Settler of township lots: Lot 26, Conc. 9, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 101 acre lot which is three lots north of the west end of Barry Line Road

Land acquisition:

• 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 101 acres to Joseph B Hunt BUT these lots have No Patent according to Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 258).

Dates of residency:

• 1903 Married Mary Catherine Cook in Stanhope
• 1907 Death of daughter Mary Jane Hunt at Lot 27, Conc. 6, Stanhope
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Joseph & Mary C Hunt at Lot 29, Conc. 5 which at this date was owned by Benjamin Sawyer. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 278).
• 1921 Census of Canada: Glamorgan with brother
• 1930 Death: Tory Hill

Interesting facts:

Miss Harriet Wyatt married John Robert Hunt (brother) in 1878 and set up housekeeping at Fourth Lake; their daughter was the only white child to be born at the ill fated settlement. One after another, families abandoned the struggle at Third and Forth Lakes [Cameron Lake Settlement Area] and moved away including the 3 Hunt families. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pgs. 320 & 321.

HIs father, John William Hunt, is listed at Lots 27 & 28, Conc. 8, Stanhope on 1876 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 101 & 101 acres to John William Hunt. These lots have No Patent according to Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 192 &193). His map point is the approximate location within Lot 27, Conc. 8 which is one lot north of the west end of Barry Line Road east of Alpha Lane in the same remote area.

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• Joseph Bellard Hunt, b. 6 Nov 1856, Aurora, d. 15 Jan 1930, Tory Hill, Age ~ 73 years), COD: Organic disease of the heart. Buried: Ingoldsby Cemetery
  Parents:
  • John William Hunt, b. Abt 1819, England
  • Ann Jane Myers, b. Abt 1831, England
• Brothers:
  1. William James Hunt, b. Abt 1850, Ontario
  2. John Robert Hunt, b. Abt 1854, Aurora. Wife: Harriet Wyatt, b. Abt 1849, England. Married: 1878
• Mary Catherine Cook, b. Abt 1867, Minden d. 16 Nov 1959
  • Father: William Cook, b. 1832, England d. 10 Jan 1917, Minden, (Age 85 years)
• Children:
  1. Joseph Benjamin Hunt, b./d. 9 Sep 1904, Maple Lake, (Age 0 years)
  2. Mary Jane Hunt, b./d.  24 Jan 1907, Stanhope, (Age 0 years)