Cynthia (Collins) Hunt (1789 - 1878)

Born 31 Oct 1789 in New York, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Nov 1878 at age 89 in Carysville, Adams Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Cynthia was born in 1789. She passed away in 1878.

Obituary

Mrs. Cynthia Hunt died at her home in Careysville Nov. 16, 1878 in her 90th year. She was born in Scattacook county, New York, Oct. 31st, 1789. She came up to the years of womanhood near Saco village in the above State, and married in November 1811, and emigrated to Butler county, Ohio with her husband and two children in 1814. In 1832 they came up to Shelby county and there resided until ten years ago, when she came in Champaign county.

She joined the M.E. church while in her tenth year and remained a consistent church member for a period of eighty years.

She was the mother of ten children, nine sons and one daughter, one-half of whom preceded her to the spirit world. She was the grandmother of thirty-two children and the great-grandmother of fourteen. She lived a widow for thirty-six years.

She was the mother of Isaac Hunt, of Adams township, and grandmother of Dr. W. Hunt of Terre Haute.

She was an active, useful woman in her day and was characterized in a high degree by those generous impulses and woman qualities which commanded the respect of all who knew her in the lifetime of almost a hundred years.^[1]

Research notes - Michael Major

I have no definitive proof that her maiden name was Collins. This seems to have originated in a family tree of unknown origin.

If it is indeed Collins, then she could be the daughter of Amos Collins.

1789. Birth in 'Scattacook county, New York' (according to obit). Assume this to be Schaghticoke, Albany County, New York. Albany county is now Rensselaer County. Obit says grew up in Saco Village in New York - this could possibly be Saco of York County in Maine. (In 1805 the town dropped the weighty and difficult to spell name, Pepperrellborough, in favor of the simpler ancient name, Saco.)

A review of the 1790 census does not show any Collins in Pepperrellborough (http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/me/york/1790/pg351-1.txt)

1790. Census for Schaghticoke lists a Kuder(?) Collins 1-2-2 and a Samuel Collins 1-2-2

1800. Census for Schaghticoke lists a Abraham (Abm) Collins (26-44 yrs) and wife (26-44 yrs).

1810. Census for Schaghticoke lists a A Collins (1 son under 10, 2 men 26-44, and one male >45, 2 females less than 10, one female 10-15, one female 26-44 and one female >45)

1810. Census for Schaghticoke lists a I Collins (2 males under 10, 1 male 26-44, 2 females less than 10, four females 10-15, one female 16-25, one female 26-44)

1811. Age 22, marriage to Enoch Hunt, presumably in Schaghticoke. Obit indicated she lived in Saco village until her marriage. No confirmation on date of marriage.

1814. Son Isaac Hunt born. Census records of Isaac indicate he was born in New York.

1814. Came to Butler County Ohio with two sons (from Cynthia's obit). Second son Thomas C is said to have been born in 1816. Possible that the family came in 1816 rather than 1814 as Cynthia would remember travelling with two infants better than remembering the date.

1820. Census. Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, page 113. (Males = 3 <10; 1 26-45) (Females = 1 26-45)

1830. Census. Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, page 86. (Males = 2 <5; 1 5-10; 1 10-15; 1 15-20) (Females = 1 <5; 1 40-49)

1832. Came to Shelby County (from Cynthia's obit)

1840. Census. Shelby Co, Perry, OH pg 306. Enoch Hunt 00202001-00010001

1842. Husband Enoch dies in Perry.

1850. Census family 34 Clinton twsp Shelby co Oh, living with son Samuel Hunt. 62 years old (enumerated 7 August 1850)

1868. Came to Champaign.

1870. Census family 107 Adams twsp Champaign co Oh, living with son Isaac. Age is 80.

1878. Death in Champaign.

Scatacook --> Schaghticoke

Source: http://www.scatacook.org/ScatacookTribalHistory.htm

The name "Scatacook" derives from the Scatacook Indians, a small tribe originating in southwestern Connecticut, and located between the Connecticut and Housatonic River valleys. The focal point for this tribe appears to have been in southern Kent, Connecticut, near Bulls Bridge. Scatacook means "fork in the river", and likely refers to the confluence of rivers at Bulls Bridge. Many of the towns and areas of northern Fairfield County and Litchfield County were originally purchased from the Scatacook Indians. There was also a Schaghticoke Indian Tribe near Albany, New York that appears to be the origins of the Scatacook Tribe in Connecticut, although the reverse may be true... There are various spellings for Scatacook, including: Schaghticoke, Skaghticoke, Skaticook, Skaticoke, Scatacoke

History of Schaghticoke New York -- at the time of Cynthia's birth

Source: http://www.townofschaghticoke.org/history.htm

Until the Revolutionary War, Schaghticoke was part of the colony of New York with most of its citizens governed by the city of Albany, which owned the land they rented. Meanwhile, the rest of what is now the town of Schaghticoke was sold by New York in several large land grants.

Settlement was slow until after the revolution because Schaghticoke was a dangerous place in which to live, its inhabitants subject to raid by Indians and Tories.

The new New York State government organized much of the state into towns by an act of Legislature in 1788. Schaghticoke was among those towns. Schaghticoke was part of Albany County until Rensselaer County was formed in 1791.

After the Revolution, many immigrants came to Schaghticoke, especially from England and Ireland. Population centers grew up near streams, where the water powered mills of various kinds. In 1792, William Chase constructed the first bridge over the Hoosic River at what would become the Village of Schaghticoke. Most residents were farmers, growing crops used in the local industries.

Additional references on history of Schaghticoke

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/schag.htm

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrenss2/Schaghticoke/

Sources

1. ↑ Urbana Citizen and Gazette 28 November 1878