Hunt was head of the first known Hunt Family to settle in New, England, appearing first at Cambridge in 1634-5 and removed to Duxbury in 1636-7 where he died about 1656. The Edmond Hunt House remains occupied today as the oldest house in Duxbury and one of the oldest in the United States. It was built in September 1641 by Edmond Hawes and sold the following year to Edmond Hunt from whom it passed to Edmond's son Samuel and on from father to son for some 228 years until sold out of the family in 1870. It was eventually used for storage until Robert H. Hose, an architect from New Jersey who married a Duxbury girl, bought it in 1962 and restored it for a summer home, preserving its 17th century architecture. The original entrance was at the left side facing Hound's Ditch. The wing is a later addition. Present entrance is at the back side of the house. Photographed July 23, 1977 by Mitchell J. Hunt.
Edmund Hunt, b. in, England, date unknown, but prob. abt 1610, was the first of this surname to settle in New, England, appearing first at Cambridge (then called Newtowne), MA, in 1634 where he was granted land and moved about 1637 to Duxbury in Plymouth Colony where he was granted 10 acres on Houndsditch 2 Oct 1637. There he bought in 1642 a frame house built by Edmond Hawes in 1641 which remains in use today as a residence, the oldest house in Duxbury and one of the oldest houses still in existence in America. He was a member of a military company in Duxbury in 1643 (the only Hunt there in the age bracket to register which indicates that he had no children age 16 or over at the time), a Proprietor of Bridgewater in 1645 although he never moved there, died in Duxbury in 1656/7, inventory of his estate (L51, 11s, 9d) taken 20 March 1656/7, and presented 24 Oct 1657. The name of his wife has never been discovered. There are allegations that he returned to, England and m. 2d in London 10 Jun 1641 one Dorcas Oxenbridge, but there isn't the slightest evidence to support that assumption and the weight of the evidence is that London Edmond was a completely different person. Little positive information has been discovered about the identity of his children except for son Samuel (who inherited the Duxbury house which remained in the family for some 228 years) and Samuel's brother John who appeared together in court in 1657. Others known to be in Duxbury during and/or shortly after the tenure of Edmund are presumed to have been his children but documentary proof has not been found.
