John Hunt

Who was John Hunt?

John Hunt was one of the Virginia Exiles, a group of Philadelphia Quakers which was forcibly exiled to Winchester, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War.

John Hunt was a merchant and Quaker minister from London, England. Between 1738 and 1768, he made several voyages between London, Philadelphia and Virginia.

In 1769, John Hunt, a widower, emigrated to the province of Pennsylvania with his three children: Dorothea, Elizabeth and John. The Hunt family settled near Philadelphia at Darby. John Hunt married Rachel Tory, a widow, on November 28, 1769.

Some modern writers have confused the John Hunt, who is the subject of this article, with another Quaker named John Hunt who also lived near Philadelphia at Moorestown, New Jersey. Adding to the confusion, another Quaker minister by the name of John Hunt also lived at Moorestown.