Family:John Bunch and Unknown (2)

"John Bunch II and Paul Bunch were contemporaries who eventually purchased tracts of land relatively near to one another. yDNA proves they were related. It seems most likely that they were brothers [It is not likely that their father had siblings born of the same early mixed-race union, given the prevailing attitudes of the period.] yDNA also indicates that their common ancestor was from Sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly Cameroon."^[1]

"The name of John Bunch’s wife is not known, but the fact that his great-grandchildren were able to freely marry white neighbors suggests that she was white."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Descent of the Bunch Family in Virginia and the Carolinas: Obama Bunch Descendancy. (Ancestry.com, July 15, 2012).