Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

Asa Hunt

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ernest Hemingway — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 172 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Hunt 
  • Mother:
  • Honor Stetson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1710 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1751/1752 
  • Death Location:
  • at sea near Clark's Island, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Partridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Dec 1736 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Honor Hunt

  Ziba Hunt (Ahnentafel No:86 )

  • Notes: 

  • Asa Hunt drowned in 1752.

    Asa's brother John Hunt was granted administration of his estate 15 APR 1752.

    “John Hunt who is appointed Admininstrator on the Estate of his Brother Asa Hunt Late of Plimouth in the County aforesaid . . .”

• Sources for Asa Hunt

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, Marriage record for Asa Hunt and Sarah Partridge.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for Asa Hunt.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Case #11054, Probate file for Asa Hunt.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, pp. 55-56, Birth records for children of Asa and Sarah Hunt.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1910, Vol. 12, p. 224.
  • ⁶ Hunt, Mitchell J., A Brief Corrected Genealogy of Captain Ziba Hunt (1746-1820) of Duxbury, MA, Newent, CT, New Lebanon, NY, . . ., Willow Grove, Pennsylvania: n.p. (1994), 3-4.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 183.
  • ⁸ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of . . ., Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1992), 339.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 118.