Mary Bonham

Mary Bishop

• Birth: 1683 - Maidenhead, Hunterdon, New Jersey
• Death: 1734 - Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Parents: David Bishop & Mary Alger
• Husband: Hezekiah Bonham
• Children: Amariah Bonham, Hezekiah Bonham, Nehemiah Bonham, Zedekiah Bonham, Temperance Bonham, Zachariah Bonham, Malakiah Bonham, Jeremiah Bonham, Ephraim Bonham, Josiah Bonham, Isaiah Bonham, Obadiah Bonham

Notes

From http://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/Bonham_Hezekiah_2.htm

as recently as the 1970's a grave marker was exposed in the foundation of a late eighteenth century house located near Princeton, New Jersey, bearing the inscription, Mary Bonham d May 3, 1734, age 51.  Of course, at the present day it might appear strange even macabre that a tombstone would have been intentionally incorporated into a house foundation, but this would seem to be consistent with Quaker customs of two centuries ago and, moreover, the stone probably came from a cemetery located within two miles of  property believed to have been owned by Hezekiah Bonham, Sr.  Therefore, it seems quite plausible that this Mary Bonham was the second wife of Hezekiah, Sr.  Accordingly, to identify who Mary Bonham might have been, H. E. Bonham has made an exhaustive study of various East Jersey civil records and provides reasonably convincing circumstantial evidence that she should be identified as Mary Bishop, daughter of David and Mary Alger Bishop.5  It seems probable that they would have married in Middlesex County, but this is not at all certain.

Comments

About Ann Hunt being a wife. At last check she is not accepted by the Mayflower Society. Several children are reported to have been born near and after 1700. Still....In her fathers will executed in 1717 and probated in 1720. No mention is made of a husband for Ann or her having children. sources "Bonham and Related Families " by Howard E Bonham 1996. Available at LDS Family History Centers and several other libraries

The Mayflower Society says unacceptable. "The claim may have been misinterpretation of Will of Samuel Hunt"

".....property to be partitioned among my heirs by son Samuel, by Hezekiah Bonham and by John Prince." No where does he call him son-in-law or is there any other documents to show this marriage.

Read this article at Genforum about George Bonham

http://genforum.genealogy.com/bonham/messages/2010.html.
If George could not read and or came as a servant. It is highly unlikely he came from the well-to-do family situated at Stanway Hall

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BONHAM/1999-04/092300...

There is another book, dated 1996 - "Bonham and Related Lines" by Howard Bonham, who believes that Hezekiah Hunt did marry a second time - but to Mary Bishop, whose tombstone turned up nearby.

For the ancestry and descendants of Hezekiah Bonham, see Olive Barrack Rowland, An Ancestral Chart & Handbook; Genealogical Notes on Sutton and Rittenhouse Families of Hunterdon County, NJ. Richmond, VA, 1935, Chart IV, et seq.

https://goodspeedhistories.com/the-bonham-family/

• 1) Mary Bishop (c.1682 – ?), daughter of David Bishop and Mary Alger of Woodbridge, m. Hezekiah Bonham c.1699 at Maidenhead. They had an impressive 14 children:
• | (2) Hezekiah Bonham Jr. (c.1701 – 1763) & Martha Runyon (c.1700 – ?)
• | (2) Gabriel Bonham (c.1702 – 1709)
• | (2) Nehemiah Bonham (c.1703 – 1789)
  • . . m. 1) Anne Stout (1704 – ?)
  • . . m. 2) Elizabeth Martin (1710 – 1789)
• | (2) Zachariah Bonham (c.1706 – 1773)
  • . . m. 1) Patience Ayers (~1705 – ?) & Anna Martin (1714 – ?)
  • . . m. 2) Sarah Compton (c.1707 – ?) & Anna Martin (1714 – ?)
• | (2) Amariah Bonham (c.1708 – ?)
  • . . m. 1) unknown (c.1710 – bef. 1750)
  • . . m. 2) Mary Drake (c.1720 – ?)
• | (2) Temperance Bonham (1710 – ?) & Zebulon Ayers (1708 – ?)
• | (2) Rev. Malakiah Bonham (1713 – 1789)
  • . . m. 1) unknown (c.1715 – bef. 1750)
  • . . m. 2) Hannah Buckingham (c.1705 – c.1778)
  • . . m. 3) Mary Fox (c.1738 – ), & Deborah (c.1725 – ?)
• | (2) Amaziah Bonham (1714 – ) & Rebecca Rittenhouse (c.1715 – ?)
• | (2) Jeremiah Bonham (1715 – ) & Mary Margaret Cook (c.1715 – ?)
• | (2) Ephraim Bonham (1716 – 1785)
  • . . m. 1) Elizabeth Morris
  • . . m. 2) Susannah Jones (c.1720 – ?)
• | (2) Josiah Bonham (1717 – ?)
• | (2) Isaiah Bonham (1720 – ?)
• | (2) Obadiah Bonham (1721 – ?)

(1) Anna Hunt (c.1678 – 1734) & Hezekiah Bonham (1667 – 1739) [unproven marriage]

• | (2) Zephaniah Bonham (1722 – ?)
• | (2) Uriah Bonham (c.1724 – c.1809)
• . . m. 1) Anchor Fox (c.1728 – c.1817)
• . . m. 2) Magdalene (c.1725 – bef. 1802)

References

• “The Bonham family”. By Samuel Jeremiah Bonham. Page 27. “Children of Hezekiah.” GoogleBooks