Winston BUNCH

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Winston - b. about 1759, Bedford Co., VA; d. 1830, Mercer Co., KY. Served three years as a private from Albemarle Co., VA in the Revolution, and received a land warrant for 100 acres in KY. Winston is listed in the DAR Patriot Index. Married 1784 Eliza BUNCH (b. 1764; d. 1834). Children: David W. married Elizabeth WRIGHT (DAR line); William married Martha HART; and others.

Winston married "Eliza" Elizabeth Dawson TAYLOR in 1784 in Virginia. "Eliza" (daughter of TAYLOR and DAWSON) was born in 1764 in Bedford, Virginia; died in 1834 in Clark County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Winston BUNCH, Sr. was born on 30 May 1786 in Louisa County, Virginia; died on 12 May 1845 in Montgomery County, Missouri.
2. David William BUNCH was born on 12 Aug 1787 in Bedford, Louisa County, Virginia; died before 1837 in Indiana.

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• Alt. Birth: Between 1716 and 1720, Virginia; Alt. Birth

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In 1742 he sold the 60 acres received from his father to his brother John. He apparently moved to Bedford Co. prior to 1742, and his name is found in court and land records there beginning in 1754. His date and place of death have not been discovered, but many of his children moved to Mercer Co., KY beginning about 1789. Perhaps Henry died about this date. In addition to the seven sons shown, Henry was perhaps the father of Charles (b. about 1761), Betsy (b. about 1773), and Simeon (b. 1775) who married Celia 'Lula' Boone in 1799, residents of Warren Co., KY in 1800. Married about 1745, Bedford Co., VA.
Ann - A Bedford Co., VA deed of 1764 names "Henry BUNCH and wife Ann CALLOWAY

Henry married Mary Ann CALLOWAY about 1745 in Louisa County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Joseph CALLAWAY and Catherine Anne BROWNING) was born about 1720 in Louisa County, Virginia; died in 1778 in Boones Station, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1705, Blissland Parish, James City, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1722, Hanover, Virginia, British Colonial America; Taylor's Creek
• Residence: 1728, Louisa, Virginia, British Colonial America; 400 acres in wester part of Louisa County
• Property: 1742, Grantee In A Deed Dated March 14, 1742, And That He Had Patented 400 Acres Of Land In Fredricksville Parish, Louisa County.
• Will: 8 Jun 1774, Records Also State That John Bunch, Deceased, Made A Will Bequething His Property To Five Sons.

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Park/e/s and Bunch on The Trail West, compiled by Alice Crandall Park(Baltimore: 1975), pages 201-42.

John Bunch III married Rebecca Harrison between 1713 / 1714 in New KentCo., VA. She was born between 1690 - 1694 in Louisa Co., VA and diedMarch 16 1770 in Louisa Co., VA.

He was a property owner and patented 400 acres of land in FredricksvilleParish, Louisa County. They had at least eight children

This family is very well documented. A team of accredited genealogists researched this family when Barack Obama became president. This is Obama's ancestor.
John Bunch III was the son of John Bunch II. He was a mulatto. Y-DNA studies on his male descendants show that he was of African ancestry (Cameroon or Ivory Coast.) DO NOT COMBINE HIM TO THE FAMILY OF JOHN BUNCH AND MARY TEMPERANCE BATES THEY ARE NOT THE SAME! John Bunch III and Sarah Slayden petitioned the courts for permission to marry in 1705 as they were a mixed race couple. John Bunch III later married Rebecca. They were the parents of Nancy, John, Lucretia, William, Henry, David, James, Samuel and Rebecca.

John married Rebecca HARRISON between 1713 and 1714 in New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia. Rebecca (daughter of Anthony HARRISON and Rebecca BERNARD) was born in 1699 in Louisa County, Virginia; died on 16 Mar 1770 in Louisa County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• LifeSketch: ; Rebecca was wife of John Bunch III, a mulatto, who descended from an African slave. She was not the wife of John Bunch, Jr. PLEASE DO NOT MERGE. After John died Rebecca owned and sold land in Louisa County, Virginia in her own right. She died in 1770
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• Alt. Birth: Between 1690 and 1694, Louisa County, Virginia; Alt. Birth

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Rebecca was wife of John Bunch III, a mulatto, who descended from an African slave. She was not the wife of John Bunch, Jr. After John died Rebecca owned and sold land in Louisa County, Virginia in her own right. She died in 1770.
See attached research. This family is very well documented. A team of accredited genealogists researched this family when Barack Obama became president.

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• LifeSketch: ; Joseph Callaway,

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Joseph Callaway,

Son of Joseph Callaway. Possibly the husband of Anne Browning- The last deed, below, caused some to surmise Joseph was married to the daughter of Francis Browning and that Joseph named his son, Francis, after Anne's father.

Joseph Callaway Sr.'s name appears in Virginia Patent Books. John Medor was granted 640 acres of land in Rappahannock County, south side of Rappahannock River on Beaverdam Swamp for transporting four persons: Jno Chambers, Joseph Callaway, Robert Duell and John Warrener.On April 21, 1690, Joseph Callaway and Robert Duell appear on another importation list where Dugwell Ferson was granted 63 acres in Middlesex County, VA by the west branch of Parretts Creek.The explanations for appearing on two different importation lists include returning to England or some other Colony or possibly some sort of fraud.On April 10, 1700, Joseph Callaway bought 77 acres in Essex County from John McDuffy (Essex Deed Book 10, p30)Joseph appears on the Essex County Quit Rent Rolls of 1704.On July 11/12, 1711, Joseph Callaway of South Farnham Parish bought 100 acres for the sum 2,500 lbs. of tobacco, on the south side of the headwaters of Portabago Swamp in Essex County (Deed Book 13, p 424). This land was purchased from Francis Browning and his wife Rachel; it was part of a patent formerly granted to Enoch Doughty.In April 1712, a deed makes reference to Joseph Callaway's land when William Berry and his wife Margaret of Richmond County sold to Samuel Short of Essex County, 310 acres in Essex, being a part of a patent granted to Enoch Doughty for 4763 acres, and bounded by the land of Joseph Callay and that of Francis Browning, and on a head branch of Matapony (Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1711-1714, p33).On July 10, 1715, Francis Browning of St. Mary's Parish gives "for natural love and affection which I have for my well beloved daughter Anne Browning", 100 acres "where I now live", which land was purchased out of a tract formerly granted to Enoch Doughty, adjoining 100 acres sold to Joseph Callaway and land recently taken up by Jn. Sanders (Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1714-1717, p366).In 1732, Thomas Callaway appears in the Tax records of Caroline County.In 1765, Thomas Callaway and his wife Mary of Halifax County sold to Walter Dunn, a tract of land in Essex County "whereupon Joseph Callaway formerly lived." (Essex County Deed Book 30, p58).
Children: Joseph, John, CAPT.THOMAS,William, Francis, Richard,James, Ann, Elizabeth.---by Allie Nelson

Joseph married Catherine Anne BROWNING in Virginia. Catherine (daughter of Daniel BROWNING and Rachel) was born in 1694 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 10 Jun 1738 in Essex, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Date and Manner of Death: ; My research indicates she died in 1732, six weeks after the death of her husband--and second son, Joseph--also of a fever.
• FamilySearch ID: L8ST-56M
• Name: Anne BROWNING

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Gave Land
On July 10, 1715, Francis Browning of St. Mary's Parish gives "for natural love and affection which I have for my well beloved daughter Anne Browning", 100 acres "where I now live", which land was purchased out of a tract formerly granted to Enoch Doughty, adjoining 100 acres sold to Joseph Callaway and land recently taken up by Jn. Sanders (Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1714-1717, p366).
10 Jul 1715
Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America

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John Bunch (1) was transported to the Virginia colony in about 1656 as documented in CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS . In 1657/59 there was a court order in York County involving a John Bunch with a favorable outcome. Then in 1662 a John Bunch (1) patents 450ac of land in New Kent County (neighboring York County and New Kent was a very large county extending to the mountains). If he came to America at 17 (as is the family history in one of the Bunch lines) John (1) would have been born about 1635. This appears to be one individual who came to America BEARING the name John Bunch and settled in New Kent County.

There is another possibility. There was an indentured African American immigrant living in Virginia by the name of John Punch (born abt 1609) who researchers of Barack Obama's ancestry believe changed his last name to Bunch or his son's name to the John Bunch(1). Because of trying to escape his indenture before it was finished, John Punch was penalized to be indentured for his natural life and is considered the "first slave". Would his children have been free, as with indentures, or slaves as with slavery. If his son John was free then he could possibly be the John who patented 450 ac of land in New Kent County, VA in 1662. If truly a slave, neither he nor his son would have had legal rights to patent land.

John Punch would have had to see the name change as advantageous to himself or his son. Perhaps the name "Punch" suggested aggression which he would want to avoid in his circumstance. Immigrants altering their names for various reasons was not unusual. Punch to Bunch would preserve much of the name. It was certainly possible for him to patent land if free, as there is documentation of some other free blacks who acquired land and some African American slaves themselves in the 1600s.

My understanding is that free black land holders were expected to socialize with other free land owners and not with any slaves.
My understanding is also that there was increasing prejudice towards the latter 1600s which escalated during the 1700's as slavery escalated as a practice. Nevertheless, there were a minority of free blacks that retained their freedom and property ownership in the 1700s and the 1800s before and after the Civil War. One example is Henry Bunch of Orange County. He and his family were designated negro, or mulatto and were free property owners in the 1700 and 1800s.

But for most blacks slavery was awful and terribly wrong. Every human being wants to be free and own their own property...not BE someone else's property. Why and how slavery has existed around the world through out history is a sad blight upon much of mankind. Those who abduct (usually their own) and sell, those who transport and sell, and those who purchase and use, all share the guilt and shame. We have no information if this John Bunch gave into the easier, more lucrative lifestyle growing in popularity and had slaves himself.

Two other Bunches appear in the land records in the 1703/04 quit rent rolls: A John Bunch (2) with 100 ac in New Kent County, VA (the first John Bunch (1) had 450 ac to pay on) and a Paul Bunch with 150 ac in King William County, VA. These counties were close, just across the river from one another. This is very suggestive of John (2) and Paul being sons of John Bunch (1) (the new immigrant, or son of John Punch) They both named, what seems to be their first son, John. They would have both been at least
21 to own property in their own names in 1703 and thus probably were born about 1665 to 1682. In 1722 a John Bunch (2-son, or 3-grandson)uses the title "Jun" in a deed indicating his father was a John Bunch.

Both John (2) and Paul Bunch were active and mentioned a number of times in various ways in the land records. Both end up with land in Hanover County VA (Hanover was carved out of New Kent County). Then Paul moved to North Carolina where he died in 1726 in Chowan County leaving a will. John (2)dies in Louisa County, VA (Louisa was carved out of Hanover County) where he died BEFORE 1742. In 1742 two of this John's (2) sons, William and Henry, sell the land they inherited from their father to their older brother John (3). All 5 son's are listed in the deed (John, William, Henry, David and James).

In the 1720's there was Henry Bunch, son of John Bunch (2) that owned land Va. There is also a Henry Bunch "a planter" of Chowan NC who subsequently bought land in Bertie County NC and then lived and died in Bertie NC. They could be the same person, especially if Henry Bunch moved to Chowan County NC when his uncle Paul Bunch moved there and then found better land in Bertie County and eventually went back to Virginia to sell his land in Louisa to his older brother as he would have no use for it.

The history is complicated by another John Bunch immigrating to acquire more land. There is also a Henry Bunch "a planter" of Chowan NC who subsequently bought land in Bertie County NC and then lived and died in Bertie NC. They could be the same person, especially if Henry Bunch moved to Chowan County NC when his uncle Paul Bunch moved there and then found better land in Bertie County and eventually went back to Virginia to sell his land in Louisa to his older brother as he would have no use for it.

The history is complicated by another John Bunch immigrating to America in 1683 and another in 1716 with no current information on where they settled. My understanding is that sometimes there was some dishonesty and names were reused to acquire more land. Perhaps these are mistakes.


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This John Bunch Jr is "NOT" the same man as John Bunch II.
John Bunch II is son of John Bunch I and is a Mulatto man is is the ancesor of Barak Obama


***John Bunch Jr. is the son of John Bunch Sr. who was born in 1640 in England. He arrived in America from England in Richmond in 1656. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/26347140/person/402128923753/facts

John Bunch Jr was born about 1664/1665 in Henrico, New Kent, Virginia and was not a Mulatto. He was registered as a Colonial Soldier. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48434/VAColonialSoldiers-007224-217/342882?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/26347140/person/402128719029/facts/citation/1102182170341/edit/record

He is also listed in https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48412/DuplicatesVARecs-004065-164/335512?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family

John married Mary ASHER on 16 Nov 1691 in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anthony married Rebecca BERNARD. Rebecca was born on 18 Jul 1660 in De Soto County, Virginia; died in 1710 in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph married Sarah Catherine LAMPMANN in 1660 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America. Sarah was born in 1640 in Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1738. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daniel married Rachel. Rachel was born in 1660 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1730 in Lunenburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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