Ancestry of
Barack Obama

44th U.S. President

Jonathan Dunham alias Singletary

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Barack Obama — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1536 
  • Father:
  • Richard Singletary 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah Cooke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jan 1639/1640 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Sep 1724 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bloomfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Dunham (Ahnentafel No:768 )

  • Notes: 
  • Jonathan is said to have taken the maiden name of his mother, an early wife of his father named Dunham, after moving from Massachusetts to New Jersey.

• Sources for Jonathan Dunham alias Singletary

  • ¹ The Essex Genealogist, 2001, Vol. 21, pp. 144-147.
  • ² Threlfall, John Brooks, Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins, Madison, Wisconsin: n. p. (1993), 286.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Jonathan Singletary Dunham", (accessed 06/23/2012).