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Facts and Events
The John Dunn who is on the tax list in Harrison County, Kentucky in 1803 is no doubt the son of Jeremiah Dunn. He may also have moved with the family to Ohio, as reported by Anthony Christensen. The John Dunn who died in Lewis County, Missouri in 1857 is also most likely the son of Jeremiah Dunn, brother of James, Zephaniah, and Robert Dunn. Identifying this John Dunns in Indiana is more problematic.
In Hendricks County, Indiana, in 1825 there are two John Dunns, both of whom registered stock marks in 1825. This John Dunn may be the one who registered his stock mark on the 27th of May. The other John Dunn has been speculatively identified as a possible brother of Joseph Dunn, and is presumably the John Dunn who married Rosannah Matlock Lindsey in 1833, and most likely died about 1840 in Hendricks County. Aside from his early death, his signature and his occupation as store owner suggest that he had more education than James and Robert Dunn, and presumably their brother John.
A third John Dunn married a Sally Mires (or Myers) in 1830 and apparently moved to Clinton County, Indiana shortly thereafter, where he settled near others who were associated with the Dunn family. However, in the 1830 Census, he is too young to be this John Dunn, although he could have been an unidentified son.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Christensen, Anthony J. A branch of the Piscataway Dunn family: a few members of the Dunn family whose branches spread from Pisctaqua, New Hampshire, to Piscataway, New Jersey, to Southwestern Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Kentucky, and to points West. (Salem, Utah: Mac Anthony Corp., c1998)
p. 5-9.
John Dunn was born circa 1770, most likely in Maryland. He moved with his parents and family to southwestern Pennsylvania then to northern Kentucky. He grew up in Harrison County, Kentucky, wehre in the year 1803 he was named on the tax list next to his father Jeremiah. Some time later John moved north to Ohio with others of the Dunn and Harrison families, then west to Hendricks County, Indiana, then about the year 1829 to Clinton County, Indiana, where in December of that year he acquired eighty acres of land. A few years later John moved to Lewis County, Missouri. He died circa March 1857. His estate in Lewis County was administered by H. M. Woodyard.
(Sources inc. Hendricks County History, Clinton county Duplicate First Tract Book by Helen Groves)
- ↑ Films #1015329, 1015331, 1015332, in Missouri. Probate Court (Lewis County). Probate records, 1833-1917; indexes, 1833-1976. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977, 2000)
Index; Vols 4-5.
Index: Dunn, John; H. M. Woodyard appointed administrator 1 April 1857
Vol 4, p. 164, April 1855
Estate of John Dunn dec’d (H. M. Woody & Public Administrator) owes Joseph Steele $55.05 on Account
Vol. 4, p. 356, May 1857
Estate of John Dunn owes James W. Sutton $20.34 on account
Vol. 4, p. 372, July 1857
Estate of John Dunn owes Charles Rossiter $4.00 on account
Vol. 4, p. 398, Oct 1857
H. M. Woody and Public Administrator of Lewis County petition for order to sell Real Estate from Estate of John Dunn, dec’d, to wit:
NE1/4 of SW1/4, S6, T61, R7
E1/2 of NW1/4, S8, T61, R7
W1/2 of SE1/4, S31, T62, R7
S1/2, S7, T61, R7W
to pay debts due and remaining unpaid for want of sufficient funds
Ordered that all person interested in said estate be notified that unless the contrary be shown on or before the next term an order will be made for the sale of the above real estate or so much thereof as needed to pay the debts
notice to be published in newspaper
also request to sell fractional S36, T63, R6W containing 100 acre
Vol. 5, p. 150 – H. M. Woodyard Public Administratory in charge of the Estate of John Dunn dec’d reports the sale of the N1/2 of the fractional Section 36, T43, R6W to Z. F. Knight and Wm Ellis. July 1859
- Index to Stock Marks Registered in Hendricks County (1824-1848)
accessed 5 Dec 2013.
Index to Stock Marks Registered in Hendricks County (1824-1848)
Dunn Abner January 18, 1825 A crop and a slit in the left ear.
Dunn Alvin February 18, 1825 A swallowfork and an underbit in the right ear, and a crop and slit in the left ear
Dunn Buriah January 26, 1825 A swallowfork in the right ear and an overbit in the left ear
Dunn James November 27, 1824 A smooth crop off the left ear
Dunn John January 18, 1825 A swallowfork in the left ear and a crop and a slit in the right ear
Dunn John May 27, 1825 An underslope in the right ear
Dunn Joseph January 18, 1825 A crop and a slit in each ear, and an underbit in the left ear
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