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Birth Location Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Ireland

Hugh Dunn

Birth: 1650

Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Death: 16 NOV 1694

Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

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Age: 20

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Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

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Age: 44

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John Dunn 1620 –

Ann Hickson 1629 –

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Elizabeth Drake 1653 – 1711

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     Ann Elizabeth Dunn 

     1676 – 1756 

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     Hugh Dunn 

     1678 – 1736 

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     1681 – 1738 

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     1681 – 1748 

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     1689 – 1748 

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Family Group Sheet -------------------- Hugh DUNN, Sr. was a prominent figure in the affairs of Piscataway, New Jersey, as one of the four original grantees of a 40,000 acre tract in a grant dated Dec. 28, 1666.

The earliest record of "Hew DONN" is on the 1662 Tax List of Dover, NH, at Oyster River. In 1663 he was received as a freeman in Dover, and in 1664 he is listed in the Dover Town Records as having been granted 10 acres for a house he had built below the Lamprey River Lower Falls (New Market Twp.). In exchange the town took 10 acres from the 30 acres he possessed at Sandy Bank up the river a short distance above the falls (Town of Durham).

Many of the colonizers to Piscataway settled there in response to a document published in 1665 through the representative of the king and nobles, Sir Philip CATERET, which was known as the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords-Propietors. Some of the concessions offered were in the form of land grants, religious liberty and freedom in secular affairs.

Hugh DUNN disposed of his real estate in the Piscataqua region of New Hampshire and emigrated to New Piscataway in New Jersey along with three other original grantees: John MARTIN, Charles GILMAN and Hopewell HULL. His land holdings increased more in 1670-72 when he became the owner of 92 acres in the adjoining town of Woodbridge; however, his permanent home remained in Piscataway, Middlesex County. In 1678 he had a patent for 138 acres in Piscataway and added to it the next year.

Although the origin and parentage of Hugh DUNN have not been proven, he was born c.1640-42. He married Elizabeth DRAKE on Dec. 19, 1670 at Piscataway, and they had nine children. She was the sister of Rev. John DRAKE and the daughter of Captain Francis DRAKE and Mary WALKER, who were formerly residents of Portsmouth, N.H.

As well as being a planter, Hugh DUNN was also a militiaman, civil officer and churchman. He served on the first Grand Jury in 1684 of which there were 17 members. Along with five other men, and was instrumental in organizing the Baptist Church in Piscataway, where his brother-in-law, John DRAKE was minister for 50 years. He, himself, was one of three lay preachers.

Hugh DUNN died Nov. 10, 1694 leaving a Last Will and Testament dated Oct.7, 1691 and probated Dec.10, 1694 in Piscataway.

Submitted by Barbara Dunn Jones of Richmond, Texas

The Children of Hugh DUNN, Sr. and Elizabeth DRAKE were.

1. Mary, b.Jan 19,1671/2 m.Hezekiah BONAHAM in 1690.

2. Francis, b. Mar.5,1673/4

3. Elizabeth, b.Mar 19, 1675/6 m.John RUNYAN July 20, 1692

4. Hugh, Jr. b.Nov 18, 1678 m. Elizabeth MARTIN Aug. 9, 1697

5. Martha, b.July 13,1681

6. Samuel, b.Mar 22, 1683/4 m. Esther MARTIN in 1704

7. Jonathan b. June 3, 1688

8. Joseph, b. Jan 20, 1689 m. Hannah FITZ RANDOLPH in 1711

9. Benjamin, b. Aug. 4, 1694 m. Sarah JOHNSTON