Husband: John DUNN
Birthdate: abt 1774
Birthplace: probably Onslow Co., NC
Death date: aft 1860
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Father: Drury DUNN RS
Mother: unknown
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Wife: unknown
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John E DUNN
Sex: M
Birthdate: Feb 24 1798 Onslow Co., NC
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Marriage date: [1] Jun 19 183, Hancock Co., Ga. [2] Aug 20 1847, Hancock Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: [1] Elmina (Elmyra) JERNIGAN [2] Malinda A. HOWELL

Child No. 2: William DUNN
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt 1800 Onslow Co., NC
Death date: 1862 Cobb Co., Ga.
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Marriage date: [1] abt 1825 [2] abt 1840, Cobb Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: [1] unknown [2] Nancy CHAMBERS

Child No. 3: James K. DUNN
Sex: M
Birthdate: Mar 6 1808 Georgia
Death date: Oct 24 1884 Nevada Co., AR
Burial: Dunn Cemetery, Bodcaw, Nevada Co., AR
Marriage date: May 18 1831, Hancock Co., Ga
Spouses' names: Malinda KELLEY

Child No. 4: Augustus Brinson DUNN
Sex: M
Birthdate: Mar 1810 Georgia
Death date: Jun 16 1886 Hancock Co., Ga.
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Marriage date: [1] Jan 7 1830, Hancock Co., Ga. [2] Mar 17 1874, Washington Co., Ga.
Spouses' names: [1] Rebecca KELLEY [2] Betheny (Thene) DENNIS
 
 
Documentation:
  1. Amerson, A. Binion, Jr. Odessa Mullikin Dunn, and Jane Camp Dunn. "The Dunn Families of Hancock County, Georgia". Exerps from an unpublished manuscript.
  2. R. L. Guffin: rlguffin@linux01.stillman.edu. email, 3/6/98.
  3. Hancock Co., Ga. Wills and Administration of Estate, 1800-1812 Book F.
  4. Hancock County, Georgia Wills and Administration of Estates., 1811-1813, Book G.
  5. Houston, Martha Lou. Marriages of Hancock County, Georgia, 1806-1850.
  6. Smith, Elizabeth Wiley. The History of Hancock County, Georgia.
  7. Gaissert, Margarette G., compiler. Some Church Members & Records.
  8. 1850. 1860, 1870, 1880 Census Hancock Co., Ga.
  9. The Sparta (Ga) Ishmaelite, June 18, 1886.
  10. Louise Dunn Worsham.
  11. Hancock Co., Ga. Wills & Administration of Estates, Book I, 1882-1909.

Notes:
  * JOHN DUNN first appears in Onslow Co., NC as witness to transaction between William Murrill and JAMES DUNN. Nov 29, 1793. He last appear in 1807 when he sold land next to Drury Dunn with Henry Dunn as witness.
On Jan. 5, 1802, Onslow Co., NC, John Dunn deeded land to Dan Nixon and the deed was sighed by John Dunn, Anne Dunn and Deborough Dudley (wife of Edward Dudley and dau. in law of Wm. Dudley). I have found no record of a marriage for a John Dunn in Onslow Co.
John Dunn, along with Drury Dunn, his father, sold their land in Onslow Co., NC in Jan., 1807 and presumably left for Georgia.
Resided in Hancock Co., Ga., April 11, 1811(date of Drury Dunn's death)
Present in Hancock Co., Ga. during 1820 census with no wife but with 4 sons.
Unaccounted for during the years between 1820 and 1860 but reappears in Hancock County during 1860 census as an 86 year old man, living with grandson, Benjamin, F. Dun (son of Augustus B.) No Confirmation of this however.
John Dunn accepted from Henry Dunn, "administrator of the estate of my
father, Drury Dunn, $195.63 as payment in full of his share of said
estate. signed July 3, 1813
  * John E DUNN
Hancock Co., Ga. Tax Records
1830= John E., William, and James K.
1831= John E., William, James K., & Augustus B.
1833= John E., William, James K., & Augustus B.
1835= John E., James K., & Augustus B. William had moved to Cobb Co. by this time.
1840= John E. and Augustus B. were lift in the 112th district, after James K.'s move to Cobb Co.
There is no record of John E. Dunn in Hancock Co. after the 1850 census.
  * William DUNN Resided in Hancock Co., during 1821. Recipient of a land grant in Henry Co., during the 1821 Georgia Land Lottery. Moved to Cobb Co., Ga. sometime after 1833 and became a respectable land speculator.
  * James K. DUNN
Hancock Co., Ga. 1840 census reveals four daughters.
Moved to Cobb Co., Ga. in the 1840s and on to Columbia Co., Arkansas in the late 1850s and settled in the northern part which was taken into Nevada Co. (pronounced Nuh-VA-duh) after the Civil War.

Prepared Apr 6 2002 by Mary Ann Willoughby.