Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856.

Memucan Hunt was born in North Carolina on August 7, 1807. He attended the Bingham School in Hillsboro, and was later involved in business interests in Weldon, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. In 1834 he moved to Mississippi to take charge of a plantation given to him by his father.

Early in 1836, Thomas Jefferson Green arrived in Mississippi to recruit volunteers to fight in the Texas Revolution. Hunt, along with neighbor James Pinckney Henderson and several hundred others, joined Green, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The men sailed from New Orleans to arrive at Velasco in June 1836. In August of that year, to prepare for a threatened invasion by Mexico, President David G. Burnet commissioned Hunt Brigadier General in the Texas Army. At his own personal expense, Hunt enlisted, organized and equipped troops for the Texas Army from Tennessee, North Carolina, and Mississippi. In December of 1836, with the threat of a Mexican invasion apparently over, Hunt resigned his commission to return to his home in Mississippi, but he was persuaded by President Sam Houston to serve Texas as Minister to the United States. Hunt assisted William H. Wharton in gaining United States recognition of Texas independence.

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