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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T084599 Air : printed by John & Peter Wilson. And sold by M. Gray, J. Dickson, J. Ogle, and W. Laing, Edinburgh (3 others in Glasgow; 2 in Paisley) the booksellers in Newcastle; and J. Wilson, Kilmarnock, 1793. 336p. ; 12°
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Hunter was born in York County, Pa. in 1750, the son of David and Martha Hunter. David and his brother Andrew, a Presbyterian minister, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, had emigrated from Ireland some time prior to 1750. Andrew settled in New Jersey and for upward of thirty years was pastor of the church in Greenwich. He adopted his nephew and namesake, who grew up in New Jersey under his care.
In 1770 Andrew entered the College of New Jersey, according to Philip Vickers Fithian, who notes in his diary that "Mr. Hunter and myself were admitted into the junior-Class on the twenty second day of November, after a previous Examination by the president, Tutors, & some residing Graduates". After his graduation in 1772, he studied theology with his uncle, and was licensed to preach, June 1774, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia.
He made a missionary visitation to Virginia. An ardent patriot, with Fithian and some forty other young men, disguised as Indians, he assisted, November 22, 1774, in burning a cargo of tea that had been stored in Greenwich, on Cohansey Creek, N. J.
It is said that he accompanied Gen. Montgomery's expedition to Quebec. At all events, the following year, 1776, he was commissioned by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey chaplain of Col. Philip Van Cortland's battalion, Heard's brigade. Serving with various organizations until the close of the war, he had a distinguished record, and received the personal thanks of Washington for his conduct at the battle of Monmouth.
Following the war, he seems to have been inactive for a period, but in 1786 he took charge of the Presbyterian churches of Woodbury and Blackwood, N. J. , and continued in this relationship until 1797. At least twice during this period, 1789 and 1794, he was a delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. His interest in education was keen and he had ability as a teacher. The College of New Jersey elected him trustee in 1788, and in 1791 Joseph Bloomfield deeded to him and others a plot of land in Woodbury for the site of an academy. A building was erected and he served as principal of the institution until 1797, when, on account of his health, he retired to a farm on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton.
In 1804 he became professor of mathematics and astronomy in the College of New Jersey. He relinquished this position in 1808 to take charge of an academy at Bordentown, N. J. , where he remained till 1810. He had resigned as trustee of the College of New Jersey upon becoming professor there, but served again from 1808 to 1811, in which year he was appointed chaplain in the navy, and stationed at the Washington Navy Yard. His appointment seems to have been due to the fact that while a clergyman, he had also had much military experience, and was an excellent teacher, for the Navy Register of 1812 states that in addition to the regular chaplain's pay of forty dollars per month and two rations a day, he was to receive twenty dollars per month and three rations per day as mathematician. He is the first chaplain who is known to have performed also the duty of schoolmaster in the United States naval service. This position he occupied for the remainder of his career, more or less active apparently in the intellectual life of Washington, since he is listed as one of the incorporators of the Columbian Institute.
The statement made in several sources that he died in Burlington, N. J. , seems to be incorrect, since the National Intelligencer, Washington, February 25, 1823, announces his decease as occurring "yesterday morning, . .. after a long illness"; his funeral to take place "from his late residence, Capitol Hill. "
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On October 2, 1775, he was married to Nancy Riddle. After his first wife's death he married Mary Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton and Annis (Boudinot). Gen. David Hunter, and Louis Boudinot Hunter, surgeon in both army and navy, were his sons. A daughter, Mrs. Mary (Hunter) Stockton, became the second wife of Rev. Charles Hodge.
