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Eleazer DUNHAM

Eleazer DUNHAM

Male C 1659? - Aft 1713

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  • Name Eleazer DUNHAM 
    Born C 1659? 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 24 SEPT 1713 
    Person ID I52950  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2020 

    Father Joseph DUNHAM,   b. C 1631? 
    Mother Mercy MORTON,   d. 19 Feb 1666? 
    Married 18 Nov 1657? 
    Family ID F16452  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bathsheba WHISTON 
    Married C 1782 
    Children 
     1. Eleazer DUNHAM,   b. 15 Jan 1682?
     2. Nathaniel DUNHAM,   b. 20 Mar 1685?
     3. Mercy DUNHAM,   b. 10 Dec 1686?
     4. Israel DUNHAM,   b. October 1689?,   d. 18 Aug 1726?
     5. Elisha DUNHAM,   b. August 1692, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1765  (Age ~ 74 years)
     6. Josiah DUNHAM,   b. June 1694?,   d. Bef March 1741?
     7. Bathsheba DUNHAM,   b. 26 Apr 1696?
     8. Susannah DUNHAM,   b. June 1698?
     9. Joshua DUNHAM,   b. 1 Apr 1701,   d. 11 Apr 1765, Boston, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
    Family ID F16451  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Elisha DOWNHAM Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI)
      BIRTH : 1692
      LOCATION : Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
      VOLUME : Plymouth - V1
      PAGE : 2
      TEXT : Elisha born in Aug. 1692 [of Eliazur Downham & Bathsheba his wife]
      FATHER : Eliazur Downham
      MOTHER : Bathsheba Downham
      [p 4]
      The children of Eliazur Downham & Bathshaba his wife
      1 Eliazur borth the 15th day of Jan 1682
      2 Nathannell born the 20th day of March 1685
      3 Mercy born the 10th day of Dec 1686
      4 Israil born Oct 1789 [plainly a mistake for 1689]
      5 Elisha born in Aug 1692
      6 Josiah born June 1794 [plainly a mistake for 1694]
      7 Barshua born April 26 1696
      8 Suzannah born in June 1698
      9 Joshua born April first 1701

      Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
      https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/14012/2/253509545
    • See:
      http://www.dunham-singletary.org/dunhamgenealogy/Generation-3-Eleazer(3)Dunham.html
      ...
      Bathsheba died after March 1740/1 when a suit brought by Samuel Kempton for assistance in the support of his aged mother-in-law, Bathshua Donham, widow, was settled. "The children and grandchildren of Bathshua were ordered to pay Kempton their portions of her maintenance at the rate of ?36 a year, commencing 1 Oct. 1739 and apportioned as follows: Cornelius Clark, who married her daughter Susanna, ?6; Nathaniel Donham and Ezekiel Donham, her grandsons, ?6; Silvanus and Cornelius Dunham, the two sons of her son Israel Donham, deceased, ?6; Elisha Donham in Casco Bay, ?6; John Colling, who married her daughter Bathshua, ?6; and Samuel Kempton ?6."[5]
    • Readex Newspaper Database University of Maine Folger Library

      [Middleborough; Widow Dunham; Mr. Gay; Dedham] page [3], iss. 2159
      Date February 15, 1796
      Source
      Boston Gazette (published as THE BOSTON GAZETTE, AND WEEKLY REPUBLICAN JOURNAL.)
      Place(s) of Publication Boston, Massachusetts

      Last Saturday night 7-night, a very melancholy affair took place at Middleobrough. The House of the Widow Dunham accidentally took fire, and was entirely consumed, together with the house furniture aand two children.
    • https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/294354?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Court records, 1701-1855
      Authors: Massachusetts. Court of Common Pleas (Suffolk County)
      Court records, 1701-1706
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      907414
      8292813
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008292813?cat=294354
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      [4 July 1704]
      Page 182
      William Obbenson tanner Boston v Eleazer Donham cordwainer Plymouth