The Family

Hunt

Origin: English

Spelling variations include: Hunt, Feighney, Feighty, Fey, and others.

First found in Shropshire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated with manor and estates in that shire.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Alice Hunt settled in Virginia in 1654; Edward Hunt settled in Virginia in 1655; James Hunt settled in Virginia in 1636 and others.

Coat of Arms: Blue on a diagonal stripe between two water carriers, three red leopards faces.

Crest: A Halbert.

Motto: None

 

This information above was obtained from the Swyrich website, for now we will be dealing with the ancestors and descendents of:

Ruth Hunt

1758-1837

And

William Secord UEL

B.New York    D. New Brunswick

 

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Hunt