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Bathsheba Dunham (Whiston)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Death: circa March 1741 (76-84)
Scituate, Plymouth, MA
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Whiston and Susanna Brooks
Wife of Eleazer Dunham, of Plymouth
Mother of Nathaniel Dunham; Eleazar Dunham; Mercy Kempton; Lieutenant Israel Dunham; Elisha Dunham and 4 others
Sister of Sarah Nichols; John Whiston; Susanna Perry; Increase Whiston and Joseph Whiston

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About Bathsheba Dunham

Ca 1682 Eleazer Dunham married Bathsheba Whiston, daughter of John Whiston (ca 1616-bef 4 Oct 1664) & Susanna Hanford . Born ca 1660 in Scituate, MA. Bathsheba was baptized in the Second Church of Scituate, on 1 Jul 1660.49 Bathsheba died aft Mar 1740/1.

Comments

Anderson’s Great Migration Project has no record of her after her baptism link to page 1975 “John Whiston”

Biography

From Ancestry of Robert Roy and Related Families website:

Eleazer Dunham was born about 1659 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Dunham (1907) gives the year of his birth as 1658.1,2 He was the son of Joseph Dunham and Mercy Morton.1,2 About 1682 Eleazer, married Bathsheba Whiston, daughter of John Whiston and Susanna Hanford, in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.1,2 He enlisted for three years under Capt. James Warren.1 On 24 September 1713, he was licensed to sell liquor.2

Children of Eleazer Dunham and Bathsheba Whiston

  1. Eleazer Dunham (15 Jan 1682 - )
  2. Nathaniel Dunham (20 Mar 1685 - )
  3. Mercy Dunham (10 Dec 1686 - )
  4. Israel Dunham (Oct 1689 - )
  5. Elisha Dunham (Aug 1692 - )
  6. Josiah Dunham (Jun 1694 - )
  7. Bathsheba Dunham (26 Apr 1696 - )
  8. Susanna Dunham (Jun 1698 - )
  9. Joshua Dunham (1 Apr 1701 - )

Citations

  • [S14] Plymouth Colony vital records, Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman.
  • [S11] Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995).

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/bathsheba-whiston_115066214

'Bathsheba Dunham (Whiston)

Reference: ancestry.com:

Born in Scituate on 1660 to John Whiston and Susanna Hanford.

Bathsheba married Eleazar Dunham and had 2 children.

She passed away on 1682.

Family Members

Parents John Whiston 1610-1666

Susanna Hanford 1614-1688

Spouse(s) Eleazar Dunham 1671-1720 

Children

Israel Dunham 1690-1728 Elisha Dunham 1692-1737


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Bathsheba Dunham's Timeline

1660
July 1, 1660
Scituate, Plymouth Colony
July 10, 1660
Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Bathsheba Whiston New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Vol 3, Pb- W, page 1975. “John Whiston” sketch
1685
March 20, 1685
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay
August 2, 1685
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
1686
December 10, 1686
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
1689
October 6, 1689
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692
1692
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
1694
June 1694
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay
1696
April 26, 1696
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA