S-D-29-Nathaniel-4

LINE OF JONATHAN DUNHAM OF WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY

FORTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

29. NATHANIEL-4 DUNHAM (Nathaniel-3 Dunham, Jonathan-2 Dunham alias Singletary, Richard-1 Singletary) born in Westfield, Union, NJ, 17 October 1726, [1] died in Pittstown, Rensselaer, NY, 12 February 1814. [2] He married in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, NJ, about 1754, ELIZABETH WILSON.

Elizabeth (Wilson) Dunham died in Boyntonville, Rensselaer, NY in 1800. She is buried in the Pittstown Corners Cemetery, Pittstown, Rensselaer, NY.

The Headstone is inscribed “In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunham wife of Mr. Nath’l Dunham  She died Nov. 30th, 1800 in the 67th year of her age”. 

Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Wilson) Dunham moved first to Rye, Westchester, NY, and then to Pittstown/Grafton, Rensselaer, NY. Nathaniel Dunham appears on the 1800 Census of Grafton, p. 192, 00101 00000.

Children of Nathaniel-4 and Elizabeth (Wilson) Dunham:

45. i. Sarah-5 Dunham b. 1756, Rye NY

46. ii. David-5 Dunham b. 2 May 1767, Rye NY

47. iii. Wilson-5 Dunham b. 15 November 1772, Rye NY

48. iv. Jehew-5 Dunham b. ca. 1775, Rye NY

References:

1. Myers, Patty Barthell, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, (Penobscot Press, 1995), p. 543.

2. Headstone inscription Littlefield Cemetery, Grafton, Rensselaer County, NY.

3. Myers p. 543.