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Reverend Edmund Dunham

Male 1661 - 1734  (72 years)


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  • Name Reverend Edmund Dunham  [1, 2
    Title Reverend 
    Born 25 Jul 1661  Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Ordained 8 Sep 1705  Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    "By prayer and laying of hands by...elder William Gibson...." 
    Residence 28 May 1731  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Will 28 May 1731  Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children - Benajah, Edmond, Jonathan, Ephraim, Mary Smalley, Hannah Davis. Nephew, John Thomson. Land in New England. Executrix - wife, Mary Dunham 
    Died 17 Mar 1734 
    Probate 10 Apr 1734  Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Will proved 
    Person ID I2074  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2016 

    Father Benajah Dunham,   b. Abt 1637, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1679, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Elizabeth Tilson,   d. Aft 14 Jan 1684/5 
    Relationship Birth 
    Married 25 Oct 1660  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 6, 7
    • Recorded both in Eastham and Plymouth. Location of the marriage is not clear
    Family ID F912  Group Sheet

    Family Mary Bonham,   b. 4 Oct 1661, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Mar 1736/37 -12 Aug 1742  (Age 80 years)  [8
    Married 15 Jul 1681  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 8
    Children 
    +1. Benajah Dunham,   b. 16 Aug 1684,   d. 9 Aug 1742  (Age 57 years)
     2. Elizabeth Dunham,   b. 26 Nov 1689
     3. Edmund Dunham, Jr,   b. 15 Jan 1691,   d. 5 Jun 1749 - 12 Jul 1749  (Age 58 years)
     4. Jonathan Dunham,   b. 4 Mar 1693,   d. 10 Mar 1777  (Age 84 years)
     5. Ephraim Dunham,   b. 2 May 1696
     6. Ruth Dunham,   b. 26 Nov 1698
     7. Mary Dunham,   b. 1 Jul 1700
     8. Hannah Dunham,   b. 14 Apr 1704,   d. Aft 28 Feb 1736/37  (Age 32 years)
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2016 
    Family ID F911  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S99] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume XXX, Abstracts of Wills, 1730-1750, p. 154 (Reliability: 3), 5 Jul 2016.

    2. [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 291 (Reliability: 1), 11 Jul 2009.
      John Dunham was the son of Benajah Dunham and his wife Dorothy Martin; Benajah Dunham was the son of Rev. Edward and Mary (Bonham) Dunham; Rev. Edward was the son of Capt. Benajah Dunham, who was the son of Rev. John Dunham of Plymouth.

    3. [S110] Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans, Col. Leonard H. Smith, Jr. & Norma H. Smith, (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1993), 33 (Reliability: 2), 12 Jul 2016.

    4. [S52] Dunham Genealogy, Isaac Watson Dunham, comp., Hartford, CT: 1907., 250 (Reliability: 1), 11 Jul 2014.

    5. [S52] Dunham Genealogy, Isaac Watson Dunham, comp., Hartford, CT: 1907., 254 (Reliability: 1), 11 Jul 2014.

    6. [S54] Plymouth Colony Records v. 8, ed. Nathaniel B Shurtleff, MD, (Boston: William White, 1857), 22 (Reliability: 2), 16 Jul 2014.

    7. [S116] Records of Plymouth Colony, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), 22 (Reliability: 2), 24 Aug 2016.

    8. [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 291 (Reliability: 2), 11 Jul 2009.
      John Dunham was the son of Benajah Dunham and his wife Dorothy Martin; Benajah Dunham was the son of Rev. Edward and Mary (Bonham) Dunham; Rev. Edward was the son of Capt. Benajah Dunham, who was the son of Rev. John Dunham of Plymouth.