John Dunn, of Albemarle County

Not the same as John Dunn, of Essex County

DAR Ancestor # A034912

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John Dunn

• Birth: 10-10-1719 NORTHUMBERLAND CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 1792 ALBEMARLE CO VIRGINIA
• Wife: Ann Martin

Children listed in will:

• James Dunn, m. Sarah Harvey
• Martin Dunn, m. Patsy Terry
• Reuben Dunn

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Will

• Albemarle Co. VA Will Book 3 p. 164-165
• John Dunn of Albemarle infirm, to beloved wife tract of land where I now live, supposed to contain 100 acres, during her life, likewise all stock, furniture, and plantation tools, etc.
• To my three sons James Dunn, Martin Dunn and Rueben Dunn all lands equally divided.. James to have his part adjoining where he now lives, Martin .... on the other end adjoining Joseph Guines? line; Rueben part to adjoin where I now live.
• appoint wife Ann and son James exors.
• Written 20 Jan. 1790. Signed. John Dunn.
• wit. George Bingham, Thos. Jones, Charles Epperson, Susanna Peayton?
• Recorded . Sept. 1792

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Disambiguation

John Dunn Will of Essex co Virginia Written Dec 21 1789 in Court Feb 15 1790 Wife An Dunn, children are John, James, William, Mary or Millicent Cauthorn, An Hardee, Barbara Crow, and 2 small children not named.

• Born Northumberland County, Virginia: The area was occupied at the time of English settlement by the Algonquian-speaking historic tribes of the Wicocomico and Chickacoan. The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1648 during a period of rapid population growth and geographic expansion. Settlement began in this area of the Northern Neck around 1635. Originally known as the Indian district Chickacoan, the area was first referred to as Northumberland (a namesake of Northumberland County, England) in the colonial records in 1644. The following year, John Mottrom served as the first burgess for the territory in the House of Burgesses, which met at the capital of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.
• The colonial court ordered the two tribes to merge and by 1655, assigned them a reservation of 4,400 acres (18 km2) near Dividing Creek, south of the Great Wicomico River.[3] By the early 1700s, the Wicocomico tribe was greatly reduced, and English colonists took control of their lands. They were believed to be extinct as a tribe as, landless, they disappeared from the historical record. Descendants of the last weroance are working to regain recognition as a tribe, the Wicocomico Indian Nation.[4]
• The size of the county was drastically reduced in 1651 and 1653 when the colonial government organized Lancaster and Westmoreland counties from it.
• Of the 172 counties that have ever existed in Virginia's history, Northumberland ended up being an "ancestor" to 116 of these –– more than the current 95 counties (several were lost to other states, such as West Virginia).[5]

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References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L61H-4BT