Individual Details

There is much conflicting data about Joseph Hunter online. Some databases give his parents as Joseph Hunter and Margaret Greeting - others do not list the wife/mother.

Data re his children is also confusing and abstracts of his will as found online do not solve the problems. The two abstract are particularly confusing concerning the listing of sons in light of the fact that no databases list a son as "Archer" or Archibald. If I were a direct descendant, I'd want very much to see the original of this will. It does support the fact that two of his daughters married Linns. The daughters were not particularly lucky in love as some of the husbands were killed during the Revolution - daughter Nancy appears to have had an early divorce.

Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories
Junie Estelle Stewart King
p.129
Joseph Hunter – Will not dated. Probate Nov 4, 1794. Legatees: William & Asahel Linn, sons Joseph, Joshua, Archer.
Wit: John Pope, James Stewart, Thomas Long

http://www.genealogytrails.com/ken/jefferson/wills_first131.html
HUNTER, Joseph, no date, prob. Nov. 4, 1794; Wm. & Asahel Linn, heirs, to have 71 & 20a, respectively on the land where I now live; son Jos.: Joshua, Archer, an heir; Jos. Applegate is given an order on Wm. Pope, who is indebted to me; exec.: Wm. Pope, Jos. Hunter. Wit.: John Pope, Jas. Stuart, Thos. Long.

A list of the original families on Corn Island, lists three of his sons and daughter Ann (Nancy)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYJEFFER/2003-02/1046097922
This is from "Two Hundred Years at the Falls of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson Co., KY" by George H. Yater. Published by the Filson Club, Louisville, KY 1987.
Names with * received land for military service. Name in ( ) is the wife, following names are children.
ORIGINAL CORN ISLAND FAMILIES
* William Linn, (widower), and several of his 6 children
John Donne, Sr. (Martha Hunter dau of Joseph married John Donne), John Jr., slave
Joseph Hunter (widower), Joseph, David, James, Ann

Birth	1730	Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
Death	Dec 1793	Jefferson County, Kentucky

Spouse	Mary Holmes ( - 1784)
Child	Mary Hunter ( - )
Child	Martha Hunter (1752 - )
Child	Jane Hunter (1754 - )
Child	James Hunter (1756 - 1777)
Child	Joseph Hunter Jr. (1760 - 1823)
Child	Ann "Nancy" Hunter (1764 - 1807)
Child	David Hunter (1766 - )
Child	Abraham Hunter (1772 - 1786)