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LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH

THIRD GENERATION IN AMERICA

303 Jonathan 4 Dunham(Edmund 3, Benajah 2, John 1) b. 16 Aug 1694, in Piscataway twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey; d. 10 March 1777 in Piscataway twp.; m. 5 August 1714 in Piscataway twp. Jane Pyatt. She was b. 15 Sept. 1695 in Stelton, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; d. 15 September 1779, age 84 years.

There are no New Jersey wills for Jonathan 4 or Jane (Pyatt) Dunham. Both are listed in Gravestone Records From Dunham Family Burying Ground, Raritan Township, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.

Children of Jonathan 4 and Jane (Pyatt) Dunham born Piscataway, New Jersey:

i. Elizabeth 5 Dunham b. 27 June 1715; m . 1738 Micajah Dunn, son of Samuel and Esther (Martin) Dunn

ii. Azariah 5 Dunham b. 9 February 1718/9 - Line Continues below

iii. Jonathan 5 Dunham b. 20 May 1721

iv. David 5 Dunham b. 14 March 1723

v. Isaac 5 Dunham b. 16 August 1725; d. young

vi. Ruth 5 Dunham b. 3 January 1727/8; m. 25 February 1746 James Martin

vii. Samuel 5 Dunham b. 27 November 1730; m. 8 May 1750 Mary Lucas

Azariah 5 Dunham (Jonathan 4 Edmund 3 Benajah 2 John 1 ) b. 9 February 1718/19 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey: d. 22 January 1790; m.1 Mary Tuxton; m.2 21 May 1753, Mary Ford, daughter of Col. Jacob and Hannah (Baldwin) Ford. [1] She was born about 1734-5 (age at death 67 years); d. 4 May 1802. Both Azariah 5 and Mary (Ford) Dunham are buried in the Dunham Family Burying Ground, Raritan Township (formerly Piscataway) Middlesex Co. New Jersey, near Stelton, New Jersey.

In Feb. 1775 Col. Dunham was elected to the Colonial General Assembly of the province; and in the certification of his election signed by the sheriff of the county and 21 freeholders he is described as “Azariah Dunham Esquire an able and sufficient man having 1000 acres of land on an estate in freehold, in his own respective right” etc… In 1775 and again in 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress and by that body was appointed one of the Committee of Safety for the Province. . .

Col. Dunham was an active Revolutionary leader, and after the war he was elected the first President of the Corporation of the City of New Brunswick under the new charter of 1784 and continued to enjoy the confidence and regard of his fellow townsmen until his death on 22 January 1790.

From The Mapping of New Jersey: The Men and the Art by John P. Snyder, pub. Rutgers University Press, p. 54-55; “A second manuscript map recently reproduced. . .shows a boundary line surveyed by Azariah Dunham of New Brunswick in 1766. . . The Justice and Freeholders of Middlesex County ordered the 1766 survey in view of the fact that the ‘line of the old road’ was ‘very dubious by reason of persons altering the road’.” Following the narrative on p. 55 is a picture of Azariah Dunham (17191790), probably the earliest picture we have of a descendant of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth. This is reproduced below but numerous photocopies have resulted in a poor reproduction in this newsletter.

Children of Azariah and Mary (Tuxton) Dunham:

i. David 6 Dunham (known as “Squire”) b. 5 Aug. 1745 m. 17 Dec. 1766 Mary Dunn

ii. Mary 6 Dunham b. 20 April 1747 m. John Conger

iii. Jane 6 Dunham b. 20 Feb. 1748 m. Joseph Thixton

Children of Azariah and Mary (Ford) Dunham:

iv. Lewis Ford 6 Dunham b. 31 March 1754 m. Jane Tuthill 4 May 1777; became a Physician

v. John 6 Dunham b. 4 Jan. 1756 m. Ann Sherred; became a Merchant - Line Continues below

vi. James 6 Dunham b. 12 Oct. 1757 m. Hannah Smith; became a Merchant

vii. Elizabeth 6 Dunham b. 24 Oct. 1759 d. Oct. 1761

viii. Nancy 6 Dunham b. 8 March 1761 d. 10 April 1840

ix. Hannah 6 Dunham b. 17 Feb. 1764 d. 17 Sept. 1764

x. Sarah 6 Dunham b. 27 Aug. 1765 m. James Hankenson 17 March 1789

xi. Jacob 6 Dunham b. 30 Sept. 1767 m. Elizabeth Lawson; became a Physician

xii. Moses 6 Dunham b. 5 July 1770 d. 3 Sept. 1771

xiii. William 6 Dunham b. 27 June 1772; became a Lawyer

xiv. Hannah 6 Dunham (again) b. 17 Jan. 1774 d. 11 Feb. 1860

John 6 Dunham (Azariah 5 Jonathan 4 Edmund 3 Benajah 2 John 1) b. 4 January 1756; d. 15 July 1799; m. 22 May 1780 in Morris Co., New Jersey Ann Sherred, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (Fleming) Sherred. She was born 22 March 1761; d. 9 March 1848 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York.

Children of John 6 and Ann (Sherred) Dunham:

i. John Clarkson 7 Dunham b. 16 July 1792; d. 6 April 1793

ii. Edward Wood 7 Dunham b. 10 February 1794. - Line Continues below

Edward Wood 7 Dunham (John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4 , Edmund 3 , Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 10 February 1794 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., NJ; d. 26 July 1871 in Irvington, Westchester Co, NY; m. 27 April 1817 in New Brunswick Maria Smyth Parker. She was b. 1794 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., NJ; d. 8 September 1834, age 40 years, during the cholera epidemic in Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY. She is buried at Christ Episcopal Church burial ground, New Brunswick.

NOTE: Add this if photo is avail JAS Photo of Edward Wood Dunham taken from Ancestry.com web page of David M. Smith.

Edward Wood and Maria Smyth (Parker) Dunham moved to New York City in 1821 where Edward became a banker. Edward Wood Dunham was the first President of the Corn Exchange Bank.

Children of Edward Wood 7 and Maria Smyth (Parker) Dunham:

i. Edward 8 Dunham b. 27 March 1818, New Brunswick, NJ

ii. Anna Parker 8 Dunham b.; d. in her third year 16 Nov. 1822

iii. John Parker 8 Dunham b. 1820; d. 1849

iv. Lewis 8 Dunham b.; d. 7 August 1825, age 15 months

v. James Lawrence 8 Dunham b. 19 April 1826

vi. Carroll 8 Dunham, b. 29 October 1828 - Line Continues below

vii. Ann Lawrence 8 Dunham b. 6 November 1832

Carroll 8 Dunham (Edward Wood 7, John 6, Azariah 5, Jonatan 4 , Edmund 3, Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 29 October 1828 in New York City, NY; d. 18 February 1877 in Irvington, Westchester Co., NY; m. Harriet Elvira Kellogg, daughter of Edward and Esther Kellogg of Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY. She was b.in 1828; d. in 1878.

His mother died in a cholera epidemic in 1834 when Carroll was only six years old. After attending boarding school he enrolled at Columbia University in New York. Carroll 8 Dunham graduated from Columbia University and in 1850 received his MD degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. Carroll 8 Dunham was a homeopathic physician and dean of faculty at the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He traveled internationally to visit homoeopathic hospitals in Europe. He wrote numerous articles and lectured on the subject of homoeopathic medicine. He was editor of the “American Homeopathic Review” and was President of the New York County Homeopathic Medical Society.

Carroll Dunham was loved, respected and honored by his peers. Upon his death at the age of forty-nine years the testimony from his friends and acquaintances may be summed up by the following quote about Dr. Dunham. “Possessing intellectual capacities of the highest order, he never exerted them for selfish ends, but always for the public good. Pure in his private life, exceptionally modest and retiring in his demeanor, ever gentle and kind, he knew not how to stoop to meanness and detraction; generous and large-hearted, he was always ready to aid others, and all who were brought in contact with his noble and tender nature were compelled not only to admire and venerate the accomplished physician, but to trust and love the true-hearted Christian man.”

[I would like to make an editorial comment here which is that I feel these same traits and characteristics were exhibited in the ancestry of Carroll 8 Dunham all the way back to his Greatgreat grandfather Rev. Jonathan 4 Dunham, and continuing all the way back to Deacon John 1 Dunham. Gratia Dunham Mahony, Editor]

(please see the following article for more explicit detail)

Children of Carroll 8 and Harriet Elvira (Kellogg) Dunham:

i. Carroll 9 Dunham II b. 25 June 1858 - Line Continues below

ii. Edward Kellogg 9 Dunham b. 1 September 1860 - Line Continues below

iii. Theodore 9 Dunham b. 11 November 1862

iv. Herbert 9 Dunham b. June 1865; d.y.

v. Constantine 9 Dunham b. June 1868; d.y.

vi. Beatrice 9 Dunham b. 2 March 1870

Carroll 9 Dunham, II (Carroll 8 Edward Wood 7 , John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4 , Edmund 3 , Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 25 Jun 1858 in Newburgh, Orange Co., NY; d. 5 September 1922 age 63 years: m. 2 April 1884 Margaret Worcester Dows, daughter of David and Margaret Esther (Worcester) Dows. She was b. 5 March 1860 in Saratoga Co., NY; d. 18 September 1951. Both are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Westchester Co., NY.

Children of Carroll 9 and Margaret Worcester (Dows) Dunham III:

i. Ethel 10 Dunham b. 27 April 1886; d. 1973; m. Edward Kirkham

ii. Carroll 10 Dunham III b. 21 December 1887 - Line Continues below

iii. Dows 10 Dunham b. 1 June 1890 - Line Continues below

iv. Arthur Louis 10 Dunham b. 11 December 1891; d. 2 September 1972

Edward Kellogg 9 Dunham (Carroll 8, Edward Wood 7, John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4, Edmund 3, Benajah 2, John 1) b. 1 September 1860; d. 1922; m. in 1893 Mary Dows, daughter of David and Margaret (Worcester) Dows, of Irvington, Westchester Co., NY. She was born in New York in 1866.

Edward Kellogg Dunham graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1886 and became well known for his work in pathology and bacteriology. He worked for the Board of Health Commission in Boston, and later became professor of pathology at Bellevue Medical College of New York University. He treated World War I soldiers infected with the lung disease empyema. After his death his wife Mary (Dows) Dunham gave an endowment to Harvard Medical School for the establishment of the “Edward Kellogg Dunham Lectures for the Promotion of the Medical Sciences.”

Edward and Mary were world travelers in Europe, Egypt and the Western United States. In 1898 they built a house in Seal Harbor, Hancock Co., ME where they spent many summers. The entire family has been active in various philanthropic activities in both New York and Seal Harbor.

Children of Edward Kellogg 9 and Mary (Dows) Dunham:

i. Theodora 10 Dunham (1895-1983)

ii. Edward Kellogg 10 Dunham, Jr. b. 1901; d. 1951; m. Ann (“Nancy”) Yellott

He graduated from Harvard in 1922 and worked as assistant manager for the Corn Exchange Bank in New York. Later on he spent much of his time with other financial activities and as treasurer of Dows Estates.

Children of Edward Kellogg and Ann “Nancy” (Yellott) Dunham:

i. Edward Kellogg 11 Dunham, III

ii Elizabeth 11 Dunham

Note to readers: There is a collection of Dunham Family Papers, 1814-1951, (57 boxes, 20 linear ft.) Collection number MS 246 located at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Quoting from the abstract of this collection which covers four generations: Edward Wood Dunham (1794-1871; Carroll Dunham (1828-1877); Edward Kellogg Dunham (1860-1922); Edward Kellogg Dunham, Jr. (1901-1951): “Artist, photographer, homemaker, traveler, philanthropist, bacteriologist, pathologist, and financier, The Dunham Family Papers represent four generations of the Dunham, Parker, Kellogg, and Dows families. The collection documents the medical education, research and professional activities of Doctors Carroll Dunham and Edward Kellogg Dunham, Jr.; the financial activities of Edward Kellogg Dunham, Jr.; the World War I medical and the volunteer work of women, including Theodora Dunham Bodman; creative writings; artwork; numerous photographs; travel correspondence; diaries and photographs from Europe, Egypt, the western U.S., and Panama.” A detailed Contents List can be seen at: http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss20.html

Carroll 10 Dunham III (Carroll 9 Carroll 8 Edward Wood 7 , John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4 , Edmund 3 , Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 21 December 1887; died 24 May 1948. He married in 1915 Ruth Harper Piling of Washington, DC. and Blue Hidgie Summit, PA. Children of Carroll 10 and Ruth Harper (Piling) Dunham III:

     i.  Carroll 11 Dunham IV b. 3 March 1819; LINE CONTINUES BELOW 

Dows 10 Dunham (Carroll 9 Carroll 8 Edward Wood 7 , John 6, Azariah 5, Jonathan 4 , Edmund 3 , Benajah 2 , John 1 ) b. 1 June 1890; died 10 January 1984. He married Eveline Spencer Thompson. She was born 16 November 1891; died 12 September 1928. Both are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Westchester County, New York.

The following quote, written by Dows Dunham himself, in “Recollections of an Egyptologist, published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972” gives us a glimpse of Dows Dunham.

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“Friends and colleagues have been urging me for a time to put together some notes about my experiences during a long professional life in Egyptology, both in the field and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Now, at the age of eighty-two, having published the final volume of reports on the museum’s expedition in the Sudan, it seems that the time has come to reminisce, to look back over the fifty-eight years that have elapsed since I began to work in this field in the spring of 1914. Readers may be interested to learn how I came to be involved in my life’s work. When I graduated from preparatory school in 1908, I needed one or two credits for admission to Harvard, and my parents sent me to Europe for a year of further study. I spent the year traveling in France and Italy and took a side trip to Egypt and Palestine, which included a journey on horseback from Nazareth to Damascus (then under Turkish rule). During that year I found myself increasingly drawn to the study of the history of art as I visited museums, churches, and the ancient monuments of Rome as well as the antiquities of Egypt. Thus, when I entered Harvard in 1909 I was especially attracted to the courses offered in this field, in painting, sculpture, architecture, and classical archaeology. I had no specific plan but simply a predilection for the study of art history and criticism. Then, in the beginning of my senior year, my father suffered a serious illness; it was decided that his convalescence would be advanced by European travel and that I should take time out from college to accompany him and my mother on an extended sojourn in Italy, France, and England. It might be considered that this was a sacrifice on my part, but looking back on that experience I am convinced that the decision was a wise one. My interest in the fine arts, stimulated by my courses at Harvard, was developed by this further travel, and I returned to the university in the autumn of 1913 with even greater enthusiasm for my studies than before. Because of the delay in completing my college work I was able to take a course in the history of Egyptian art offered only occasionally by Professor George A. Reisner. During my visit to the Nile Valley the year before entering college, I had become strongly attracted to Egyptian art, and I welcomed the opportunity to round out my studies in this subject before graduation. The course was small, attended by about fifteen or twenty students. Reisner turned out to be an inspiring teacher, and I became intensely absorbed in the subject. It was a half course ending at midyears, when I graduated (as of the class of 1913) in the field of art history. After the final lecture in his course, Reisner called me into his office and asked me whether I would be interested in Egyptian archaeology as a career. I was, naturally, attracted by the idea but uncertain whether this would be a wise course to follow. “Try it for a year,‘’ suggested Reisner, “and see how you like it. It will be a valuable experience, even if you decide not to go on with it. I am returning to Egypt at once to continue my excavations for the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition. I need assistance, and I believe you might find archaeology to your liking as a career.” Before deciding to accept his offer, I consulted my father, whose advice I valued. My parents lived near New York City, and my father went to see Albert M. Lythgoe, then Curator of the Egyptian Department at the Metropolitan Museum, and asked his opinion of Reisner and of his offer. Mr. Lythgoe spoke in the highest terms of Reisner, both as scholar and top-ranking excavator, and said that, if I were contemplating a career in archaeology, I could receive no better training in field work than with Reisner. On the basis of this favorable advice and my own inclination, I accepted Reisner’s offer and he wrote my father the following letter, dated May 19, 1913, from “the Pyramids’,: I am very glad to hear that your son still wishes to come out to Egypt. I liked him very much as a student in Cambridge and encouraged him then to make his plans to join the expedition. If he arranges to leave at the 9

earliest possible moment after he has finished his examinations, he will get out in time for the spring season. We usually work the native gangs up to the end of May and he would thus have two or three months of active field experience. After that we are occupied with book work - a side which would not be without value for him. When he has had a couple of months here I have had a chance to talk matters over with him, I may be able to help him to a decision on his future course of study. I will arrange for him to gain a thorough knowledge of the Egyptian monuments their bearings on the history of art. I am quite sure that whatever he decides to do, a couple of months familiarity with the objective historical methods of the expedition will be useful to him.”

The Archaeological Institute of America awarded Dows Dunham the 1979 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. Quoted from the award citation: “Dows Dunham has dedicated his life to archaeology as an excavator, curator and scholarly author, a dedication made with exceptional modesty as well as quiet distinction. Dows Dunham has, all his life, also been a splendid, lively and picturesque teacher, and his sense of responsibility toward his students and toward the public has been shown in hundreds of ways. . .His lifetime example of dedication, discipline, unselfish labor, patience, good judgment, skill and lucidity, his stance on principles as well as his humor, his constant help to younger Egyptologists, to which many in this room can bear witness, the warmth and modesty which have endeared him to so many for so long, make Dows Dunham on this centennial occasion the fitting embodiment of a grand tradition in archaeology.” Child of Dows 10 and Eveline (Thompson) Dunham:

     i.  Margaret Bianca 11 Dunham b. 1925 

References:

1. NJ Marriage Records 16651800

“The Large Family of Benajah Dunham” Vol.3, Issue 3, p. 2-6, July 15, 2006

From Deacon John 1 to Lena 13 Dunham Selected Dunhams in one line of Descent by Gratia Dunham Mahony Vol.13, Issue 2, p. 2, April 2016