Jobamah "Job" Gunn

Jobamah “Job” Gunn stands at the moment when the Gunn family ceased being a migrant household and became a rooted Milford dynasty. Born in Roxbury to Jasper Gunn and Christian Gunn, Job was among the earliest American-born Gunns, raised in the disciplined, covenant-driven world of Puritan New England.

By the early 1660s he relocated to Milford, where on 30 October 1663 he married Sarah Jacobson Lane (1642–1689). The marriage marks his full entry into Milford’s civic, religious, and economic life. Together they raised six children, all born and settled within the Milford orbit, firmly establishing the Gunn name across two succeeding generations.

Job lived through Milford’s transformation from New Haven Colony to Connecticut Colony and into the early eighteenth century. His life was not marked by public prominence, but by something more enduring: landholding, family continuity, and survival. By the time of his death in 1715, he had bridged the fragile first generation of settlement to a confident, locally entrenched Gunn presence — one that would produce militia officers, civic leaders, and long-lived descendants.

Marriage

On 30 October 1663, at Milford, Job married Sarah Jacobson Lane (1642–1689). Her Lane connections drew the Gunns further into the town’s founding families and anchored the next two generations of Gunns in Milford.

Children

All six children were born at Milford, reflecting a settled, stable household:

• Samuel Gunn Sr., Capt. (1669–1749) — the family’s rise into local leadership.
• Elizabeth Gunn (1672–1732)
• Sarah Gunn (1674–1747)
• Christian Elizabeth Gunn (1677–1757) — her name carries forward the family’s recurring “Christian” tradition, from her grandmother Christian Gunn.
• Abel Gunn, Sgt. (1680–1721) — militia service, reflecting the family’s civic role in frontier Connecticut.
• Nathaniel Gunn (1682–1764) — continues the recurring Nathaniel line central to later Gunn generations.

In brief

• Born 1637 in Roxbury; second generation of the Gunn family in America.
• Relocated to Milford by the early 1660s, following established Gunn kin.
• Married Sarah Jacobson Lane in 1663, linking two Milford families.
• Father of six children, all surviving into adulthood.
• Patriarch of a lineage producing militia officers and long-standing Milford residents.
• Lived through colonial consolidation, political transition, and early-eighteenth-century stability.
• Died 1715, leaving a fully entrenched Gunn family presence in Milford.