Levi Dunn (1757 - 1778)

Born 1757 in Newton, Sussex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Died 3 Jul 1778 at about age 21 in Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Note

Note: #N01008

Sources

• "Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=4110&h=16222&ssrc=pt&tid=86720765&pid=40548024664&usePUB=true), Levi Dunn.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVGP-ZWVR : 13 December 2015), Levi Dunn, 1778; Burial, Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Wyoming Massacre Memorial; citing record ID 126084077, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KSGS-1XX : 24 June 2015), Levi Dunn, died 03 Jul 1778; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Battle of Wyoming Monument, Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.

• WikiTree profile Dunn-1825 created through the import of oscaralexanderennis.ged on Jul 14, 2012 by Rosina Lippi. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Rosina and others.

Notes

Note N01008

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The Battle of Wyoming was fought 3 July 1778 in which a small band of patriotic Americans led by Col. Zebulon Butler and Col. Nathan Denison battled a combined British, Tory and Indian force of three times their number.

Following the Battle of Wyoming, 1778 July 3, the dead lay unburied until October 22 when a detail of men under Lt. John JENKINS gave them a common burial on the ground where they fell. In 1833 the mass grave was opened and the bones of 83 men removed and sealed in a vault. In 1860 a sixty-two foot high monument was erected along Route. 11 in Wyoming, Luzerne county, Pa.

Levi and his brother William died in this battle

Note N02127

died in battle