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John Dunham, VI Deacon

John Dunham, VI Deacon

Male Abt 1588 - 1669  (~ 81 years)

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  • Name John Dunham 
    Suffix VI Deacon 
    Born Abt 1588  Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 2 Mar 1668/1669  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5659336067  Master Tree
    Last Modified 24 Apr 2001 

    Father Thomas Dunham,   b. Abt 1560, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Jane Bromley,   b. 1562 
    Married Aft 1605 
    Family ID F5260023217  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Susanna Keeney,   d. 1622 
    Married 17 Oct 1619  Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Dunham, Jr. (VII),   b. 1620, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1692, Wellfleet, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     2. Humility Dunham,   b. Abt 1621, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Thomas Dunham,   b. Abt 1622, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F5260021871  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Abigail (Barlow) Bailllioy,   b. Abt 1600, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1699, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 100 years) 
    Married 22 Oct 1622  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Samuel Dunham,   b. 1624, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Abigail Dunham,   b. 1626, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Hannah Dunham,   b. Abt 1630, Leyden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 20 May 1662  (Age ~ 32 years)
     4. Reverend Jonathan Dunham,   b. Abt 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1717  (Age ~ 85 years)
    +5. Persis Dunham,   b. 1635, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jul 1701, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     6. Benjamin Dunham,   b. Abt 1637, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Eastham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Joseph Dunham,   b. 18 Nov 1636/1637, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Daniel Dunham,   b. Abt 1639, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Benajah Dunham,   b. Abt 1640, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1680, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 40 years)
    Family ID F5260020975  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1588 - Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Oct 1619 - Leyden, Netherlands Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 22 Oct 1622 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 2 Mar 1668/1669 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • John Dunham was the son of Thomas and Janet (Bromley) Dunham. He
      married (1) on 17 October 1619 at Leyden, Susanna Keeney, by whom he
      had three children, John, Humility, and Thomas.
      At the time of his marriage to Abigail Bailliou he was a widower
      living at Zevenhuyser, Holland. The Baillious were probably Huguenot
      refugees from England. The exact time of John's arrival in Plymouth
      is not known. His name first appears on the Plymouth records in
      1630, and he was taxed nine shillings in 1633. He was later a Deputy
      to the General Court. He died at age 80 years.
      DEACON JOHN DUNHAM
      American Immigrant Ancestor
      1589 - 1668
      DEACON JOHN DUNHAM, son of Thomas, was born in Scrooby,
      Nottinghamshire, England, in 1589. He was a member of the First
      Pilgrim Church in Scrooby. He left his country at the age of
      eighteen when his church moved to Holland in 1607, on account of
      religious persecution. At the age of fourteen years he received his
      religious instruction under the guidance of William Brewster, born in
      1560 in Scrooby, England. (John's land in Plymouth is said to adjoin
      Elder Brewster's.)
      In the winter of 1607/8 the members of the Pilgrim Church held
      its meetings in the manor house at Scrooby. In their escape from
      Scrooby, the center of the Separatist movement, the exiles first went
      to Amsterdam, Holland. A stay in England was especially dangerous.
      After nine months in Amsterdam, they removed to Leyden, Holland,
      where John was a member of the First Pilgrim Church in Leyden,
      Holland.
      His relatives were bitter against his religious beliefs. It is
      said that he came with the Pilgrims from Holland. It is not known
      just when he came. It is said that he adopted the name John Goodman
      in his escape from Holland. There is the name John Goodman on the
      original voyage and it is said that he died in the first year. The
      Mayflower Society will not accept that they are the same person.
      Isaac W. Dunham has him living in Plymouth, with several grants of
      land and living next to Elder Brewster after arriving.
      In the book, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, 1633 is the first
      time the name John Dunham appears. At that time all land owners had
      to be recorded. At the same time, 1633, he was chosen Deacon of the
      First Church of Plymouth by Elder Brewster. He was a weaver by
      trade.
      He married Abigail Wood Barlow, a distant relative, in Holland,
      Oct. 22,1622. She was his second wife, the first was Susanna Kenney,
      who had died. He had three children by his first wife Susanna.
      John; Humility; Thomas
      Isaac Dunham's Genealogy states that "It is said that John came
      over on the Mayflower under the name of John Goodman, and his family
      came later."
      Passengers and Ships by Charles E. Banks states, "The Mayflower
      (not the original voyage) Master William Pierce, left Groversend, in
      March with thirty-five passengers mostly from Leydon, Holland,
      destined for Plymouth, arrived May 15, 1629, no list of names."
      All his children but John, 1620, are said to be born in
      Plymouth.
      Dr. Dexter's The England and Holland Pilgrims is the following
      appendix. Pg. 612, Dunham-Denham. John, widow of Sussana Kenney,
      betrothed to Abigail Barlow, Oct. 7, 1622, the witness, her father
      Thomas and sister Ann of Langerbrugge, Holland. John was living in
      Zevenhuysen in 1626. He had eleven children, according to the
      History of Norway and Paris by Whitman: John, Benaiah, Jonathan,
      Daniel, Persis, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Hannah, Abigail, and Daniel
      (Isaac Dunham names Thomas instead of Daniel twice.)
      Deacon John Dunham died March 1, 1668 at the age of 80 years.
      He was a servant of God and a useful man in his place, being deacon
      of the Plymouth Church. He made his will Jan. 5, 1668. In his will
      he mentions his oldest son John, two younger sons Ben and Daniel and
      daughters Abigail and Persis. He was Deacon of the Church for thirty-
      four years and twenty-one years deputy of Plymouth Colony. Plymouth
      First Church Records, Part 2, page 1.
      His residence after leaving the village was north of Watson's
      Hill and southwest of the Village of Plymouth. To the west was a
      swamp having an outlet to Town Brook, called "Dunham's Brook." By
      means of a dam it became a pond and was separated by a narrow strip
      of land known as "Dunham's Neck." This strip was a portion of Deacon
      John's land, the highway leading to Carver. In 1907 some of the
      offspring lived in the vicinity. John owned other land in Plymouth.
      Dunham Coat of Arms was adopted by Sir John Dunham, 1498, as the
      family shield.
      Taken from Pilgrim Republic, Goodwin, Page 13:"The Pilgrims were
      Separatists having openly withdrawn from the National Church. The
      Puritans were Nationalist, believing that a Christian Nation is a
      Christian Church."
      Page 15: Henry Barrows 1593/4, a lawyer, one of Elizabeth's
      former Courtiers, with John Greenwood and John Penry were hanged for
      teaching Separatist Doctrines, and lived in the vicinity of Scrooby,
      also.
      *Reference: "Boston Transcript", issue of 27 December 1940; MD
      15:214; Weston, 41; Dunham, Isaac W., 13;"The Ancestors and
      Descendants of Asa Freeman Ellingwood and Florilla (Dunham)
      Ellingwood" compiled by Florence Evelyn O'Connor - West Paris, Maine -
      1979.; NEHGR114:115. He was a deputy of the Plymouth General
      Court1639-54; a member of the Council of War, and Deacon of the
      church.
      Marriage to Abigail at Plymouth from Reference Book 1, Genealogy Research in
      Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Marriages before 1699