Person:Anthony Dunkin (1)

Anthony Dunkin was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Dunkin, Anthony - born 1743-4 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; moved to Augusta County, Virginia where entered service; later moved to Montgomery County, Virginia, thence after Revolutionary War to Washington County, Tennessee, thence to Greene County, Tennessee, where granted Pension in 1832 after resided there for 30 years; resided 12 miles from County Courthouse. F-S1808, r867.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13726170/person/-21645853?ssrc=&ml_rpos=4

2.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   Willa Griffin family group sheet shows birth: ca 1744 Lancaster Co., PA; DOD 1839 in Greene Co., TN.
   
   According to research by Gail Vanderhoof, Anthony remained in PA and among his descendants were Gov. John Duncan of IL, Congressman Hon. Alexander Duncan of Cincinnati, OH, Blanton Duncan of KY, Gen. Duncan of LA.
   
   Revolutionary War pensioner? - S-1808 invalid, Greene , TN, 25 Oct 1832, Affidavit of Anthony Dunkin, aged 88. Entered militia service as citizen of Auga Co., VA; volunteered under Capt. Cunningham and served 12 months at Fort Dinwiddle; does not recollect the year or mnth in which he entered service; discharge is lost; he again was drafted and served 3 months under Capt. Trigg, Col. Preston; from Montgomery Co., VA to NC and fought at Guilford Courthouse and White... Hill at Shallow Ford of Yadkin; he knew Majors Cloyd and Sawyers; he was b. in Lancaster Co., PA 1743 or 4 but has no record of age; moved to Auga Co., VA, then to Montgomery Co., VA, then after Revolution to Washington Co., TN,, then to Greene, TN, where he has lived for past 30 years.
   Testimony by Edwin Grubs and Azariah Doty. Greene TN minutes of Court of Common Pleas; Saturday after 2nd Monday Aug. 1795; ordered that a road be laid off from John Hughes to Joseph Parks and that John Hughes, Daniel Bowine, James Jones, John Jones, Jospeh Parks, John Newman Junr., Henry Stonecypher, Rudloph (sic) Boogh, Anthony Duncan, Thomas Ellis, Shad Morris, Philip Babb, Stephen Cotter, Joseph Hawkins, Henry Cross and Azariah Doty or any 12 of them being first duly sworn, view and mark the same and report next court. issd.
   
   http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lgreen&id=I106

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   ANTHONY DUNKIN, S-1808, Invalid, TN (FHL film 970,867; from National Archives)
   Greene Co. TN, 25 Oct. 1832, Affidavit of Anthony Dunkin, aged 88, Entered Militia service; was citizen of Augusta Co. VA, volunteered under Capt. Cunningham and served 12 months at Ford Dinwiddie; does not recollect the year or month in which he entered service; discharge is lost; he again was drafted and served 3 months under Capt. Trigg, Col. Preston, marched from Montgomery Co. VA to NC and fought at Guilford Courthouse and Whitesils? Hill at Shallow Ford of Yadkin, he knew Majors Cloyd and Sawyers; he was born in Lancaster Co. PA 1743 or 4 but has no record of age; moved to Augusta Co. VA, then to Montgomery Co. VA, then after Rev. to Washington Co. TN, then to Greene Co. TN where he has lived for past 30 years. Testimony by Edwin Grubs and Azariah Doty. (Azariah signed by mark), there being no clergyman resident in Anthony Dunkin's vicinity, who made oath they were well acquainted with Anthony Dunkin and believed him to be 88 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that they concur in that opinion and believe he served as he states. They further said that Anthony Dunkin was so enfeebled and afflicted by age, that he could not, without great danger to his existence, undergo the fatigue of being removed from his residence to the Court House "(a distance of twelve miles)" in order to have his examination taken there. The next page contains an affidavit by Cornelius Smith that in "my opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier" and further certified that Edwin Grubs and Azariah Doty who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit are citizens of Greene County and respectable men and that their statement is entitled to credit.
   Anthony Dunkin recieved his pension, to commence 4 March 1834, on a certificate issued 20 Feb. 1833.
   
   http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dobson/tn/tnrev.htm