Display Patriot - P-171743 - Daniel GUNN

Daniel GUNN

SAR Patriot #: P-171743

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State of Service: NC      Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
DAR #: A048374

Birth: 14 Mar 1763 / / NC
Death: 25 Sep 1825 / Jones / GA

Qualifying Service Description:

Also Orderly Sergeant under Capt Lawson, NC troops


Additional References:
  1. Roster of Soldiers on the Rev War from North Carolina, pg 194-195
  2. Rev War Pension *W7614 .
  3. DAR RC # 945268

Spouse: Susan Street
Children: Daniel; James W; Susan; Jesse;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1987-02-20 FL 225482 Walter Colquitt Sherman (129012) Daniel   
1993-08-28 FL 210224 Thomas Jefferson Sherman (141331) Daniel   
1993-08-28 FL 210257 Thomas Jefferson Sherman IV (141362) Daniel   
1993-10-08 FL 209904 Thomas Jefferson Sherman III (141452) Daniel   
1997-12-12 FL 200387 Leland Paul Larson Jr (149430) Daniel   
2000-09-14 FL 7331 Thomas Arthur Larson (154447) Daniel   
2002-05-16 FL 13200 John Sherman Lewis (158173) Daniel   
2004-08-27 FL 18186 Walter David Sherman (157488) Daniel   
2021-06-04 FL 97430 John Joseph Masters Jr. (219354) James   
2024-05-10 TN 111730 William Thedford Gunn Jr. (230008) John   
Burial:
Gunn Cemetery (C-0106484)
Location:
Round Oak / Jones / GA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2250980
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
24881763
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Headstone



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • Gun Cemetery is about 5 miles from Round Oak, Georgia
  • On Allison Lake Road, one mile (NW) off of Road Oak Julliet Road, three miles (West) of Monticello Highway #11, which runs one mile North of Round Oak, Georgia
  • Road Oak is due North of Macon, Georgia, but one must drive North East on Hwy 129 to Gray and take Hwy 11 to Round Oak


Author: K. Scott Collins

Daniel Gunn    b. 3/14/1763    d. 9/25/1825    (JONES COUNTY, GEORGIA)

In 1779, he enlisted at the age of sixteen in Granville County, North Carolina and served as a private in Captain Lawson's Company. He served in the Battles of Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and Eutaw Springs. He later was promoted to Orderly Sergeant and Lieutenant and served until the end of the war. His widow later received a pension for his services as a resident of Jones County.

See:      

(1) Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 2, p. 1458.

(2) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 194.

(3) Widow's Pension Application, #W7614.

Source:

Arnold, Ross & Burnham, Hank. Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers. Vol.1. Athens, GA: Georgia Society SAR, 2001. A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.




Author: DeCody Brad Marble

Lieutenant Daniel Gunn of the NC Militia, the son of John Gunn, was born 14 Mar 1763 in Caswell County, North Carolina and died on 25 Sep 1825 in Jones County, Georgia.

FAMILY:

On 26 Jan 1786, in Person County, North Carolina, Daniel Gunn married Susan Street (1767-1856).

They had the following children. *(verified descendants by DAR)

01). William Harrison Gunn (1787-1835)

02). Elizabeth A. Gunn Driver (1789-1873)

03). John Gunn (1790–1880)

04). Moses (1792–1863)

05). *Daniel Green Gunn (1795–1849) married Matida Ann Lewis

06). Thomas Gunn (1797–1867)

07). *James W Gunn (1800–1838) married Elizabeth Crawford

08). *Jesse Gunn (1805–1867) married second Lucy Jane Hammond

09). *Green General Gun (1806–1859) married Susan B Fuller

10). *Susan Gunn Driver (1808–1838) married Berry Driver

Daniel Gunn’s gravesite: Gunn Cemetery, Round Oak, Jones County, Georgia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24881763/daniel-green-gunn

 

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE:

Service Source: Widow’s Pension Number, W7164 Service   Description:  1) Orderly SGT, Capt. Lawson

Daniel served in the Revolutionary War for about five years. He volunteered to serve in the war at age 16 years of age in Granville County North Carolina under Captain Lawson who later became Colonel of a Regiment under General Nathaniel Greene. Daniel enter the service as a private and was promoted to orderly Sergeant and later promoted to Lieutenant.

He fought in the Battle of Cowpens, 17 January 1781 in South Carolina under the direction of Brigadier General Daniel Morgan. It was a decisive victory by American Revolutionary forces in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. He also fought in the Battle of Guilford Court House on 15 March 1781 in Greensboro NC under the direction of Major General Nathaniel Greene. The battle commemorated at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.

He fought in the Battle of Eutaw Springs on 08 September 1781 close to Eutawville South Carolina under Major General Nathaniel Greene. His brother John killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs on 08 September 1781.

Daniel Gunn, DAR Ancestor #: A048374

SOURCE DOCUMENTS:

Fold3.com US Revolutionary War – Militia – Lieutenant Memorial: https://www.fold3.com/page/653597617-daniel-gunn

Gallery:

(1) Final Pay Vouchers, 8 pages

(2) Widow Pension S.3178 W7614, 44 pages (document images)

Stories:

(1) Pension application of Daniel Gunn W7614 Susan Gunn f44NC Transcribed by Will Graves 9/6/08 1786 rev'd 11/18/15

Excerpt from beginning of Widow's Pension, W7614

State of Georgia, Jones County

Know ye that on this the 18th day of July in the year A.D. 1853, in person appeared before me, the undersigned one, of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County, the same being a court of record Susan Gunn of said County an aged and infirm person (age 86 years) and who by reason of bodily infirmity cannot appear in open court – who being duly sworn according to law declares on oath that she is the widow of Daniel Gunn, (formerly of said County deceased), who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

 




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