Mary Dunham

Her name is seen as Dorothy Day, but Anderson’s Great Migration Project calls her Mary (unknown).

Biography

https://archive.org/details/hamlinfamilygene00byuandr/page/33/mode/...

JOHN DUNHAM2 wife Mary. He bought into "the purchase" at Middleborough, Mass. 1673; and became an inhabitant there; representative same year. He d. 1692, aged 79.

Children;

1. Mary. m. James Hamlin.
2. Mercy . b. 1644.
3. Susannah m. Bartholomew Hamlin.
4. John, b. 1648.
5. Jonathan b 1650.
6. Samuel b 1652
7. Lydia m Robert Barrow

Family

Mary married John Dunham about 1642. In 1654 her father died and John Dunham made a claim on his estate for his wife and children. He was granted 40 pounds with the rest of the claimants[2].Mary was named in her husband will when he died in 1692[3]. She died after her husband in 1692.

The children of John Dunham (Jr.) and Mary are listed as follows:

1. Mary Dunham (about 1642-1715),
2. John (about 1647-1696),
3. Jonathan (born 12 Aug 1650 and died 26 Aug 1650; <1 year old),
4. Samuel (died[16] in Plymouth, Massachusetts on 24 Jan 1687),
5. Susannah (about 1654-1704),
6. Lydia (born 1656-8) and
7. Mercy[17] (born 1660-70 and died 15 Jan 1719).

Research Notes

Surname Not: Hamlin (her dtrs name) or Day
Unsourced: Married: 14 Mar 1641 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
Unsourced: 14 Mar 1639
Note

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup H-T195C! confirmed by direct matrilineal descendant DM who matches KB, a direct matrilineal descendant of Mary's sister Joane.[4]

Proposed Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Porter-21171

Mary was the daughter of Roger Porter (of Long Sutton) and sailed with him and her three sisters aboard the ship Confidence in April of 1838[1]. Mary was the third listed daughter and was not of age in 1838. Her birth has been estimated at about 1620, based on the estimated births of her children.

Comment: other sources claim she was Mary (unknown) or Mary Smith

Disputed Origins

The Dunham Genealogy Source states that John Dunham married in 1641, Dorothy (no last name given). No other marriages are mentioned, so we would assume she is the mother of their 12 children.

Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Porter-4631

Roger Porter, listed in the ship passenger manifest as "of Long Sutton in the county of South, Husbandman, [age] 55", immigrated to New England on the Ship Confidence, April of 1638 with his four daughters[1].[2]

Roger Porter's first wife, the mother of his children, has not yet been identified. Since she is not recorded on the passenger manifest, presumably she died in England before 1638.

Children

Children with as-yet unidentified first wife, all born in England and listed on the passenger manifest:

1. Joane Porter. Married 1) Thomas Chillingworth 2) Thomas Doggett
2. Susan Porter. Married Nathan Fiske.
3. Mary Porter. Married John Dunham.
4. Rose Porter. Married 1) John Waterbury 2) Joseph Garnsey.

He married second Grace (Ravens) Sherman Rogers. Grace (Ravens) was first the widow of John Sherman, and her second husband, Thomas Rogers, who died in Watertown and was buried there on 12 Nov 1638,[3] not long after the widowed Roger Porter arrived in Watertown. Their wedding record has not been found, but presumably it occurred a decent interval after the death of Thomas Rogers.

Death

Roger Porter died on 3 Feb 1654 in Watertown, aged about 71[6]. Roger Porter's probate was settled in 1654[7].

Estate Settlement

The claimants listed in his estate were his widow, Grace, and Daniel Smith (husband of his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Rogers) & John Waterbury (husband of his daughter Rose) & Nathan Fiske (husband of his daughter Susanna), Thomas Dogget (husband of his daughter Joan & John Dunham (husband of his daughter Mary), claiming for their wives and children

Sources

1. NEHGR Vol 14 p334 https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-...
2. Middlesex Co probate #17791:4 Family search link; American Ancestors Link
3. Last will and Testament John Dunham Plymouth Vital records vol.1 pg 135&136: will signed 1691/1692 was proven 16 April 1692 by: John Cotton, Plymouth County judge of Probate.
4. information provided by mtDNA matches to AL Wellman
5. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633."John Dunham (the father) (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004) p. 185.

• https://rogergilbert1.tripod.com/id48.html
• "The Fraudulent Ancestry of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth", by Paul C. Reed, TAG 73:101 (April 1998); also "The English Origin and First Marriage of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts", by Robert Leigh Ward, TAG 71:130 (July 1996).
• See also The Great Migration Begins, Vol. I, by Robert Charles Anderson, [NEHGS 1995], pages 599-603. Anderson comments that "the definitive treatment of John Dunham, his children and grandchildren, was carried out by Florence Barclay ("Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass.," TAG 30:143-55). She followed this six years later with a detailed study of Jonathan Dunham, son of the immigrant [TAG 36:243-49]. As usual, she has studied all the available records and judiciously analyzed them; we follow her arrangement here, except where noted otherwise."
• https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/griggs/dunham
• Dunham Genealogy. Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1589-1669. And His Descendants, Isaac Watson Dunham