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Family of Asher DUNHAM and Susannah UNKNOWN
| Husband: | Asher DUNHAM (1744-1803) | |
| Wife: | Susannah UNKNOWN ( - ) | |
Husband: Asher DUNHAM
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| Asher DUNHAM, "RedCoat" | ||
| Name: | Asher DUNHAM 1,2 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Name Prefix: | Loyalist Captain | |
| Father: | Jonathan DUNHAM (1710-1748) | |
| Mother: | Mary SMITH (1717-1791) | |
| Birth | 15 Jul 1744 | Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 3 |
| Military (1) | 1760 (age 15-16) | Volunteer 80th Regiment of Foot, Colonial NJ Militia; Ticonderoga, New York 4 |
| Military (2) | Nov 1776 (age 32) | joined British Army; Morris Co., New Jersey 4,5 |
| Military (3) | Dec 1776 (age 32) | Captain in British Army; Morris Co., New Jersey 6 |
| Death | 26 Aug 1803 (age 59) | Parrboro Twp., Nova Scotia 4 |
| Burial | 1803 (age 58-59) | Trinity Church Cemetery, A110 |
Additional Information
| Burial | Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, NJ |
Wife: Susannah UNKNOWN
| Name: | Susannah UNKNOWN 3 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
Note on Husband: Asher DUNHAM
from mongraph online
Loyalist. Capt. Ashur Dunham issued Lot 1116 in Parrtown in May 1784. He arrived with the June Fleet at Saint John with an adult female and two children in 1783, as head of Militia Company 63, on the ship Dutchess of Gordon. There are inconsistencies which need to be sorted out. His petition indicates that he was a resident of Morris County at the time of the Revolution and served the Loyalist cause in a number of ways. See http://www.royalprovincial.com/military/mems/nj/clmdun.htm. He was very dissatisfied with his situation where his company was usurped by another recruiter and Asher was left destitute and to fend for himself had to hire himself out and collect firewood. It is conceivable that he did return to the USA since the author has not been able to locate evidence of him in New Brunswick after 1784 - hence he is likely the Asher Dunham who died in Woodbridge in 1803, and buried in the
Trinity Church Cemetery.
This from Jeff Dunham or Oregon, "His last will and testament was recently discovered in the Royal Archives (england). His will - executed in 1804 after his death - puts his place of death as Perth Amboy, NJ - very near Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ where he is laid to rest. Ironically - the grave of Asher Dunham has a "replacement grave marker" supplied by the U.S. Veterans Administration that erroneously indicates he was a private in the New Jersey Militia (revolutionary). The act of an overzealous "church historian"...." (personal communication, December 2012).
Sources
| 1 | Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;). p. 553. |
| http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923. |
| 2 | 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.) |
| 3 | Ibid. p. 567. |
| 4 | Ibid. pp. 567-568. |
| 5 | Jones, "The Loyalists of New Jersey in the Revolution". p. 67. |
| 6 | 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). |
