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    1. Re: DUNN of Georgia
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hlT.2ACEB/3473.2 Message Board Post: Mr. Cercy, Did you ever get the info you were looking for? Nehemiah was brother to Josiah Dunn, and both were sons of Benjamin and Sarah Dunn. Benjamin and Sarah sold land back in Bladen Co. NC within months of getting their land grant in GA, and the deed reads "... Benjamin Dunn, Planter, of the province of Georgia..." The land he sold in NC had been originally granted to George Ackland, and it was adjacent to Richard Dunn. That Richard Dunn had a son John Dunn Sr. who inherited all Richard's land, being the oldest son. It could be that Richard had bought the Ackland land, John inherited it, and Benjamin came into possession of it from John. There seems to have been another son who was brother of Josiah and Nehemiah as well. Divvying up Sarah's land in 1804, there is a Joseph Dunn heir that we can't account for. He is listed directly after living daughters and their husbands, and directly before the children of deceased Josiah Dunn. So we've found a connection between Benjamin/Sarah Dunn and Bladen Co NC. Next we need to find a connection between him and John Dunn Sr., if there is one. I do know that wherever Benjamin Dunn was, there was always a John with him. Also, it may be that Josiah's son Thomas lived with a John Dunn (uncle?) in Jackson Co GA after the death of his father (and mother?). The marriage license for Thomas and Nancy Ward says 'Thomas Dunn of Jackson County..." But then, you may have already found all this.

    07/11/2006 03:59:10