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Dorothy Gunn (Marsh)

Also Known As: "Gunn"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: July 13, 1805 (81)
Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ebenezer Marsh and Elizabeth Marsh
Wife of Nathaniel Gunn and Lieutenant Nathaniel Gunn, Jr.
Mother of Submit Gunn; Dorothy Howland - Baker; Nathaniel Gunn, III; Moses Gunn, Sr.; Elijah Gunn and 3 others
Sister of Esther Sawyer; Ebenezer Marsh; Ephraim Marsh; Enos Marsh; Mary Marsh and 4 others

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About Dorothy Gunn

Inscription: Mrs. Dorothy, consort of Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn, died July 13, 1805, at 82. "Who, after she patiently endured/As seeing Him who is invisible/And faithfully served her generation/By the will of God she fell asleep."

Note: Consort of Lt. Nathaniel Gunn and Dau. of Ebenezer & Elizabeth (Gillett) Marsh

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Data from http://merrill.olm.net/shs/allred/hawks/HawksPart1.doc :

Also see The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 61, p. 270.

Her husband served as lieutenant in Capt. Moses Harvey's company, Hampshire County regiment, 1776 - 78.

Nathaniel and Dorothy had the following children:

i. Submit GUNN (born on September 2, 1747).

ii. Jemima GUNN (born on December 3, 1749).

iii. Dorothy GUNN (born on December 25, 1745).

iv. Capt. Nathaniel GUNN (born in 1752).

v. Moses GUNN (born on May 3, 1754).

vi. Stephen GUNN (born on August 18, 1756).

vii. Elijah GUNN was born on December 25, 1759 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.1310 History of The Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, by John Montague Smith, prepared by Henry W. Taft & Abbie T. Montague. Press of E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass., 1899. p. 384. Removed to Ohio.

viii. Elisha GUNN was born on November 5, 1761 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.1311 He died. Died young.

ix. Dea. Elihu GUNN (born on November 10, 1763).

x. Elisha GUNN was born on October 10, 1765 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.1312 History of The Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, by John Montague Smith, prepared by Henry W. Taft & Abbie T. Montague. Press of E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass., 1899. p. 384. Removed to Ohio. Elisha Gunn settled in Cleveland in 1796, and was living in good health and in possession of all his faculties in 1847, being then past ninety (or maybe 82!).

xi. Mercy GUNN was born on January 12, 1768 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts.1313,1314 She died in 1863 in Ohio



Nathaniel Gunn, husband of Dorothy Marsh, and the husband of Thankful Marsh, (her sister) were brothers.


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Dorothy Gunn's Timeline

1723
July 28, 1723
Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
1745
December 25, 1745
Montaque, Frankllin, Province of Massachusetts
1747
September 2, 1747
Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States of America
1752
January 15, 1752
Sunderland, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
1754
May 3, 1754
Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
1759
December 25, 1759
MA, United States
1763
November 10, 1763
Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
1765
October 10, 1765
Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
1805
July 13, 1805
Age 81
Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States