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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Robert Hunt''' (c.1568&ndash;1608) was ordained in Lincoln in September 1593. He is recorded as perpetual vicar of Reculver with Hoath Chapel from January 1595 to October 1602 and then became vicar of Heathfield (Chichester diocese) from October 1602.<ref>Clergy of the Church of England Database: {{:CCED|41957}}</ref><br />
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Hunt was recruited in 1607 to be the chaplain of the expedition organised by the London Virginia Company to found the first successful English colony in America at Jamestown.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hunt_%28chaplain%29 Wikipedia]; see also: [http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=31 List of the original settlers]; and Peter W. Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660'', 1987.</ref><br />
He appears to have died in Jamestown in 1608.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/the-reverend-robert-hunt-the-first-chaplain-at-jamestown.htm Historic Jamestowne (National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior)]</ref> In 2015 the Jamestown Rediscovery Team reported the discovery of Hunt's grave in the chancel on the site of the original church in the settlement.<ref>[http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-and-jamestown-rediscovery-partner-reveal-identities-four-lost-leaders-jamestown Newsroom of the Smithsonian, 28 July 2015]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_AstnQC-4 excavation of Robert Hunt's grave]</ref> Book clasps discovered by archaeologists at Jamestown may have once decorated books from Robert Hunt's library, which was destroyed by fire in 1608.<ref>http://historicjamestowne.org/selected-artifacts/book-clasps/</ref><br />
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A fuller note about Robert Hunt, his book, and his grave can be found in the ''Canterbury Cathedral Archive and Library Newsletter''.<ref>`The Revd Robert Hunt of Reculver and Jamestown, Virginia', [http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Newsletter-55-September-2015.pdf ''Canterbury Cathedral Archive and Library Newsletter'', 55, October 2015, p. 3]</ref><br />
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