Robert Hunt was an English soldier who was Governor of the Providence Island colony in the western Caribbean Sea from 1636 to 1638.
After the attack, King Charles I of England issued letters of marque to the Providence Island Company on 21 December 1635.
[2] In March 1636 the Company dispatched Captain Robert Hunt on the Blessing to assume the governorship of what was now viewed as a base for privateering.
[5] Captain Hunt was also to be Governor of Cape Gratia de Dios on the Mosquito Coast, where the English were engaged in trading with the Indians for Camock's Flax.
[b][8] Soon after Hunt's arrival, the Blessing and Hopewell were dispatched on a raid against Santa Marta under Captain William Rous.