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Captain Benajah Dunham

Male Abt 1637 - 1679  (~ 42 years)


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  • Name Captain Benajah Dunham  [1, 2, 3
    Title Captain 
    Born Abt 1637  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1672  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Occupation 10 May 1679  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Linen weaver 
    Residence 10 May 1679  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Will 10 May 1679  Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Wife Elizabeth. Children - Edmund, Mary, and Elizabeth. Land on Raraton R., do. on Bonham's Creek, do. North of Andrew Woodin, do. in New England. Personal property. The wife executrix with Samuel Dennis of Woodbridge and John Fitzrandolphe of Piscataway as overseers for the children 
    Died 24 Dec 1679  Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • "Dunham Genealogy" gives the year 1680 but his will was proved before 24 Dec 1680
    Probate 12 Aug 1680  Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Will proved 
    Person ID I2076  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2016 

    Father John Dunham,   b. Abt 1589, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1668/9, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Abigail Barlow,   d. Aft 2 Mar 1668/9 
    Married 22 Oct 1622  Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F913  Group Sheet

    Family Elizabeth Tilson,   d. Aft 14 Jan 1684/5  [5
    Married 25 Oct 1660  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 6, 7
    • Recorded both in Eastham and Plymouth. Location of the marriage is not clear
    Children 
    +1. Edmund Dunham,   b. 25 Jul 1661, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1734  (Age 72 years)
     2. John Dunham,   b. 28 Aug 1663, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Sep 1663, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Elizabeth Dunham,   b. 20 Nov 1664, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Dec 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
     4. Hannah Dunham,   b. 4 Jun 1666, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     5. Benjamin Dunham,   b. 28 Oct 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Mary Dunham,   b. 1669, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Elizabeth Dunham,   b. 1670, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F912  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

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

    3. [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.

    4. [S99] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume XXIII, Abstracts of Wills, 1670-1730, p. 146 (Reliability: 3), 11 Jul 2016.

    5. [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.

    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.