_Thomas DUNHAM ______+ | _John DUNHAM ________| | | | |_Jane BROMLEY _______ | | |--John II DUNHAM | | _____________________ | | |_Susanna KAINO ______| | |_____________________
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John was propounded a freeman Sept. 7, 1641, and admitted Mar. 1, 1642
[Plym. Col. Rec., 2:24, 2:33]. On Sept. 16, 1641, John was "graunted
twenty acres of upland about the north easterly side of Josias Cookes
Haystack Pond, and the odd hobs of meddowing he desireth thereabouts
[Plym. Col. Rec., 2:26]. He was appointed surveyor of highways for
Plymouth on June 4, 1661 [Plym. Col. Rec., 3:215]. The court ordered the
purchase of lands in "Saconeesett" for the accomodation of John and
others on June 4, 1661 [Plym. Col. Rec., 3:216-7]. On June 3, 1662 he was
granted lands on the northerly bounds of Taunton as one of the "ancient
freemen" of Plymouth Colony [Plym. Col. Rec., 4:19-20]. On June 8, 1664
John and others were given liberty to "looke out land for accomodations,
and to make report therof to the Court" [Plym. Col. Rec., 4:67]. About
thirty acres of land on the western side of the Namasskett River was
granted to him on June 7, 1665 [Plym. Col. Rec., 4:94]. The bounds of his
grant of land in Major's Purchase (Middleboro', Mass.) were set on July
7, 1674 [Plym. Col. Rec., 5:150].
John was charged on Aug. 4, 1646 by Samuel Eddy "of giving poyson to the
said Samuell Eddys dogg"; the court required John to "finde
sureties for his good behavior" [Plym. Col. Rec., 2:107]. The case was
sent to arbitrarion on Oct. 27, 1646 [Plym. Col. Rec., 2:110].
John was presented at court on Aug. 1, 1665 "for his abusive carriage
towards his wife in continuall tiranising over her, and in particulare
for his late abusive and uncivill carryage in endeavoring to beate her in
a deboist manor, and for affrighting of her by drawing a sword and
pretending therwith to offer violence to his life, hee, said Dunham, is
sentanced by the Court to bee severly whipt; but through the
importunitie of his wife, the execution of the said centence was respeted
for present untill the Court shall take further notice of his future
walking" [Plym. Col. Rec., 4:103-4]. John was presented on June 7, 1670
"for his abusive speeches and carriages towards Sarah, the wife
of Benjamine Eaton" [Plym Col. Rec., 5:40].
At the court held July 5, 1669, John complained that John Dotey had "mett
him in the high way, and did crewelly beate him, and affeirmeth
that hee goeth in danger of his life because of the said John Dotey, and
hath taken an oath before the said Court for the truth of the
premises, and prayeth a warrant of the peace against him" [Plym. Col.
Rec., 5:25]. Dotey was required to provide sureties for his good
behavior.
On Apr. 26, 1691 the elders of the church called out John Dunham, Sr.,
"whose desires for Reconciliation with the church had 8 weekes
before bin published to them, he did acknowledge his sin for which the
church rejected him" [Plym. Ch. Rec., 1:272]. He was readmitted
to the church on May 2, 1691.
John d. Apr. 6, 1692, aged 77 years [Plym. Ch. Rec., 1:275; "in his 79th
year," Plymouth V.R., 135]. He had made his will Feb. 2, 1692,
he "being now sick"; the abstract of this will, from The Genealogical
Advertiser, 3:27, follows:
_Ralph Jr. GREY ________+ | (1552 - ....) m 1581 _John GRAY __________| | (1589 - 1658) m 1606| | |_Jane (Anne) ARDINGTON _+ | (1556 - ....) m 1581 | |--Rebecca GRAY | (1615 - ....) | ________________________ | | |_Elizabeth WARD _____| (1601 - 1674) m 1606| |________________________
_Joseph HULL ________+ | (1594 - 1665) _Benjamin HULL ______| | (1639 - 1713) m 1667| | |_Agnes UNKNOWN ______ | (1610 - 1665) | |--Hopewell HULL | (1693 - 1693) | _Richard YORKE ______+ | | (1617 - 1674) m 1641 |_Rachel YORKE _______| (1641 - ....) m 1667| |_Elizabeth UNKNOWN __ (1618 - ....) m 1641
_____________________ | _Pierre JOFRION _____| | (1720 - ....) m 1750| | |_____________________ | | |--Charlotte JOFRION | (1756 - ....) | _Gabriel VALLEAU ____ | | (1700 - ....) |_Marianne VALLEAU ___| (1722 - ....) m 1750| |_Marie Anne MORIN ___ (1702 - ....)
__ | _Leonard METCALF ____| | | | |__ | | |--Michael METCALF | (1600 - ....) | __ | | |_____________________| | |__
_Nicolas PETIT ______ | m 1631 _Nicolas PETIT ______| | (1631 - 1697) m 1656| | |_Catherine ANCELINE _ | m 1631 | |--Louis POMPONELLE | (1658 - 1727) | _Jean POMPONELLE ____ | | m 1630 |_Marie POMPONELLE ___| (1630 - 1700) m 1656| |_Michelle BOULET ____ m 1630
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
_____________________ | _William REYNOLDS ____| | (1785 - 1828) m 1807 | | |_____________________ | | |--Ann REYNOLDS | (1817 - 1863) | _Isaac BARTON _______+ | | (1746 - 1831) m 1772 |_Sarah (Twin) BARTON _| (1788 - 1822) m 1807 | |_Keziah MURPHY ______+ (1754 - 1845) m 1772
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_____________________ | _Nathaniel WILLIAMS _| | (1711 - 1775) m 1737| | |_____________________ | | |--Nathaniel WILLIAMS | (1748 - 1816) | _Joshua ATHERTON ____ | | (1695 - 1737) m 1712 |_Mary ATHERTON ______| (1717 - 1778) m 1737| |_Elizabeth LEONARD __+ (1694 - 1750) m 1712
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