29. OBADIAH 4 DUNHAM (Jabez 3 Nathaniel 2 Thomas 1), born in Hebron, CT 31 March 1730; [1] died in Middlefield, Otsego Co., NY 17 February 1813. [2] He married 22 November 1754 LUCY GILLETT, daughter of Joel and Mary (Foote) Gillett. [3] She was baptized in Wintonbury/Bloomfield, Hartford Co., CT 18 February 1739/40; died 18 February 1830.
Dr. Obadiah Dunham was one of the first proprietors at Pownal, Bennington Co., Vermont in 1760. [4] Obadiah Dunham had been a garrison soldier at Fort Massachusetts (now in Williamstown, Berkshire Co., MA) during the French and Indian War. Several of the garrison soldiers from Fort Massachusetts and Fort Hoosac were early proprietors at Pownal, VT. [5]
Obadiah Dunham is listed in the DAR Patriot Index as a Private, with Public Service from Vermont.
Dr. Obadiah Dunham moved his family from Pownal, VT to Middlefield, Otsego Co., NY by 1773. [6] His son Abner 5 Dunham was born in Middlefield on 17 August 1773.
Children of Obadiah 4 and Lucy (Gillett) Dunham:
72. ii. LYDIA 5 DUNHAM, b. 8 Nov. 1757
73. iii. LUCY 5 DUNHAM, b. 7 Feb. 1759
74. iv. OBADIAH 5 DUNHAM, b. 7 Nov. 1760, Colchester, CT [7]
75. v. ABIGAIL 5 DUNHAM, b. 25 Feb. 1762, bp. 1762 by Rev. Jedidiah Smith, East Granville, MA [8]
76. vi. DIADAMIA 5 DUNHAM, b. 1 Oct. 1765
77. vii. MEHITABLE 5 DUNHAM, b. 15 April 1771
78. viii. ABNER 5 DUNHAM, b. 17 Aug. 1773, Middlefield, Otsego Co., NY
References:
1. Barbour Collection-Vital Records-Hebron, CT, p. 40.
2. Bowman, Fred Q., 10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987, p. 79.
3. Joel 4 Gillett’s will dated 3 May 1763 (Sharon CT Probate #4:21 & 23:5), mentions Wife Mary, sons Abner, Moses and Eli, and daughters Lucy Dunham, Mary and Sarah.
4. Niles, Grace Greylock, The Hoosac Valley: its legends and its history, New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912, p. 210.
5. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC, 1990.
6. Hurd, D. Hamilton, The History of Otsego County, New York, 1740-1878, Philadelphia, Everts & Fariss.
7. Barbour Collection-Vital Records-Colchester, CT, (printed edition compiled by White, Lorraine Cook, 1996, p. 82).
8. Granville, MA Vital Records to 1850, “both Obadiah and Lucy Dunham, received on church records of East Granville, Ma. in 1762, by letter from Rev. B. Dunning, Marlborough”.
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