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Theophilus Dunning

Theophilus was born in 1618 in Devonshire, England.

Birth Notes
- 1625

Theophilus' father was Roland Dunning and his mother was Anna ?. His paternal grandparents were Henry Dunning and Lucinda Bartlett. He was an only child. He died at the age of 31 in 1649 in Salem, Essex, MA.

General Notes
- ;---(sometimes named as Downing and called "the fisherman"), had land granted him in Salem, Mass, 1642; had a son Theophilus, bapt Mar 13, 1642; dau. Ann (or Hannah) bapt. Sept. 8, 1644; and a son Benjamin bapt. Jan 17, 1647, all in Salem, Mass. Nothing further is known of Thehopilus, but in the Town Reports of Boston Record Commissioners is found mention of a Benjamin Dunning, who we assume, later moved to Long Island, where a Benjamin Dunning is mentioned at Newton and Jamaica, L.I., in 1699, and again as late as 1708, when he is named as the father of Hannah Dunning who m. Isaac Hurd in Stratford, Conn, May 11, 1708.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Hugh Dunning ^*
  - b.  1440 d.  1476
  
  Roland Dunning
  - b.  1469 d.  1541
  
  Isabelle Lowell
  - b.  1449 d.  1499
  
  Eleter Dunning
  - b.  1495 in England d.  1563 in England
  
  Marie Eleter
  - b.  1473 d.  1550
  
  Henry Dunning
  - b.  1530 in England d.  1613 in England
  
  Leita Stonewell
  - b.  1500 in England
  
  Roland Dunning
  - b.  1567 in England d.  1641 in MA
  
  Lucinda Bartlett
  - b.  1530 in England
  
  Theophilus Dunning
  - b.  1618 in Devonshire, England d.  1649 in Salem, Essex, MA
  
  Anna ?
  - b.  1572
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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