrett Born 05 Dec 1894 Grants, Ohio, USA  Died  20 Feb 1993 Scottsburg, Scott, Indiana, USA (99)  When she was young she gave tours of Ohio Caverns with kerosene latern.Worked as a nurse, on ships in Great Lakes.  Lost her site late in life and loved to hear history books on tape.

(Great Grandfather- Father's side)  Ulysses Grant S. Hunt Born 23 Jul 1865 Champaign County, Adams Township, Ohio, USA Born on Old Wooley Farm  Died 02 Jan 1940 West Liberty, Logan, Ohio, USA. (STORY)
 

from Champaign County History of 1917

History of G.S. Hunt Family

A progressive farmer of Harrison Township Grant S. Hunt,
living on his eighty acres, located in section 6 of this
township on rural route No.1 out of West liberty, Ohio. Mr,
Hunt is a native of the County, his birth having occurred on
a farm in Adams Township known as the old Wooley farm, where
the Rosewood centralized school now stands, on July 23, 1865.
He is a son of Isaac W. and Emeline Wooley Hunt - the former
native of New York State and the latter of Warren County,
Ohio.

Isaac W. Hunt came from New York to Butler County, Ohio when
a mere boy, where his parents lived a number of years, later
removing to Shelby County, Ohio and from there to Adams

township, Champaign County, near Rosewood. When the father's

death occurred                    . The mother's death occurred

at the same place some years later. The Hunt family were of
English descent, locating in New York State in an early day.
Emmeline Wooley was a daughter of Jiley Wooley, who came from
New Jersey to Warren County in an early day, later removing
to Champaign County and being among the pioneers of this part
of the state. Both the Hunt and the Woolley families are of
good old colonial stock, the Woolley being of Quaker descent,
while the Hunt history has been traced back many generations

to one of the famous "Minute Men of the Revolutionary War
fame in the battle of Lexington. After his marriage to
Emmeline Wooley, Isaac W. Hunt and his wife lived on the
Woolley farm in Adams Township for a period fifteen years,
when they removed to a farm located just north of that in the
same township, and lived on this farm the remainder of their
lives, with the exception of five years which they spent in
the village of DeGraff, Ohio. They were the parents of six
children, three of whom are still living ; Mrs. Nancy A.
Street, Quincy, Ohio; Mrs. Hannah Hines. living in Salem
township, this County, abd Grant S. Hunt. Isaac W. Hunt was
the father of three children by a previous marriage, none of
whom survive. The family were charter members of the
Christian Church at Careysville, Ohio. Isaac W. Hunt was a
Republican in politics, having belonged to the old-time Whig
Party while it was in existence. Afterward voting the
Republican ticket and always took an interest in public
affairs. He was a member of the Masonic order.

Grant S. Hunt was reared to manhood on the farm in Adams township, receiving his education in the district school of his home neighborhood, afterwards graduating from the high school at DeGraff, Ohio in 1884. He taught school from 1885- 1891. He lived at home with his parents until his marriage, when he started to farm for himself, and has since engaged in that occupation on the farm where he is now living; with exception of two years, when he lived on a farm in Adams township. On August 24, 1887 G. S. Hunt was married to Hattie B. Craig, a daughter of William B and India Ann Craig of Harrison township. Mrs. Hunt was born and reared on the farm where she now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are parents of three children; Samuel C. a graduate of West Liberty High School, married Ruth Post of Salem township; John E. also a graduate of West Liberty High School; Laura M. married to Harry Harrington living on the home farm. Politically Mr.

Hunt is a Republican, a member of the Knights of Pythias_also a member of the Masonic Lodge in West Liberty, Ohio.

This is copied from History of Champaign County of 1911. *note that on o~casion that names are spelled different. ie

Wooley and Woolley. I have found this to happen often over the years when families have dropped a letter or added a letter to their name, so it"s not uncommon to see this in doing research. --Bob Hunt  1986

(Great Grandmother - Father's side)  Harriet "Hattie" B. Craig  Born 17 Jan 1867 (On Farm)Champaign County, Ohio, USA  Died 11 Oct 1951 Degraff, Ohio, USA

(Great Grandfather - Father's side)   Edward Grant Post (Father of Ruth Post)  Born 11 Sep 1867 Allen, Ohio, USA  Died 07 Aug 1935 Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana, USA  He was Sheep Rancher in Montana.

(Great Grandmother - Father's side) Jennie Florence Whetstone Born 21 May 1867 Buckland, Auglaize, Ohio, USA  Died 25 Apr 1916 Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, USA  Only 48 when she died.

(Great Grandfather - Mother's side)  James Franklin Branson  Born 24 Oct 1866 West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio  Died 21 Mar 1953 Troy, Miami County, Ohio

(Great Grandmother -Mother's side)  Minnie W. Kitchen Born 10 Nov 1867 not sure of where in Ohio she was born. James and Minnie gave up James( Later name of James changed to Gail)  at birth to Minnie's brother and wife. Minnie died 08 Apr 1954 Belle Center, Ohio, USA.

(Great Grandfather - Mother's side) James William Barrett Born 12 Aug 1862 Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA Died 14 Jun 1944  West Liberty, Logan, Ohio, USA  Carpenter and worked for the railroad.

(Great Grandmother - Mother's side)  Rachel Elizabeth Silverthorn  Born 23 Jun 1863 Patterson, Hardin, Ohio, USA  Died 25 Oct 1928West Liberty, Logan, Ohio, USA

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