Rev. Thomas Denham

Same as Thomas Dunham?

Rev. Thomas Denham (1621 - 1689)

Married 1) unknown 2) Sarah 1631 - 1694 (she was not Sarah Bumpas)

Disputed origins

Richard Dunham, poulter born in England, emigrant to Bedfordshire, had a son:
John Dunham born Feb 1589 in Hertfordshire, England, marries Susanna Kenny, they had a son in Holland:
Reverend Thomas Denham, he marries Martha Knott, then Sarah Bumpass and he dies in Bedford, New York.

https://www.johndunhamsociety.com/about-john-dunham (no longer showing this)

THOMAS, 3rd & last known child of John Dunham by his 1st wife, was born say 1619; d. by 1677 and apparently never married.

Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.

Profile last modified 31 Mar 2023 | Created 14 Sep 2010

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Denham-20

Biography

Thomas was born in 1621.[1]

Thomas Dedham married Sarah ______ in Marshfield/Bedford, New York, in March 1659.[2][3]

Sarah married second John Hendrickson, in about 1691.[2]

Potential for Mistaken Identity

10/5/2012 - Thomas Denham is not the son of Martha Knott and Thomas Dunham. [4]

Name

Thomas Denham[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Birth

JUL 1621 Leydon, Zuid, South Holland, Netherlands[16][17][18][19]
Death

02 APR 1705 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA[20][21][22]
Probate

His will is dated 2 May 1688. He mentions his children, Isaac Dunham, Nathaniel Dunham, Josiah Dunham, Rebecca, wife of Simon Hinckson, Sarah Palmer, Hannah Dunham, and his wife, Sarah. His inventory was taken on 5 August 1689. Sarah married John Henderickson by 1694.[23]

Marriage

31 MAR 1659 Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts[24]
Wife: Sarah Bompasse
Child: Sarah Denham
Child: Nathaniel Denham
Child: Simon Denham
Child: Rebecca Denham
Child: Hannah Denham
Child: Josiah Denham

Thomas Denham (1621 - 1689)

Rev Thomas Denham

Born 1621 in England [uncertain]

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Husband of Sarah (Bompasse) Henderickson — married 1668 in Rye, Westchester, New York

Father of Sarah (Denham) Palmer, Nathaniel Dunham Sr. and Hannah (Denham) Clason

Died Jul 1689 at about age 68 in Bedford, New York

Sources

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↑ #S34: Residence date: 1664-1784 Residence place: Westchester, New York, USA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh24237207...
↑ #S79: Death: July 1689 Bedford, W, NY, USA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoold&h=719971&ti...
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↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, Westchester, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, W, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992484&ti...
↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, Westchester, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992483&ti...
↑ #S33: Residence: 1695-1895 Westchester, New York, USA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh22736513...
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↑ #S99: Birth: 1621 Rye, NY, USA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoolb&h=1246804&t...
↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, Westchester, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, W, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992484&ti...
↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, Westchester, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992483&ti...
↑ #S79: Death: July 1689 Bedford, W, NY, USA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoold&h=719971&ti...
↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, Westchester, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, W, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992484&ti...
↑ #S94: Birth: 1621 Rye, NY Death: July 1689 Bedford, Westchester, NY http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=3992483&ti...
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Biography

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

1. THOMAS 1 DUNHAM (father of NATHANIEL 2 DUNHAM) is on record during his lifetime in what are now the states of Maine, Connecticut and New York, but in his time were the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut. The name is spelled variously Denham, Dunham and Dunnum often within the same document. Mr. Thomas Denham was a Puritan clergyman, who died at Bedford, New York probably in 1689, age 67. [1] If the age given at his death is correct, this would give him a birth year of about 1622.

Ministers were usually called “Mr.” rather than “Rev.” during the seventeenth century. Events in the life of Mr. Thomas Dunham place him at Saco, Maine in 1659 when Robert Booth is presented for endeavoring to disturb the Minister Mr. Dunnum in time of his public exercise. [2]

It is likely that Mr. Thomas Dunham was in the Sheepscott (now in Lincoln County, Maine) area up until the time of King Philip’s War in 1675. His eldest daughter Rebecca and her husband William Davie were living at Sheepscott. The reason for believing that Mr. Thomas Dunham was also in the Sheepscott area is from the following reference quoted in the article by George McCracken. [3]

“The next item is supplied by the Acts of the United Commissioners 1653-1679,2:393, where we read among the accounts reported to said Commissioners by Connecticut in 1677: ‘granted Mr. Thomas Denham 10 pounds.’ If Mr. Denham had some sort of claim against Connecticut, it must have been a matter of interest to other colonies as well, or it would not have been so reported. The date also makes it seem probable that the claim was for indemnity for losses suffered in King Philip’s War, and our next item confirms this. Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 2:321, has under date of October 1677 the following: ‘This Court being informed that Mr. Thomas Denham is likely to settle at Rye as minister there, who is declared to be a suitable person for that work by the ministers at Fayrefield and Standford, for his incouragement to setle there, and in regard to his late loss by the war, this Court haue granted him the sume of ten pownds to be payd out of that towne’s rate this yeare’.”

Mr. Thomas Dunham also received encouragement from the town of Rye (then in Connecticut Colony but now in Westchester County, New York) for in the Rye Town Records, Vol. B-62, we see that a house lot was provided for the new minister. This lot was an outright grant to the minister, and Mr. Dunham did accept this and was admitted an inhabitant of Rye on 22 Nov. 1677. After the death of Mr. Dunham, the lot was sold by his son Isaac. [4]

Mr. Thomas Dunham received a call from the people at Bedford (now in Westchester County, New York) on 28 January 1687/8, and he went there soon afterwards. He did not serve at Bedford very long. On 2 May 1688 he wrote his will at Bedford, and an inventory of his estate was taken on 5 August 1689. [5]

We do not know the surname of the wife of Mr. Thomas Dunham. She was NOT Sarah Bumpas. [6] In his will, Mr. Dunham names his wife Sarah, and names his sons Isaac, Nathaniel and Josiah. He also names his “son” (son-in-law) and daughter, Simon and Rebecca Hinkson of Sheeps Gutt (Sheepscott, now in Lincoln Co., Maine) and his daughters Sarah Palmer and Hannah Dunham.

Child of Thomas 1 Dunham by a possible first (unknown) wife:

• i. REBECCA 2 DUNHAM, born ca. 1656. Her age given in June of 1719 was stated as 63 years. She married first ca. 1673 William Davie, son of George Davie, probably killed at or near Sheepscott, Maine in King Philip’s War. He left two daughters who were sent to Portsmouth, NH for safety. Rebecca married second Simon Hinkson, son of Peter Hinkson. Simon Hinkson was b. ca. 1653. He was aged 19 in Dec. 1672 when he was listed as servant to John Lewis of Great Island (New Castle, NH).
  • Children of William and Rebecca 2 (Dunham) Davie: [7]
    • i. ALICE 3 DAVIE, b. by 1675; d. after 1748. She married Jacob Clark and had eight children.
    • ii. MARY 3 DAVIE, b. by 1675; d. after 16 March 1741. She married John Witt and had nine children.
  • Children of Simon and Rebecca 2 (Dunham) (Davie) Hinkson: [8]
    • iii. REBECCA 3 HINKSON, b. ; bur. Scarborough, Maine 25 June 1759. She married Caleb Graffam and had at least three children.
    • iv. NAOMI 3 HINKSON, m. in Lynn, MA 20 Dec. 1700 James Mills. They had at least four children.
    • v. PETER 3 HINKSON, m. in Lynn, MA 16 Sept. 1714 Elizabeth Jeffords. They had seven children born at Lynn, MA.
    • vi. HANNAH 3 HINKSON, m. in Lynn, MA 8 August 1717 David Edmunds, but no record of children born in Lynn, MA.

Children of Thomas 1 and Sarah (unknown, but not Sarah Bumpas) Dunham:

• ii. ISAAC 2 DUNHAM, called eldest son in will of his father; married first, by 1693, Mary, widow of Jacob Pierce. He married second Hannah (unknown) who was mentioned in her husband’s will. No evidence of issue by either marriage. The will of Isaac Dunham is dated 22 Feb. 1723/4 and leaves bequests to his brother and sisters or their heirs.
• 2. iii. NATHANIEL 2 DUNHAM, living 22 Feb. 1723/4 probably in Connecticut, as his brother Isaac’s bequest of £90 was to be paid in money of that colony.
• iv. JOSIAH 2 DUNHAM, died before 22 Feb. 1723/4 without surviving issue, since neither he nor any children are mentioned in brother Isaac’s will.
• v. SARAH 2 DUNHAM, married before 2 May 1688 James Palmer, son of Lieut. William Palmer of Plymouth and Yarmouth, MA, and Newtown, Long Island, NY by his wife Judith Feake. James Palmer died 28 Feb. 1717/18. Sarah died before 22 Feb. 1723/4 when her children are named heirs of her brother Isaac Dunham.
  • Children of James and Sarah 2 (Dunham) Palmer: [9]
    • i. JAMES 3 PALMER, b.; d. unm.
    • ii. DAVID 3 PALMER, b. 15 Jan. 1693/4; d. 1774. He married 1 Elizabeth Hubbard. He married 2 Sarah Knapp.
    • iii. SAMUEL 3 PALMER, b. ca. 1695; d. 1733. He married 31 March 1715 Hannah Cross. They had one daughter, Hannah 4 Palmer, b. 21 Dec. 1715.
    • iv. ELIZABETH 3 PALMER, b. ca. 1697. She married 18 April 1717 Benjamin Finch.
    • v. SARAH 3 PALMER, m. Conrad Winans of Rahway, NJ.
    • vi. JONATHAN 3 PALMER, b. say 1698-9; [10] d. in Greenwich, CT about 1785. He married 10 December 1719 Ann Favor. They had 13 children.
    • vii. BENAJAH 3 PALMER, b. [11]
• vi. HANNAH 2 DUNHAM, youngest daughter in her father’s will, died before 22 Feb. 1723/4 when her children were named heirs of her brother Isaac. She married at Stamford, CT 7 Dec. 1693 Samuel Clason son of Stephen Clason. He died 6 May 1723 at Stamford, CT. Hannah died 8 March 1720/1.
  • Children of Samuel and Hannah 2 (Dunham) Clason: [12]
    • i. ABIGAIL 3 CLASON m. 4 April 1717 Abraham Ambler
    • ii. JONATHAN 3 CLASON d. 1747. He married 14 May 1719 Elizabeth Jones of Long Island. They had six children.
    • iii. SARAH3 CLASON m. 29 March 1727 James Stewart
    • iv. WAITSTILL 3 CLASON m. 9 Nov. 1727 Jabez Holly
    • v. HANNAH 3 CLASON prob. m. 29 April 1759 Nathan Scofield
    • vi. MERCY 3 CLASON m. 18 Dec. 1728 John Webster
    • vii. REBECCA 3 CLASON n.f.r.
    • viii. JEMIMA 3 CLASON m. 21 Jan. 1740/1 Hoyt Jagger
    • ix. KEZIA 3 CLASON n.f.r..

References:

• 1. McCracken, George E., Ph.D., F. A. S. G., Mr. Thomas Denham, Puritan Parson, TAG Vol. 36:220- 242.
• 2. Province and Court Records of Maine, Portland 1931, 2:85.
• 3. Op. Cit. McCracken, George E., p. 232.
• 4. Ibid.
• 5. Ibid.
• 6. TAG 43:67.
• 7. Op. Cit. McCracken, George E., p. 240.
• 8. Ibid p. 240-41.
• 9. Ibid p. 241-2, (first five children).
• 10. Palmer, Horace Wilbur, Palmer Families in America, Neshanic, NJ, Neshanic Print Co., 1966, p. 341-4.
• 11. Ibid. p. 344-5
• 12. Op. Cit. McCracken, George E., p. 242.

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THOMAS DUNHAM (or Denham) (1626-1699) It has been difficult sorting out his birth date, place, and mother’s name. The dates on various records do not match with his father’s immigration and residence in Plymouth. Also, his name began to take on a different spelling depending on who was recording it. One birth date given is 1619 which coincides with the birth of baby Thomas to Susan Keno in Leyden. The date of 1626 would make Abigail Barlow his mother. In addition, the following made it clearer.

Thomas was sanctioned by the community when he courted Martha Knott (age 15) in 1646 because he was “not of age”, making 1626 the better birth date (age 20). In one account, he married Martha, and she died in 1648. In another account, Martha married someone else and lived a long life. Because her father, appoints him as “legatee” or administrator, the first account is more plausible. After her death, Thomas is disgruntled over the way he was treated by the community. He relocated to Hartford, Connecticut. He studied theology and became a Presbyterian minister. In his father’s will, most of his property goes to a younger son, Daniel, who is instructed “in Consideration therof my will is that my son Thomas Dunham shall have five pounds payed unto him by my son Daniel Dunham in Currant(ancy) pay … upon Demand.”

He married Sarah Bompasse in 1659 in Marshfield, Mass. (This was based on a marriage record between Thomas Durram and Sarah Bumpas in March 1659 in Marshfield, NEHGR 6:347. Most online researchers regard this couple as similarly named, but not the same, TAG 43:67, TAG 36:232.) He was called to be pastor to the Presbyterian Church of Rye, Mass., where he is well liked per the Annuals of the church. He died there at the age of 80, naming Sarah, as his widow in his will.

References

• Dunham Genealogy Research Association Formerly Dunham-Singletary Family Connections. Issue 1 15 January, 2018 Vol 15 < PDF >
• Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III Page 599-603. “John Dunham.” < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86473375/thomas-denham cites
  • the "Dunham Dispatch" out of P.S. Kitson, Ed. 711 Kensington Ave, Flint, Michigan 48503. More particularly from the Volume IX No. 11 edition dated November 1996.