Thomas
Gunn,
Jr.
(ca.
1738
VA -
1800
NC),
James
B.
Kerner
(2007)
Thomas2
Gunn,
Jr.
(Thomas
Gunn,
Sr.1)
was
born
in
or
near
Amelia
County,
VA
circa
1738.18
Amelia
County,
VA
was
formed
from
Brunswick
and
Prince
George
Counties
in
1734.
Nottoway
Co.,
VA
was
formed
from
Amelia
County
in
1788.
Before
Nottoway
County
established
its
own
government,
it
was
known
as
Nottoway
Parish,
a
district
of
Amelia
County.
Thomas
served
in
the
Virginia
Colonial
Militia
during
the
French
and
Indian
War.
He
was
paid
five
pounds,
six
shillings
for
militia
service
in
1756,
During
the
French
and
Indian
War,
the
Virginia
House
of
Burgesses
passed
an
act
for
the
defense
of
the
frontier
of
the
colony
on
September
14,
1758.
Thomas
Gunn
was
among
those
soldiers
mentioned
in
the
schedules
attached
to
that
act.
Thomas
was
listed
in
the
Amelia
County
unit.
Thomas
Gunn
(or
his
father)
was
mentioned
in
court
records
in
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA
in
1758.
Note:
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA
was
formed
from
Brunswick
Co.,
VA
in
1746.
On
April
4,
1758,
Thomas
Gunn
of
Amelia
Co.,
VA
purchased
300
acres
near
his
sister,
Edith
Hogan,
on
the
north
side
of
the
Roanoke
River
in
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA,
(present-day
Mecklenburg
Co.,
VA).
Note:
Mecklenburg
Co.,
VA
was
formed
from
part
of
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA
in
1765.
Thomas
Gunn
(or
his
father)
was
listed
as a
resident
of
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA
per
the
1760
tax
lists.
On
July
15,
1760,
Thomas
Gunn
(or
his
father)
received
a
land
patent
for
333
acres
on
the
north
side
of
Little
Creek.
On
June
22,
1761,
Thomas,
or
his
father,
witnessed
a
deed
in
Brunswick
Co.,
VA.
On
May
9,
1764,
Thomas
was
living
in
Brunswick
Co.,
VA
pursuant
to
the
Revolutionary
War
Pension
Application
of
his
son,
Starling
Gunn.
In
1764,
a
Thomas
Gunn
was
listed
as a
tithable
in
Cumberland
Parish,
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA,
with
two
tithables.
In
1765,
Thomas
(or
his
father),
along
with
James
Gunn,
were
mentioned
in
the
estate
of
Samuel
Jordan
in
Amelia
Co.,
VA.
On
January
26,
1777,
Thomas
Gunn
of
Nottoway
Parish,
VA
purchased
215
acres
in
Lunenburg
Co.,
VA
(one
record
states
this
was
Amelia
Co.,
VA).
In
1780,
Thomas
was
drafted
into
service
by
the
State
of
Virginia
in
the
Revolutionary
War,
but
his
son,
Starling
Gunn,
went
in
his
stead.
Starling's
pension
application
stated
that
he
was
living
in
Amelia
Co.,
VA
at
that
time.
Later
that
same
year,
Thomas
supplied
the
Patriot
Army
passing
through
Amelia
Co.,
VA
with
twenty-one
bushels
of
wheat
and
five
hundred
pounds
of
beef,
for
which
he
was
later
reimbursed
six
pounds.
On
February
8,
1783,
Thomas
sold
60
of
the
300
acres
he
had
purchased
back
in
1758.
Thomas
Gunn,
or
almost
certainly,
his
nephew
of
the
same
name,
was
listed
on
the
1784
Tax
List
of
Caswell
Co.,
NC.
That
Thomas
Gunn
had
200
acres
on
Mill
Creek
in
the
Nash
District
and
lived
near
Mary
Gunn,
who
had
600
acres
on
Mill
Creek.
Mary
Gunn
was
the
widow
of
John
Gunn
who
died
circa
1780
in
Caswell
Co.,
NC.
John
Gunn
apparently
had
a
son
also
named
Thomas
Gunn,
who
died
in
neighboring
Person
Co.,
NC
in
1796.
The
Nash
District
of
Caswell
Co.,
NC
became
part
of
Person
Co.,
NC
at
its
formation
in
1792.
Thomas
Gunn,
Jr.
died
circa
November,
1800
in
Caswell
Co.,
NC.19
The
Rev.
James
Gunn
Bible
states
that
he
died
October
28,
1800,
but
that
can't
be
the
right
month
since
his
will
was
signed
on
November
13,
1800,
and
the
estate
was
inventoried
on
December
15,
1800.
Rev.
James
Gunn
was
probably
operating
from
memory
and
confused
the
month
of
his
father's
death.
Thomas
Gunn,
Jr.
is
recognized
by
the
Daughters
of
the
American
Revolution
as
having
provided
service
to
the
Patriot
Cause
during
the
American
Revolution.
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GEORGE PHILLIPS WHITE was a planter who was born July 20, 1847, near Uniontown, Perry County, the son of GEORGE M. WHITE and NANCY McDAVID (MORGAN) WHITE. GEORGE M. WHITE was a native of Granville County, North Carolina who moved to Perry County near Uniontown and engaged in farming. The grandparents of GEORGE PHILLIPS WHITE were JOSHUA WHITE and of WILLIAM M. MORGAN. and MARGARET (CUNNINGHAM) MORGAN of Laurens district, South Carolina. He was the great-grandson of JAMES DORROH WHITE, who was born in County Antrim, Ireland. JAMES DORROH came to America a short time after the Revolution, settled in Laurens County, South Carolina. The ancestors of the White family were English, coming to this country a short time before the Revolutionary War. GEORGE P. WHITE received his primary education in the old field schools and attended the Southern university at Greensboro 1865-66. He engaged in farming and cotton buying and was the tax collector of Perry County in 1880-88; represented that county in the legislature, 1890-91, 1892-93, and again in 1907. GEORGE was county commissioner from 1896 to 1900. He served in SELDEN'S battery during the War of Secession and was paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May, 1865. He was a Democrat and served on the Democratic executive committee of his county. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a Mason.
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