William Hunt of Concord - Weeding the William Hunt of Concord tree

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 5:47 PM

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-80

Researchers take care with this profile. It has a lot of errors. No serious genealogist has ever suggested the parents or origins of William Hunt. There is no evidence he was identical to the man bp in Halifax. Also three of the children shown: Susannah, Ann and Mary are not his children. For correct information Robert Charles Anderson suggests these three sources for this man: TAG 30:100-3, 175; Hoyt 211; Smith-Hale 135-38. Smith-Hale can be checked out here:Ancestry and posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale His parents and three daughters mentioned above should be detached. Anderson considers the surname "Best" of Elizabeth his wife, to be inconclusive at best [GM2:1:402] because "Cousin" doesn't mean sister.

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I am detaching many profiles and will try to log them in this discussion, or they will be seen from the revisions tab.

Here’s the basic tree though

Robert Hunt’s parents unknown.
Married Elizabeth, her parents unknown, called a Best in error.

surviving children named in will:

Nehemiah, Samuel, Isaac, Elizabeth (Hunt) Barnes

There might be a daughter Anna or Hannah ?

Married 2nd, Mercy, her parents unknown, widow of Edmund Rice.

I’m cutting now.

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 5:59 PM

Robert Hunt, of Halifax & Jane Hunt - no proof asparrmtd

Children detached: Anyone knows otherwise we can put them back

Mary Grant

William Hunt, Jr., (died young)

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 6:30 PM

Looks like Enos Hunt had morphed into William Hunt at some point in online genealogy.

Sources for him appreciated; maybe he had more then one child.

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 7:24 PM

Detached Nehemiah Hunt, of Concord.

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 7:28 PM

Correction: merged Hezekiah into Nehemiah Hunt, of Concord

There was no Hezekiah and the dates match Nehemiah

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 7:30 PM

Detached William Jacob Hunt, Sr., of Philadelphia who was not the son of Jacob Hunt who was not the son of William of Concord.

I also rejected every single smart Match to MyHeritage trees because not one came close to accuracy, only the Wikitree was helpful.

This was a bit shocking.

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 7:49 PM

Now I can address the English Ancestry William Hunt of Concord didn’t have.

Thomas Hunt, of Leicester Separated from Thomas Hunt

Erica Howton C

7/29/2018 at 8:55 PM

Private User Take a look now.

Private User

7/30/2018 at 8:28 AM

query: William Hunt's wife:

Why, in the <ABOUT> sections is the surname <BEST> discredited?
"Hunt married Elizabeth Best [SIC] in England and she died 1661 in Concord."

~• any lead appreciated...

BTW: Great work, Erica!

Private User

7/30/2018 at 8:33 AM

I bring the <Best> research up as I am researching a Best/Bast line:
Jacob Best

Erica Howton C

8/2/2018 at 12:20 PM

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-80

“Anderson considers the surname "Best" of Elizabeth his wife, to be inconclusive at best [GM2:1:402] because "Cousin" doesn't mean sister.”

I can look for The Great Migration Project notes on Best if you like.

What I get from the snippet is that there is a family connection (I believe will evidence, Best > Hunt children) but to say that means Elizabeth Hunt was Robert Best’s sister is misguided. Because he would have said sister, not cousin.

Cousin being often used in that time & place for niece / nephew. And could have been Hunt side.

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