Robert Hunter, *

1766 - 1827  (61 years)

• Name	Robert Hunter  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	10 Nov 1766	Bedford County, Virginia, United States of America   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Dec 1827	Campbell County, Virginia, United States of America   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I9643	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Capt. John Madison Hunter, *,   b. 17 Mar 1737, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States d. 13 Jul 1796, Clover Green, Campbell, Virginia, United States (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rachel McFarland, *,   b. 17 Mar 1737, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America d. Bef Feb 1790, Hunter's Tavern, Bedford, Virginia (Age < 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F2400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Ellis,   b. 5 Mar 1770, Red Hill, Amherst, British Colonial America, Virginia, USA d. Appomattox, Appomattox, Virginia, USA
  Marriage	1 Oct 1793	Amherst County, Virginia
  Children	1. Catherine S. Hunter,   b. 16 Jan 1807, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, United States d. 19 May 1837, Montgomery, Tennessee, United States (Age 30 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Harding Hunter,   b. 25 Sep 1804, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, United States d. 9 Sep 1902, Roane, West Virginia, United States (Age 97 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Ellis Hunter,   b. 4 Jul 1800, Appomattox, Appomattox, Virginia, USA d. 12 Feb 1839, Appomattox, Appomattox, Virginia, USA (Age 38 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elizabeth May Hunter,   b. 28 Feb 1796, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Charles Ellis Hunter,   b. 23 Apr 1809, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, USA d. 1839, Campbell County, Virginia, USA (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Catharine Louisa Hunter,   b. 10 Aug 1812, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, USA d. Bef 1860, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA (Age < 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Richard Lewis Hunter, *,   b. 1785, Goochland, Louisa, Virginia, United States d. 17 Dec 1857, , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Robert Hunter,   b. 4 Jun 1802, Campbell, Virginia, United States d. 7 Nov 1848, Appomattox, Appomattox, Virginia, United States (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Nancy Ellis Hunter,   b. 2 Jun 1798, Clover Green, Appomattox, Virginia, United States d. 1884, Perry Twp., Gallia, Ohio, USA (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Jane Hunter,   b. 2 Aug 1794, Appomattox County, Virginia, United States of America d. 15 Apr 1830, Virginia, United States of America (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Benjamin Franklin Hunter,   b. 1792, Scott County, Virginia, United States of America d. 1875, Elliott County, Kentucky, United States of America (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  It is my theory that Robert's daughter, Nancy, is the Nancy who married Asa Amos in 1815 in Stokes Co, North Carolina. She is related to my Susanah Hunter by DNA and by all of the locations they lived in together. In 1820, Nancy and her husband Amos have moved to Guyandotte, Cabell, Virginia where Susanah Hunter married William D. Clark in 1823. In the 1830's their families moved to Perry Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio. They all attended the same Baptist Church and were buried in the same cemetery. I have 3 DNA triangulations proving that my Susanah is the granddaughter of John M. Hunter and Rachel McFarland and his ancestral line. I had checked the DNA of over 50 Hunters before I found this family as a match. It was the Stokes County marriage for Nancy that clued me into checking some of the brothers and parents of Robert when I started finding the pattern I had been searching for. Ancestry also has many cousins who descend from his parents through various children matching me in through lines with 8 cM matches on up. I am most closely related to one of these cousins descended from Robert at 22 cM's. Nancy was born in 1798 according to her cemetery stone in Gallia Co., Ohio. Susanah was born on Apr. 12, 1802 according to her stone. Robert supposedly had a son Robert in June of 1802. I currently theorize that this can be explained because Susanah was the offspring of Robert and one of his many slaves. I have half-cousin relationships showing up in this line suggesting they didn't have the same mother. I have not been able to find Robert in the 1790-1810 census records. His children's birthplaces are listed all over the place in Virginia. I haven't seen proof of where they were born or lived at the time. In the 1820 census, he has one son under 10 (Richard) one between 10 and 16 (Charles Ellis) and he is between 26 and 45. He has 1 daughter under 10, 2 between 10 and 16 (Catherine), 2 women between 16-26 (Mary and Catherine S.), and 3 between 26 and 45 (Elizabeth, Jane, and his wife Nancy) living in his household. Daughter Nancy had married in 1815 in Stokes Co., NC ahead of her older sisters. If I am deciphering the other columns correctly, it looks like one family member was engaged in agriculture, 10 people engaged in manufacturing (which could have been part of the 30 plus slaves he appears to have "owned". Six of these appear to be women from age 26-45. None of them appear to be Susanah's age. I believe by the 1820 census she has moved with her half-sibling, Nancy Hunter Amos and family to Cabell Co., Virginia. He has died before the 1830 census. Note that Susanah would account for one of his unknown daughters between the ages of 10 and 16 at the time. It's also important to note that I have the most DNA cousin matches and 22 cM's with one of these 3 cousins who all descend from Robert. I have an alternate theory on the parentage of Susanah. Robert sadly owned many slaves. It's possible she is only the half-sibling to Nancy and is the daughter of Robert and one of his many slaves. Supporting this would be the fact that she married William D. Clark whom we have every reason to believe was a mulatto, even though he passed for white. His son, my ancestor, also had extremely kinky hair and was dark-complected. His skin could pass for a dark tan and he had a very pointed narrow nose from an old tin-type photo suggesting why he passed as white in the census. In any case, she and Nancy were very close and lived their adult lives near each other, even in their church and burial. This suggests they might have been close and lived on the same farm when they were young. Both Nancy and Susanah's place of birth is confused as sometimes in Virginia and sometimes in North Carolina.

  
  

• Sources

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