Nathaniel Gunn, I

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Different sites have dates of birth for Nathaniel ranging from 1636 to 1640 (some even later). They generally agree that he died in 1663, so he did not have a long life, apparently barely living to see - if at all - his son Samuel.

Nathaniel Gunn and Sarah Day had three childen:

Samuel Gunn , born 1663, died 1 Aug 1755. Married to Elizabeth Brensen Wyatt on 22 Jan 1684/5. Elizabeth was born c 1665 in CT, died 2 Oct 1737 in CT.

Nathaniel Gunn, born 1658/1663 - died young.

Jasper Joseph Gunn, born 1658/1663 - died young.

Henry H. Taft, History of the Town of Sunderland, identifies Nathaniel Gunn as follows:

                Nathaniel, son of Jasper* (1),  m.  Nov. 17, 1658, Sarah, dau.

         Robert and Editha (Stebbins) Day of Hartford and settled in Branford, Ct., where he d. 1663.  

"Pistole" was not originally part of the name of Nathaniel Gunn. Taft was meticulous in his genealogical records. The name may have been added by later generations.

• Savage says that Nathaniel was, perhaps son of Thomas, but that he was son of Jasper I have settled long ago to my satisfaction. = H. W. Taft. History of the Town of Sunderland, 1899

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GEDCOM Note

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Biography ==: Nathaniel Gunn, son of Jasper and Christian Gunn, was born about 1637 or earlier. His father, Jasper "Gonn" is found in London enrolled aspassenger on the ship Defence on 18 July 1635, bound for New England, accompanied by "Ann" (wife? sister? or?). <ref name="GM">Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page168</ref> [There is no doubt that Christian (Unknown) was the wife of Jasper Gunn, and most likely the mother of Nathaniel, eldest of six children.] Jasper Gunn settled first at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and removed to Milford, Connecticut by 1641. <refname="GM"/> Jasper moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut by 1648,where he was the town miller and later the town physician. <ref name="GM"/>

: Nathaniel Gunn married Sarah Day, daughter of Robert and Editha (Stebbins) Day, 17 Nov 1658,<ref name=mar>Name: Nathaniel Gam
Spouse Name: Sarah Day
Marriage Date: 1658
Marriage Place: Springfield, Massachusetts. Source: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2011. Accessed 25 September 2018, amb </ref> inSpringfield, Massachusetts. Sarah's step-father, John Maynard, died earlier that autumn, and her mother married Elizur Holyoak and moved from Hartford to Elizur's home in Springfield, Massachusetts, soon afterSarah's wedding. Sarah's brother John remained in Hartford, but her brother Thomas and sister Mary went with their mother to Springfield, where they each married a year later. (see Editha Stebbins)
: Nathaniel's father Jasper was in some kind of a dispute with the town of Hartford about his work as town miller, and was told by the courtto resign from the mill on 3 March 1658/9. <ref name="GM"/> He was trained as a physician, able to prescribe and take notes on his treatments, and was the only physician in town until late in 1657, when John Winthrop, Jr. arrived. <ref name="GM"/> : Jasper Gunn sold nine parcels of his land in Hartford, [up to about 100 acres], 29 Sept. 1659. On 7 Nov 1659 the town of Milford, Connecticut voted to give Jasper Gunn eleven acres providing he settled to live there. <ref name="GM"/> He lived at Milford earlier, from about 1641- 1648, and was returning to old friends and neighbors. <ref name="GM"/> : It appears that Nathaniel Gunn moved from Hartford to Branford (which is next to Milford) when his parents moved back to Milford, or soon after. <ref>A history of the First Church and Society of Branford, Connecticut, 1644-1919, page 21</ref>

Death

: Death: Abt 1662-1663, Branford, , Connecticut

Sources

<references />* Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, pages 164-168, Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

• A history of the First Church and Society of Branford, Connecticut, 1644-1919, database online, Internet Archive, by Simonds, J. Rupert (Jesse Rupert), (New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse& Taylor Co., 1919)

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