He is married to Hester Seaborne.
They got married about 1617 at England.Source 1
Child(ren):
Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3
pg 1389
John Hunting, the first of this family of whom there is record in America, was born in England in 1597. He came to New England in the spring of 1638 and settled in Dedham, where he was admitted a freeman March 13, 1639. He was one of the founders of the church at Dedham and was its first ruling elder. Previous to coming to this country he was a ruling elder, and his living was in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, England. The first authentic record of him is on the Dedham Register, under date of August 28, 1638, when he entertayned to purchase John Boledges lot. From the church records he seems to have taken an active part in religious affairs. He died April 12, 1689, buried at Dedham. He married Hester Seaborne, second cousin of John Rogers, about 1617. Children:
1. John, see forward.
2. Samuel, born July 22, 1640; married, December 24, 1662, Hannah Hackborne.
3. Nathaniel, born December 15, 1643, died in infancy.
4. Matthew, born March 6, 1648.
5. Margaret, born in England, married Robert Ware.
6. Mary, married ----- Buckner.
7. Hester, married Nathaniel Fisher, December 26, 1649.
8. Elizabeth, married John Peck.
Dedham Historical Register, Volume 3
pg 123-125
JOHN HUNTING AND HIS DESCENDANTS. ?By T. D. Huntting, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ?
Elder John Hunting, one of the early settlers of Dedham, was born in Hoxne, a village in Suffolk County, England, about the year 1597. He was a man of decided opinions, and early in life took a firm stand in religious matters. Upon reaching his majority he took an active part in the questions of the day.
England was then under the rule of Charles I, who apparently was intent upon introducing the Catholic worship into his Kingdom, but there were many who had the force of their convictions, and refused to acknowledge what they did not believe. Among the dissenters of Norfolk and Suffolk Counties, none were more prominent than John Hunting. He was made Ruling Elder of that district, and we read of his spending most of his time in his saddle, visiting the people of like faith, encouraging them in their work and holding meetings wherever a few could be assembled, be it either in house or barn, or under the trees, teaching them of a higher life as he understood it. Disseminating his ideas upon religion, and exhorting new converts to his belief was his life's work, and he entered into it in no half hearted way. This manner of religious teaching caused him to be absent from his family a greater part of the time.
In Hester Seaborn, his wifea cousin of the Martyr John Rogershe found a willing helpmate. Herself a religious enthusiast, we can well understand how he was encouraged in his labors. We must also consider that her sacrifices must have been many, for, besides the absence of her husband so much of the time, the care of the family fell upon her. Is it to be wondered, that with the promise of a free home where he could worship as he chose, and a prospect of a better field for improving his worldly condition, this hard working christian man, should, at the first opportunity, emigrate with his family to the New World?
During the year 1638 a number of vessels arrived at Boston bringing, it is said, about three thousand people in search of homes, among whom wereJohn Hunting, his wife and five children. We have no record of the vessel's name on which they took passage, therefore have no means of telling who their companions were. It was in the spring of that year when he first settled at Dedham, going there immediately after landing at Boston, and soon made himself felt in the welfare of the church and town.
Admitted a Freeman in 1639, and made Ruling Elder the same year, we see he at once identified himself with the affairs of his new home. Most of his children were born in England, and land having been apportioned off to him, it is supposed they, like others of that time, were soon contributing to the family's support. Through John, the eldest son, we find the name has been spread to all parts of America. The daughters all married and their descendants are to be found among the Wares, Fishers, Pecks and Buckners of the present day.
Margaret, the oldest daughter, married, March 24, 1645, Robert Ware or Wares, of whom Miss Emma F. Ware, the compiler of " The Descendants of Robert Ware," is a descendant. Hester married Nathaniel Fisher, Mary married a Buckner, and Elizabeth married John Pecke of Rehoboth. John,the son, born about 1628, married Elizabeth Paine, and had ten children, of whom the third, Nathaniel, moved to East Hampton, N. Y., in 1696.
Nathaniel was born Nov. 15, 1675, graduated from Harvard College in 1693, and married Mary Green, a daughter of John and Ruth Green and granddaughter of Percival and Ellen Green, in 1701. He was the second pastor of the Presbytarian Church at East Hampton, which position he filled until failing health compelled him to resign in 1746, and retire to his farm, where he remained until his death Sept. 21, 1753. When he first moved to East Hampton he began to spell his name with two T's, and hoped his descendants would follow his example, to distinguish the branch of the family from that which remained in New England. He was an earnest worker, and built up the church to be one of the most active in Long Island. His descendants have gone out into the world and filled positions in all the walks of life to their credit, if not renown.
We find among those claiming Elder Hunting as their ancestor, ministers of various denominations, college professors, lawyers, merchants, and farmers, men taking an interest in the welfare of their fellow creatures, and occupying stations of trust and respect. This family has also contributed to their country substantial aid, by giving of their means and life to the cause of justice and freedom. We find them among the patriots of 1776, and also among those that took up arms to sustain the Government in 1861. It is not a numerous family, but we venture to say that it has given to the support of our institutions as much in proportion to its numbers as any other.
New England has to-day more descendants of this family than any other part of the United States, and that to, near the home first established by our ancestor. They may be found in Boston, Cambridge, Hubbardston, East Templeton, and many other towns in Massachusetts. In Dedham, the town where the family was first known in this country, however, there are none bearing the name.
Thus we see in this land of universal hurry and enterprise how soon others come to occupy our places, and we are forgotten, unless we leave such works as will cause the coming generations to remember us. To follow up all the descendants of this Puritan emigrant would extend this article beyond the limit of these pages, and, perhaps, the patience of the readers. If it should excite a more lively interest among us all to know more of our honored forefathers it will have accomplished the desire of the writer.
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