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'''186.  SETH 4 DUNHAM''' (Gershom 3 Jonathan 2 John 1) born ca 1706; [1] died in Edgartown 23 August 1799. [2]  He was a cooper, and resided in Edgartown.  Seth married '''NAOMI MARCHANT''', [3] daughter of John and Hepsibah (Huxford) Marchant. [4]  Naomi was born in 1715, died in December 1785 “with a pain in her breast, age 70”. [5] 
	
Plymouth Co. LR 29:115 is interesting because it mentions land transferred through four generations of this Dunham family.  It contains reference to a power of attorney granted by Gershom 3 to his son Seth 4 for the sale of a small parcel of land in Plimpton, MA..

:::To all people to whom these presents shall come--greeting.  Know ye that  I Seth Donham of Edgartown in ye County of Dukes [seafaring man], being there unto lawfully impowered by my father Gershom Donham of Edgartown aforesaid husbandman, to make sale of any of ye real estate of ye said Gershom lying in the County of Plymouth as a power of Attorney dated ye 25 day of Dec. 1734...For and in consideration of the sum of four pounds five shillings money to me in hand before the ensealing hereof well and truly paid by Timothy Morton of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth, Cooper, ...about two acres of fresh meadow or meadowland ground lying in the Township of Plimpton at a place commonly called Swan Hold and is the same that John Donham Senior gave to his son Jonathan Donham by his last will and testament duly proved and dated ye fourth of June 1668...
:::::dated  23 January 1734 -- Seth Donham 
:::::Witness: Thomas Wetherell

Seth 4 Dunham appears on the 1790 Census, Edgartown Ma.


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Children of Seth 4 and Naomi (Marchant) Dunham: [6] all born in Edgartown

::   357.   i.  Elijah 5 Dunham, b. January 1734
::  358.  ii.  Seth 5 Dunham, b. 17 June 1742
:::         iii.  Naomi 5 Dunham, b. 26 August 1743; d. 10 Nov. 1815 m. 18 Oct. 1764 Nathaniel Fisher, son of Thomas and Ruth (Butler) Fisher. They resided in Edgartown and Nantucket.  
::::Children of Nathaniel and Naomi 5 (Dunham) Fisher: [7]

:::::	 i.  Huldah Fisher 6 b. 16 June 1765 m. 28 Oct. 1784 Ebenezer 5 Dunham
::::::  NOTE:  Ebenezer 5 Dunham (Ebenezer 4, Benajah 3 Joseph 2 John 1 Dunham) [8]
:::::  ii.  Amaziah Fisher 6 b. 1767; d. abt. 1860 in N. Albion, ME
::::: iii.  Hannah Fisher 6 b. 1769 m. 14 Dec. 1786 William Covell
:::::  iv.  Gamaliel Fisher 6 b. 1771
:::::   v.  Zebediah Fisher 6 b. 1773
:::::  vi.  Betsey Fisher 6 b. 1775 m. Clovis Black
::::: vii.  Rhoda Fisher 6 b. 1776
::::: viii. Leonard Fisher 6 b. 1777
:::::  ix.  Freeborn Fisher 6 b. 11 Aug. 1779
:::::  x.  Nathaniel Fisher 6 b. 1782; d. at sea 1802
		
:::   iv.  Ethannah 5 Dunham, b. 9 July 1745; d. 15 May 1813 m. 18 Sept. 1769 Geroge 6 Daggett [9] He was son of George 5 John 4 Joseph 3,2 John 1 Daggett.
::::Children of George 6 and Ethannah 5 (Dunham) Daggett:
:::::	   i.  Ethannah Daggett b. abt. 1770
:::::	  ii.  Naomi Daggett b. 1773
:::::	 iii.  Sarah Daggett b. 1776

::   359.	    v.  Elisha 5 Dunham, b. 3 May 1747								
:::   vi.  Ruth 5 Dunham, b. 6 June 1751
:::  vii.  Phebe 5 Dunham, b. 26 September 1753 m. 14 Feb. 1771 Cornelius Pease [10] They moved to Wareham, MA.
::::Children of Cornelius and Phebe 5 (Dunham) Pease:
:::::      i.  Phebe Pease b. 1772
:::::     ii.  Polly Pease b. 1774
:::::    iii.  Abigail Pease b. 1776
:::::	  iv.  Ruth Pease b. 1778
:::::	   v.  Lydia Pease b. 1780 m. Samuel Sturtevant 
:::::	  vi.  Cornelius Pease b. 1782
:::::	 vii.  John Marchant Pease bp. Aug. 1785

:::   viii.  Jerusha 5 Dunham, bp. 1754 m. 10 Aug. 1774 Anthony Swasey [11]
::::Children of Anthony and Jerusha 5 (Dunham) Swasey:
:::::     i.  Seth Swasey b. abt. 1775
:::::    ii.  Hannah Swasey  bp. 23 Aug. 1796
:::::   iii.  Jared Swasey  bp. 23 Aug. 1796
:::::    iv.  Jonathan Swasey  bp. 23 Aug. 1796
:::::     v.  Mary Swasey  bp. 23 Aug. 1796
:::::    vi.  Naomi Swasey  bp. 23 Aug. 1796
:::::   vii.  Henry Osborn Swasey bp. 20 Aug. 1805
:::::  viii.  Lucretia Swasey
:::::    ix.  Abigail Swasey
:::   ix.  Persis 5 Dunham, bp. 1756; possibly the child of Seth who d. 1762 [12]


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References:

::1. Dukes Co. Probate 3:125; Roser, Descendants of Henry Cobb, p. 129.  
::2. Deaths in Edgartown, NEHGR 59:205.  
::3. Op. Cit. Banks, Vol. 3:157, Rosser, p. 129.
::4. Banks. Vol. 3:291-2.
::5. Deaths in Edgartown NEHGR 53:104.  
::6. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard Vol. 3:157.
::7. Banks, Vol. 3:173.
::8. Banks, Vol. 3:165.
::9. Banks, Vol. 3:144-5.
::10. Banks, Vol. 3:398.
::11. Banks, Vol. 3:468-9.
::12. Deaths in Edgartown, NEHGR 52:230.
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