Charter member of Free Congregational Society of Florence
He married Juliet Briggs of Keene, New Hampshire on October 2, 1838.
Seth Hunt was an outspoken abolitionist and his house at 115 Bridge Street in Northampton served as a way station on the Underground Railroad. He was an active member of the Free Congregational Society of Florence, a free-thinking religious group in the vicinity of Northampton. He wrote extensively for local newspapers on a variety of progressive subjects including abolition, temperance, vegetarianism, and vaccination. Among his notable correspondents were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison.
A key developer of the Connecticut River Railroad, Seth Hunt served as the corporation's treasurer and clerk.
(Guide to the Papers of the Hunt Family, MS-1173, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College)
He married Juliet Briggs of Keene, New Hampshire on October 2, 1838.
Seth Hunt was an outspoken abolitionist and his house at 115 Bridge Street in Northampton served as a way station on the Underground Railroad. He was an active member of the Free Congregational Society of Florence, a free-thinking religious group in the vicinity of Northampton. He wrote extensively for local newspapers on a variety of progressive subjects including abolition, temperance, vegetarianism, and vaccination. Among his notable correspondents were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison.
A key developer of the Connecticut River Railroad, Seth Hunt served as the corporation's treasurer and clerk.
(Guide to the Papers of the Hunt Family, MS-1173, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College)
Charter member of Free Congregational Society of Florence
He married Juliet Briggs of Keene, New Hampshire on October 2, 1838.
Seth Hunt was an outspoken abolitionist and his house at 115 Bridge Street in Northampton served as a way station on the Underground Railroad. He was an active member of the Free Congregational Society of Florence, a free-thinking religious group in the vicinity of Northampton. He wrote extensively for local newspapers on a variety of progressive subjects including abolition, temperance, vegetarianism, and vaccination. Among his notable correspondents were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison.
A key developer of the Connecticut River Railroad, Seth Hunt served as the corporation's treasurer and clerk.
(Guide to the Papers of the Hunt Family, MS-1173, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College)
He married Juliet Briggs of Keene, New Hampshire on October 2, 1838.
Seth Hunt was an outspoken abolitionist and his house at 115 Bridge Street in Northampton served as a way station on the Underground Railroad. He was an active member of the Free Congregational Society of Florence, a free-thinking religious group in the vicinity of Northampton. He wrote extensively for local newspapers on a variety of progressive subjects including abolition, temperance, vegetarianism, and vaccination. Among his notable correspondents were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison.
A key developer of the Connecticut River Railroad, Seth Hunt served as the corporation's treasurer and clerk.
(Guide to the Papers of the Hunt Family, MS-1173, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College)
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Seth Hunt/Born at Northampton 1814/Died at Springfield 1893
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