At 08:15 PM 2/14/2005, Doug Showalter wrote: >If anyone has any more information on JONATHAN DUNHAM, I'm glad to receive it. Doug - Various writers and sources present a confusing picture of Jonathan Dunham, as there appear to have been at least two men of that name who were contemporaries. I have not tried to order or organize these citations or to determine which entries pertain to which Jonathan: Jonathan Dunham of Barnstable married Mary, daughter of Philip Delano, in 1655, and Mary, daughter of Henry Cobb, in 1657, and was representative from Middleborough in 1689; served among the islands as minister to the Indians, but was 1694 at Edgartown (Henry Whittemore, "Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America," p. 160). Jonathan Dunham was selectman at Middleborough in 1674 and 1675 (Ebenezer W. Peirce, "Peirce's Colonial Lists," p. 47). Jonathan Dunham "inner" had a son born at Falmouth, MA 01-Mar-1686 (Advertiser of Family History, 4:24). John Dunham Sr. deeded his Plymouth house and land to his son Jonathan 04-Jul-1658 (MD 12:214-215). Jonathan Dunham was named as an abutter in a Plymouth deed recorded in 1664 (MD 34:22). Jonathan Dunham sold a share of land at "Punckateesett necke" to Edward Grey in 1664 (MD 34:82). He is named in the partition of Edward Grey's lands recorded in 1686 (Pilgrim Notes and Queries 4:91-95). Jonathan Dunham was named as an abutter in a 1665 Plymouth deed (MD 36:163). Jonathan, son of John Dunham, was born 12-Aug-1650 at Plymouth (MD 16:235; Plymouth VR 658). Jonathan Dunham was named in his father John's 25-Jan-1668 Plymouth will (MD 17:113-114; C. H. Simmons, Jr., "Plymouth Colony Records, Volume 1, Wills and Inventories 1633-1669," p. 480). Jonathan Dunham married Mary Delano 29-Nov-1655 (MD 17:72; Plymouth VR 662). Jonathan Dunham married Mary Cobb 15-Oct-1657 (MD 17:72; Plymouth VR 662). In early 1694 "Our Brother" Jonathan Dunham wrote to the First Church of Plymouth asking advice about gathering a church at Edgartown "where he was imployed in Teaching the word"; the pastor (John Cotton) and Samuel Fuller went to the vineyard, the church was gathered, and Dunham was ordained "Teacher" 11-Oct-1694 (MD 14:191; Plymouth Church Records 1:175). On 30-Sep-1670 Jonathan Dunham was one of those who took inventory of the estate of Henry Wood of Middleborough (MD 19:60). On 11-Oct-1673 Jonathan Dunham was one of those who took inventory of the estate of John Morton Sr. of Middleborough (MD 25:123). Dale H. Cook; Research Member, NEHGS; Member, Mass. Soc. Mayf. Desc. Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project and for GenExchange http://members.cox.net/oldcolony/index.shtml