DJD-303-Jonathan-4

LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH

THIRD GENERATION IN AMERICA

303 Jonathan 4 Dunham(Edmund 3, Benajah 2, John 1) b. 16 Aug 1694, in Piscataway twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey; d. 10 March 1777 in Piscataway twp.; m. 5 August 1714 in Piscataway twp. Jane Pyatt. She was b. 15 Sept. 1695 in Stelton, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; d. 15 September 1779, age 84 years.

There are no New Jersey wills for Jonathan 4 or Jane (Pyatt) Dunham. Both are listed in Gravestone Records From Dunham Family Burying Ground, Raritan Township, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.

Children of Jonathan 4 and Jane (Pyatt) Dunham born Piscataway, New Jersey:

i. Elizabeth 5 Dunham b. 27 June 1715; m . 1738 Micajah Dunn, son of Samuel and Esther (Martin) Dunn

ii. Azariah 5 Dunham b. 9 February 1718/9 - Line Continues below

iii. Jonathan 5 Dunham b. 20 May 1721

iv. David 5 Dunham b. 14 March 1723

v. Isaac 5 Dunham b. 16 August 1725; d. young

vi. Ruth 5 Dunham b. 3 January 1727/8; m. 25 February 1746 James Martin

vii. Samuel 5 Dunham b. 27 November 1730; m. 8 May 1750 Mary Lucas

Azariah 5 Dunham (Jonathan 4 Edmund 3 Benajah 2 John 1 ) b. 9 February 1718/19 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey: d. 22 January 1790; m.1 Mary Tuxton; m.2 21 May 1753, Mary Ford, daughter of Col. Jacob and Hannah (Baldwin) Ford. [1] She was born about 1734-5 (age at death 67 years); d. 4 May 1802. Both Azariah 5 and Mary (Ford) Dunham are buried in the Dunham Family Burying Ground, Raritan Township (formerly Piscataway) Middlesex Co. New Jersey, near Stelton, New Jersey.

In Feb. 1775 Col. Dunham was elected to the Colonial General Assembly of the province; and in the certification of his election signed by the sheriff of the county and 21 freeholders he is described as “Azariah Dunham Esquire an able and sufficient man having 1000 acres of land on an estate in freehold, in his own respective right” etc… In 1775 and again in 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress and by that body was appointed one of the Committee of Safety for the Province. . .

Col. Dunham was an active Revolutionary leader, and after the war he was elected the first President of the Corporation of the City of New Brunswick under the new charter of 1784 and continued to enjoy the confidence and regard of his fellow townsmen until his death on 22 January 1790.

From The Mapping of New Jersey: The Men and the Art by John P. Snyder, pub. Rutgers University Press, p. 54-55; “A second manuscript map recently reproduced. . .shows a boundary line surveyed by Azariah Dunham of New Brunswick in 1766. . . The Justice and Freeholders of Middlesex County ordered the 1766 survey in view of the fact that the ‘line of the old road’ was ‘very dubious by reason of persons altering the road’.” Following the narrative on p. 55 is a picture of Azariah Dunham (17191790), probably the earliest picture we have of a descendant of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth. This is reproduced below but numerous photocopies have resulted in a poor reproduction in this newsletter.

Children of Azariah and Mary (Tuxton) Dunham:

i. David 6 Dunham (known as “Squire”) b. 5 Aug. 1745 m. 17 Dec. 1766 Mary Dunn

ii. Mary 6 Dunham b. 20 April 1747 m. John Conger

iii. Jane 6 Dunham b. 20 Feb. 1748 m. Joseph Thixton

Children of Azariah and Mary (Ford) Dunham:

iv. Lewis Ford 6 Dunham b. 31 March 1754 m. Jane Tuthill 4 May 1777; became a Physician

v. John 6 Dunham b. 4 Jan. 1756 m. Ann Sherred; became a Merchant - Line Continues below

vi. James 6 Dunham b. 12 Oct. 1757 m. Hannah Smith; became a Merchant

vii. Elizabeth 6 Dunham b. 24 Oct. 1759 d. Oct. 1761

viii. Nancy 6 Dunham b. 8 March 1761 d. 10 April 1840

ix. Hannah 6 Dunham b. 17 Feb. 1764 d. 17 Sept. 1764

x. Sarah 6 Dunham b. 27 Aug. 1765 m. James Hankenson 17 March 1789

xi. Jacob 6 Dunham b. 30 Sept. 1767 m. Elizabeth Lawson; became a Physician

xii. Moses 6 Dunham b. 5 July 1770 d. 3 Sept. 1771

xiii. William 6 Dunham b. 27 June 1772; became a Lawyer

xiv. Hannah 6 Dunham (again) b. 17 Jan. 1774 d. 11 Feb. 1860

John 6 Dunham (Azariah 5 Jonathan 4 Edmund 3 Benajah 2 John 1) b. 4 January 1756; d. 15 July 1799; m. 22 May 1780 in Morris Co., New Jersey Ann Sherred, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (Fleming) Sherred. She was born 22 March 1761; d. 9 March 1848 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York.

Children of John 6 and Ann (Sherred) Dunham:

i. John Clarkson 7 Dunham b. 16 July 1792; d. 6 April 1793

ii. Edward Wood 7 Dunham b. 10 February 1794. - Line Continues below

Edward Wood 7 Dunham (John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4 , Edmund 3 , Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 10 February 1794 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ; d. 26 July 1871 in Irvington, Westchester Co, NY; m. 27 April 1817 in New Brunswick Maria Smyth Parker. She was b. 1794 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., NJ; d. 8 September 1834, age 40 years, during the cholera epidemic in Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY. She is buried at Christ Episcopal Church burial ground, New Brunswick.

NOTE: Add this if photo is avail JAS Photo of Edward Wood Dunham taken from Ancestry.com web page of David M. Smith.

Edward Wood and Maria Smyth (Parker) Dunham moved to New York City in 1821 where Edward became a banker. Edward Wood Dunham was the first President of the Corn Exchange Bank.

Children of Edward Wood 7 and Maria Smyth (Parker) Dunham:

i. Edward 8 Dunham b. 27 March 1818, New Brunswick, NJ

ii. Anna Parker 8 Dunham b.; d. in her third year 16 Nov. 1822

iii. John Parker 8 Dunham b. 1820; d. 1849

iv. Lewis 8 Dunham b.; d. 7 August 1825, age 15 months

v. James Lawrence 8 Dunham b. 19 April 1826

vi. Carroll 8 Dunham, b. 29 October 1828 Line Continues below

vii. Ann Lawrence 8 Dunham b. 6 November 1832

Carroll 8 Dunham (Edward Wood 7, John 6, Azariah 5, Jonatan 4 , Edmund 3, Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 29 October 1828 in New York City, NY; d. 18 February 1877 in Irvington, Westchester Co., NY; m. Harriet Elvira Kellogg, daughter of Edward and Esther Kellogg of Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY. She was b.in 1828; d. in 1878.

His mother died in a cholera epidemic in 1834 when Carroll was only six years old. After attending boarding school he enrolled at Columbia University in New York. Carroll 8 Dunham graduated from Columbia University and in 1850 received his MD degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. Carroll 8 Dunham was a homeopathic physician and dean of faculty at the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He traveled internationally to visit homoeopathic hospitals in Europe. He wrote numerous articles and lectured on the subject of homoeopathic medicine. He was editor of the “American Homeopathic Review” and was President of the New York County Homeopathic Medical Society.

Carroll Dunham was loved, respected and honored by his peers. Upon his death at the age of forty-nine years the testimony from his friends and acquaintances may be summed up by the following quote about Dr. Dunham. “Possessing intellectual capacities of the highest order, he never exerted them for selfish ends, but always for the public good. Pure in his private life, exceptionally modest and retiring in his demeanor, ever gentle and kind, he knew not how to stoop to meanness and detraction; generous and large-hearted, he was always ready to aid others, and all who were brought in contact with his noble and tender nature were compelled not only to admire and venerate the accomplished physician, but to trust and love the true-hearted Christian man.”

[I would like to make an editorial comment here which is that I feel these same traits and characteristics were exhibited in the ancestry of Carroll 8 Dunham all the way back to his Greatgreat grandfather Rev. Jonathan 4 Dunham, and continuing all the way back to Deacon John 1 Dunham. Gratia Dunham Mahony, Editor]

(please see the following article for more explicit detail)

Children of Carroll 8 and Harriet Elvira (Kellogg) Dunham:

i. Carroll 9 Dunham II b. 25 June 1858 Line Continues below

ii. Edward Kellogg 9 Dunham b. 1 September 1860 Line Continues below

iii. Theodore 9 Dunham b. 11 November 1862

iv. Herbert 9 Dunham b. June 1865; d.y.

v. Constantine 9 Dunham b. June 1868; d.y.

vi. Beatrice 9 Dunham b. 2 March 1870

References:

1. NJ Marriage Records 16651800

“The Large Family of Benajah Dunham” Vol.3, Issue 3, p. 2-6, July 15, 2006

From Deacon John 1 to Lena 13 Dunham Selected Dunhams in one line of Descent by Gratia Dunham Mahony Vol.13, Issue 2, p. 2, April 2016