Person:Abner Dunn (9)

Watchers
Captain Abner Martin Dunn
m. Abt 1739
  1. Jemima DunnAbt 1740 -
  2. Joseph DunnAbt 1742 - 1819
  3. Hezekiah DunnAbt 1744 - Aft 1807
  4. John DunnAbt 1746 -
  5. Maj. Isaac Hopewell Budd DunnAbt 1749 - 1789
  6. Lydia DunnAbt 1752 - Abt 1813
  7. Captain Abner Martin DunnAbt 1755 - 1795
  • HCaptain Abner Martin DunnAbt 1755 - 1795
  • WPriscilla TylerAbt 1769 - 1843
m. 30 Dec 1787
  1. Milley DunnAbt 1788 -
  2. Wyllis Dunn1788 - Bet 1809 & 1810
  3. Isaac Hopewell B. Dunn1790 - 1812
  4. Amelia Ann Dunn1792 - 1884
  5. Margaret Dunn1794 - 1795
Facts and Events
Name[1][3][8] Captain Abner Martin Dunn
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1755 Sussex, New Jersey, United States
Military[1] 11 Nov 1776 Pennsylvania, United StatesCommissioned ensign in the 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion
Military[1][5][4] 31 May 1779 Pennsylvania, United StatesCommissioned 1st lieutenant in the 9th Pennsylvania Battalion
Other[6] Oct 1785 Member, Society of Cincinnati
Other[3] 1786 Kentucky, United Statesprovided information regarding attitudes of Indians toward settlement of Kentucky
Marriage Bond 28 Dec 1787 Jefferson, Kentucky, United Statesto Priscilla Tyler
Marriage 30 Dec 1787 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United Statesto Priscilla Tyler
Occupation[6] Abt 1790 Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United StatesLawyer
Occupation[7] Jun 1794 Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United StatesPostmaster
Death[1][7] 18 Jul 1795 Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Christensen, Anthony J. A branch of the Piscataway Dunn family: a few members of the Dunn family whose branches spread from Pisctaqua, New Hampshire, to Piscataway, New Jersey, to Southwestern Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Kentucky, and to points West. (Salem, Utah: Mac Anthony Corp., c1998)
    pp. 2-1, 2-21.

    From the 9th Pennsylvania Battalion, Abner "was later transferred to the 1st Battalion and still later to the 3rd Battalion, where he served until November 1783."
    "After the war Abner went to the Kentucky District of Virginia for a time, where he became employed as a merchant at Louisville and afterward studied law.", Abner later "moved north to Cincinnati, Ohio, where [he] was appointed by George Washington to be the first postmaster."

  2. Daughters of the American Revolution, Indiana Society. A Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution: commemoration of the United States of America bicentennial, July 4, 1976. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1976., 1985)
    p. 186.

    Abner Martin Dunn, b. 1755, NJ
    Service: entered 1776 as Ensign; Lt. of McLean's Delaware Partison Co., served till end of war, resided PA during war
    Member of Cincinnati of Pennsylvania; appointed Postmaster of Cincinnati, OH by Washington

  3. 3.0 3.1 Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1786.
    p. 348 & ff.

    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1786.
    New York, June 19th, 1786.
    Sir: In obedience to the order of Congress of the 16th instant directing the Commissioners for Indian affairs to report to Congress such information as they may be possessed of concerning the disposition and conduct of the Indians next adjoining to the settlements of Kentucke towards the Inhabitants thereof &ca., We report:
    . . . . with the information of Capt. Abner Dunn (No. 3) . . . we are of opinion that the Wabash and other Indian Nations in that quarter, are more hostily than peaceably disposed towards the people of the United States and particularly against the settlement of the lower part of Kentucke,

  4. 1838 application for war pension by the widow Priscilla Dunn, in Pension: Microfilm Series M 804 Roll 868; Book A Vol 2 page 220, D. D. Addison, Clerk. NARA. Notes from David Blackwell, March 2000.

    First page:
    New Albany, Indiana
    Priscilla Dunn, widow of Abner Dunn who died previous to 1800 of Clark county in the state of Indiana who was a Lieutenant in the com--- commanded Captain --- of the Reg't commanded Col Patton in the Pa for 2 years. . . . .
    Third page:
    Certificate of commission Abner Dunn as first lieutenant Regiment of Foot (?) commanded by Col John Patton. Signed by John Hancock, president, 14 January 1777
    Further on a copy of a letter from G. H. Dunn to - L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. which states that records of the war department show Abner Dunn served to the end of the war and received his bounty lands and c-mm-lations (commendations?),
    Several affidavits . . . . one [from] George Gordon, state of Ohio, Hamilton county. States he was well acquainted with Abner M. Dunn in the City of Cincinnati and State of Ohio sometime in the year 1796 or 1795 and that he was present at the funeral of Abner M. Dunn who was buried in the year '96 or '97 in the city of Cincinnati.

  5. Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical Research System
    Ancestor No. A034844.

    DUNN, ABNER MARTIN
    Service: PENNSYLVANIA
    Rank: LIEUTENANT
    Birth: (ANTE) 1757
    Death: 1795 JEFFERSON CO-LIV KENTUCKY
    Service Source: NARA, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #104, #801
    Service Description: 1) ALSO ENSIGN CAPT SAMUEL MOORE, COL JOSEPH WOOD; CAPT ALLEN MCLANE, COL JOHN PATTON, CONT LINE
    Spouse: PRISCILLA TYLER
    Child: Amelia, m. Amos Goodwin

  6. 6.0 6.1 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.

    Applicant No. 2680, Charles H. Gibson of Louisville, KY, Applied 20 March 1890, Approved 15 Feb 1894
    Information is from mother, a granddaughter of Abner Martin Dunn
    "Abner Dunn was a brother of Major Isaac H. B. Dunn who was aide on the staff of General Arthur St. Clair, and, as I am informed joined the army as a private soldier while he was very young, but was afterwards, [h??igh] the influence of his brother Major Dunn appointed a Lieutenant, and served throughout the war. He was at one time in the 5th Regiment of Penna Troops and at another in the 6gth Regiment. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and his certificate of membership signed by Gen'l Washington as President & Gen'l Knox as Secty, in Oct 1785 is now in my mother's possession. After the war he came to Louisville (about 1786-7) where he engaged for a short while in merchandising, but in the meanwhile studied law. When he had qualified himself to practice he moved to Cincinnati (about 1790) [lost in binding] he died in 1792. My information [is] that he was a practicing lawyer & also postmaster of Cincinnati at the time of his death.

  7. 7.0 7.1 Goss, Charles Frederic. Cincinnati, the Queen City: 1788-1912. (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1912)
    Vol 2, p. 119.

    The Centinel of the Nortwestern Territory, 28 Jun 1794 announced that Albert [sic] M. Dunn Esq. is appointed deputy postmaster-general of this place. The office would be in his home.
    His cabin was on the corner of Butler Street and Columbia Road, now second Street, beyond Fort Washington and the Artificer's Office.
    In March 1795 postmaster Abner M. Dunn warned "those who have a right to calculate on receiving letters or papers at his office that in future they must come prepared with ready cash in hand."
    Abner Dunn died 18 July 1795.

  8. During the American Revolution the title of Ensign was the equivalent of 2nd. Lieutenant. Captain Lieutenant indicated the senior 1st Lieutenant in the Battalion.
    (Bremer, Compendium of Historical Sources, p. 382)
    Although Abner Dunn remained a 1st Lieutenant (see widow's pension application), reference to him as Captain Dunn suggests leadership and status above the average.