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Esther Hunt
Esther Hunt (September 4, 1751 – February 2, 1820) was a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith.〔Specht, Neva Jean (1997), ''Mixed blessing: trans-Appalachian settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1813'', Ph. D. dissertation, University of Delaware〕〔Specht, Neva Jean (2003), "Women of one or many bonnets?: Quaker women and the role of religion in trans-Appalachian settlement", ''NWSA Journal'' 15 (2): 27-44〕
==Early life at Moorestown==
Born Esther Roberts, she was the youngest of five children of Enoch Roberts (1717 – 1782) and Rachel Coles (c. 1715 – 1758).〔Lamborn, Suzanne Parry (2006), ''John and Sarah Roberts, with many related families'', Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press, ISBN 1-932864-58-X, p. 49-52〕 The Roberts family lived at Evesham Township, New Jersey.〔Evesham Township during the 18th century was much larger than it is today.〕 Esther's mother died when she was about seven years old.〔''The Friend''〕 Esther Roberts and Joshua Hunt were married on November 19, 1778 in the Friends Meetinghouse at Moorestown Township, New Jersey. He was a teacher in the Moorestown Friends School. While living there Esther and Joshua had six children.〔Woodward, E. M. (1883), ''History of Burlington County, New Jersey, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men'', Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, p. 270: "Their children are Elisha, born Oct. 7, 1779, died July 23, 1873; Enoch, born Aug. 17, 1781, died July 4, 1802; Aaron, born March 9, 1783, died young; Nathan, born April 12, 1784; Caleb, born Oct. 28, 1786, died July 24, 1834; Stacy, born April 21, 1789; and Rachel, born Oct. 24, 1791, became the wife of David Roberts, of Chester township, N. J., and died in 1881."〕
In September 1790, Esther and Joshua and their five children, "with two wagons, seven horses, one cow, and provisions", began a three-week journey to Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.〔Hunt Family Papers, "Biography of Joshua and Esther Hunt by their children", Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: "Our Parents (and Esther Hunt ) removed to Redstone (Fayette Co., PA ) in the 9th and 10 months 1790"〕〔Woodward, p. 270: "Elisha Hunt, eldest son of Joshua, also removed with his parents to Redstone Fort, Pa., and being the eldest child, then eleven years of age, he remembered well the tedious journey, with two wagons, seven horses, one cow, and provisions, across the Delaware on scows, through Philadelphia, then not built above Fifth Street, across the Schuylkill on a raft, made of logs, and a three weeks' trip with its many interesting incidents, finally reaching their destination."〕 Their destination was a small, but growing, community located on the east bank of the Monongahela River in close proximity to Fort Burd. In those days it was called Redstone Old Fort, or simply Redstone. Later, the name was changed to Brownsville.
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