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  • Name: David Fanning, Jr.
  • Birth: ABOUT 1755 in: Birchen Swamp, Amelia County, Virginia, USA
  • Death: 14-MAR-1825 in: Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Father: David Fanning
  • Mother: Jane

Notes: This is Colonel David Fanning.

According to Gerald Handspiker here is some history of Colonel Fanning:

"He surrendered his Army at the York Town in October of seventeen eighty-one and then the whole thing was through."

"Oh, that wasn’t the start of the War, the War wasn’t, didn’t run too long, it was a few years. It speaks about when he was, he was, his father got drowned duck shootin’ and he was born in West Virginia and, Media County, West Virginia and he ha d eleven hundred acres of, his father had eleven hundred acres and he had eleven hundred at an early age somehow or another, it was left to him, it was up to twenty-two acres all together and he was sixteen years of age when it happened, his mothe r, he was too young for most anything, so he got in so good, she, the farmer would bring him up and the farmer then was quite a handyman, a carpenter and everything with it and he was quite set in his ways the man was, and you’d give him a good tr ainin' and he would become very skillful with wood and everything he did. He was a crack rifle shot and he had got out over that and he was tradin’, he was tradin’ with the Indians in Kentucky, supplies and different things and when this starte d up they had teams that checked overboard in Boston at that date because small enterprise was being hampered with, England was doing the same as they had done in Scotland and Ireland and they were quite impressive."


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  • Married: 25-APR-1782 in: Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
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  • Name: Sarah Carr
  • Birth: 1766 in: Virginia
  • Death: 10-NOV-1833 in: Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Father:
  • Mother:

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1/12/2007