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Monroe for President, and who was the father of that eminent 

 jurist, Judge Ward Hunt of the Court of Appeals of the State 

 and of the Supreme Court of the United States. 



Thomas Hunt, the fourth, was a patriot and a staunch ad- 

 herent of the principles which his great-grandfather had embodied 

 in the Charter of Liberties in 1683. He was prominent in all 

 affairs pertaining to the separation of the Colonies from the Mother 

 Country. He was an influential member of the Committee of 

 Safety, and was instrumental in organizing the West Farms and 

 Fordham Company of Minute Men, in which no less than seven 



Hunt's Mansion 



members of his own family enlisted. During the Revolution he 

 espoused the American cause. He was the friend and confidant 

 of Washington, who relied implicitly upon his calm judgment, his 

 patriotic courage, and his thoro knowledge of the country. 



The British frigate Asia was kept at anchor in the Sound near 

 his home. His estate was devastated and his family driven from 

 their home. One of the cannon balls, which was embedded in the 

 west brick wall, where it lodged until a few years ago, is now in 

 the writer's possession. 



There appears to be much doubt among historians as to the 



