E-mail from Tom Dunbar, 8/12/2004: (dunbar@rtt-law.com)
“Just been enjoying your web page and in particular the pics of Edward Ely, and Margaret and seeing Daniel Dunbar’s home in Berlin. I’m the great great grandson of Lyman Dunbar, Daniel Dunbar’s youngest brother who went to Buffalo, NY in the 1820’s. (His wives, Julia Pattison and Cornelia Maria Deming were both from Berlin). I noticed you make Daniel the son of Asaph Dunbar and Polly Potter. He was in fact the eldest son of Aaron Dunbar and Mary Potter according to Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus and Vital Records. Mary Potter was descended from Thomas Yale and his Welsh line of course goes back… and back! Aaron’s elder brother was Moses Dunbar the only loyalist hanged for treason in Ct. during the Revolution, and his father was John (III) Dunbar. I petitioned the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh in 1998 for a posthumus grant of arms to John (III) and it was granted in October 2000, descendants bearing the name can matriculate their arms from John’s. In 1996 at the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta we got a few descendants of John’s sons Moses, Aaron and Miles together… probably for the first time since the 1790’s! I was not aware of the Stewart connection with Florida, although if I remember correctly young Daniel Dunbar Jr. died down there of appendicitis at his uncle Asaph’s. That’s something I’ve wanted to pursue. Best wishes!”