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THE HUNTON FAMILY, PAGE 11
PARISHES IN ENGLAND
Hunton. — A parish in the hundred of Twyford, lathe of Anglesford, county of
Kent, six miles from Maidstone. The living is a rectory, and in the jurisdiction and
patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a neat
edifice, containing some handsome monuments of the Fanes. The river Beult runs through the
parish, and falls into the Medway at Salding. In the forty-first of Henry III. (1257),
Nicholas de Lenham was proprietor of Hunton.
Of the delightful situation of the rectorial mansion, Dr. J. Beattie, who visited it in
July, 1784, says "Hunton parsonage is delightfully situated about half-way down a
bill fronting the south. My windows contain a prospect extending southward about twelve
miles, and from east to west I suppose not less than forty. In the whole space I do not
see a single speck of ground that is not in the highest degree cultivated. The lawns in
the neighborhood, the hop grounds, the rich verdure the trees, and their endless variety,
form a scenery so picturesque and so luxuriant that it is not easy to fancy anything
finer. Add to this the cottages, churches, and villages rising here and there among the
trees, and scattered over the whole country, clumps of oaks and other lofty trees
dispersed in ten thousand different forms, and you will have some idea of the beauty of
Hunton."
Hunton — A chapelry in the parish of Crawley, hundred of Buddlesgate,
Fawley Division of the county of Southampton, five and a half miles from Whitechurch. This
chapelry is within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Rector of Crawley. The chapel is
dedicated to St. James.
Hunton — A chapelry partly within the liberty of St. Peter of York, the
parish of Hornby, eastern division, but chiefly in the and partly in
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parish of Brompton Patrick, North Riding of the county of York, six miles from
Richmond. The living is a perpetual curacy with that of Brompton Patrick in the diocese of
Chester. The chapel has been demolished.
In 1873, the residence of Henry Campbell Bannerman, M.P., was at Hunton Court, Kent.
The Boston Evening Transcript of Jan. 12, 1862, gives an account of a battle fought
thirty-five miles from Fort Pillow, at a place called "Huntoon’s Mills," on
the morning of the 8th.
Lippincott's Gazetteer mentions "Huntoon, a station in Pickaway County, Ohio, on
the Scioto Valley Railroad."
Editors note: In the panhandle of Texas, on Texas
road maps of the from 1950 to 1970 the settlement of Huntoon, Texas is identified near
Perryton.
Editor’s note: On maps of the state of New Hampshire c. 1840, there is identified
Huntoon’s Lake in Unity, NH (near East Unity).
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IN ENGLAND
Whether our
ancestors came from France or England, there is no by our name have existed in the
latter country from a
in 1272, I find Thomas de Honton and William
In 1327, Petro de Hunton." The Hintons of America following account of their
origin "The family was originally
stock. Peter Hunton came to England as a retainer in the of Philippa, daughter of
William III., Earl of Hainault in Flanders
who married Edward III. of England. This Hunton settled at near Portsmouth in
Hampshire. Nothing further is known of them, until Queen Elizabeth, in consideration of a
loan of money to
carry out some project against France, granted to William Hinton, a London merchant,
and a descendant of old Peter Hunton, the following arms," &c. in 1349, we find
Robert de Hunton, son Thomas, and
grandson Roger. In 1359, Adam de Honton, L.L.D., was rector of Croy don. In 1470,
Thomas Hunton succeeded Robert Westgate as head of the convent and prior of the monastery
of Winchester, and governed until 1498. "Anthony Hunton, an English author,
matriculated at Christ College, Cambridge 1575, M.L., 1589, author of Latin verses,"
&c. In 1620, Dr. Anthony Hunton, possibly the same person, "paid £25 tO Sir
Samuel Smith about the time of the settlement of Virginia." Buried in the church at
Towse-with-Newton, Hannah, the dearly beloved wife of John Hunton, Dec. 9, 1707; her
husband, "Johannes Hunton, generosus, (died May 28, 1714." In 1675, Thomas
Hunton was sworn mayor of Salisbury, England.
The Wiltshire Huntons. —The registry of the parish of East Knoyle in
Wiltshire dates from 1438. The first name that occurs is Brethers, 1439 ; next follows
that of Hunton, which is continued in the parish register to the year 1636. The names
Collingsborough and Hunton
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almost completely fill the register from 1543 to 1589. Richard Hunton had a
lease of Knoyle in 1533. William Hunton, son of this Richard, by will, 1581, gives to
William Huntonne his son, "my best goblet and my ring of gold.’ I have quite an
account of this family.
The Hampshire Huntons — The reader will notice the wonderful similarity of
Christian names in the Hampshire branch with that of our immigrant ancestor and his
children. Philip, living in 1610, had sons (1) Philip, (2) John. Philip lived at Andover,
in Hampshire, m. Eliza beth, had (3) Jonathan and (4) Philip. (2) John, of Winchester,
County Southampton, will proved 1618 by Philip his brother, had Austin, John, Elizabeth.
(3) Jonathan, of Andover, by will proved 1659, gives "to my son Phillipp and my two
daughters Elizabeth and Mary," "to pay to my son Phillipp his portion at the age
of twenty-two years ;" and
I charge my son and daughters to be dutiful and obedient to their grandmother . . and
if either of them prove stubborn and disobedient, that with the consent of my overseers,
she have power to give their por tion unto the other of them that are more dutiful."
The children of Jonathan were Jonathan, living in 1683, Philip, Elizabeth, Mary. (4)
Philip was horn in Andover, in Hampshire, about 1598; entered Wad-ham College, 1622; A.B.
1626; AM. 1629. "Entering the sacred function, he became successively schoolmaster of
Aburie in Wiltshire, perpetual curate of Heytesbury (1630-1639) and of Westhury. He was
also prebend of Tytherington. In 1654, he was appointed an assistant to the commissioner
of Wilts for the ejecting of such whom the Presby terians, Independents, and other
factious people called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient ministers. In 1657, he was
appointed first provost of the New College at Durham erected by Oliver Cromwell. He had
also in the North the rich living of Sedgefield, in the bishopric of Durham. He had
upwards of £200 assigned him, which he lost upon the return of the old incumbent, Dr.
Nailor, in 1660. His writings were ‘A Treatise of Monarchy,’ London, 1643,
answered by Dr. Ferne and Sir Robert Filmer, London, 1644. He also wrote ‘A
Vindication of Monarchy, 1644. This was reprinted when the press was open in 1680. The
principles announced in this book were condemned by a decree of the University of Oxford,
1683, and, the book itself burnt in the quadrangle. This decree and judgment of the
University was as publicly burnt in the New Palace Yard by order of the House of Lords,
March 27, 1710, as contrary to the constitution of the kingdom and destructive to the
Protestant succession. When the Prince of Orange came into England, it was again printed
in London,
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Jus Regis,’ London, 1645. I can Say
he was a man of parts. Nicholson
Ithink we ought to take some notice of
treat upon the rights of Our monarchs and
of their royal power. Philip Hunton, a non.
hed the most learned treatise on monarchy
his party." In answer to this, Sir Robert Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy.
It had met with some more early antagonist, since of Sir Robert’s book, he printed a
vindication of
was dissolved at Durham, Philip Hunton retired to
1662, he was ejected from his living for nonconformity.
afterwards conventicles, notwithstanding. lieHe married Anne with a good jointure, some
years before his death, which July 1, 1682. He was buried in the church at Westbury.
John Hunton of Kerlington County, York, will proved June 30, 1657.
There are Huntons in Cambridgeshire. The name is common in English directories to-day,
and I saw in an ancient churchyard in Lon don the name Robert Hunton on a gravestone. The
historian of the county of Cheshire speaks of the Hintons, yet the manuscript of the
visitation of Cheshire in the British Museum reads Hunton.
The Untons of Berkshire often were called Hunton, likewise the Untons of Sculthorpe in
Norfolk.
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