# Samuel Hunting

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{{Short description|Military officer}}
Captain '''Samuel Hunting''' (July 22, 1640 – August 19, 1701) was a military officer from [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts) who served in [King Phillip's War](/source/King_Phillip's_War).<ref name=breen/>

==Personal life==
Hunting was born July 22, 1640, to [John Hunting](/source/John_Hunting_(Dedham)) and his wife, Esther.<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}} He married Hannah{{Efn|The daughter of Samuel and Catharine Hackborne.<ref name=gay/>}} on December 24, 1662.<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/> The couple had ten children, but only three survived childhood.<ref name="Bodge1896"/> The couple moved to [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford%2C_Massachusetts) and then [Charlestown](/source/Charlestown%2C_Massachusetts).<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}} Hunting served as a selectman in Charlestown in 1690.<ref name=gay/> He accidentally shot and killed himself on August 19, 1701, in Charlestown.<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/>{{Sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}}

==King Phillips War==
{{main|King Phillip's War}}

During [King Phillip's War](/source/King_Phillip's_War), Hunting raised a company of Christian Indians to fight alongside the English settlers.<ref name=fro/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}} They mustered in Charlestown, but that town was never attacked and they marched to Chelmsford instead.<ref name=fro/> When word came that [Sudbury](/source/Sudbury%2C_Massachusetts) had been attacked on April 21, 1676, they responded, arriving at night and "performed efficient service."<ref name=fro/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}} In that same month, following orders from Governor [John Leverett](/source/John_Leverett), Hunting and Lt. James Richardson erected a garrison at [Pawtucket Falls](/source/Pawtucket_Falls_(Massachusetts)) to protect the residents there.<ref name=lowell/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}}

[Pomham](/source/Pomham), one of Phillip's chief advisors, was captured in Dedham on July 25, 1676.<ref name=bedini/>{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=96}} Several Christian Indians had seen his band in the woods, nearly starved to death.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=96}} Hunting led 36 men from Dedham and Medfield and joined 90 Indians armed with guns from England on a hunt to find them.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=96}}<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/> Hunting praised the native warriors, who came from [Natick](/source/Natick%2C_Massachusetts), saying "the said Indians behaved themselves courageously and faithfully to the English interest."<ref name=wm/> A total of 15 of the enemy were killed and 35 were captured.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=96}} Pomham, though he was so wounded he could not stand, grabbed hold of an English soldier and would have killed him had one of the settler's compatriots not come to his rescue.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=96}}

Hunting and his men played a large role in bringing the war to an end.<ref name=gay/><ref name="Bodge1896"/> In the summer of 1676, his men captured or killed 400 enemy soldiers.<ref name=gay/>{{sfn|Ellis|Morris|1906|p=212}}

==Notes==
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==References==
<references>

<ref name=fro>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8bNIAQAAMAAJ&q=praying+indians&pg=PA179 | title = The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts | first = Richard | last = Frothingham | publisher = C.C. Little and J. Brown | year = 1845 | location = Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) | accessdate = August 27, 2021 }}</ref>

<ref name=wm>{{cite thesis | last = Puglisi | first = Michael J. | title = The legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | year = 1987 | type = PhD dissertation | publisher = The College of William and Mary | id = Paper 1539623769 | url = https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-f5eh-p644 | page = 54 | doi = 10.21220/s2-f5eh-p644 | accessdate = August 27, 2021 }}</ref>

<ref name="Bodge1896">{{cite book|last=Bodge|first=George Madison |title=Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677, Official Lists of the Soldiers of Massachusetts Colony Serving in Philip's War, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, Copies of Ancient Documents and Records Relating to the War, Also Lists of the Narragansett Grantees of the United Colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCyAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA290|accessdate=April 19, 2021|year=1896|publisher=author|pages=289–290}}</ref>

<ref name=bedini>{{cite journal | title = The History Corner: Joshua Fisher (1621-1672) Colonial Inn-keeper and Surveyor, Part 1 | journal = Professional Surveyor Magazine | issue= September | year = 2003 | first = Silvio A. | last = Bedini | url = https://archives.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=1129 | accessdate = April 17, 2021 |authorlink = Silvio Bedini }}</ref>

<ref name=gay>{{cite journal|title=Extracts from the Sewall Diary |last=Gay | first = Frederick Lewis |journal=The Dedham Historical Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUg9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123|year=1892|publisher=Dedham Historical Society|pages=164–165}}</ref>

<ref name=breen>{{cite book | pages = 23, 109–111, 114, 174, 180–182 | title = Daniel Gookin, the Praying Indians, and King Philip's War: A Short History in Documents | first = Louise A. | last = Breen | publisher = Routledge | date = October 21, 2019 }}</ref>

<ref name=lowell>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FxgsiIm6lJ8C&q=+hunting&pg=PA20 | pages = 20–21 | title = A History of Lowell | first = Charles | last = Cowley | year = 1868 | edition = second | accessdate = August 27, 2021 | publisher = Lee and Shepard | isbn = 9783849676704 }}</ref>

</references>

==Works cited==
*{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Robert Brand |title=Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oslAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Dedham Historical Society}}
*{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zYo6AAAAMAAJ&q=hunting&pg=PA307 | title = King Philip's War: Based on the Archives and Records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Contemporary Letters and Accounts, with Biographical and Topographical Notes | first1 = George William |last1 = Ellis | first2= John Emery | last2= Morris | publisher = Grafton Press | year = 1906 | accessdate = August 27, 2021 }}
*{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ewMOAAAAIAAJ | title = Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677 | first = George Madison | last = Bodge | authorlink = George Madison Bodge | year = 1906 | location = Connecticut | accessdate = August 30, 2021 }}

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Category:1640 births
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Category:Military personnel from Dedham, Massachusetts
Category:People from Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Category:People from Charlestown, Boston
Category:Deaths by firearm in Massachusetts
Category:Firearm accident victims in the United States

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