Family of John ALSTON and Hannah DUNHAM

Husband:	John ALSTON (1743?-1772)
Wife:	Hannah DUNHAM (1748- )
Children:	Joseph ALSTON (1765?- )
	David ALSTON (aft1765- )
	Mary ALSTON (aft1765- )
	Ann ALSTON (1772- )

Husband: John ALSTON

Name:	John ALSTON 1,2
Sex:	Male
Father:	David ALSTON (bef1713- )
Mother:	Mary UNKNOWN ( - )
Birth	1743 (app)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Occupation	bef 1772 (age 28-29)	Carpenter; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Will	6 Feb 1772 (age 28-29)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 3
Death	1 Apr 1772 (age 28-29)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Wife: Hannah DUNHAM

Name:	Hannah DUNHAM 4,5
Sex:	Female
Father:	Jonathan DUNHAM (1710-1748)
Mother:	Mary SMITH (1717-1791)
Birth	5 Oct 1748	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 6

Child 1: Joseph ALSTON

Name:	Joseph ALSTON 1,7
Sex:	Male
Birth	1765 (app) 1

Child 2: David ALSTON

Name:	David ALSTON 1,7
Sex:	Male
Birth	btw 1765 and 1770 1

Child 3: Mary ALSTON

Name:	Mary ALSTON 1,7
Sex:	Female
Birth	btw 1765 and 1770 1

Child 4: Ann ALSTON

Name:	Ann ALSTON 1,7
Sex:	Female
Birth	1772 1

Note on Wife: Hannah DUNHAM - shared note

from Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, 1995, pp 567-568.

 

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mothers mother's will and received a silk gown bed spread tea kettle and great chair endearing

and iwearing

wearing apparel John Alston was a carpenter of Woodbridge Footbridge

1772 Feb 6 Alston John Woodbridge softwood of Middlesex Co carpenter will of Lands to tobe

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oe be sold Wife Hannah all estate to bring bang up the children and if anything is left to be bogie

given to my children Joseph David Mary and my wife and the child she is pregnant pregnant

WIth Executrix my mystified wife Witnesses Jonathan Alston Jr John Joel Oliver David

David Alston Jr Proved 16 May 1772 Anarchy

Maryr Mary Smith Dunham Durham

I iii Mary Alston b 70 1765 probe d Unum by 1784

I iii Ann Alston b 1772 mentioned in the will of her grandmother Mary Mary-

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M- ary Smith Dunham Durham

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Sources

1	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;). pp. 567-568.
	http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923.

2	James Strode Elston, "The Elston Family of America" (Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland Vermont,, 1942). pp. 57-58 & 75-76.
	www.ancestry.com.

3

"New Jersey Archive". v.34, p. 14. Text From Source: 1772, Feb. 6. ALston, John, of Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., carpenter; will of. Lands to be sold. Wife, Hannah, all estate to bring up the children, and, if anything is left, to be given to my children, Joseph, David, Mary, and my wife, and the child she is pregnant with. Executrix—my wife. Witnesses—Jonathan Alston, Jr., John Oliver, David Alston, Jr. Proved May 16, 1772. 1772, May 16. Inventory, made by Hannah Alston. Lib. K, p. 469.

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

5	Ibid. 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.

6	Ibid. p. 567.

7	James Strode Elston, "The Elston Family of America" (Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland Vermont,, 1942). pp. 75-76.
	www.ancestry.com.