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DR. RICHARD W. HUNT, deceased, was born in Greenwich, Cumberland Co., N. J., in 1780. His father, John Hunt,
was one of forty men who, in 1774, took possession of a cargo of tea bound for Philadelphia, which cargo was sent
up the Cohonsey River, to Greenwich, where the chests were piled cogether and burned. This was shortly after the
destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor. Dr. Hunt's mother, Anne Brewster, was a great granddaughter of Elder William
Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. Dr. Hunt studied medicine in New Jersey and in 1807, he, with some friends,
came to Cincinnati, where he learned that there was no physician in Springfield, and that the country was settling
rapidly; so in that year he came here and commenced practice; he boarded at Griffith Foos' tavern, and rode far
and near, with no roads but Indian trails or cow paths; in 1812 he was appointed surgeon of the 2d Regiment, 4th
Brigade, 1st Division of Ohio militia, which regiment was commanded by Col. John Dougherty. Dr. Hunt was present
at the council with the Indians where Tecumseh refused to disarm the Indians, and is said to have been the one
who offered that chief the clay pipe which was so indignantly refused. The grove where this council was held was
the property of Dr. Hunt (It was a little west and south of what is now known as Vone & Blee's brewery.) He
lived to see great changes in the little log towns. In 1818, he wrote to a friend: " Our county last winter
was divided into three, and Springfield was made a seat of justice of one, viz., Clark County, though as yet we
have no court house. We have four public houses, eleven stores, three physicians, three attorneys, and mechanics
of every description; one mill alone in this town manufactures thirty barrels of flour per day; one speculator
has sent this season, from this county, 1,300 barrels of flour and 300 barrels of pork to the Orleans market."
Dr. Hunt died in Springfield on the 24th day of January, 1848.
NOTE. - This is the Dr. Hunt mentioned by Drake, in his " Life of Tecumseh. and the same is found in connection
with several other historical papers, showing that the subject of the above sketch was a contributor to the collections
of his day,
From:
History of Clark County, Ohio
W. H. Beers & Co.
Chicago 1881
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