DJD-186-Seth-4

LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH

FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

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.

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

356. i. Elijah 5 Dunham, b. January 1734

357. 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

358. 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]

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.