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LINE OF JONATHAN DUNHAM/alias SINGLETARY, of WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY

SECOND GENERATION IN AMERICA

2. JONATHAN 2 DUNHAM/alias SINGLETARY (Richard 1 Singletary) was born in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts 17 January 1639/40; [1] died probably about 1724 in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., New Jersey. [2] He married ca. 1657 MARY BLOOMFIELD. [3] She was born 15 January 1642, in Newbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Colonel Thomas Bloomfield; d. 1705.

NOTE: Please see the section in the Archives under Book & Periodical Extracts for additional information about Jonathan 2 Dunham alias Singletary. This information includes some thoughts about a possible reason for Jonathan Dunham/alias Singletary assuming the Dunham surname; a time line of events in the life of Jonathan 2 Dunham; and a chronology of land transactions in Woodbridge for Jonathan 2 Dunham. From this point on in this text he will be called Jonathan 2 Dunham.

Jonathan 2 Dunham received grants of land “in consideration of his building the first grist mill in Woodbridge, NJ during 1670-71.” His toll was to be 1/16 of the grist. This grist mill was located on Papiack Creek, which at that time must have been a larger stream of water than it is now. (Currently, in 2009, it is nearly impossible to find Papiack Creek.) In 1670, and for a long period thereafter, Papiack Creek ran from the upland down through what is still “Kirk Green” behind the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and into Raritan Bay. The First Presbyterian Church and Trinity Episcopal Church are located side by side on what is now Rahway Avenue in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The cemetery behind the First Presbyterian Church contains the graves of many of the early residents of Woodbridge.

Children of Jonathan and Mary (Bloomfield) Dunham/alias Singletary: [4]

i. possibly RICHARD 3 DUNHAM, b. say 1657-8; If he was a son of Jonathan and Mary Bloomfield Dunham he may have died young.

There is no further record of a Richard 3 Dunham.

9. ii. ESTHER 3 DUNHAM, b. 1659; d. 14 August 1690

iii. MARY 3 DUNHAM, b. 29 December 1661; d.y.

10. iv. MARY 3 DUNHAM, b. 3 February 1663

v. SARAH 3 DUNHAM, b. 3 February 1663 (It is not certain she was a twin.)

vi. RUTH 3 DUNHAM, b. 1666 [5]

vii. EUNICE 3 DUNHAM, b. 1668; d. 5 December 1684 [6]

11. viii. JONATHAN 3 DUNHAM, Jr., b. 24 September 1672

12. ix. DAVID 3 DUNHAM, b. 10 March 1673/4

x. JOANNA 3 DUNHAM, b. say 1675; prob. m. Sanuel Parker [7]

xi. NATHANIEL 3 DUNHAM, b. 8 February 1677; d. 14 May 1678 [8]

13. xii. NATHANIEL 3 DUNHAM, b. 10 April 1679

14. xiii. BENJAMIN 3 DUNHAM, b. 22 August 1681

References:

l. Myers, Patty Barthell, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, p. 529-535, (Penobscot Press, 1995). [Pages cover both the Bloomfield family and Jonathan Dunham.]

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Op. Cit. Myers

5, Ruth is not given by Myers.

6. Dally, Woodbridge and Vicinity, p. 327.

7. Joanna is not given by Myers.

8. Op. Cit. Dally.

NOTE TO READERS: It is not my intention to carry out the lines of all the children of Richard 1 Singletary, but to follow only his son Jonathan 2 Dunham on this website. However, a close relationship develops between some of the descendants of Jonathan2 Dunham and some of the descendants of the other children of Richard 1 Singletary. Therefore, I want to show the lines of the Singletary children through the third generation.

For further information about the Singletary descendants, please see The Singletary Family History 1599 to 1989 by Yvonne Miller Brunton, pub. 1989.