Edward Dunscomb Timeline
1806: Born in Bermuda
1824: Arrives in NYC on board the “Combine.” Occupation:
Student.
1827: Graduates from Columbia University in NYC
1829: In business on Broad St. in Manhattan, displays "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive.
1831: Dunscomb & Egleston, 212 Water St., Manhattan
1832: Marries in Bermuda to Ann Mary Sean
1832: Arrives in Perth Amboy, NJ from Bermuda
1834: Child born NYC
1836: Child born NYC
1838: Child born NYC
1841: Child born Brooklyn. In business as "Dunscomb & Beckwith" at 27 Broad Street in Manhattan
1845: Child born Bloomfield NJ
1846: Naturalized in NYC. Dunscomb & Beckwith disolved.
1847: Writes from NYC applying for a passport for his wife
and her aunt, Ann, Frances (Manley) Seon. Forms partnership with Beckwith, Barnstoff and his brother
George H. Dunscomb to run till 1849. Edward contributes $30,000 cash to venture (roughly $970,000 in
2021 value)
1847: Child born Halle, Germany
1850: Writes from NYC requesting replacement passport
1850: Child born Nurnberg, Germany
1851: Applies April 25 for replacement passport in order to
travel to Bavaria to bring his family home, leaving
from Boston. Writing from NYC.
1852: Arrives NYC from Puerto Rico
1854: June - arrived with children at Halifax from Liverpool.
1857: Married in Northampton, Mass. (Nov. 10).
1860: Living in Boston, Mass. (census, no street address
given)
1861: Living 83 Pinckney St., Boston, Mass.
1862: Living 83 Pinckney St., Boston, Mass.
1865: Living 5 Bulfinch Place, Boston
1870: Living Ward 5, Nashville, TN
1872: Living 14 Church St., Nashville, TN
1878: Living 106 Church St., Nashville, TN (directory)
1879: Living 106 Church St., Nashville
1883: Living 182 Cedar, Nashville, TN (directory)
1885: Living 32 S Cherry, Nashville (physician)
1888: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1889: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1890: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1891: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1893: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1894: Living 516 S Summer, Nashville (directory)
1895: Dies in Nashville, Tenn, (Feb. 6).
Note: The book "Pembroke", part of Bermudia's Bermudian Architectural Heritage Series published in 2017 by the Bermuda National Trust states that Edward "living in Georgia" sold the Olive Hill (Bermuda) property he had inherited from his father in 1861. His father died in 1847 and from 1847 till 1861 it appears from the documentation above he was in New York City, Germany, and Boston. His son John, was in Washington, Georgia in 1923 and 1924 (passport application of his daughter Margaret and correspondence to his daughter-in-law Marie). Also, one of Edward's obituaries claims he inherited a Georgia plantation from his father. I have never been able to substantiate this, although his mother's brother, Charles, had married into the Zubly family in Savannah in 1806.