David Fanning
BIRTH
1755
Amelia County, Virginia
DEATH
March 14, 1825
Digby, Nova Scotia
FAMILY
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Fanning, David
(1755-1825)
David Fanning was a prominent Loyalist militia leader in North Carolina. He conducted aggressive raids against Patriot forces, captured Governor Thomas Burke in 1781, and fled the United States after the war.
The exact date and place of David Fanning’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies David Fanning with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. David Fanning died on Mar 14, 1825 in Digby, Nova Scotia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.