Person:John Bunch (2)

John was a legal adult in York County, Virginia in 1658 when he was nonsuited over a bill of 429 pounds of tobacco. The clerks' record indicates he borrowed a sum in tobacco to plant in 1652, indicating he was born probably in the early 1630s.

Because his grandson was not allowed to marry a white woman, but his great-grandchildren did, this suggests that John's father was African. He was free, and thus his mother must have been free.

John obtained a patent in New Kent County on 18 March 1662/3, adjacent the land of Richard Barnhouse and not far from Blisland Church and Wahrani Creek. He ultimate resided near the area where Paul Bunch is first found.^[1]

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