Francis Nunn I

• General Notes
  • Our family story really begins in North Carolina in 1729 with Francis Nunn in Craven County.  Where he came from, we do not know.  It may have been Virginia, or England, or a Welsh port, or elsewhere.  But all evidence indicates a man and a family that strongly supported the English crown.  The names Elizabeth, William, and Ann could have come from the first Queen Elizabeth, William of Orange who became king in 1688, and the third from "good Queen Anne" who succeeded him.
    
    Newbern, or "New Bern" had been settled in 1709 by a Swiss colony led by Baron von DeGraffenreid.  Until 1729, North Carolina had been divided into three counties: Ablemarle, adjoining the Virginia line to the North; Clarendon adjoining the South Carlina line to the south; Bath, the county in between the two. Craven Precinct was a portion of the Bath County until it was made into a county in 1729.
    
    On December 16, 1729, Francis Nunn I purchased 640 acres of land from William Hancock, Jr.  This land was known as Fort Barnwell, where a great batle was fought on January 28, 1712 between the Tuscarora Indians and Colonel John Barnwell and his Indian allies.  Francis Nunn I also owned other land in Craven County.  In 1732, he sold 100 acres of this original land to Thomas White. 
    
    Upon the death of Francis Nunn I, intestate, possibly in 1738, his oldest son, William I, inherited all of his by old English law.  By a deed, dated August 17, 1740, William I conveyed to his brother, Francis II 250 acres of land, stating he had inherited it from his father, Francis I.  In 1745, William I sold the last 290 acres of the original land to John Williams.  Thus all of the original land that Francis I purchased in 1729 passd from the family.
    
    By deed dated 16th of December 1729, William Hancock, Jr. Esq.,
    conveyed to Francis Nunn of said precinct and province, a certain
    plantation lying at Neuse, containing 600 acres, etc.
    
    By deed dated 16th of December 1745, Francis Nunn [II], gentleman, conveyed to John Cox, gentleman, a tract of land beginning at the river side of Neuse River above the fort gut and running, etc. (The old indian fort at Fort Barnwell).  Francis Nunn [I] was the father of William Nunn, Bk. 3, p. 119. [Lenoir County, NC - Nunn Bible Records]
    

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