William Bunnell Birth 1750 Virginia Death Unknown

This is the information on William Bunnell sent by John Bunnell (see earlier post).

William Bunnell
Birth 1750 Virginia
Death Unknown
4th great-grandfather

Children:
Jonathan Bunnell 1771-1859
Rebecca Bunnell 1774
Samuel Bunnell 1775-1848
William Bunnell 1778-1862
Jeremian Bunnell 1780-1832
Sarah Bunnell 1781Joseph Bunnell 1783-1850
Peter Bunnell 1784-1868
Susannah Bunnell 1789-1860
David L. Bunnell 1782-1878
Keziah Bunnell
Anne Bunnell

Facts:
Birth: 1750, Virginia

Residence 1768 Loudoun County, Virginia
    List of the Tithables for Cameron Parish, Wm Carr Lane's List, p. 411 (1 media)

Residence 1769 Loudoun County, Virginia
    Loudoun County, Virginia, Tithable Lists, William Lane's List, p. 447 (1 media)

Residence 10 June 1770 Loudoun County, Virginia
   Loudon County, Virginia, Tithable Lists, William Carr Lane's List, p. 536

Residence 9 September 1771 Loudoun County, Virginia
   Cameron Parish (5 media)

Birth of Son Jonathan Bunnell (1771-1859)
   Dec 1771, Virginia, USA

Property 23 April 1772 Spotsylvania County, Virginia
   Witness to the sale of 100 acres of land by Paul McClancy and wife Rose to Peter Roswell of Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania County. Other witnesses were Jacob Wright and William Hall (Spotsylvania Deed Book H, pages 218-220)

Witness 17 September 1772 Spotsylvania County, Virginia
   Spotsylvania's County Minute Book entry regarding the Roswell-McClancy Indenture

Birth of Daughter Rebecca Bunnell (1774- ) 

Birth of Son Samuel Bunnell (1775-1848) 1775, Virginia

Probate 20 March 1777 Spotsylvania, Virginia
    Awarding letters of administration to William Bonnell, Henry Coleman (sec), and Samuel Bonnell (sec) for the estate of Jacob Wright. Granted after Ann Wright, widow of Jacob Wright, & Dennis Wright, eldest son gave up all rights of administration. (4 media)

Birth of Son Willian BUnnell (1778-1862) 2 May 1778 Virginia

Probate 19 November 1778 Spotsylvania County, Virginia

   Return of Inventory for the estate of Jacob Wright (2 media)

Birth of Son Jeremiah Bunnell (1780-1832) 1780 Virginia

Birth of Daughter Sarah Bunnell (1781- ) 1781

Residence 1782 Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Birth of Son Joseph Bunnell (1783-1850) 1783 Virginia

Residence 1783 Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Birth of Son Peter Bunell (1784-1868) 15 Jan 1784 Virginia

Legal 22 July 1785 Albemarle County, Virginia

   Posted bond for wedding of John Farris and Anne Bunnell (Bunnell/Bonnell Newsletter, May 2005 and February 2013) (1 media)

Residence 1785 Albemarle County, Virginia

Residence 1787 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Residence 1788 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Birth of Daughter Susannah Bunnell (1789-1860) 1789 Kentucky

Residence 1789 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Residence 1790 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Residence 1791 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Birth of Son David L. Bunnell (178201878) 1792 Mercer, Kentucky

Legal 19 April 1792 Rockbridge County, Virginia

   Signed for the marriage of daughter Rebecca Bonnel to Joseph Lyon (1 media)

Residence 1792 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Residence 1793 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Residence 12 March 1794 Rockbridege County, Virginia

Legal 15 April 1795 Botetourt County, Virginia
   Court Case–George Martin versus William Bunnell for debt, case discontinued (Botetort County Order Book #9, page 273) (1 media)

Legal 11 August 1795 Botetourt County, Virginia
   Court Case –Matthew Harvey versus William Bunnel for indebtedness. Stephen Hughes argues in defense of William Bunnel (Botetourt County Order Book #9, page 275) (1 media)

Legal August 1795 Botetourt County, Virginia
   Court Case –Matthew Harvey versus William Bunnel for indebtedness. William Bunnell ordered to pay the debt with interest (Botetourt County Rules of Office, 1791-1797, page 260-362, 372) (3 media)

Legal October 1795 Botetourt County, Virgina
   Court Case–James Caruthers against William Bunnel for debt. Defendant ordered to pay with interest (Botetourt County Rules of Office Book, 1791-1797, page 548 (October 1795) (1 media)

Residence 1795 Botetourt County, Virginia

Legal 11 October 1796 Botetourt County, Virginia
   Court Case–Uriah Humphries versus William Bonnell. The case is discontinued (Botetourt County Order Book #9, page 413) (1 media)

Residence 1796 Botetourt County, Virginia

Legal 12 September 1797 Botetourt County, Virginia
   Botetourt Court Order Book 10, page 93–John Moore against James Glenn commission granted the Plaintiff to take the deposition of William Bunnel Samuel Bunnel the wife of William Bunnel Debenasse. Case discontinued on 20 Oct 1797. (1 media)

Residence 14 June 1759 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 2 blacks over 16, 1 horse (William Gaines Tax List, page 2) (1 media)

Legal 27 August 1799 Mercer County, Kentucky
   Appointed surveyor for a road (2 media)

Legal 26 May 1800 Mercer County, Kentucky
   Defines precinct for the road (2 media)

Residence 27 June 1800 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 1 black over 16, 3 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List, page 3) (1 media)

Residence 22 July 1801 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 1 black, 4 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List, page 3) (130 acres of second-rate land on Lyons Run) (1 media)

Legal 29 July 1901 Mercer County, Kentucky
   William Bunnel bondsman for marriage certificate of Benjamin Gray and Lydia Daniel. Certified bride's age. (1 media)

Legal 5 May 1802 Mercer County, Kentucky
   William Bunnell Sr bondsman for marriage bond for William Bunnel with Polly Allin. Certified bride's age as 21. (1 media)

Residence 11 August 1802 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 2 blacks, 5 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List, page 3) (1 media)

Residence 13 August 1803 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 1 black, 5 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List page 4) (1 media)

Residence 18 September 1804 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 2 blacks, 3 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List page 4) (1 media)

Residence 11 September 1805 Mercer County, Kentucky
   1 tithe, 1 black, 3 horses (James Slaughter's Tax List page 4) (1 media)

Death of Son Jeremiah Bunnell (1780-1832) 18 May 1832 Monroe, Hart County, Kentucky

Death of Son Samuel Bunnell (1775-1848) 1848 Salvisa, Mercer County, Kentucky

Death of Son Joseph Bunnell (1783-1850) 1850 Howard, Missouri

Death of Son Johnathan Bunnell (1771-1859) 1859

Death of Daughter Susannah Bunnell (1789-1860) AFT 10 Jul 1860 Athens, Gentry County, Missouri

Death of Son William Bunnell (1778-1862) 3 Jan 1862 Beaver Creek, Hardin County, Indiana

Death of Son Peter Bunnell (1784-1868) 18 January 1864 Hardyville, Hart County, Kentucky

Samuel Bunnell born abt 1700 Death Unknown

This is the summary of Samuel Bunnell that John Bunnell sent.

Samuel Bunnell
Birth about 1700
Death Unknown
5th great-grandfather

Birth of son William Bunnell about 1750, Virginia

Residence 1768 Loudoun County, Virginia, USA 
    List of the Tithables for Cameron Parish, Wm Carr Lane's List, p. 411 (1 media)

Residence 10 June 1770 Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
   Loudon County, Virginia, Tithable Lists, William Carr lane's List, p. 536

Legal 13 August 1771 Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
   Upon a Motion of Samuel Bunnell, It is ordered that he be discharged from the Payment of Public and County Levies for the future by reason of his great age and Infirm State of Health

Probate 20 March 1777 Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
   Awarding letters of administration to William Bonnell, Henry Coleman (sec), and Samuel Bonnell (sec) for the estate of Jacob Wright. Granted after Ann Wright, widow of Jacob Wright, & Dennis Wright, eldest son gave up all rights of administration. (4 media)

William Bunnell (Virginia to Kentucky) and Samuel Bunnell (his father?)

John Bunnell sent this message. If you have any useful information, please post a comment or send a message to the editor.

Merry Christmas to you and everyone else in the extended Bunnell/Bonnell family!

George Farris, John Grady, Majorie Gibbs, and I have been working the Kentucky Bunnell/Bonnells pretty hard over the past year and have made some progress.  Our focus has been on the individual who appears to be the Kentucky patriarch, William Bunnell/Bonnell (spelled each way approximately 50% of the time, sometimes in the same document).  We’ve been able to track William starting with the last tax entry in 1805 back through a succession of moves (in reverse order) Mercer County, Kentucky (1799-1805), Botetourt County, Virginia (1795-1797), Rockbridge County Virginia (1787-1794), Albemarle County Virginia (1785), Spotsylvania County, Virginia (1772-1783), and Loudoun County, Virginia (1768-1771).  We’ve collected forty primary documents related to this individual over this thirty-eight year period.  The lack of any overlap in the different locations, the similarity on the signatures on many of these documents, and the simultaneous relocations of related families (Wright, Farris, etc) argue strongly that this was all the same William.  Pieces of this were already listed under the William Bonnel 004084, but I’ve attached a Ancestry printout that captures the far more comprehensive accounting of everything we’ve now found.  Are you now managing Claude’s database so that we can add this new information?

Probably the most significant thing that we discovered was the attached document from Loudoun County in 1771 that brings some clarity to the Samuel Bunnell that William lived and travelled with for several years.  This document describes Samuel as “of great age and infirm state of health” which seems to support the case that Samuel was William’s father.  Based on that assumption, I’ve attached an ancestry summary that shows everything we’ve found so far on the older Bunnell.  This seems to take us tantalizingly close to a point where we might be able to hook into the New England Bunnell/Bonnell lines, but nothing obvious stands out.  There seem to be five possible Samuel candidates in Claude’s database (005692, 001977, 009301, 290009, and 000025) but it will take much more research to see if any of these pan out.

During our research we uncovered one fascinating piece, but we have no evidence that this fits with William 004084.  It is an annotation in the Virginia state Auditors Accounts recording the payment on 28 April 1783 to William Bonnell, a ship’s master, for naval service during the Revolutionary War (attached).  Does anyone know who the Revolutionary War seaman was?  Is there any connection between this individual and the Captain Bonnell that Benjamin Franklin describes in his autobiography (a packet boat captain operating with the British Fleet off the coast of North America in 1757)?

Although we are out of hot leads, I think there is still much unplowed ground on these individuals, so we welcome any of the other Kentucky Bunnell/Bonnell descendants that have some research capacity and would like to join the search.

Thanks!

John Bunnell

(I'll make John's summaries of William and Samuel Bunnell separate posts so they will be searchable.)

Loudon County Order Books page 188, 13 August 1771 (Samuel Bunnell):

Virginia Auditors Accounts Volume XXXI page 31 (William Bonnell)

Looking for Descendant(s) of Noah and Mary (Howe) Bunnell

Charlie Bonnell sent out this request for help:

I’m looking for a possible descendant of Noah and Mary (Howe) Bunnell. Noah’s second wife was Margaret (Ekleberry) Shaffer.  I was contacted by a researcher who has photos of a Margaret Bunnell and another photo of a man that is labeled “her husband.” Question is: is that her first husband Michael Shaffer or her second husband, Noah Bunnell.  I have attached the photos for your perusal. Basically we’re looking for someone who has seen a photo of Noah and can substantiate this picture as being of him.

If you can shed any light on this I’d appreciate it. And Merry Christmas to everyone.