DJD-183-David-4

LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH

FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

183. DAVID 4 DUNHAM (Gershom 3 Jonathan 2 John 1) born ca 1698; [1] died in Edgartown before 19 February 1746/7. [2] David was a farmer. He married first in Chilmark 11 April 1723 SARAH CLIFFORD, [3] daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Mayhew) Clifford. Sarah Clifford was born in Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH 4 March 1704/5; [4] died in 1737. David married second 30 October 1738 MARY (RIPLEY) MACKELROY, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Jenkins) Ripley, and widow of William Mackelroy. [5]

From http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history, under the Allen/Dunham family;

Sarah Clifford was b. 4 Mar. 1705 Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. She was daughter of Jacob Clifford who was b. 7 Apr. 1679, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH and who d. 9 May 1715 in Chilmark, Dukes Co. MA. Jacob Clifford m. Elizabeth Mayhew, daughter of John Mayhew and Elizabeth Hilliard. Elizabeth Mayhew was b. 1677, and d. 16 July 1729 at Chilmark MA.

John Clifford (1646-1719) was son of John Clifford and Sarah _____. John Clifford (father of John b. 1646), was son of George Clifford. John Clifford (1646-1719) m. Sarah Godfrey, b. 15 May 1642 in Hampton, d. 25 July 1694 in Hampton, daughter of William Godfrey, Deacon, and Margaret _____.

Children of David 4 and Sarah (Clifford) Dunham: [6]

i. Mary 5 Dunham, b. 1723 m. Pardon Allen [7]

350. ii. David 5 Dunham, b. 1724

351. iii. John 5 Dunham, b. 1729

352. iv. Abishai 5 Dunham, b. 1731

v. Sarah 5 Dunham b. November 1733; d. 20 June 1765 m. Nathan Luce [8]

353. vi. Gershom 5 Dunham , b. 1736

References:

1. Banks, Vol. 3:156; Rosser, Descendants of Henry Cobb, p. 129.

2. Dukes Co. Probate (adm.), 3:125 & 3:233.

3. Banks, Vol. 3 p. 93, 156.

4. Banks, Vol. 3:92-3 & 415.

5. Banks, Vol. 3:156; Rosser, Descendants of Henry Cobb, p. 129.

6. Banks, Vol. 3:156-7 & 298-303 for Mayhew line.

7. http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history, under the Allen/Dunham family

8. Banks, Vol. 3:157 & 265.