Jesse Hunt was born on July 3, 1793, in Green Spring Valley, Baltimore County, Maryland.

[1][2] Hunt enlisted in the volunteer army and helped raise the company Washington Blues, a division attached to the 5th Maryland Regiment and was at the Battle of North Point in 1814 during the War of 1812.

Months passed and creditors grew tired of waiting in vain for a settlement, and violence soon followed.

On August 6, 1835, a mob gathered and broke the windows of the house of Reverdy Johnson one of the bank's directors.

[4] After resigning, Hunt was elected as City Register and served in that position for ten years.