George Lunt

While reading Charles Levi's book on the Woodbury family and some of their collateral families, the blogger came across a reference to a poem by George Lunt (Bloody Brook). The particular chapter of the Woodbury book dealt with the life of Peter who died, in 1675, in the Battle of Bloody Brook.

Who was George? George Lunt (ca 1803 -- 1885) was the prominent author who descended from Henry and Ann through their son, Daniel (Chapman, in process tree). George was the grandson of Henry, the mariner, that we looked at before.

George graduated from Harvard in 1824 and became a practicing attorney. As well, he was successful as a writer. Several of his poems were used at ceremonials such as one, in 1869, celebrating American Independence.

Remarks:

10/26/2011 -- The blogger first ran across this reference to George after reading what Charles Levi had written about Mt. Wollaston. Too much partying there, in the playground of New England, drove John Endicott crazy.

Modified: 10/26/2011

Ann Lunt (Oth Gen)

We don't know much about Henry and Ann before they arrived in 1634. Some think that Ann's maiden name was Hurst.

However, we can start to collect notable descendants. We have already mentioned Col. Timothy Pickering. We can add Sen. John Kerry and Alice Hathaway Lee (1st wife of Pres Theodore Roosevelt).

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One interesting family tie is via Ann's second marriage to Joseph Hills after Henry died. He has Walt Disney and Ansel Adams (Spooner's description) as descendants. As well, his descendant line married into the Lunt family about 100 years later which we'll look at later.

Remarks:

05/30/2012 -- From whence Lunt?

09/20/2011 -- In his will, Henry used Anna. In the Great Migration, they show that Ann, Anne, and Anna were used. We'll try to be consistent here and use Ann.

Modified: 05/30/2012

Henry Lunt (2nd gen)

There are many Henry Lunts starting with the immigrant. In this case, we're looking at the son of Daniel (1st gen) and the grandson of Henry and Ann.

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Henry (2nd gen), #11 in the 1913 book, is said to have married Mary. Henry (2nd gen) lived in Newbury. It is through one of his sons that we find out who Mary was. That is, son Johnson who married Joanna Bale.

It is like this. We need to use family information, if it can be confirmed, many times to fill in the records which were destroyed or lost.

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Later researchers, using such type of information from the family, say that Henry (2nd gen) married Mary Wingate. Both the Dowling and the Standish trees have her parents as John Wingate and Sarah Taylor. As well, Mary is the sister of Joshua who married Mary Lunt, who is the daughter of Henry (1st gen) the brother of Daniel (1st gen) and who is the mother of Mary (Wingate) Pickering who is the mother of Timothy Pickering.

Remarks:

08/30/2011 --

Modified: 08/30/2011

John Lunt (1st Gen)

So far, of Henry and Anne's kids, we have started with Mary and Priscilla.

Recently, I just ran across a connection with Bradstreet and Lunt which brings up a son, John. He married Mary Skerry whose brother, Henry, married John's sister, Priscilla.

With a fuller tree (Robinson), we can see other connections. The Skerry family had Moultons as ancestors. This family had some of the early silversmith experts.

There are many other relationships to look at. For now, consider the Bradstreet ancestors, Robert Crosby and John Pickard.

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It is interesting how American families have motivated some of the work overseas. Perhaps, we can expand Lunt information someday.

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We will have a major node for each of the kids.

Remarks:

08/17/2011 -- John, Mary, and Priscilla

Modified: 08/17/2011

Mary Lunt (1st gen)

There were a couple things reported for Mary, earlier: spouse of Thomas Nelson and mother of Ephraim Nelson.

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We can extend the descendant tree for Mary a little further. Ephraim was her only child, but he had children with three wives. For now, here are descendants lists for each.

• Sarah Brocklebank -- Dowling family, Cornelius family
• Deborah Searle -- Gage family, Cornog, et al
• Mary Kilborn -- ...

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As with her sister, Priscilla, we'll be looking further at collateral families (Larson tree): Ephraim, Sarah, Deborah. Using one of Ephraim's and Deborah's descendants (Francis Edgar Stanley, using the Larson tree) shows all of the families involved at the mid-1800s.

Remarks:

02/01/2013 -- Update rootsweb references for Larson tree.

08/17/2011 -- John, Mary, and Priscilla

Modified: 02/01/2013

Col Timothy Pickering

Most who came here were doing so for some reason related to freedom, whether of a political, religious, economic, or other nature. From the time of Henry's arrival here (1634) until the time of George III (reign started in 1760), there were twelve changes in structure in England due to several factors, such as civil war, including the four periods non-royal administration. In other words, things were unsettled.

Our effort at freedom was a continuation, in a sense. The descendants chafed that their rights would be reigned in after the long time of mostly self-administration. I say 'mostly' in that the England, for the most part, decided who was in charge, even with elections.

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It might be interesting to look at Henry's descendants and their lives, in relation to the status in England. Given that we're in July, the theme of Independence might be a good start.

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Who better than Col Pickering to start with? He was a descendant of Mary (Lunt) Wingate who was a grand-daughter of Henry. Mary's daughter was Timothy's mother.

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Timothy was too young to have participated in the French & Indian Wars. So, he was not involved with a conflict under the Crown.

He got out of Harvard in 1763. That is about the time that the 'shadow' governmental efforts, such as the Committee of Safety, were kicking off. Timothy was drilling the Essex County militia; what would have been his opinion of those pushing to remove themselves from British ties?

The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress says that Col Timothy was on a Committee of State of Rights of Colonists in 1773. During the war he served under General Washington as adjutant general.

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After the war, Col Timothy held many positions under Presidents Washington and Adams. He also held political positions.

During the period of the War of 1812, Col Timothy seemed to lean more to England than France. He was involved with an effort that wanted New England to be a separate entity.

Remarks:

07/21/2011 --

Modified: 07/21/2011

Priscilla Lunt (1st Gen)

Earlier, we listed the kids of Henry and Anne and tried to do a 2-generation expansion. In both cases, we didn't have much for Priscilla (c 1644 - 1695).

I just ran across a family site that has more information on Priscilla and on Henry Skerry who she married in 1635. Henry's sister, Mary, married Priscilla's brother, John.

Here are the descendants' list (and pedigree) for two of Priscilla's daughters.

• Ann (Skerry) Smith (pedigree) -- Ann married John Smith who was a descendant of Robert Goodale, featured at two excellents sites: Miner blog (exhibits many desirable properties), historic collection.
• Sarah (Skerry) Saunders (pedigree) -- ..., no info on Philemon Saunders, yet ...

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We'll be looking to collect these types of reference from collateral families. A sufficient collection would help tell the tale.

Remarks:

08/17/2011 -- John, Mary, and Priscilla

Modified: 08/17/2011