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Note: Brother to Joshua Edward Nunn and Samuel Nunn (see notes below) The three brothers all submitted land petitions within two weeks in early 1797, at Newark, the capital of Upper Canada at that time (now called Niagara-on-the-Lake).
Benjamin Nunn/Elizabeth Fretz
Event: Living
Year: 1816
Place: Clinton Township
Province of record source: Ontario
County of record source: Lincoln & Welland
Source: R. Janet Powell, Annals of the Forty No.10; Grimsby 1816-1876, The Grimsby Historical Society, 1967.
Volume/Page(s): 8, 12
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Benjamin Nunn and Elizabeth Fretz residences: Benjamin emigrated to Upper Canada in 1796/7 and resided in Clinton Township, Lincoln County, from 1796 to 1828; then Walpole Township, Haldimand County, from 1828-1830 (where his brother Samuel had settled);then moved to South Dorchester Township, Elgin County, from 1851-1863. m. in 1807 at The Twenty . . . "
(Source: "The Ontario Genealogical Society Directory of Surnames", p. 217)
Note: Notes below are from A Brief History of John and Christian Fretz: p 37
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/5191/5191_37.html
IV. Elizabeth Fretz, born in Bucks Co., Pa., Apr. 22, 1789, died in Ontario, Can., June 1863. Mrd.
Benjamin Nunn, Mar. 17, 1807. He was born Apr. 16, 1775, died Nov. 1862. Carpenter.
Mennonites. Children: Thomas, Esther, Olive, Anna, Manasseh, William, Jonathan, Mary, Samuel,
Judith, Joshua.
V. Thomas Nunn, born May 8, 1808, died June 25, 1808.
V. Esther Nunn, born in Lincoln Co., Ont., July 23, 1809, died--. Mrd. Daniel Abbe in 1826. He
died--. Laborer. Baptist. Children: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Olive, Jesse, Rhoda, Jacob, Mary, Margaret, Melvin.
Beyond the 1797 land petitions filed in Newark Upper Canada, by Joshua, Benjamin and Samuel, there are a range of connections between the Benjamin Nunn/Elizabeth Fretz family and Joshua
Nunn/Elizabeth Cline family that establish that Joshua and Benjamin were brothers.
They both lived on Lot 8, Concession 8 in Clinton Township, Lincoln County until after the War of 1812. Joshua moved west to settle on the Talbot Road, Lot 156 North Talbot Road, Middleton Township, Norfolk County, in 1819. (See land petition and documentation re: Thomas Talbot).
Among connections between Joshua Edward Nunn and this Benjamin Nunn:
Olive Nunn, a daughter of Benjamin Nunn and Elizabeth Fretz, married Frederick Cline,
who was a brother to Elizabeth Cline (wife of Joshua Nunn) -- Elizabeth and Frederickâs
fatherâs name was Peter Cline.
Manassah Nunn (a son of Benjamin Nunn and Elizabeth Fretz) and Isaac Dean were
witnesses at the wedding of Peter Nunn (son of Joshua and Elizabeth) and Louisa Dean
on July 12, 1848 (See Talbot District Marriage Register.) Louisa and Isaac are
related to Hiram Dean, who was the second husband of Judith Nunn, a daughter of
Benjamin Nunn and Elizabeth Fretz.
Also, two children of Jonathan Edward Nunn (a son of Joshua) also settled in Dorchester,
where parts of the Benjamin Nunn/Elizabeth Fretz line settled. Joshua Colborn Nunn
and his sister (Martha Hannah Nunn - who married High Shipman) both settled in
Dorchester and one of their younger sisters (Maria Ellen Nunn) was born in Springfield -
itâs quite possible that her parents -- Jonathan Edward and Charlotte Taylor -- had settled
there at this time, since Iâve found no trace of them in the Middleton Township area.
(Also, other sons of Joshua, including Jacob, Peter and Benjamin had purchased parts of
the original family farm in Middleton, or on the adjacent lot -- but there is no sign of
Jonathan Edward in the area.)
The 1871 Middleton Township Census places Manassah, his wife
Mary C. and their children in Middleton Township in the early 1870s. Their children at
home at the time were John William, Phoebe, Benjamin, Elizabeth and Selah.
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