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4. [?HENRY]3 BUNCH, born about 1660–70 in Virginia, was apparently the father of several of miscellaneous early Bunch settlers who went to North Carolina (those who were not named in Paul Bunch’s will, though they were also recorded as mixed race in later records). The following Bunches are grouped here because they cannot be shown to definitely descend from Paul Bunch or John Bunch II.121 There was also a slave who was probably not a Bunch by blood, but who used the name John Bunch as a ruse to pass as free. A “runaway Malatto Man Slave, named Jack” who belonged to Samuel Harwood, the younger, of Charles City County, was in South Carolina in April 1719 according to the testimony of George Rives, age fifty-nine, who said he talked with Jack many times.122 In his testimony, Rives recounted that Jack had gone into South Carolina in the company of Mr. Robert Hix and other traders, disguising himself by using the name John Bunch. Jack said he would have willingly returned to his master, but he was detained by a man named Capt. How and other traders there. Rives further testified that he knew Harwood’s runaway slave very well because they had lived on the plantation of Poplar Swamp, swearing deposition on 6 September 1719.
i HENRY4 BUNCH, born about 1685–90, purchased
