Background
We can suppose, therefore, that Philip was born before 1668.
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Philip Huntoon
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Philip Huntoon is said to be the ancestor of all persons in America bearing the name "Huntoon." Philip Hunton, as he was first called, signed his name on 20 February 1688/89 below a humble Addresse of the Inhabitants and train soldiers of ye Province of New Hampshire to the governor of Massachusetts.
Career
He was granted land in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1697. He removed to Kingston a few years later, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was one of many New England farmers captured by Indians.
Jeremy Belknap, the first New Hampshire historian, quoted a letter from Ward Clark to someone named "King": They also took Philip Huntoon and Jacob Gilman, and carried them to Canada.
Where, after some time, they purchased their own redemption by building a saw-mill for the governor after the English mode." Foreign reasons now lost, during his lifetime he became to be called Philip Huntune, or more commonly Philip Huntoon. In the 1790 census, just a century after his first appearance, twenty-five families - containing 141 people in all - were headed by someone named Huntoon.
Each head was a descendant of Philip. None of Philip"s descendants listed in the census were called Hunton.
