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JOHN DUNHAM
ABIGAIL BARLOWE
Deacon John Dunham died on 2 March 1669, age 80. [NENS0]
John was on a 2 January 7 Charles [1631/2] tax list in Plymouth. [RPC3] He was a freeman in Plymouth in 1633. [RPC0] He was on a 24 March 1633/4 Plymouth tax list. [RPC1]
John Dunham was to "have for the sheepe the watering place & the skirt of upland at Goose Point & above the first & second brooke" in a land distribution on 14 March 1635. [RPCI] He was given the hay ground he had the previous year and what more could be spared on Goose Creek on 20 March 1636/7. [RPCE] He was granted 60 acres of upland at Swann Holt and eight acres of meadow on 16 September 1641. [PC01]
John was on a committee to determine trade policy for the colony on 1 October 1634. [PRC7]
John was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [RPCK]
He was on a jury to try Stephen Hopkins for assault on 7 June 1636. [RPCC] He was on a grand jury on 7 March 1636/7, 1 March 1641/2 and 7 March 1642/3. [RPCK] John was on a grand inquest jury on 5 June 1638, 6 June 1643 and 7 June 1648. [RPCV] He was on the jury that indicted Alice Bishop for murdering her young daughter on 4 October 1648. [PC06]
John was a deputy for the town of Plymouth on 4 June 1639, 2 June 1640, 27 September 1642, 10 October 1643, 5 June 1644, 20 August 1644, 28 October 1645, 7 July 1646, 1 June 1647, 8 June 1649, 4 June 1650, 3 June 1652, 7 June 1653, 6 June 1654 and 8 June 1655. [PC10]
John made his will on 25 January 1669. He names his children and his son-in-law Stephen. [NENS0]
Children of John Dunham and Abigail Barlow:
i. John Dunham
The court made a memorandum that John Dunham the younger had been allowed six acres of land next to the land of John Dunham, the elder, on 7 November 1636. [RPCJ] He was granted 20 acres of upland and the "odd hobbs" of meadow that he wanted on 16 September 1641. [PC01]
ii. Thomas Dunham (?)
Thomas was fined for challenging Samuel Jenney to a fight on 5 June 1644. [PC02]
Thomas was propounded to take up his freedom at the next court on 4 May 1647. However, he was absent from this court on 7 June 1648. [PC04]
On 4 October 1648 Thomas was forbidden to see or contact Martha Knott of Sandwich until the first Tuesday of December, to give the court the opportunity to determine the truth of his pretended contract with her. [PC05]
iii. Samuel Dunham (?)
Samuel was propounded to take up his freedom at the next court on 1 June 1647. [PC03]
iv. Abigail Dunham married Stephen Atwood.
References:
RPC3. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vols. 1–3 (Boston, William White, 1855), vol. 1: 9–11.
RPC0. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth vol. 1: 3–4.
RPC1. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 27–29.
RPC7. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 31.
RPCC. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 42.
RPCI. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 40–41.
RPCJ. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 46.
RPCK. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 52–54, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 34, 53.
RPCE. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 55–57.
RPCV. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 86–87, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 56, 124.
PC10. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 126–7, 151–3, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 45, 63, 72, 74, 94, 104, 117, 144, 154; vol. 3: 8, 31, 49, 79.
PC01. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 26.
PC02. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 73.
PC03. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 114.
PC04. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 114, 125.
PC05. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth vol. 2: , 136.
PC06. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 134.
NENS0. New Englanders in Nova Scotia, manuscript, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, online database, American Ancestors, 8–9.
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