When Captain Samuel Dunn was born in 1710, in New Shoreham, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Nathaniel Dunn, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Lawton, was 36. He married Priscilla Ball on 15 October 1730, in New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1787, in New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 77.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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