Background
Hunt, Isaac was born in 1742 in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies, circa. Son of Isaac Hunt.
Hunt, Isaac was born in 1742 in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies, circa. Son of Isaac Hunt.
Graduate Philadelphia Academy (now University of Pennsylvania), 1763, Master of Arts, 1771.
Published “A Letter from a Gentleman in Transilvania” under pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, 1764. Published series of satires including “The Substance of the Exercise Had this Morning in Scurrility Hall,” 1765. Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, circa 1768.
Opposed colonial independence, escaped to England, 1775. Ordained to ministry Anglican Church Author: The Political Family, 1775. Rights of Englishmen: An Antidote to the Poison now Vending by… Thomas Paine, 1779.
Married Mary Shewell, June 17, 1767, 1 son.