This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DebraNowell Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.dunbar/1176.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: First: I take great offense with you calling ANY Dunbar a fraud! Second: you have conflated two different Dunbar family's into one. Ann Theopold Chaplin who wrote "Robert Dunbar of Hingham MA" pub. 1992 also wrote a paper titled "John of Connecticut" in which she has documented the discrepancies between the two family's. According to your line of descent, it appears you descend from John of Connecticut and not Robert of Hingham. Your John did not marry Mary Aldrich but Anne "unk. You've attached your Dunbar family to the wrong John. The DNA Project has tested men from both families and the results verify Ann's information below....that these two families are NOT related via a direct male ancestor. "The John Dunbar who married Elizabeth Beecher at New Haven, Connecticut 24 Jul 1700 has frequently been said to be the son of Robert Dunbar of Hingham, MA. This has been found to be incorrect. Donald Lines Jacobus in an article published in July of 1965 in The American Genealogist corrected the error for which he himself had largely been responsible. In his works Families of Ancient New Haven and Families of Old Fairfield he had made the assertion that John was the son of Robert. In his "additions and corrections" to that latter volume he also corrects the error. John Dunbar was at Fairfield, CT with a wife Anne before coming to New Haven. Anne was admitted to Christ Church, Fairfield 21 Oct 1694. As Mr. Jacobus pointed out in his article, John "cannot have been in Hingham and Fairfield during the same time period, 1694-1697" Maybe you should DNA test to discover which Dunbar family you truly descend from! Debra Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.