John Punch - @John Punch

yes, this is John Bunch I

John Punch:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176878786/john-punch

John Punch stepped out of the court room and into obscurity. The name PUNCH is found in England. He did not become John Bunch.

John PUNCH is found in only one record. Punch stepped out of a court room in 1640 and into oblivion.

Sixteen years later
Gervase Dodson was granted 600 acres in Lancaster Co., VA for the transportation to Virginia of twelve persons, one of whom was John Bunch.

John Bunch, a tobacco planter, trader, was to testify against Toby Horton, they are neigbors of the Gibsons, for giving guns to the Indians, Bunch didn't show up was ordered to pay in tobacco, he left the county, found next in New Kent Co., on the Rickohock Path which led to Fort Royal, Trading Fort of the Pamunkey Indians. He is the ancestor of the Bunch family, not John Punch who could not possibly have escaped his lifetime of servitude 16 years later to become John Bunch.

Is he/are they correct now?

Of interest to me as a Bunch descendant

Thank you for the Discussion and the corrections.

https://www.geni.com/path/Cynthia-Curtis-A183502-US7875087+is+relat...

I still believe my third great grandmother Winnie A. Brown Jackson is descended from him.

Are there any DNA studies around him for autosomal? Winnie was an only child so I have very few DNA matches for this line and the paper trail is difficult or missing

@Cynthia Curtis

Is this your Winny?

Nehemaiah BUNCH 29 Mar 1815 May Ct 1815
Wife Elizabeth Bunch - lend Negroes Abberdeen, Treser and Ned, and at
her death to be divide between my daughters Salley, Winney and Eliza,
also lend my wife my house and enough of my plantation for her support.
Sons Cader Bunch and Elisha Bunch - land on Buck Branch and the swamp,
but if either should die without heirs the survivor will inherit, but if
both should die without heirs this land shall return to other heirs.
Son Elisha - plantation where I now live and the swamp. Daughters Sally
Bunch and Winney Bunch - bed, cow and calf each. Daughter Eliza Moore -
bed, cow and calf she already has received. Granddaughter Lewse Bunch -
bed. Remaining estate to divided among my heirs.
Ex. friend David Pruden, son Elijah
Wit. James Bunch, Callen (X) Bunch

Joanne Pezzullo probably not---- what location is this Winny?
It does seem to be a family name which is very helpful as a clue or could be a red herring lol.
Details on my third great grandmother:
Birth: October 1843
Grainger County, Tennessee, United States
Death: April 1915 (71)
Fulton County, Arkansas, United States
Mother of Margaret Frances Crawshaw (Brown)
She remarried but no other children.
She had a niece she was fond of and the niece married in her home.
If I could just FIND her in the 1850 census with her known siblings from the 1860 census, I would be able to confirm her line, I believe.
They were in Tennessee then Missouri then Arkansas.