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Hunters in New York State

Two wills of Hunters in New York State are thus recorded.

Will of Alexander Hunter,  Homer, Cortland co., N.Y. July 15, 1833.

To son  William Hunter.

To son Charles H. Hunter.

To son James Hunter.

To son John Hunter.

To son Alexander Hunter.

To daughter Nancy Hunter.

To daughter Margaret Hunter.

To nieces Diana and Sally, daughters of James Hunter.

 

Hunters in Ireland

Andrew Hunter, of County Londonderry, Ireland, was born in 1640, and it was the family tradition that his birthplace was the ancestral home of the Hunters of Hunterston in Scotland. His son, Hugh, married Isabella Semple, and their son, David Hunter, lived in York county, Pennsylvania. He married Martha McIlhenny in 1745. He was a captain of a York county Company in the French and Indian War, and a member of the expedition against Fort Duquesne. Capt. Hunter mysteriously disappeared in the summer of 1776, and his family never saw or heard from him again. His fate was not known until nearly a century afterward, when, on the destruction of an old house in the Valley of Virginia by Union soldiers, a paper was discovered concerning him.