Thomas DUNHAM

GEDCOM Note

Thomas DunhamÕs first wife was Elizabeth Traviss who was born in Westchester, New York. Her mother was a loyalist who brought her family to Saint John after supporting them in New York. Likely not blood relatives because Lewis Dunham is likely a love child. (Lewis Dunham was likely the adopted son of Thomas Gage Dunham according to Greg Stott. Russel Dunham has speculated that Lewis might actually have been a son of Thomas Dunham (1763-1850) and his second wife, Betsy Lewis, because of the name Lewis, and the fact that he was born in 1822.
Perhaps he was illegitimate and farmed out to his half-brother, Thomas Gage Dunham)

From Greg Stott
Isaac Donham/Dunham (c.1737-alive 1802) married to Anne Gach in 1759 and had five known children; Isabel, John, Thomas, David, and Betsy.
Isabel married to a Mr. Gage (possibly John) and remained in Woodbridge, New Jersey following the Revolutionary War. They were possibly the parents of Isaac Gage (c.1794-1817) who is buried in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Isabel kept in contact with her relatives in New Brunswick writing a letter in August, 1793 to her brother, Thomas, a letter that was still in existence until about the 1930's. John married twice according to the contents of this now lost letter (the info. was partially transcribed by J. Wilmot Dunham [1848-1934] who was circa 1904 preparing a family history with his brother, Robert [1838-1917]. Due to financial restraints they never completed the project, although parts of an early draft survive)* and remained in New Jersey.
Thomas (June 4, 1763-September 16, 1850) married in New Brunswick to Elizabeth Traviss (May 15, 1773-circa 1820) and moved to York County, Upper Canada in about 1802. They had eleven children; Elizabeth (1789-by 1835), Annie (1791-1871), Sally (1793-1867), Ira (1795-dy), Fanny (1797-alive 1850), Thomas Gage (1799-1872), Ezekiel (1801-dy), William (1803-1884), David (1806-dy), Elijah (1810-1893) and Henry (1812-dy).
Thomas remarried to Betsy Lewis circa 1822 and had four more children; Ephraim (1823-1885), Mary Jane (1825-1881), John (1827- ) and Reid (1832-1903).
Isaac and Anne did have a son, David, although I think that he too often gets mixed up with David Alston Dunham who was another individual. David was born in about January, 1765 and was apparently still living in New Brunswick in 1851. He did marry to a woman named Mary and had several children. Betsy Dunham never married, but nothing more is known as to where she ended her days.