GUNN, James G.
| Birth Name | GUNN, James G. [1] |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 57 years |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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| Birth | 1768 |
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| Death | 1825 | Pontotoc, Pontotoc Co., MS |
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Families
| Married | Wife | COLBERT, Molly |
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Narrative
James G. Gunn, a wealthy English planter, was "a native of Virginia, fought with the British in our war of the Revolution and after the war removed from Virginia to the remote edge of white settlement and located among the Chickasaw Indians and in what is today Lee County, Mississippi. He never composed his disdain for the new United States Government and would suffer no observance of the Fourth of July to be held upon his plantation, although he thoughtfully observed the birthday of George III. He died in 1826." (from John Bartlett Meserve: "Governor Cyrus Harris," The Chronicles of Oklahoma Vol. XV, no. 4 (December, 1937).
If this is true, I rather doubt he actually named a son named "George Washington."
Some sources (for example Williams Jordan PAF [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2320779&id=I509701125]) list children as Molly, Lissey, Sally, James Junior, & Silas -- alas! with no lineage. Others list only Rhoda. (Unfortunately, I have lost the original source of my listing.)
Source References
Pedigree
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