John Hunter and Rebecca Hanson

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Husband John Hunter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1777
     Christened: 
           Died: 1854 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Hunter (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Rebecca Hanson ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 
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   Other Spouse: John Bell (1794-1841) 2 3 4 5

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Rebecca [Unk].

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Hunter

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Four of the sons of John Hunter, John, William, Alexander and David, crossed the mountains on horseback to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, settling in Mt. Pleasant township.
He bought a farm of two hundred acres, most of it virgin forest, but he carried forward the work of reclamation until he had it all under cultivation. There he resided, a prosperous farmer, until his death.
He was active in the Presbyterian church, for over a quarter of a century an elder of the Middle Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant.

The source does not make clear which of his twelve children were the offspring of which of his wives.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 64.

2 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 532.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 884.

4 Linda (Francis) Hanna & Roberta (Francis) Hamilton, The Descendants of Walter Bell (Franklin, PA: Self-published, about 1990), Pg 1.

5 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 45.