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From Andrew Dunning and the "Dunnings of Maine" web site off the internet 

 

Find a Grave Webstates and the article on his mother Susan Bond states:  Capt. David Dunning born 1705 in Ireland and died August 16,1793 in Brunswick, Maine. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, Selectman of Brunswick and Deacon of the Congressional Church, and built a block house on the site of the present post office. He became the owner of nearly all the land where the Brunswick Village now stands, and had great influence in the town. He had a large familt and a long line of worthy decendents. 

 

From Find a Grave Website - Memorial # 23923409 - states he was born 1705 in County Wexford, Ireland and died Aug 16, 1793.  Buried in First Parish Cemetery in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine.    It added the photo.



From the Family Tree Maker's World Family tree vol. 16 Have him married to a Mary Farren, and in one Famiy Tree Maker it says Mary Todd. Is this the same women???

 


From the NEHG Register, vol. 74, April 1920, page 100, (The Dunnings of Maine, by Rev. Everett Stackpole). He was buried with his father, first wife, brother James and several children in the old cemetery, a mile or so south of Bowdoin College. The inscriptions on their slate gravestones are still legible. It has a great article on him and his chidlren.

 

 

Capt. David Dunning..born in 1706..owned a large part of the land where the village of Brunswick now stands. He was a settler as early as 1730 and soon after built a garrison or block house, near the present Town Hall. The spot has been marked by an appropriate tablet. Here all his children were born. In 1772 he built a house on the site of the Town Hall. Here hedied 16 August 1793. Here his son John kept a tavern, called it Washington Hall. It was burned in 1856. When Fort George was dismantled in 1760 David Dunning and Jeremiah Moulton bought the land for 133 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence. owned waterpower on both sides..first dam and sawmill..      Brunswick Telegraph:    July 13, 1898,  page  1          record no.:  2193    source file:  6

 

 carolarrowsmith added this to Ancestry.com on 16 Oct 2010

 

Following from "Find A Grave Website:  Capt. David Dunning born 1705 in Ireland and died August 16,1793 in Brunswick, Maine. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, Selectman of Brunswick and Deacon of the Congressional Church, and built a block house on the site of the present post office. He became the owner of nearly all the land where the Brunswick Village now stands, and had great influence in the town. He had a large familt and a long line of worthy decendents. 

 

Albert Dunning on Ancestry.com states that he came to Brunswick Maine on the ship McCallum in 1718.

 

From Harmony Dunning who posted the following on Ancestry.com

Capt. David Dunning born 1705 in Ireland and died August 16,1793 in Brunswick, Maine. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, Selectman of Brunswick and Deacon of the Congressional Church, and built a block house on the site of the present post office. He became the owner of nearly all the land where the Brunswick Village now stands, and had great influence in the town. He had a large familt and a long line of worthy decendents