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GENEALOGICAL REFERENCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE DUNHAM FAMILY

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LINES FROM DEACON JOHN ¹ DUNHAM’S SON JONATHAN ² DUNHAM (b. 1625)

#2139 - Jason K. Dunham of Hamilton Ohio
Line from Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth:
John ¹ Jonathan ² Gershom ³ David ⁴ John ⁵ John ⁶ Eleazer ⁷ James ⁸ James H. ⁹ Francis Marion ¹⁰ Robert Joseph ¹¹ Jason K. ¹²

Documentation:

John ¹ Dunham b. ca. 1589 in England ^[1]

d. 2 March 1668/9 Plymouth, Plymouth Co. MA ^[2]

m. second Abigail Ballou

Reference:
l. Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" published by New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston 1995, Volume I:599-603.
2. Ibid.

Jonathan ² Dunham b. say 1625 in Leiden Holland ^[3]

d. 18 December 1717 in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes Co. MA ^[4]

m. ¹ Mary Delano
m. ² Mary Cobb

3. Anderson, Volume I:603; also TAG Vol. 36:243-49
4. Ply. Col. Records Vol. 4:370, will probated 15 Jan. 1718

Gershom ³ Dunham b. ca. 1664-5 probably in Plymouth ^[5]

d. in Edgartown between 3 March 1738/9 and 2 November 1739 the dates on which his will was written and probated. ^[6]

m. Mary Clark

Reference:
5. TAG 36:248.
6. Ibid.

David ⁴ Dunham b. say 1699 ^[7]

d. 27 February 1746/7 in Edgartown ^[8]

m. ¹ Sarah Clifford

Reference:
7. Dukes Co. Probate 3:125.
8. Dukes Co. MA probate Vol. 3:233 (1747).

John ⁵ Dunham b. say 1729 in Dukes Co. MA ^[9]

d. 17 July 1784 in Dukes Co. MA ^[10]

m. Jane Butler

Reference:
9. DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition pub. by National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington DC 1990, Part I:892. Also, Banks, Charles Edward, "History of Martha’s Vineyard" pub. by the Dukes Co. Historical Society 1966, Vol. 3:156.
10. Ibid., also Dukes Co. Will Vol. 7:80-81 (1784)

John ⁶ Dunham b. 1750 in Dukes Co. MA ^[11]

d. 1778 at sea ^[12]

m. prob. Deborah (--), or Jane (--)

Reference:
11. Op. Cit. Banks Vol. 3:159
12. Ibid.

Eleazer ⁷ Dunham b. say 1773 in Dukes Co. MA ^[13]

d. about 1850, in Reily, Butler Co. Ohio

m. ¹ Dinah Tilton
m. ² Dinal Butler

Reference:
13. Circumstantial evidence in Dukes Co. MA deeds for purchase and sale of land in Tisbury, Dukes Co. MA from (Dukes Co. deed Vol. 16:147) and to his uncles places Eleazer ⁷ Dunham in this family. Also, location of Deborah Dunham in the 1790 census; and of Eleazer Dunham in the 1800 census places him in close proximity to the other Dunhams in this line. There are no birth records for Eleazer ⁷ Dunham in Dukes Co. MA.
14. Descendant Jason K. ¹² Dunham and info. from other family members.

James ⁸ Dunham b. say 1822 in Oxford, Butler Co. Ohio ^[15]

d. 14 July 1874 in Ohio ^[16]

m. Matilda Lowe

Reference:
15. Ibid., also 1870 census Reily Twp. Butler Co. OH p. 384
16. Ibid.

James H. ⁹ Dunham b. September 1850 in Reily, Butler Co. OH ^[17]

d.

m. Melissa J. Wagner

Reference:
17. Ibid.

Francis Marion ¹⁰ Dunham b. 20 May 1883 in Reily, Butler Co. OH ^[18]

d. 1945 ^[19]

m. Callie Victoria Martin

Reference:
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.

Robert Joseph ¹¹ Dunham b. 20 April 1938 in Ohio ^[20]

d. (Still living)

m.

Reference:
20. Ibid.

Jason K. ¹² Dunham b.

d. Still living

Reference:
21. Jason K. ¹² Dunham participated in DNA analysis to try to determine which Dunham family he was descended from. Knowledge that he descended from the Deacon John Dunham line helped focus on the connection to the Dunhams from that line living on Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes Co. MA.