Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John HUNTER
John HUNTER, the progenitor of the family in America, was a strong churchman, and was in the Protestant army, under William of Orange in the battle of the Boyne, where he commanded a troop of horse and was wounded in the hip. He
was a native of Durham, England, and a descendant of the HUNTER family of
Madomsley Hall, Gateshead, where many of his ancestors are buried. Upon the
accession of James II, he fled to Rathdrum, county Wicklow, Ireland, where he
married Margaret ALBIN, who bore him ten children. He came to America in 1722,
and a year later settled in Newtown Township, Delaware county, where he died in 1734 at the age of seventy years, and lies buried at old St. David’s, Radnor, of which church he was one of the founders and a member of the first vestry. He was accompanied to America by Anthony WAYNE, the grandfather of Mad Anthony WAYNE, of the Revolution, the former being his superior officer in the battle of the Boyne, and the two families were closely associated.
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