John Fanning Burgwyn was the eldest of three children born to John Burgwin and his second wife Eliza Bush Burgwin of New Hanover County, N.C. He was born during his father's long absence in England during the latter years of the American Revolution.
He was born at the Grove, near Thornbury, England, on March 14, 1783, and was baptized in the old church at Thornbury on the 23rd of April following, his sponsors being Col. Edmund Fanning, Lt. Gov. of Nova Scotia; Henry King of Alveston, Esq.; Elizabeth Hamilton, proxy for Mrs. Mary Hooper of N.C. and Sally Sergeant.
On Aug. 30, 1806, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he was married to Miss Sarah Pierrepont Hunt, the daughter of Robert and Eunice (Edwards) Hunt, of New Bern, N.C.
Mr. Burgwyn was a large merchant doing business at Fayetteville, Wilmington, New Bern and New York. He married, secondly, Miss Ellen Barber, of Bath, England, but she died without issue. Mr. Burgwyn died at Raleigh, N. C. in 1864 in the eighty-first year of his age.
Issue included: Julia Theodosia Burgwyn McRae, first wife of Rev. Cameron Farquhar McRae; Henry King Burgwyn who married Ann (Anna) Greenough, and Sarah Emily Pierpont Burgwyn, unmarried.
[Source: Walter Burgwyn Jones, “John Burgwin, Carolinian; John Jones, Virginian; Their Ancestors and Descendants” (1913).]
[Thanks to D.S. Johnson for biographical sketch.]
He was born at the Grove, near Thornbury, England, on March 14, 1783, and was baptized in the old church at Thornbury on the 23rd of April following, his sponsors being Col. Edmund Fanning, Lt. Gov. of Nova Scotia; Henry King of Alveston, Esq.; Elizabeth Hamilton, proxy for Mrs. Mary Hooper of N.C. and Sally Sergeant.
On Aug. 30, 1806, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he was married to Miss Sarah Pierrepont Hunt, the daughter of Robert and Eunice (Edwards) Hunt, of New Bern, N.C.
Mr. Burgwyn was a large merchant doing business at Fayetteville, Wilmington, New Bern and New York. He married, secondly, Miss Ellen Barber, of Bath, England, but she died without issue. Mr. Burgwyn died at Raleigh, N. C. in 1864 in the eighty-first year of his age.
Issue included: Julia Theodosia Burgwyn McRae, first wife of Rev. Cameron Farquhar McRae; Henry King Burgwyn who married Ann (Anna) Greenough, and Sarah Emily Pierpont Burgwyn, unmarried.
[Source: Walter Burgwyn Jones, “John Burgwin, Carolinian; John Jones, Virginian; Their Ancestors and Descendants” (1913).]
[Thanks to D.S. Johnson for biographical sketch.]
John Fanning Burgwyn was the eldest of three children born to John Burgwin and his second wife Eliza Bush Burgwin of New Hanover County, N.C. He was born during his father's long absence in England during the latter years of the American Revolution.
He was born at the Grove, near Thornbury, England, on March 14, 1783, and was baptized in the old church at Thornbury on the 23rd of April following, his sponsors being Col. Edmund Fanning, Lt. Gov. of Nova Scotia; Henry King of Alveston, Esq.; Elizabeth Hamilton, proxy for Mrs. Mary Hooper of N.C. and Sally Sergeant.
On Aug. 30, 1806, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he was married to Miss Sarah Pierrepont Hunt, the daughter of Robert and Eunice (Edwards) Hunt, of New Bern, N.C.
Mr. Burgwyn was a large merchant doing business at Fayetteville, Wilmington, New Bern and New York. He married, secondly, Miss Ellen Barber, of Bath, England, but she died without issue. Mr. Burgwyn died at Raleigh, N. C. in 1864 in the eighty-first year of his age.
Issue included: Julia Theodosia Burgwyn McRae, first wife of Rev. Cameron Farquhar McRae; Henry King Burgwyn who married Ann (Anna) Greenough, and Sarah Emily Pierpont Burgwyn, unmarried.
[Source: Walter Burgwyn Jones, “John Burgwin, Carolinian; John Jones, Virginian; Their Ancestors and Descendants” (1913).]
[Thanks to D.S. Johnson for biographical sketch.]
He was born at the Grove, near Thornbury, England, on March 14, 1783, and was baptized in the old church at Thornbury on the 23rd of April following, his sponsors being Col. Edmund Fanning, Lt. Gov. of Nova Scotia; Henry King of Alveston, Esq.; Elizabeth Hamilton, proxy for Mrs. Mary Hooper of N.C. and Sally Sergeant.
On Aug. 30, 1806, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he was married to Miss Sarah Pierrepont Hunt, the daughter of Robert and Eunice (Edwards) Hunt, of New Bern, N.C.
Mr. Burgwyn was a large merchant doing business at Fayetteville, Wilmington, New Bern and New York. He married, secondly, Miss Ellen Barber, of Bath, England, but she died without issue. Mr. Burgwyn died at Raleigh, N. C. in 1864 in the eighty-first year of his age.
Issue included: Julia Theodosia Burgwyn McRae, first wife of Rev. Cameron Farquhar McRae; Henry King Burgwyn who married Ann (Anna) Greenough, and Sarah Emily Pierpont Burgwyn, unmarried.
[Source: Walter Burgwyn Jones, “John Burgwin, Carolinian; John Jones, Virginian; Their Ancestors and Descendants” (1913).]
[Thanks to D.S. Johnson for biographical sketch.]
Gravesite Details
John Fanning Burgwyn was originally buried in Raleigh, N.C., but in 1866 his daughter had his remains transferred to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
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