John Ross Dunn Esq

John Ross Dunn, Esq. 1697-1783 John Ross Dunn, Esq. , was born in 1697, in Charles Parish, York, VA, and died in 1783, in Salisbury, Rowan, NC. He was a younger son of Thomas Dunn and Elizabeth Gray , and descendant of the original immigrant, Thomas Dunn , who immigrated to Virginia, at the age of 14, from Worcestershire, England , in 1620. See History of Worcestershire, England . This Dunn family traces back to the Donne's of Devon , and Sir John Donne , wealthy London Mercer . According to Rev. Jethro Rumple , John was related to the Erskines , on his mother's side. See Lord Gray , and Peerage of Scotland ... According to General William Smith and W. Thomas Smith , John relocated to North Carolina when he was about 17 years old, and he and Frances Peronneau parented 10 children, Nancy , Mary , Elizabeth , Hannah , four girls; Joseph , John , Isaac , Hezekiah , Leonard and Bartholomew , six boys. In 1714, Frances Peronneau faked her death, and joined into a