Early Life
Hunt was born on August 7, 1806, in Vance County, North Carolina, the son of Col. William Hunt and the grandson of Memucan Hunt. He was a planter and businessman moving to Madison County, Mississippi in 1834 to manage a plantation given to him by his father. Thomas Jefferson Green arrived in Mississippi to recruit volunteers to fight in the Texas Revolution. Hunt, along with neighbor James Pinckney Henderson and several hundred others, joined Green, arriving at Velasco in June 1836, after the battle of San Jacinto.
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