DJD-249-Eleazer-4
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FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA |
249. ELEAZER 4 DUNHAM (Eleazer 3 Joseph 2 John 1) b. 15 January, 1682; [1] died after 29 Oct. 1743 when he married his second wife. There is no Plymouth County probate for Eleazer 4 Dunham. He married first 21 May 1705 MIRIAM PHILLIPS. He married second 29 Oct. 1743 ELIZA CONNOR, widow, of Hanover. [2]
Children of Eleazer and Miriam (Phillips) Dunham born in Plymouth: [3]
m. in Middleboro 13 June 1734 Samuel 5 Warren [4] On 26 April 1769 Samuel and Rebekah Warren of Middleboro received a bond from their son Jabez Warren for the whole of Samuel’s homestead farm in Middleboro. On 28 Nov. 1770 Samuel Warren and son Jabez were mentioned in the diary of Isaac Backus as moving to Oakham, but were delayed by a snowstorm. (Backus Diary p. 786) On 9 July 1770 Jabez Warren of Middleboro bought 81 acres with mansion house and buildings at Oakham, Worcester Co. MA. On 29 March 1773 Jabez Warren and wife Zilpah sold this land. No Worcester Co. probate for Samuel Warren. Children of Samuel and Rebecca (Dunham) Warren, b. Middleboro: [5] i. Betty 6 Warren bp. 4 April 1741 ii. Jabez 6 Warren iii. prob. Samuel 6 Warren poss. m. Bethia Snow: MF Vol. 18: Part III p. 58.
She married first 7 May 1731 Jacob Curtis, [7] son of Ebenezer and Mary (Tinkham) Curtis. He was born in Plymouth MA 11 Oct. 1710, died probably at sea before 22 Jan. 1752 when Fear Curtis, widow of Jacob Curtis, late of Plymouth, mariner, deceased, was appointed administratrix of her husband’s estate. She married second in Plymouth 13 June 1752 William Gammons. [8] In an article by Morton W. Saunders published in The American Genealogist, Vol. 54:227 entitled “What Happened to Jacob and Fear (Dunham) Curtis?” The following information is given. “Jacob Curtis, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Tinkham) Curtis, was born 11 Oct. 1710, at Plymouth, Mass., in the fifth generation from Peter Brown, Stephen Hopkins & Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. . . Two of their daughters went to Nova Scotia and were married shortly after they arrived. Theirs was the first double wedding in Liverpool, Queens Co., Nova Scotia. On 21 Mar. 1762, Fear Curtis married Richard Kempton, and Sarah Curtis married Joseph Woods.” [9]
m. in Plymouth 19 April 1748 Zephaniah Morton of Plymouth [12] Children of Zephaniah and Jerusha (Dunham) Morton born in Plymouth: [13] i. Zephaniah 6 Morton b. 12 March 1748/9 ii. George 6 Morton b. 27 Dec. 1750 iii. Eleazer 6 Morton b. 6 April 1753 iv. Sarah 6 Morton b. 20 Dec. 1755 v. William 6 Morton b. 10 Oct. 1757 vi. Rebecca 6 Morton b. 1 April 1760
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‘The wife of William Gammon died yesterday of a lingering disease and buried today.’
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