Caleb is a brother-in-law of Quaker abolitionist John Needles.
Caleb and his four brothers grew up in Moorestown on their family's ten-acre homestead. His father was the first teacher at Moorestown Friends School. During September of 1790, the Hunt family removed to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They settled in a log cabin at HUNT PLEASANT, their 195-acre farm homestead. The farm featured "a high hill covered with walnut trees" and sat on the south bank of Redstone Creek a few miles north of Brownsville. [1.]
Joshua's sudden and unexpected death at age 39 was a devastating catastrophe for Caleb and his family to endure. Fortunately, the local Quaker community and his mother's sister and husband, Elizabeth and Jonas Cattell, were extremely helpful.
From 1807 to 1810, Caleb lived at either Brownsville or Salem, Ohio. While living in Salem he earned money from teaching school and grinding grain. "Caleb has gone to Salem..." [2.]
Caleb finally made Brownsville his permanent home. He joined Elisha in his store that was located in the "Neck", as the town's commercial center was known. It was here, during autumn of 1811, that a chance meeting happened between Elisha and Joseph White, a Quaker merchant from Philadelphia. As a result: "Caleb is now about preparing a tour to St Louis, in company with Jos White from Philadelphia," "Caleb takes 1/5 of cargo." [3.]
On February 24, 1812, Caleb wrote in his diary:
"Joseph White & myself put off from Brownsville in a Keel Boat which we named the 'Monongahela' bound for St. Louis..." [4.]
Caleb and Elisha worked in the storefront and lived, along with Mary and Emmor, in the rear of the same building. Caleb learned a great deal about Rhoda, Mary's unmarried niece back home in Maryland.
Elisha became the principal founder of a stock company that built, owned and operated the historic steamboat "Enterprise". Caleb became his partner: "Caleb has now gone by Land to Louisiana . . . " [5.]
"As my Brother [Caleb] is about to pay a visit to you he can inform of our fare & business generally, . . . " [6.] With the recent withdrawal of British forces from Cheapeake Bay, Caleb's trip to Moorestown afforded him the opportunity to visit Rhoda and her family.
From the 16th to the 21st of June 1815, members of the Hunt family would visit the Matthews family at PLEASANT MEADOWS, their farm homestead in Baltimore County:
"16th Went to uncle Mordecai Matthews through Berlin, Abbotstown, & Hanover all cheifly inhabited by Dutch distance 48 miles." "21st Drove to Baltimore 16 miles." [7.]
On March 27 1816, Caleb was issued a certificate from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting to marry Rhoda. [8.] They were married on May 1, 1816 by Quaker ceremony in the Gunpowder Friends Meetinghouse.
Mary (Hussey) Hunt's letter of June 6, 1818 to her mother-in-law Esther Collins:
"Caleb has moved, . . ." "Brother C [Caleb] and little son [Alfred] very hearty . . ."
On October 28, 1820, John Hunt wrote in his journal: "28. First Day. At our meeting. Our Cousin Caleb Hunt from Redstone was there,...".
Caleb and Rhoda lived with their seven children and Joseph, Jr. in their home on a lot bounded by Water, Monongahela, Middle and Joiners Streets in Bridgeport. Caleb bought the lot during the fall of 1814.
Mary, Caleb's youngest daughter, wrote in her diary:
"7th mo 24th [1852] 18 years this day since it pleased the Almighty to remove my beloved father, from works to rewards an irreparable loss to his children, Oh father often do I think of and wish for thee, if tis true that thy spirit has the power of seeing the heart and mind of thy child I pray thee to direct them in the light and pure channel to lead to eternal life and happiness."
Sources:
1. Elisha Hunt
2. Elisha Hunt's letter of 1-10-1810
3. Elisha Hunt's letter of 2-12-1812
4. Caleb Hunt (1812). Diary of a round trip between Brownsville and St. Louis. Maryland Historical Society, ID: Q9700000002939. mdhistory.org/online-resources/
5. Elisha Hunt's letter of 1-27-1814
6. Elisha Hunt's letter of 2-4-1815 to his mother in Moorestown, New Jersey.
7. "Emmor Hunt's Journal of his first Journey to Philadelphia in 1815", June 8 to August 2, 1815
8. Redstone Monthly Meeting
9. Thomas Shourda (1876). History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Pages 314-20.
Wikipedia: Enterprise (1814)
Wikipedia: MOSBC
Wikipedia: John Hunt (Quaker Minister)
Caleb is a brother-in-law of Quaker abolitionist John Needles.
Caleb and his four brothers grew up in Moorestown on their family's ten-acre homestead. His father was the first teacher at Moorestown Friends School. During September of 1790, the Hunt family removed to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They settled in a log cabin at HUNT PLEASANT, their 195-acre farm homestead. The farm featured "a high hill covered with walnut trees" and sat on the south bank of Redstone Creek a few miles north of Brownsville. [1.]
Joshua's sudden and unexpected death at age 39 was a devastating catastrophe for Caleb and his family to endure. Fortunately, the local Quaker community and his mother's sister and husband, Elizabeth and Jonas Cattell, were extremely helpful.
From 1807 to 1810, Caleb lived at either Brownsville or Salem, Ohio. While living in Salem he earned money from teaching school and grinding grain. "Caleb has gone to Salem..." [2.]
Caleb finally made Brownsville his permanent home. He joined Elisha in his store that was located in the "Neck", as the town's commercial center was known. It was here, during autumn of 1811, that a chance meeting happened between Elisha and Joseph White, a Quaker merchant from Philadelphia. As a result: "Caleb is now about preparing a tour to St Louis, in company with Jos White from Philadelphia," "Caleb takes 1/5 of cargo." [3.]
On February 24, 1812, Caleb wrote in his diary:
"Joseph White & myself put off from Brownsville in a Keel Boat which we named the 'Monongahela' bound for St. Louis..." [4.]
Caleb and Elisha worked in the storefront and lived, along with Mary and Emmor, in the rear of the same building. Caleb learned a great deal about Rhoda, Mary's unmarried niece back home in Maryland.
Elisha became the principal founder of a stock company that built, owned and operated the historic steamboat "Enterprise". Caleb became his partner: "Caleb has now gone by Land to Louisiana . . . " [5.]
"As my Brother [Caleb] is about to pay a visit to you he can inform of our fare & business generally, . . . " [6.] With the recent withdrawal of British forces from Cheapeake Bay, Caleb's trip to Moorestown afforded him the opportunity to visit Rhoda and her family.
From the 16th to the 21st of June 1815, members of the Hunt family would visit the Matthews family at PLEASANT MEADOWS, their farm homestead in Baltimore County:
"16th Went to uncle Mordecai Matthews through Berlin, Abbotstown, & Hanover all cheifly inhabited by Dutch distance 48 miles." "21st Drove to Baltimore 16 miles." [7.]
On March 27 1816, Caleb was issued a certificate from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting to marry Rhoda. [8.] They were married on May 1, 1816 by Quaker ceremony in the Gunpowder Friends Meetinghouse.
Mary (Hussey) Hunt's letter of June 6, 1818 to her mother-in-law Esther Collins:
"Caleb has moved, . . ." "Brother C [Caleb] and little son [Alfred] very hearty . . ."
On October 28, 1820, John Hunt wrote in his journal: "28. First Day. At our meeting. Our Cousin Caleb Hunt from Redstone was there,...".
Caleb and Rhoda lived with their seven children and Joseph, Jr. in their home on a lot bounded by Water, Monongahela, Middle and Joiners Streets in Bridgeport. Caleb bought the lot during the fall of 1814.
Mary, Caleb's youngest daughter, wrote in her diary:
"7th mo 24th [1852] 18 years this day since it pleased the Almighty to remove my beloved father, from works to rewards an irreparable loss to his children, Oh father often do I think of and wish for thee, if tis true that thy spirit has the power of seeing the heart and mind of thy child I pray thee to direct them in the light and pure channel to lead to eternal life and happiness."
Sources:
1. Elisha Hunt
2. Elisha Hunt's letter of 1-10-1810
3. Elisha Hunt's letter of 2-12-1812
4. Caleb Hunt (1812). Diary of a round trip between Brownsville and St. Louis. Maryland Historical Society, ID: Q9700000002939. mdhistory.org/online-resources/
5. Elisha Hunt's letter of 1-27-1814
6. Elisha Hunt's letter of 2-4-1815 to his mother in Moorestown, New Jersey.
7. "Emmor Hunt's Journal of his first Journey to Philadelphia in 1815", June 8 to August 2, 1815
8. Redstone Monthly Meeting
9. Thomas Shourda (1876). History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Pages 314-20.
Wikipedia: Enterprise (1814)
Wikipedia: MOSBC
Wikipedia: John Hunt (Quaker Minister)
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