The discovery of the Gann/Dobson connection is due to Thea Baker, Researcher for the Gann Society. The following summary is from her presentation att the 2025 Gann Society Meeting.
Charles & Ann Dodson were parents of six sons and two daughters (Ann and Elizabeth) who settled in 1680s Virginia. Mentioned in her father’s will Elizabeth Dodson is the discovered wife of Samuel Gann. By 1748, but probably before, Samiel and Elizabeth lived in Frederick Co Va. Elizabeth’s husband Samuel Gann was most likely the first-born son of John Gann (b. est. 1675-1680), an emigrant of 1701 proved in Charles City County (Richmond, VA), arriving as an unmarried man in a group of 20 transports of Capt. Francis Epps, William Epps, and Littlebury Epps in exchange for headright land. The Epps family were from Kent, in Southeast England, had maintained family and business ties there, and from their familiar homeland likely recruited emigrants to America.
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