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   Biographies of Isaac Hunter, Jesse Hunter, and Daniel Hunter
   About 1757, Isaac, Jesse, and Daniel, the unmarried sons of Isaac Hunter and Elizabeth Parker, left Chowan County, migrating west to Granville County. Their brothers Elisha and Jacob remained in Chowan, although a Hunter also named Elisha would surface in the records of Granville and Bute. Jacob married Sarah Pugh Hill, became an officer in the Revolutionary army, served, like his brother Elisha, as a vestryman of St. Paul’s Parish, and in 1777 represented Chowan in the North Carolina General Assembly. Elisha was executor of his father’s estate (1753) and was married to Ann Walton. Their home was called the Brick House Plantation (Mona Armstrong Taylor, Deeds of Gates Co., N. C., 1776‑1803, Greenville, S. C., Southern Historical Press, 1987, p. 183).
   In 1754 Isaac was a private in the regiment of Lt. Col. John Harvey of Perquimans County. In the same year Jesse was a soldier in the Chowan militia. His name appeared on the rosters of both Captain James Farlee’s and Captain John Sumner’s company. Sumner’s territory covered the settlements between the Virginia line and Bennett’s Creek, an area comprising the Hunter plantation.
   After the brothers settled in Granville, Jesse married Ann Alston, in 1758. She was a daughter of Solomon Alston and Ann Nancy Hinton of Granville, formerly of Chowan and Edgecombe Counties. In 1760 Isaac married her sister Martha. Daniel remained a bachelor.
   In 1764 Granville was subdivided, and Jesse and Isaac were settled in the section designated as Bute County. Daniel was in Granville on land he acquired on Fishing Creek. Isaac and Jesse bought tracts in Bute along Shocco Creek in a prospering area that was populated by the county’s most prominent families-the Alstons, the Joneses, the Sumners, and others. The Warren County deed books document Isaac’s holdings. On 15 May 1769 he paid Elisha Battle of Edgecombe County£210 in proclamation money for 376 acres in Bute on the north side of Shocco Creek and Horsepen Branch, land which was adjacent to Thomas Sumner and part of a grant made to William Little on 5 December 1728. Witnesses were Jacob Battle, Jethro Battle, Philip Alston, and Daniel Hunter, who proved the transaction in Bute’s August court 1770 (Bute Book 3, p. 121). On 14 November 1771 Isaac Hunter sold a segment of this tract to Jesse: “Isaac Hunter to Jesse Hunter, both of Bute County, £133, 6 sh., 8 d. proclamation money, part of a grant, 5 December 1728 to Col. William Little, on NS Shocco Creek to mouth of Horsepen Branch & a branch of same, adj. Thomas Sumner. Acknowledged by Isaac Hunter in Bute November court 1771″ (Bute Book 3, p. 352).
   Jesse and Ann had four children-Philip Alston Hunter (b. 1759), Elisha Hunter (b. 1764), Ruth Alston Hunter, and Nathaniel Hunter. Isaac and Martha had seven children-Solomon Alston Hunter (b. 1761), James Alston Hunter, Jacob Hunter, Ann Alston Hunter, Martha Patsy Hunter, Sacky Clark Hunter, and Sarah (Sallie) Alston Hunter.
   In 1771 Isaac was elected a militia captain, and with other officers he took the oath in Bute County August court, subscribed to the Test Act, and received a commission signed by the governor. Isaac and Jesse’s names were recorded frequently in the minutes of Bute quarterly court for serving on committees, overseeing the laying of roads, and sitting on grand and petit juries. In 1770 the court paid Jesse £1,10 sh. Virginia money for making repairs at the courthouse and “making a bookcase therein.” In 1774 the court entered an order for Jesse to install two windows in the east end of the courthouse.
   In 1776 Isaac Hunter, Jesse Hunter, and their father‑in‑law Solomon Alston were listed as Masons (Bute Safety Committee Minutes). With the rumblings of revolution and war, Jesse, Isaac, and Isaac’s son Solomon sided with the patriot cause and signed North Carolina’s Oath of Allegiance in 1778 (“Miscellaneous County Records, Bute and Warren, 1774‑1804,” Thomas Merritt Pittman Papers, PC 123.9, North Carolina State Archives). Isaac Hunter, Jesse Hunter, Solomon Alston, and James Alston also were among signers swearing on “oath to support the measures taken by the general Congress in Philadelphia.”
   In 1777 Isaac Hunter served as a tax assessor in Robert Temple’s District of Bute. With Robert Hightower and John Lanier he inventoried property totaling a worth of £88,296,16 sh,1d in proclamation money to be collected by Robert Jones.
   In1779 Bute was renamed Warren County. In 1781 the List of Taxables, Warren County, Isaac Hunter, a resident in Capt. Benjamin Ward’s district, was taxed on assets valued at £16,205 and Jesse on £9,829 (The County of Warren, North Carolina, by Manley Wade Wellman, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959, p. 56). The 1784 state census listed Isaac Hunter as a householder in Capt. Ward’s district, with two white males 21‑60, two white males under 21 and above 60, four white females, fourteen blacks 12 to 50, and fourteen blacks under 14 and above 60.
   After the war Jesse and some in the new generation of Warren County Hunters were lured to newly opened lands in Georgia and Tennessee. In April 1784 both Jesse and Isaac’s son Solomon sold their properties to James Alston (Jesse’s brother‑in‑law and Solomon’s uncle) and headed to Georgia. In 1789 Isaac’s son James purchased a veteran’s land patent and moved to Davidson (later Wilson) Co., Tenn. After their marriages, Isaac’s daughters Ann, Martha, Sacky, and Sarah settled in Maury Co., Tenn. Isaac and his son Jacob remained in Warren County.
   In May the state treasurer issued Jesse a specie certificate for £6 / 12 / 2, possibly as militia pay or remuneration for supplies Jesse furnished to troops (North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts: Treasurer’s and Comptroller’s Papers. Vol. XII, part XI, no.3605). On 17 May 1784, a month after arriving in Georgia, Jesse and his son Philip were granted bounty land in an area of Washington County that became part of Wilkes County and thereafter Greene County. In Jesse’s will (Wake Co., N. C., Book Two, pp. 105‑107) this land is noted as “250 acres lying between Little River and Sherrill’s Creek.” In “Certificates of Bounty Land Warrants Issued 1783‑84 to Refugee Citizens and Soldiers or the Revolutionary War,” the listing for Jesse is 268 acres, for Philip unspecified acreage. Isaac’s son Solomon migrated farther south to Liberty County and married. In 1786 Jesse and his wife Ann were back in North Carolina, apparently visiting the Kimbroughs, her late sister Mary’s family in Wake County. Jesse fell sick and died. His will, signed in Wake, was witnessed by his wife’s nephews James and John Kimbrough. His widow Ann returned to Georgia and died there after 1791. Her name appears on the Wilkes County tax roll that year.
   On 26 May1790, Isaac and his son Jacob posted a bond of £250 as surety when Jacob was nominated to be constable in Capt. Bilbroe’s district of Warren. In the federal census of 1790 Isaac, head of household, was listed with two males of 16 or more (himself and his son Jacob), two males under 16 (identities not known), four females (his wife Martha and his daughters Patsy, Sacky, and Sally), and thirty‑three slaves, for a total of forty‑one.
   Daniel Hunter died intestate in Granville County in 1797, leaving his lands and other property. Isham Kittrell, husband of Isaac’s daughter Ann, was Daniel’s executor, but the settlement remained in controversy for more than thirty years as the children of Daniel’s siblings and their children came forward to claim parts of the estate. (See the Daniel Hunter papers, Roll # 2169, North Carolina State Archives.)
   The federal census of 1800 reported Isaac Hunter (45 and over), a daughter 10 through 15 (Sarah “Sallie” Hunter), and eighteen slaves. Since there was no listing of a female around fifty, the wife and mother Martha Alston Hunter had died. Also in Warren, Isaac ’s son Jacob was listed as a householder of 26 through 44, his spouse (Patience Williamson) in the same age group, one white male of 16 through 25 (son William), three females under ten (Martha Green Hunter, Mary Hunter, and Ann Alston Hunter), and sixteen slaves.
   In 1801 Isaac Hunter sold Jonathan Kittrell, Sr., of Granville County two tracts of land. The second of these had belonged to the late Daniel Hunter (Warren County Deed Book Q, p. 450).
   In 1805 “in Warren County on Tuesday the 24 ult. Miss Sarah Hunter, [youngest] daughter of Mr. Isaac Hunter of the former county,” married Lyddal Bacon Estes of Northampton County. (Marriage bond in Warren County, 15 November; announcement in the Raleigh Register on 6 January 1806, p. 3, col. 5).
   In the 1810 federal census, Isaac Hunter, a widower, was living alone and the owner of one male slave. His son Jacob, the only one of of his children still residing in North Carolina, lived nearby. Isaac’s daughter Ann (Mrs. Isham Kittrell and later Mrs. Lewellen Jones), Sacky (Mrs. Osborne Pope Nicolson and later Mrs. Garrett Daniel Voorhies), and Sallie (Mrs. Lyddal Bacon Estes and later Mrs. Beaufort Turner) were living in Maury Co., Tenn. In Warren, Jacob’s household included one male of 16 through 25 and one male 26 through 44 (Jacob), one female under 10, two females of 10 through 15, and one female 26 through 44 (Jacob’s wife Patience). There were twenty‑five slaves.
   The 1811 tax list of Shocco District included Isaac Hunter, 670 acres, and his son Jacob, 110 acres (Warren Co., N. C., Will book 16, pp. 158‑161). In this year Isaac signed his will. It named his son James A. Hunter ($350.00), his son Jacob (“all my lands lying in the county” and two Negro men Bobb and George), his daughter Ann Alston Kittrell ($300.00), his daughter Patsy H. Williamson (one Negro named Will and $200.00), his daughter Sacky Nicholson (one Negro Hardy), and daughter Sallie Alston Estes (two Negroes Poncy and Patty) (Original will in North Carolina State Archives, also Family History Library microfilm 1,692,862, frame 408. Inventory: Family History Library microfilm 2,294,835, frame 1740).
   In 1815 Isaac Hunter died, and Jacob, his executor, made an inventory. It included $400.00 personal debt, more than $1440.00 in promissory notes due him, and $51.42 “cash in hand.” His chattels included one mare, two cows, one yearling, one calf, sixteen sheep, one walnut chest, two small trunks, four iron pots, two pairs of iron hooks, two Dutch ovens, a parcel of old books, one saddle, one rifle, one pine chest, one loom, two pewter dishes, three pewter basins, two cotton wheels, two flax wheels, one broadaxe, one butter pot, two crocks, three old bedsteads, fifteen old rag‑bottomed chairs, five Negro men, and one Negro woman.
   After Isaac’s death, Jacob remained in Warren County for about ten years, then sold the Hunter land, and, like his sisters, moved to Maury Co., Tenn.

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• Geburtstag 25. Mai 1745
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