John Hunt (Quaker exile)

John Hunt (1712 – March 31, 1778) was a Quaker minister from London, England.

Between 1738 and 1768, he made frequent voyages between London, Philadelphia and Virginia.

In 1769, John Hunt, a widower, emigrated to the province of Pennsylvania with his three children. They settled near Philadelphia at Darby. He married Rachel Tory, a widow, on November 28, 1769.

John Hunt and about twenty other prominent Quakers from Philadelphia were exiled by force of arms to Winchester, Virginia. This group became known as the "Virginia Exiles". He died March 31, 1778 at Winchester. [Gummere, Amelia Mott (1922), "The journal and essays of John Woolman", New York: The Macmillan Company, p.511]

Some modern writers have confused the John Hunt (1712 – 1778), who is the subject of this article, with another Quaker named John Hunt (1711 – 1729) who also lived near Philadelphia at Moorestown, New Jersey. [Hynes, Judy (1997), "The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton", Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association, p. 4] Another Quaker minister by the name of John Hunt (1740 – 1824) also lived at Moorestown. [Gummere, p. 571]

References and Notes

Bibliography

* Cloud, Morgan (2003), "Quakers, slaves and the Founders: profiling to save the Union", "Mississippi Law Journal", 73: 369-421
* Gilpin, Thomas (1848), "Exiles in Virginia" - account of the exile of 22 Philadelphia Quakers to Winchester, Virginia
* Gray Vining, Elizabeth (1955), "The Virginia Exiles", (novel)
* Worrall, Jay (1994), "The friendly Virginians, America's first Quakers", Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co., 632 pages

External links

* [http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/law_school/ruleoflaw/pdf/LJourn03cloud.pdf Morgan Cloud's article in PDF format]