Fanning, David

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Robert S. Allen, “FANNING, DAVID,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/fanning_david_6E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Loyalist partisan, politician, and author; b. 25 Oct. 1755 in the settlement of Birch (or Beech) Swamp, Amelia County, Va, son of David Fanning; m. April 1782 Sarah Carr, and they had three children; d. 14 March 1825 in Digby, N.S.
    • Fanning was a stubbornly determined man who was a zealous and often brilliantly effective loyalist military leader. He was not a gentle man but fought tenaciously, fiercely, and sometimes cruelly against his ex-friends and neighbours, and his successes made him unpopular with the privileged loyalists of New Brunswick.
    • From 1791 until January 1801 Fanning served in the House of Assembly for Kings County and had the distinction of being the first member of the New Brunswick assembly expelled for a felony conviction.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2696
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153648963/david-fanning