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LINE OF JONATHAN DUNHAM OF WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY

THIRD GENERATION IN AMERICA

13. NATHANIEL 3 DUNHAM (Jonathan 2 Singletary/alias Dunham, Richard 1 Singletary) b. 10 April 1679 in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ; [1] d. after 1727 in Westfield, Union Co., NJ: [2] m. 20 October 1703 in Woodbridge, New Jersey JOANNA THORNELL, [3] b. 25 February 1684/5 in Woodbridge, daughter of Israel and Hannah (--) Thornall.

In 1715 David, Nathaniel and Benjamin Donham were on the list of the New Jersey Militia Regiment under the command of Col. Thomas Farmer. [4]

Children of Nathaniel 3 and Joanna (Thornell) Dunham: [5]

26. i. DAVID4 DUNHAM, b. 1704

ii. ANDREW 4 DUNHAM, b. 1706; n.f.r.

27. iii. JOHN 4 DUNHAM, b. 1708; (Myers p. 543, says “Brunton p. 23, gives Jehu”) [6]

iv. ELIZABETH 4 DUNHAM, b. 10 May 1710; n.f.r.

v. JOANNA 4 DUNHAM, b. 25 September 1712; n.f.r.

vi. JERUSHA 4 DUNHAM, b. 3 March 1714/15; n.f.r.

28. vii. EPHRAIM 4 DUNHAM, b. 17 November 1724

29. viii. NATHANIEL 4 DUNHAM, b. 17 October 1726

References:

1. Dally, Woodbridge and Vicinity, p. 327; Dunham, Dunham-Singletary Genealogy, p. 24-28.

2. Ibid.

3. Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, p. 542-3.

4. Ibid.; Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 13, p. 200-220; Col. Thomas Farmer’s New Jersey Regiment of 1715

5. Ibid.

6. Research done by Gratia Dunham Mahony indicates that Jehu Dunham belongs to a different Dunham line. This child born in 1708 was probably named John.