Hunt, Robert, 1745-1805

Robert Hunt was an 18th-century Quaker from the eastern part of what is now the United States. He was the youngest son of Robert Hunt and Abigail Wood, and the younger brother of diarist John Hunt. He married Abigail Pancoast, daughter of Samuel Pancoast and Abigail Copland, on December 19 1765 in the Makefield Quaker Meeting House, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The couple had eight children. Robert and his family moved from New Jersey to Maryland in 1776 and later to northern Virginia and eastern Ohio. Robert, like his father, was a shoemaker and later a farmer. He had a close relationship with his brother John Hunt.