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John Hunting (b. 1597, d. April 12, 1689)
Notes for John Hunting:John Hunting - 1091
In the summer of 1638, John Hunting, his wife Hester and five children arrived in Mass. Bay Colony and immediately removed to Dedham. Hunting soon involved himself in the organization of the Church of that town as we see in the following extract of those churches earliest years written by the first Minister John Allin:
Toward the end of the summer (1638) we are having some experience of John Hunting who came to us from England and some of us knowing him before and having very good testimony of him from many others, we agreed to make trial whether he might not be found meet for this work and willing thereto; in both we found encouragement that he also came amongst us into society.
Thus Hunting joined with other men found sufficiently worthy to be pillars of the Dedham Church.
Taken from N. G. S. H. March 1986 Vol. 74 No 1
Hunting - John, Dedham, Freeman 13 Mar ~639, one of the founders of the church the year before and the first ruling elder--- Much of this detail is from the will of wife Esther 4 Jan 1676, made with the consent and confirmation of her husband and probated 12 Feb. 1685 in which John is called the oldest son of her deceased daughter Ware, and others are mentioned as Samuel, her son of Charlestown and his wife Hannah, Esther daughter of her brother Francis Seaborn in England is spoken of as then due.
Savage n page 503
More About John Hunting and Hester Seaborne:
Marriage: June 28, 1624, Wraplingham, Norfolk, England.
Children of John Hunting and Hester Seaborne are:
- +Margaret Hunting, b., England, d. October 26, 1721.