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Mary Bonham (Dunn)

Also Known As: "Bonham"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Death: November 07, 1699 (28)
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Place of Burial: Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hugh Dunn, Sr. and Elizabeth Dunn
Wife of Hezekiah Bonham, Sr.
Mother of Mary FitzRandolph; Samuel Bonham, I; Hannah Stout and Sarah Runyan
Sister of Ann Elizabeth Runyon; Hugh Dunn Jr.; Martha Ann Runyon; Samuel Dunn; Asphraim Dunn and 7 others

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About Mary Bonham

Mary Dunn was born on January 19, 1671/72 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey and was the daughter of Hugh Dunn and Elizabeth Drake, the daughter of Francis Drake. Mary died on November 7, 1799.

She married Hezekiah Bonham (son of Benjamin) about 1690 and was the mother of his first four children.

Her sister Martha Dunn may have married Thomas Runyan, Sr. The Runyans and Dunns were early members of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway.

Family

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/

Second Generation:

(1) Mary Dunn (1672 – 1699) m. Hezekiah Bonham in 1690 at Piscataway, Middlesex Co. She and Hezekiah had four children:

  • | (2) Mary Bonham (1691 – 1779) & Daniel Howell or Jonathan Fitzrandolph (1693 – 1783)
  • | (2) Samuel Bonham (1693 – ?) & Catherine Anderson (~1695 – ?)
  • | (2) Hannah Bonham (1696 – 1770) & Benjamin Stout (1691 – 1782)
  • | (2) Sarah Bonham (1698 – ?) & Thomas Runyon Jr. (1701 – 1770)

may have died in 1699 in which case Hezekiah remarried wither Ann Hunt or Mary Bishop and Maolachi is the son of one of them...


References

  • https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Bonham%20Family/BonhamHezek...
  • Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Dec 10 2016, 0:13:22 UTC
  • “The Bonham family”. By Samuel Jeremiah Bonham. Page 27. “Children of Hezekiah.” GoogleBooks
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dunn-185 cites
  • Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. Volume 47, p. 37.
  • Tibbetts, Charles W., ed. The New Hampshire Genealogical Record (Charles W. Tibbetts, Dover, N.H., 1903) Vol. 1, Page 149 Archive.Org
  • S166Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Births or Christenings 1668-1805 A-Z (Genealogocal Society of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, 1975)
  • Monnette, Orra Eugene. First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey (The Leroy Carman Press, Los Angeles, California, 1932)
  • Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.: 28 Jan 1931, 1054; 3 Jun 1931, 1054; 8 Jan 1932, 2620; 28 May 1934, 8538; 26 Oct 1934, 9347. Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Volume 47, p. 37.
  • MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, compiler. Mayflower Families in Progress: Edward Fuller of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1987)
  • Randolph, Oris H. Fitz. Daniel Fitz Randolph: His Ancestry and Descendents [sic], An American Branch of the Fitz Randolph Family (1959) pp. 2-5.

When Mary Dunn was born on 19 January 1671, in Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Hugh Dunn Sr, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Drake, was 16. She married Justice Hezekiah Bonham I in 1690, in Piscataway Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 7 November 1699, in her hometown, at the age of 28.

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1433691739/mary-bo...

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Mary Bonham's Timeline

1671
January 19, 1671
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
1691
October 4, 1691
Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Colonial America
1693
February 6, 1693
Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Colonial America
1695
March 14, 1695
Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
1698
February 15, 1698
Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
1699
November 7, 1699
Age 28
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
November 9, 1699
Age 28
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
1931
January 24, 1931
Age 28
January 24, 1931
Age 28