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Sarah Dunham (Wight)

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Birthplace: Wrentham, Norfolk, MA
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Daughter of Jonathan Wight, Sr. and Elizabeth Bullard Wight
Wife of Thomas Dunham
Mother of Sarah Dunham; Jonathan Dunham; Elizabeth Finney; Mehitable Alger and Thomas Dunham
Sister of Elizabeth Wight; Mary Wight; Marah Hannah Wight; Jonathan Wight; Jeane Wight and 4 others

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About Sarah Dunham

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wight-958

Biography

Sarah was born in 1703. She passed away in 1784.

Marriage to Thomas [1]

Parents of Sarah, Jonathan, Elisabeth, Mehetable & Thomas[2]

Sarah (Wight) Dunham (1703 - 1784)

Sarah Dunham formerly Wight

Born 19 Jul 1703 in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Daughter of Jonathan Wight and Elizabeth (Hawes) Bullard

Sister of Jeane (Wight) Hawes, Elizabeth (Wight) Ware, Mehitabel Wight, Mary (Wight) Whiting, Marah Wight and Jonathan Wight

Wife of Thomas Dunham — married 8 May 1721 in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Mother of Elizabeth (Dunham) Phinney and Mehetable (Dunham) Alger

Died 1784 at about age 80 [location unknown]

Profile last modified 19 Mar 2021 | Created 30 May 2018

Sources

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQB-XYY?from=lynx1UIV8...
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LCLY-RR2
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=t-QUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron..., Wight, William Ward, THE WIGHTS: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants 1635-1890 (Milwaukee, WI: Swain & Tate Printers, 1890)
Wight, Danforth Phipps. The Wight Family (T.R. Marvin, Boston, 1848) Page 55.



LINE OF NATHANIEL DUNHAM OF WRENTHAM, MA AND HEBRON, CT
THIRD GENERATION IN AMERICA

4. THOMAS 3 DUNHAM (Nathaniel 2 Thomas 1), born 28 April 1697 Wrentham, MA; died at Hebron, CT 10 April, 1771, age 78 years. He married 8 May 1721 SARAH WIGHT, daughter of Jonathan3 and Elizabeth (Haws) Wight. [1] She was born at Wrentham, MA 19 July 1703; died at Hebron, CT after 1770. Thomas 3 Dunham left a will dated 28 Nov. 1770, proved 7 May 1771. [2]

Children of Thomas 3 and Sarah (Wight) Dunham all born in Hebron, CT: [3]

  • 9. i. SARAH 4 DUNHAM, b. 27 July, 1723
  • 10. ii. JONATHAN 4 DUNHAM, b. 2 Dec. 1725
  • 11. iii. ELIZABETH 4 DUNHAM, b. 25 Dec. 1727
  • 12. iv. MEHITABLE 4 DUNHAM, b. abt. 1730 (not on Hebron VR)
  • 13. v. THOMAS 4 DUNHAM, b. 17 June 1734

References:

http://www.dunham-singletary.org/dunhamgenealogy/NATDUN-Generation-... cites

  • 1. TAG 29:23; Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Vol. 2:284; NEHGR 4:86.
  • 2. TAG 29:23.
  • 3. Barbour Collection-Vital Records-Hebron, CT, p. 40; TAG 29:23
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Sarah Dunham's Timeline

1696
October 23, 1696
Wrentham, Norfolk, MA
1723
July 27, 1723
1725
December 2, 1725
Hebron, Tolland, CT.
1727
December 25, 1727
Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA
1730
1730
Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States
1734
June 17, 1734
Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, Colonial America
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