Family of Jonathan DUNHAM and Mary SMITH

Husband:	Jonathan DUNHAM (1710-1748)
Wife:	Mary SMITH (1717-1791)
Children:	Daniel DUNHAM (1730-bef1821)
	Ephraim DUNHAM (1730-1730?)
	Experience DUNHAM (1734- )
	Joseph DUNHAM (1736-1737)
	Benjamin DUNHAM (1738- )
	Elizabeth DUNHAM (1739- )
	Samuel DUNHAM (1742-1824)
	Asher DUNHAM (1744-1803)
	William Smith DUNHAM (1746- )
	Hannah DUNHAM (1748- )

Husband: Jonathan DUNHAM

Name:	Jonathan DUNHAM 1,2
Sex:	Male
Father:	Benjamin DUNHAM alias Singletary (1681-1715)
Mother:	Mary ROLPH (1681- )
Birth	7 Jan 1710	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 1,3
Religion		Quaker
Will	31 Jan 1748 (age 38)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 4
Death	21 Sep 1748 (age 38)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 1

Wife: Mary SMITH

Name:	Mary SMITH 1,5
Sex:	Female
Father:	Shubael SMITH (1693-1768)
Mother:	Prudence FITZ RANDOLPH (1696-1766)
Birth	27 Dec 1717	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Will	11 Nov 1784 (age 66)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 6
Death (1)	1791 (age 73-74)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Death (2)	1791 (age 73-74)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 1: Daniel DUNHAM

	Daniel DUNHAM, "RedCoat"

Name:	Daniel DUNHAM 7,8
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Loyalist
Spouse:	Catherine CAMPBELL (1734-1816)
Birth (1)	1730	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey 9
Birth (2)	1730	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Death	bef 1821 (age 90-91)	St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Child 2: Ephraim DUNHAM

Name:	Ephraim DUNHAM 7
Sex:	Male
Birth	1730 7
Death	1730 (app) (age 0) 10

Child 3: Experience DUNHAM

Name:	Experience DUNHAM 7
Sex:	Female
Birth	8 Jun 1734 7

Child 4: Joseph DUNHAM

Name:	Joseph DUNHAM 7
Sex:	Male
Birth	4 Dec 1736	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 7
Death	22 Dec 1737 (age 1)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey

Child 5: Benjamin DUNHAM

Name:	Benjamin DUNHAM 7
Sex:	Male
Birth	17 Nov 1738 7

Child 6: Elizabeth DUNHAM

Name:	Elizabeth DUNHAM 1,7
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Unknown ALSTON ( - )
Birth	21 Dec 1739 1,7

Child 7: Samuel DUNHAM

Name:	Samuel DUNHAM 1,7
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Hannah RUBLE (1753-1826)
Birth	11 May 1742	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 1,7
Death	18 Feb 1824 (age 81)	Back Creek Valley, Berkeley County, Virginia 1

Child 8: Asher DUNHAM

	Asher DUNHAM, "RedCoat"

Name:	Asher DUNHAM 7,11
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Loyalist Captain
Spouse:	Susannah UNKNOWN ( - )
Birth	15 Jul 1744	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 12
Military (1)	1760 (age 15-16)	Volunteer 80th Regiment of Foot, Colonial NJ Militia; Ticonderoga, New York 13
Military (2)	Nov 1776 (age 32)	joined British Army; Morris Co., New Jersey 13,14
Military (3)	Dec 1776 (age 32)	Captain in British Army; Morris Co., New Jersey 15
Death	26 Aug 1803 (age 59)	Parrboro Twp., Nova Scotia 13
Burial	1803 (age 58-59)	Trinity Church Cemetery, A110

Additional Information

Burial

Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, NJ

Child 9: William Smith DUNHAM

Name:	William Smith DUNHAM 7
Sex:	Male
Birth	24 Nov 1746 7

Child 10: Hannah DUNHAM

Name:	Hannah DUNHAM 7,16
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	John ALSTON (1743?-1772)
Spouse 2:	William WRIGHT ( - )
Birth	5 Oct 1748	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 12

Note on Husband: Jonathan DUNHAM - shared note

from Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, 1995, pp 552-553

 

64 JONATHAN DUNHAM DURHAM Benjaminn Durham Dunham Durham Bloomfield bwoodbine

Woodbridge Footbridge 7 Jan 1710 11VR VR d 21 Sept 1748 m Smith b 27 Dec71716

d 1791 odlo Smith John and Fitz Fritz Randolph

Edward Christian p 17

81747 Jan 31 31 Dunham Durham Jonathan of Woodbridge Footbridge Middlesex Co yeoman will willow

of Wife Mary Dunham Durham Six children under 15 years of age Benjamin only child circumvention

mentioned by name Bond of Gershom Gresham Moore Real and personal estate Executors Executors- Executors

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friends fends Robert Fitz Fritz Randolph Charles March David Donham Doha Junr June Proved 3 Jan JanI Janis 1748 Inventory made 25 Jan 1748 NJ Arch

1784 Nov 11 11 Dunham Durham Mary Woodbridge softwood of Middlesex Co widow of Jonathan Jonathan

Dunham Durham WIll of Son Asher great Bible and bed qUIlt his wife Susannah Susanna 1 pair airflow

pillow cases Son Williams William's wife not named 1 pair pillow cases Daughter Hannah Hannah

Wright Night silk gown bed spread tea kettle and great chair To son law William

Wrights Wright's daughter Elizabeth Rehabber sheets and pillow cases Daughters Elizabeth Ellzabeth Dunham Durham Unharmed

and Hannah Wright remainder of cowering wearing apparel My children Elizabeth Samuel

Asher and WIlliam each 51part of residue My grandchIldren Joseph DaVId and Ann Anniston

Alstone Alston children of my daughter Hannah Wright the other 51 part to be equally equally

divided between them when 21 21 Son Samuel IS absent from home should he not Notre

return in 10 years his son Jacob to have no10 when 21 and my children Elizabeth

Asher and WIlliam the remainder of Samuels Samuel's share Executor my brother Will Wills

Wills

Sll Sell Smithth Witnesses John Barron Baron Joseph Barron Baron Proved 15 Oct 1791 1791 Oct 15

William Smith Executor being deceased William Smith Dunham Durham is appointed Admire Fellow Richard Hartshorne Hawthorne both bothof bothof offside said Co NNJJ Arch

Children from GeneratIOns New Brunswick Canada Genealogical Soc publication

Issue 37 Sep 1988 p 16 article Some Saint John Loyalist Dunhams Unhands by AA D Gates

i Daniel Dunham Durham b Woodbridge Footbridge 1730 m Catherine Campbell

ii Ephraim Rephrasing Dunham Durham b 1730 twin d mf

iii Experience Dunham Durham b 8 Jun Juan 1734 j

iv Joseph Dunham Durham b 4 Dec 1736 J

v Benjamin Dunham Durham b 17 Nov 1738 I

vi Elizabeth Dunham Durham b 27 Dec 1749 m Alston 11j

vii Samuel Dunham Durham b 11 May 1742 had son Jacob j j

viii Asher Dunham Durham b 15 Jul July 1744 m Susannah Susanna

ix William Smith Dunham Durham b 24 Nov 1746 j

x Hannah Dunham Durham b 5 Oct 1748 mil m John Alston m2 William Wright

 

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Essex County, New Jersey Quaker Records

 

Name: Jonathan Dunham

Relative: son of Benjamin & Mary

Birth Date: 07/11 Jan 1750/1

Death Date: 21/9 Nov 1748

Comment: *written Danham

Spouse's Name: Mary

Child: Experience; Joseph; Benjamin; Elizabeth; Samuel; Asher; William; Hannah

Birth Date: 08/6 Aug 1734; 04/12 Feb 1736/7; 01/1 Mar 1738/9; 27/12 Mar 1740/1; 11/5 Jul 1742; 15/7 Sep 1744; 24/5 Jul 1746; 05/8 Oct 1748

Death Date: -; 22/12 1737; -; -; -; -; -; -

Sources

1	Ancestry.com, "One World Tree (sm)" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
	www.ancestry.com.

2	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;). pp. 552-553 & p. 543.
	http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923.

3	Reverand Joseph Dally, "Woodbridge and Vicinity" (Name: A.E. Gordon; New Brunswick, N.J.; 1873;). p. 328. Text From Source: Jonathan Dunham Son of Benjamin Dunham and Mary his wife was Born January ye 7th 1710.

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"New Jersey Archive". v.30, p.155. Text From Source: 1747-8, Jan. 31. Dunham, Jonathan, of Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Mary Dunham. Six children, under 15 years of age; Benjamin, only child mentioned by name. Bond of Gershom Moore. Real and personal estate. Executors—friends Robert Fitz- Randolph, Charles March, David Donham, Jun'r. Proved Jan. 3, 1748. Lib. E, p. 237. 1748, Jan. 25. Inventory, £166.13.11; made by John Moores, Jonathan Frazee.

5	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;).
	http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923.

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"New Jersey Archive". v.37, p.116. Text From Source: 1784, Nov. 11. Dunham, Mary, of Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., widow of Jonathan Dunham; will of. Son, Asher, great Bible, and bed quilt; his wife, Susannah, 1 pair pillow cases. Son, William's wife [not named], 1 pair pillow cases. Daughter, Hannah Wright, silk gown, bed spread, tea kettle and great chair. To son-in-law William Wright's daughter, Elizabeth, sheets and pillow cases. Daughters, Elizabeth Dunham and Hannah Wright, remainder of wearing apparel. My children, Elizabeth, Samuel, Asher and William, each 1/5 part of residue. My grandchildren, Joseph, David and Ann Alston e (children of my daughter, Hannah Wright) the other 1/5 part to be equally divided between them when 21. Son, Samuel, is absent from home; should he not return in 10 years, his son, Jacob, to have £10, when 21; and my children, Elizabeth, Asher and William the remainder of Samuel's share. Executor—my brother. Will Smith. Witnesses—John Barron, Joseph Barron. Proved Oct, 15, 1791. Lib. 32, p. 45'5. 1791, Oct. 15. William Smith, Executor, being deceased, William Smith Dunham is appointed Adm'r. Fellowbondsman—Richard Hartshorne; both of said Co. File 7765-7768L.

7	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;). p. 553.
	http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923.

8

Ibid. pp. 566-567. Text From Source: Daniel Dunham d. prior to 1821 possibly in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, or vicinity. He was a Tory and in 1780 left his wife and went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, leaving his youngest son with his wife. Bell's list shows that he reached Saint John in 1783 in Company 50 on the Neptune accompanied by one adult female, three children over 10, and two younger children. If his wife did remain in New Jersey at this time with a son, the adult female could have been Daniel's daughter or daughte-in-law, and the youngest of the children could have been Daniel's grandchildren. Dunham Genealogy by Isaac W. Dunham says that Daniel and Catherine Dunham had at least four children. Other evidence suggests that there were at least six and possibly seven: Lewis, John and Sarah, all baptiszed in 1758; Campbell; David Alston, b. c1762; Jonathan, b. c1768; and perhaps Seth Campbell Dunham is the one said to have remained in New Jersey. Sarah would have been at least 25 in 1783, and could have been the adult female who accompanied Daniel. It is believed that she subsequently married a Wright. Daniel Dunham received a town lot, Parrtown 687, at the comer of Orange and Wentworth Streets. He also received later land grants but was on the list of Freeman of the City in 1785 as a joiner. On 21 Dec 1821 the city lot Parrtown 687 of "Daniel Dunham, deceased" was sold by his "heirs at law" -- John Dunham and his wife Elizabeth, David Alston Dunham and his wife Mary, and Jonathan Dunham and his wife Elizabeth, to James Hendricks. (Generations, New Brunswick [Canada] Genealogical Soc. publication, Issue 37, Sept 1988, p. 17, "Some Saint John Loyalist Dunhams," by A.D. Gates.)

9	Ibid. p. 553 & pp.566-567.

10	Ibid. p. 553. Text From Source: Ephraim Dunham, b. 1730 (?twin); d. inf.

11

Ibid. pp. 566-567. Text From Source: He was a Tory. He received town lot at Parrtown 1116 at Saint John, but sold it after moving to Parrsboro. (Generations, New Brunswick [Canada] Geneological Society publication, Issue 37, Sept 1988, p. 17, article by A. D. Gates, "Some Saint John Loyalist Dunhams.") He was mentioned in his mother's wilI and received the great Bible and a bed quilt. His wife, Susannah, received 1 pair of pillow cases. Asher Dunham, Captain, b. c1745 in New Jersey, where he lived on a small farm at Hanover, Morris county. He had seen considerable military service in the previous War in America as a volunteer in the 80th Regiment of Foot, being present at the defeat of Ticonderoga and in the reduction of Canada. He joined the British army in November 1776 and within a month received a warrant to raise a Company for the New Jersey Volunteers. Dunham was ordered, under the command of Major Richard W. Stockton, to take post at Bennets Neck, with a small party of the new levies. In February 1777 the party were taken prisoners by a superior body of the enemy and Dunham was marched in irons from Princeton to Philadelphia jail. He was detained a prisoner in different jails until August 1778 when he was exchanged for Captain NathanIel Porter, of the New Jersey Continental Regiment. To his great astonishment he found, on his release, that all the Companies of the New Jersey Volunteers were filled with the required officers, and, on December 24, 1779, he was put on the Seconded list as Captain. His name appears on this list after the War, when he had gone to St. John, New Brunswick. (Jones, pp. 67-8.)

12	Ibid. p. 567.

13	Ibid. pp. 567-568.

14	Jones, "The Loyalists of New Jersey in the Revolution". p. 67.

15

Ibid. p. 67. Text From Source: ASHER DUNHAM (Captain) He was born about 1745 in New Jersey, where he lived on a small fann at Hanover, Morris county. He had seen considerable military service in the previous War in America as a volunteer in the 80th Regiment of Foot, being present at the defeat of Ticonderoga and in the reduction of Canada. He joined the British army in November. 1776. and within a month received a warrant to raise a Company for the New Jersey Volunteers. Dunham was ordered, under the command of Major Richard W. Stockton (q. v.), to take post at Bennets Neck, with a small party of the new levies. In February, 1777, the party were taken prisoners by a superior body of the enemy and Dunham was marched in irons from Princeton to Philadelphia jail. He was detained a prisoner in different jails until August, 1778, when he was exchanged for Captain Nathaniel Porter, of the New Jersey Continental Regiment. To his great astonishment he found, on his release, that all the Companies of the New Jersey Volunteers were filled with the required officers, and, on December 24, 1779, he was put on the Seconded list as Captain. His name appears on this list after the War, when he had gone to St. John, New New Brunswick. (A. O. 13 :21 ; Ind. : 5605; Sabine).

16	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;). p. 567. Text From Source: Hannah was called "daughter Hannah Wright" in her mother's will and received a silk gown, bed spread, tea kettle and great chair, wearing apparel. John Alston was a carpenter of Woodbridge.
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