He was married to Flora Lee Morgan on 12 Apr 1915 in Caldwell County, Kentucky.⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: Loreitha Blondell Hunsaker, Loreitha Blondell Hunsaker, Dorotha Lee Hunsaker , Alyena June Hunsaker, George William Hunsaker, Lila Mae Hunsaker , Tunny Morgan Hunsaker, Robert Kieth Hunsaker.

He was married to Elizabeth Hege WFT Est. 1800-1832. ^(11516) Children were: John Hunsecker .

She was married to Samuel D. Lehman WFT Est. 1865-1889. ^(13015)

He was married to Catherine Horst WFT Est. 1871-1905. ^(12500)

He was married to Lydia Shirk on 8 Nov 1832. ^(13020)

He was married to Lydia Shirk WFT Est. 1827-1859. ^(13023) Children were: Elizabeth S. Hunsecker .

He was married to Barbara ??? WFT Est. 1778-1804.⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ Children were: Elizabeth Hunsicker, Jacob Hunsicker, Phillip III Hunsicker.

He was married to Sarah Ann Newcomer WFT Est. 1826-1861.^(13032) Children were: David Hunsicker.

He was married to Lydia Wenger on 1 Jan 1845.^(13037) Children were: Sarah Ann Hunsicker, Nathaniel Hunsicker, Frank Hunsicker, Uriah Hunsicker.

He was married to Anna Light WFT Est. 1851-1886.^(13046) Children were: Mary A. Hunsicker.

She was married to Elias Frantz on 18 Oct 1833 in Berks Co. , PA.⁽⁸⁴⁹⁹⁾ Children were: Mary Frantz, Davilla Frantz, Isaac H. Frantz, Henry H. Frantz, Elias H. Frantz, Jacob H. Frantz, Catharine H. Frantz, Josiah H. Frantz, Israel H. Frantz, Addison H. Frantz, William H. Frantz.

She was married to John Gibble Private.

She was married to Jacob G. Frantz on 25 Oct 1866. ⁽⁸⁵⁸³⁾

He was married to Mary Ann Noll WFT Est. 1834-1845. ^(13068) Children were: Polly Hunsicker, Jonathan Hunsicker, Katharine Hunsicker, Betsy Hunsicker, Daniel Hunsicker, William Hunsicker, John Hunsicker, Caroline Hunsicker, Sybilla Hunsicker, Henry Hunsicker, Elias Hunsicker.

She was married to Benjamin Hunsaker on 18 Nov 1821 in Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky.⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: James J. Hunsaker, John Hunsaker, Issac Hunsaker, Mathew Hunsaker, Samuel Hunsaker, Benjamin Hunsaker, Mary Ann Hunsaker, Thomas J. Hunsaker, George W. Hunsaker, Emily J. Hunsaker.

He was married to Abigail McCory on 4 Nov 1894 in Jackson County, INdiana.

She was married to *John Brondish about 1660. From "The Washington Ancestry", Vol. 3, by Charles Arthur Hoppin, 1932, page 544:

"Sometime after the death of his mother about 1643, and when he had become old enough to be apprenticed, to sell his labor, or to run away and maintain himself independently, he left his stepfather, Anthony Wilson of Fairfield, and entered into some engagement with one of the several families that had settled in the westeern part of Stamford that became in 1665 the town of Greenwich in the colony of Connecticut. When John Brundish arrived there the place was in the colony of New Haven. Probably he was there by 1650, alone of his family. On June 29, 1660, Peter Disbrow and two others at Greenwich purchased of Indians the island of Manussing in Long Island Sound, and in July or August, 1661, they with John Brundish and eleven other Englishmen removed to it. Manussing Island was then not under the jurisdiction of any colony or province, but the colony of Connecticut soon claimed it; later the province of New York included it in a new township of Rye, also originally claimed by Connecticut but later yielded up as the easternmost town in the county of Westchester, province of New York.

So John Brundish was one of the fifteen founders of the town of Rye, and one of its first settlers. These few men, in boldly and privately effecting the purchase of the island and in removing there, were viewed with suspicion by the chief officials of the colony of New Haven.... These men took up a most unusual position, as is indicated in a document now quite famous, locally, which they prepared and proclaimed.... The inference is easy to draw from the declaration of the nine signers of the locally famous instrument that they were averse to permitting themselves and their island to fall under the jurisdiction of the colony of New Haven or of the province of New York. They gave the name of Hastings to their settlement, afterward changing to the name of Rye, it covering a section of the adjacent mainland as well as the island....

'Hasting, July 26, 1662. Know all men whom this may Concarn that we the inhabitants of minnussing Iland whos names are here under writtne do Declare unto all the trueth that we Cam not hether to live without government as pretended and therfore doe proclayme Charles the Second our lawful lord and King; and doe vollentaryly submitt our selves and all our lands that we have bought of the english and yndians; under his gratious protection: and do expect According to his gratious declaration: unto all his subjects which we are and desierre to be subject to all his holsom lawes that are Just and Rightious According to God and our Capablenes to Receive; where unto we do supskribe.

The mark of Samuell Alling
the mark of Robert Hutsone
John Brondish
The mark of Frederick Harminsone
The mark of Thomas Aplebe
Peter Disbrow
John Coe
The marke of Thomas Stedwell
The mark of William Odelle


Here is the evidence of the beginning of a town, so definite that it can go down in history free from the vagueness and doubts in which such events are sometimes obscured....

On March 26, 1663, John Brundish signed his name 'John Brondig,' with nine others, to a formal address to their 'Much Honnored Sires', the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, setting forth that the signers have established the town of Hastings upon land which 'wee have bought with our money: the which: wee understand doth lye within your patent,' and acknowledging the jurisdiction of the colonial court, appointing their deputy to attend its sessions, and requesting the court to give their newly chosen constable at Hastings the power to grant warrants in case of need. A month after this address, the four original purchasers of Manussing Island and Hastings from the Indians, conveyed by deed of April 28, 1663, the island and some land on the main to John Brondig and six others, at the price of forty shillings a lot payable in cattle or corn. There were one hundred acres of good land on the island.

A section of Hastings became known as Rye, both names being given for the two adjoining towns of Hastings and Rye in the county of Sussex, England. On May 11, 1665, the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut decreed that the entire area of the town of Hastings be called Rye, and on May 10, 1677, John Brundish was elected by the inhabitants of Rye as their representative for that year to the colonial legislature at Hartford. He served another term, beginning on May 12, 1681. [Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, II,300; III,75.] He also served as selectman (townsman) of Rye, having the administration of town affairs in general. He was the first formally chosen clerk of the town of Rye. The town records are in his handwriting. He served for nearly all of the more than thirty years of his life at Rye. He was succeeded in that office at his death in 1697 by Samuel Lane. He became one of the company called 'The Eighteen Proprietors of Penningo Neck,' that purchased Peningoe Neck, on the mainland in Rye. These owners were more commonly called 'The Eighteen Men.' They ruled the town. John Brundish was empowered by the town on November 23, 1686, to procure for the town a patent from the colony of Connecticut....

John Brundish was selectman of Rye at the outbreak of King Philip's War in July 1675.... On May 21, 1696, John Brundage 'made application for himself and Richard Griffen to purchase one hundred acres of vacant land on Byram River near fourteen miles from the Sound, for which they desire a patent.' [Indian Deeds, Warrants for Survey. Albany, NY., Liber I] This land, in what is now the town of North Castle, Westchester County, New York, was close to or adjoining, or perhaps was in part the land purchased in 1701 by his son-in-law, Richard Schofield, of Stamford, as we have seen.

The death of John Brundish at Rye in 1697 prevented his development of that patent of land. At his death, the dispute over the boundary line between the province of New York and the colony of Connecticut was unsettled. The king of England finally settled the question in October, 1700, by giving Rye to the province of New York, thus deciding against the claims of the colony of Connecticut which had held more or less of Rye since it was founded in 1661. The settlement of the estate of John Brundish was effected in the probate court of Fairfield County, Connecticut (abstract):

[Fairfield Probate Records, IV-141]:

October the second day 1697, the Inventary of John Brundage decased. The whole Inheritance of houseing & land & movbls, 288 ll 6d Samuel Knifen Hackeliah Browne John Lyon.

Hannah Brundage ye Relict of John Brundage decesed made oath to ye truth of the above Inventory. The names of the Children: John Brundag, Daniell Brundage, Joshua Brundage, Ruth Schofield, Mary Brundage, Hannah Brundage.

John Brundage of Rye deceased he dieing Intestate An Inventory of his Estate being Exhibitedto ye County Court in Fairfield this 2d of November, 1697.... Ye widow to have her dowry in houseing and Land.... as much of the moveables as the Eldest son's portion Coms to... Richard Schofeild his wife hath receaved ten pounds which is to be Rekoned to him as portion, and the Court deem him to have had no more." Children were: Thomas? Brundage , John Brundage, Ruth Brundage, *Daniel Brundige, Joseph Brundage, Joshua Brundage, Mary Brundage, Hannah Brundage.

She was married to *David Whitaker on 3 Dec 1707 in Concord, Massachusetts. ^(13084) Children were: *Mercy Whitaker , Elisabeth Whitaker, Mary Whitaker, *Elizabeth Whitaker, David Whitaker, Ephraim Whitaker.

He was married to *Mary Tooll on 1 Jun 1663 in Concord, Massachusetts.^(13086) Children were: Mary Hunt, John Hunt, John Hunt, Nehemiah Hunt, John Hunt, *Mercy Hunt, William Hunt, Hannah Hunt, Simon Hunt.

He was married to *Elizabeth Best WFT Est. 1609-1650. Children were: *Nehemiah Hunt, *Hannah Hunt.

She was married to Allen Bennett Jillson WFT Est. 1825-1858. Children were: Henry Francello Jillson, George Francis Jillson , Francello George Jillson, Abby Medora Jillson, Ollys Allen Jillson.

She was married to Levi Aldrich WFT Est. 1725-1768. Children were: Nathaniel Aldrich.

He was married to Sarah Root in 1793 in Northampton, Ma.

He was married to Francis Lydia Foster WFT Est. 1869-1902.

She was married to James Bayard Campbell on 13 Dec 1838. Children were: Fee Campbell, John E. Campbell, Wesley Campbell, Lafayette Campbell.

She was married to Levi Jillson about 10 Jun 1774 in Attleboro, Mass.. Children were: William Jillson , Polly Jillson, Nancy Jillson, Mercy Jillson, Candace Jillson, Arnold Jillson.

She was married to Solomon Hewes WFT Est. 1751-1784.

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