SINGLETARY-DUNHAM Research of Doug Wilson December, 2008 |
Doug Wilson's
Line of Descent
from
Richard Singletary
Richard married either (1)"Goodwife" Singletary or (2) Susanna Cooke.
- Jonathan Dunham alias Singletary (b. 1640, Haverhill, MA) m. Mary Bloomfield (b. 1642)
- David Dunham (b. 1674, Woodbridge) m. Mary Ilsley (b. 1680, Woodbridge)
- Joseph Dunham (b. 1700, Woodbridge) m. Elizabeth Mary [--?--] (b. 1705)
- Patriot Elisha Dunham (b. 1732, Woodbridge) m. Elizabeth Freeman (b. abt. 1732, Woodbridge)
- Patriot Josiah Dunham (b. 1753, Woodbridge) m. Anna Williams (b. abt. 1755)
- Joseph Dunham* (b. bet. 1770-80, Woodbridge) m. Elizabeth [--?--] (b. bet. 1770-80)
- Joseph Dunham (b. 1814, Woodbridge) m. Isabella Jackson (b. 1825, NJ)
- Amanda Turner Dunham (b. 1853, Fords, NJ) m. Henry Rufus Wilson (b. 1844, Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Harry R Wilson (b. 1873, Woodbridge) m. Frances Venable (b. 1874, Perth Amboy, NJ)
- Harry R Wilson, Jr. (b. 1913, Perth Amboy, NJ)
- Doug Wilson (b. Summit, NJ)
Lineage is "nearly all proved with the footnoted exception. On that controversial point, the census records and property map for 1830, 1840 and 1850 show a Joseph Dunham (b. bet. 1770-1780) household with appropriately aged members to be the wife and children of Josiah's son. It seems more than coincidental that a properly-aged James sets up a household next door to the elder Joseph by 1840 and a younger, properly-aged Joseph seems to assume the elder's residence on Turnpike Road for his own household by 1850. The younger Joseph appears to reside there through the 1880 census. I find my great grandmother, Amanda, and her siblings also residing there during that time.
*Joseph, son of Josiah and Anna Williams, is probably also the father of Joseph, husband of Isabella Jackson. The last name of his wife, Elizabeth, is unknown. This is contrary to other accounts that have Josiah's daughter, Elizabeth, married to her 4th cousin once removed, Joseph, son of Jonathan Dunham and Mary Porter. I find no proof for either line. I do find circumstantial evidence for the simpler, first account above.
Patty Myers' book on the Freeman family [Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with Related Families] cite this father and son line extended by Woodbridge census records from 1830 on. However, none of her references for this family group note that Joseph had a son Joseph. The Willis Freeman Collection has only notes of Josiah's father, Elisha, and family. The Dunham Genealogy's awkward wording could have been misread that Joseph had a son Joseph. Lastly, the DAR application, #361185, claims Elizabeth married her cousin Joseph and had Joseph, yet offers no proof.
Isaac Watson Dunham (in his Dunham Genealogy, 1907, p. 48) says JOSIAH (b. April 1, 1735; son of Elisha and Mary Freeman) married Anna Williams; b. 1755. She died March 10, 1829; he died in 1816. They had Azariah (m. Phebe and had Phebe); Elizabeth; and Joseph. Joseph married and had Elisha (b. 1798; m. Campbell); and James (b. 1810). James, in turn, had Ichabod in 1834. Yet names none of their children.
The 1830 and 1840 U.S. Census records indicate a larger family for Joseph, and reports age groups but no names. The 1850 census and a property owners' map of that year show the younger Joseph (m. Isabella Jackson) and family, with James and Elias's households nearby. Isabella's siblings also live with or near her, and Joseph lives on Turnpike Road (now Main Street) about a mile South of central Woodbridge at what is now the intersection of Main and Woodbridge Center Drive. I have found no other household in the 1830 and 1840 NJ census records that could be the younger Joseph found as head of household in 1850.
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