Individual Details

John Bunch III

(Bet 1684 and 1690 - 14 Mar 1742)

Events

BirthBet 1684 and 1690New Kent, Virginia
Marriage1705Blisland Parish, Virginia, British Colonial America - Sarah Slayden
Legal-shared16 Aug 1705(Sarah Slayden) & Sarah Slayden, A white woman, petitioned the Council of VA on 16 AUG 1705 to Allow them to marry because the Minister of Blisland Parish (in New Kent & James City counties) had refused to marry them. The Attorney General was undecided "whether the petition came within the intent of the Law to prevent Negros & White Persons intermarrying" because he could not resolve "Whether the issue begotten on A White woman by A Mulatto man can properly be called A Mulatto, that name As I conceive being only Appropriated to the Child of A Negro man begotten upon A white woman or A white man upon A negro woman, & As I Am told the issue of A Mulatto by or upon A white person has Another name viz. that of Mustee; wch if so, I conceive it wholly out of the Letter (tho it may be conjectured to be within ye intent) of the sd Act, to which (as Abovesd being Penal) is, As I conceive, not to be construed beyond ye letter thereof." The matter was referred to the court to decide [McIlwaine, Executive Journals of the Council, III:28, 31].
MarriageAbt 1709Sussannah Nuckolls
Property18 Feb 1722received a patent on the upper side of Taylor's Creek & call John Bunch "Jr" when he received a patent for another 400 acres adjoining his land. - Hanover, North Carolina
Property17 Aug 1725patented 400 acres adjoining his land & another 400 acres on both sides of Southana River on 28 Sep 1728 [Patents 11:162; 343; 12:244; 14:3]. - 800 acres, Southana River, Louisa, North Carolina
Death14 Mar 1742Louisa, Virginia, British Colonial America
Admixture-EthnicityMulatto

Families

SpouseSarah Slayden (1691 - )
ChildJohn Bunch IV (1710 - 1777)
ChildLucretia Bunch (1714 - 1774)
ChildNancy Bunch (1714 - 1777)
ChildWilliam Bunch (1715 - 1776)
ChildHenry Bunch (1717 - 1783)
ChildSamuel Bunch Sr (1720 - 1782)
ChildDavid Bunch Sr (1722 - 1776)
ChildJames Alpheus Bunch Sr (1724 - 1802)
ChildRebecca Bunch (1730 - 1731)
SpouseSussannah Nuckolls (1693 - 1747)
ChildWilliam Nuckols (1710 - 1796)
FatherJohn Bunch Jr (1660 - 1719)
MotherMary Temperance Bates (1668 - 1735)