Margaret Esther HUNT

Birth: 1721 Bucks County Pennsylvania, USA Death: 1796 Guilford County North Carolina, USA Margaret Hunt was born about 1721 in Bucks County, PA, the daughter of William and Mary (Woolman) Hunt. About 1738 she married John Beals, almost certainly under the care of Hopewell Monthly Meeting of Friends in Frederick County, Virginia, whose records for this period are lost. In 1758 they were received at New Garden Friends Meeting on a certificate from Hopewell, although they had probably moved south earlier. Some secondary sources give Margaret an alternate or middle name of Esther, but this is likely not accurate. The name of Esther appears for the first time in 1871 in a biography of Margaret's brother-in-law Thomas Beals, a noted Friends minister, written by Gershom Perdue. No record made during Margaret's lifetime called her anything other than Margaret Hunt, and the addition of Esther was likely an error on the part of Perdue almost eighty years after her death. Margaret was recorded a minister in the Society of Friends in 1761. She was the cousin of early anti-slavery leader John Woolman. She was the mother of six known children: Ruth, Lydia, John, Hannah, William and Rachel. Three others, David, Mary and Jacob, may have been hers as well. Her death is recorded at Centre Friends Meeting in 1796, with the notation that she was buried at New Garden. Her grave is unmarked after the manner of early Friends. Family links: Spouse: John Beals (1717 - 1796) Children: Rachel Beals Dicks (____ - 1827)* John Beals (1744 - 1809)* *Calculated relationship Note: Grave is unmarked Burial: New Garden Friends Cemetery Greensboro Guilford County North Carolina, USA Created by: Mary Louise Reynolds Record added: Dec 01, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 101553615

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