Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Gen. Samuel Dunn and Jane Maclay




Husband Gen. Samuel Dunn 1 2

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         Father: Thomas Dunn (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Holliday (      -      ) 3


       Marriage: May 1817 4



Wife Jane Maclay 1 2

           Born: 31 Oct 1794 4
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           Died: 1822 - Georgia 4
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         Father: Hon. William Maclay (1765-1825) 5 6 7
         Mother: Margaret "Peggy" Culbertson (1773-1834) 5 7 8




Children
1 F Elizabeth Dunn 9

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         Spouse: James H. Bard (      -      ) 9
           Marr: 20 Jun 1837 9


2 F Margaretta M. Dunn 9

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         Spouse: James P. T. Carter (      -      ) 9
           Marr: 5 Aug 1851 9



General Notes: Husband - Gen. Samuel Dunn


He succeeded his father in the management of Mt. Pleasant Furnace, at the foot of Path Valley, Pennsylvania. As a young man he had strong military tastes. At the beginning of the War of 1812 he was in command of a Path Valley company of riflemen in the 64th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. When the draft was ordered early in 1814, Captain Dunn's entire company of forty men volunteered and marched with the companies of Captains Stake and Gordon to Erie, where they were put in the 5th Regiment, United States Infantry, under Col. James Fenton, and served with distinction in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane. After the war Captain Dunn became brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1820-21. One of his noteworthy achievements was the discovery of the tooth of a mammoth in Path Valley in 1829. It was fourteen inches in circumference at the root and seven feet in length.

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Sources


1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 825.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 151.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 152.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 154.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 822.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 146.

7 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 191.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 130, 151.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 155.


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