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John Hunter (Westchester County, New York)

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During his lifetime, Hunter amassed a substantial art collection that was considered "the nation's finest private collection of old master art." After Hunter's death and the death of his son Elias, the family gathered his "extensive collection of ancient and modern pictures removed from his gallery
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Through his son Elias, he was a grandfather of Elias Desbrosses Hunter Jr. (who died young), Elizabeth Desbrosses Hunter (who married William Heathcote DeLancey Jr., son of
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and residence at Hunter's Island" and offered the art for sale at an auction administered by Henry H. Leeds & Miner, Auctioneers in January 1866.
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Hunter continued his father's auctioneer and commission business before turning towards politics and selling the auction house at
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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time
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John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd Vol. I: Their Descendants and Related Families 18Th to 21St Centuries
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Elias Desbrosses Hunter (1800–1865), who married Anna Maria Munro, a daughter of Margaret (
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Sometime before 1812, he bought "Appleby's Island", which became afterwards known as
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York
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In 1799, he married Elizabeth Desbrosses (d. 1831), a daughter of Elizabeth (
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in 1866 for $ 127,501. John Hunter III married Annie Manigault Middleton of
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He was born on August 4, 1778, the son of auctioneer Robert Hunter (
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Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo; Court, New York (State) Supreme (1855).
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Hunter) McEvers (wife of James McEvers, business partner of
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Hunter) Ludlow (wife of Gabriel Verplank Ludlow, nephew of
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After his father's death, his mother married Lt. Gov.
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in 1810. He was one of the original directors of the
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John Hunter (Westchester County, NY)
New York State Senate
Allan Macdonald
Joshua B. Smith
New York State Senate
William Nelson
Alma mater
Columbia College
New York
née
née
George Duncan Ludlow
née
William Bayard Jr.
County Armagh
Northern Ireland
John Broome
Morgan Lewis
Daniel D. Tompkins
Columbia College
Pearl
Wall Streets
Delaware and Hudson Canal
Westchester County
New York State Senate
1823
59th
60th
61st
62nd

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