Dorothy (Prickett) Dunn (1760 - abt. 1836)

Born 21 Mar 1760 in Frederick County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of James I Dunn — married 20 Jan 1773 (to after 1815) in Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1836 at about age 75 in Brown County, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Dorothy was born in Frederick County, Virginia, on 21 March 1760, the ninth child (of eleven children) and the fourth daughter (of five daughters) of Jacob and Dorothy Springer Prickett. A few years later, about 1766, the family moved to George's Creek, Pennsylvania, near the Monongahela River, and another five years later south up the Monongahela, about twelve miles south of present-day Morgantown, WV.

When she was thirteen years old she married James Dunn, a native of Delaware.

Dunn had gone "out as a young unmarried man in 1775 to Monongalia County where he filed a claim for 400 acres of land. [In the Revolution, h]e served as a Sergeant under Captain Zackquill Morgan, but returned to Monongalia County where he had married Dorothy Prickett, . . . . On 14 September 1801 he and his wife Dorothy sold the 56 acres (where they had formerly lived) on the waters of Buffalo Lick Run (later Sisco Run) to their son-in-law Joseph Kratzer. [They] settled in Ohio on a farm of 133 acres on the west side of Straight Creek[, . . . ] about one mile below the village of Arnheim in what is now Brown County.

from Findagrave.com

Dorothy Prickett Dunn

Birth: Mar. 21, 1760, Frederick County, Virginia; Death: 1836, Brown County, Ohio, USA.

Dorothy and James were the parents of:

1. Jane/25 Jan 1774
2. Mary "Polly"/abt 1777
3. Henry/6 Jan 1779
4. Milley/abt 1781
5. Absolom Clarkson/7 Jan 1783
6. Susannah/abt 1785
7. Ferrell Prickett/4 May 1796

Family links: Parents: Jacob Prickett (1722 - 1797), Dorothy Springer Prickett (1726 - 1785); Spouse: James I Dunn (1753 - 1802); Children: Jane Dunn Graham (1774 - 1836), Henry Dunn (1779 - 1866), Amelia Dunn Reynolds (1782 - 1848), Clarkson Dunn (1783 - 1855), Ferrel Prickett Dunn (1796 - 1869); Siblings: Josiah Prickett (1746 - 1807), Isaac Prickett (1751 - 1827), Mary Drucilla Prickett Morgan (1752 - 1817), Martha Prickett Parker (1756 - 1820), Isaiah Prickett (1757 - 1774), Jacob Prickett (1758 - 1826), Nancy Ann Prickett Bunner (1762 - 1842).

Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Brown County, Ohio, USA^[1]

Dorothy was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery--Brown County, Ohio, USA ^[2]

Citations

1. ↑ Sue McDuffe, "Dorothy Prickett Dunn," Findagrave.com. Record added: Jul 20, 2010 URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55201405. Accessed 2 Feb 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.
2. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial

Acknowledgments

• PPH created Dorothy (Prickett) Dunn. on 23 Nov 2012.

Sources

• Sue McDuffe, "Dorothy Prickett Dunn," Findagrave.com. Record added: Jul 20, 2010 URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55201405. Accessed 2 Feb 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

• Skidmore??, Skidmore and Scudamore Family History > John Skidmore and His Companies at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, and at Fort Hinckel in June 1775. (http://www.skidmoregenealogy.com/newoccasionalpapers.html; http://www.skidmoregenealogy.com/; http://skidmorefamilyhistory.webplus.net/; http://www.skidmoregenealogy.com/images/OccPap_no._34_20080907_John_and_his_companies.pdf Occasional Papers, no. 34) Rec. Date: 7 May 2014.