Background
Hunt was born in Bridgetown, Barbados circa 1742. Isaac, his father, was the rector of St. Michael's; his mother was an "O'Brien, or rather Bryan". While a child he was indulged and spoiled by his parents.
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The political family: or A discourse, pointing out the reciprocal advantages, which flow from an uninterrupted union between Great-Britain and her American colonies. By Isaac Hunt, Esquire. Numb. I.
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Ways and means to pay taxes and be happy. A sermon preached at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, on Sunday September the 15th, 1784. And at the New ... Sunday following. By the Rev. Isaac Hunt, ...
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Isaac Hunt
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For his education he was sent to the Academy at Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), where he was entered by Thomas Gilbert in 1757. He graduated in 1763 and secured a tutorship in English, which he held three months.
In 1766, when he applied for his master's degree at the college, the trustees decided that the author of such "scurrilous and scandalous pieces" was unworthy of further honors. Five years later, however, the authorities relented and conferred the degree.
Career
He first threw himself into the turbulent politics of the province by writing A Letter from a Gentleman in Transilvania under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. This letter, published in August 1764, reviewed the late disturbance in Pennsylvania and attacked the proprietors. About the same time he published The Medley, a broadside savagely attacking David James Dove and accusing him of gross immorality. In 1765 Hunt launched a series of satires beginning with A Humble Attempt at Scurrility. This was followed by The Substance of the Exercise Had This Morning in Scurrility-Hall (1765) and several numbers entitled A Continuation of the Exercises in Scurrility-Hall (1765).
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and on the eve of the Revolution was practicing with distinction. He championed the British government with a vehemence beyond discretion. In 1775 he published The Political Family, urging the advantages which flow from an uninterrupted union between England and her colonies; this was the essay with which he had unsuccessfully competed for the Sargent Medal of the College in 1766. In August 1775, Hunt, representing William Conn, issued a summons against George Schlosser, who, acting as a member of the Continental Association, had seized linen imported by Connecticut The committee summoned Hunt, and after discussion and delay they determined that he needed "a good American coat of tar and feathers laid on with decency. "
On September 6, he was carted from his home to a coffee house, but his tact and humility saved him from further injury. Escaping to England, he there took orders in the Church. The misfortunes of the years that followed were the result of this injudicious step. He was curate in Paddington, occasional preacher at Hornsey, and later minister of Bentwick Chapel, Lisson Green, Paddington. For a time his charity sermons, elegant in diction and graceful in morality, were popular and were published. He became tutor in the household of the Duke of Chandos, but his zeal on behalf of John Trumbull cut his advancement short.
In 1791 he again threw himself into politics and published the Rights of Englishmen: an Antidote to the Poison now Vending by . .. Thomas Paine. Hunt's interest in the Church, like his zeal for the good of the world and of his family, was merely theoretical. Visionary, impractical, and irresponsible he was filled with beautiful schemes that bore neither blossom nor fruit. Despite a royal pension and aid from relatives his distresses increased. He "grew deeply acquainted with arrests, " so that the first room of which his son, Leigh, had any recollection was in a prison. He died obscurely in 1809, neither understanding the world nor understood by it.
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Sermons on Public Occasions (Classic Reprint)
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The political family: or A discourse, pointing out the reciprocal advantages, which flow from an uninterrupted union between Great-Britain and her American colonies. By Isaac Hunt, Esquire. Numb. I.
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Ways and means to pay taxes and be happy. A sermon preached at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, on Sunday September the 15th, 1784. And at the New ... Sunday following. By the Rev. Isaac Hunt, ...
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Sermons on Public Occasions (Classic Reprint)
Personality
He delighted in tobacco and in port; his happiest hours were spent in conversation.
Connections
When he spoke the farewell oration on leaving college Mary Shewell, daughter of a prominent Philadelphia merchant, fell in love with him. His exquisite reading of poetry completed the conquest of her heart and they were married in Christ Church on June 17, 1767.
