Abt 1637 - 1679 (~ 42 years)
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Name |
Captain Benajah Dunham [1, 2, 3] |
Title |
Captain |
Born |
Abt 1637 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts [2, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
1672 |
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [2] |
Occupation |
10 May 1679 |
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [4] |
Linen weaver |
Residence |
10 May 1679 |
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [4] |
Will |
10 May 1679 |
Middlesex Co., New Jersey [2, 4] |
Wife Elizabeth. Children - Edmund, Mary, and Elizabeth. Land on Raraton R., do. on Bonham's Creek, do. North of Andrew Woodin, do. in New England. Personal property. The wife executrix with Samuel Dennis of Woodbridge and John Fitzrandolphe of Piscataway as overseers for the children |
Died |
24 Dec 1679 |
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [2] |
- "Dunham Genealogy" gives the year 1680 but his will was proved before 24 Dec 1680
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Probate |
12 Aug 1680 |
Middlesex Co., New Jersey [4] |
Will proved |
Person ID |
I2076 |
Wm L Gann Ancestors |
Last Modified |
12 Jul 2016 |
Father |
John Dunham, b. Abt 1589, Bedfordshire, England , d. 2 Mar 1668/9, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years) |
Mother |
Abigail Barlow, d. Aft 2 Mar 1668/9 |
Married |
22 Oct 1622 |
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands |
Family ID |
F913 |
Group Sheet |
Family |
Elizabeth Tilson, d. Aft 14 Jan 1684/5 [5] |
Married |
25 Oct 1660 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts [1, 2, 6, 7] |
- Recorded both in Eastham and Plymouth. Location of the marriage is not clear
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Children |
+ | 1. Edmund Dunham, b. 25 Jul 1661, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts , d. 17 Mar 1734 (Age 72 years) |
| 2. John Dunham, b. 28 Aug 1663, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts , d. 6 Sep 1663, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 0 years) |
| 3. Elizabeth Dunham, b. 20 Nov 1664, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts , d. 31 Dec 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 3 years) |
| 4. Hannah Dunham, b. 4 Jun 1666, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts , d. 25 Dec 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 1 years) |
| 5. Benjamin Dunham, b. 28 Oct 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts |
| 6. Mary Dunham, b. 1669, New Jersey |
| 7. Elizabeth Dunham, b. 1670, New Jersey |
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Last Modified |
24 Aug 2016 |
Family ID |
F912 |
Group Sheet |
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Sources |
- [S110] Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans, Col. Leonard H. Smith, Jr. & Norma H. Smith, (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1993), 33 (Reliability: 2), 12 Jul 2016.
- [S52] Dunham Genealogy, Isaac Watson Dunham, comp., Hartford, CT: 1907., 250 (Reliability: 1), 11 Jul 2014.
- [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 291 (Reliability: 1), 11 Jul 2009.
John Dunham was the son of Benajah Dunham and his wife Dorothy Martin; Benajah Dunham was the son of Rev. Edward and Mary (Bonham) Dunham; Rev. Edward was the son of Capt. Benajah Dunham, who was the son of Rev. John Dunham of Plymouth.
- [S99] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume XXIII, Abstracts of Wills, 1670-1730, p. 146 (Reliability: 3), 11 Jul 2016.
- [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 291 (Reliability: 2), 11 Jul 2009.
John Dunham was the son of Benajah Dunham and his wife Dorothy Martin; Benajah Dunham was the son of Rev. Edward and Mary (Bonham) Dunham; Rev. Edward was the son of Capt. Benajah Dunham, who was the son of Rev. John Dunham of Plymouth.
- [S54] Plymouth Colony Records v. 8, ed. Nathaniel B Shurtleff, MD, (Boston: William White, 1857), 22 (Reliability: 2), 16 Jul 2014.
- [S116] Records of Plymouth Colony, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), 22 (Reliability: 2), 24 Aug 2016.
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