Call Number:

C1087

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.60 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Hunt and Guild Families of New Jersey Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1755-1878 (inclusive) and 1755-1858 (bulk)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Form:

Correspondence -- 18th century, Deeds--New Jersey--18th century., Family papers--New Jersey--18th century., and Leases--New Jersey--18th century.

Abstract:

Consists of eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence, letters, and documents of the Hunt and Guild families of New Jersey.

The collection consists of eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence, letters, and documents of the Hunt and Guild families of New Jersey. Included is correspondence of Abijah Hunt, Abraham Hunt, Anna Mary Hunt, Azariah Hunt, Charity Hunt, George Hunt, Hetty Hunt (d. 1862), Jesse Hunt, James P. Hunt, John Price Hunt, Margaret Hunt, Peter Hunt, Robert Hunt, Samuel Hunt, Theodosia Philadelphia Hunt, Timothy Hunt, and Wilson Price Hunt; Benjamin Guild (1749-1792), Eunice Guild, Rev. John Guild, and John Guild are also represented. The subjects of this correspondence vary between personal, pastoral, and business matters; some of the correspondence relates to the American Revolutionary Army and the New Jersey Militia. Included is a letter dated 23 July [1755] from Abraham Hunt to his father, Wilson Hunt, about information the army had just received regarding the defeat of Major General Edward Braddock at Fort Duquesne in the the French and Indian War. Also included is a letter from Rev. Samuel Davies, fourth president of Princeton University, to Rev. John Guild, dated 18 Oct. 1758. The documents include deeds of sale of land or of lease of property, a deed for a plot in the Easton (Pa.) Cemetery for John B. Hunt, a bank mortgage document of John Hunt to Ellen and Ralph Guild, documents of business arrangements, last will and testaments, and miscellaneous statements of accounts. There is also a printed booklet by Anne L. Hunt about her family history, with an autograph note indicating that she was 81 years old in 1878.