When John Dunn Jr was born on 21 August 1758, in Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John "Jackie" Dunn Sr, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Cross, was 23. He married Sarah Greer on 8 March 1782, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Garrard, Clay, Kentucky, United States in 1820. He died in 1840, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
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