Ancestry of
Jim Edgar

38th Governor of Illinois

Benajah Dunham

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Jim Edgar — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 712 
  • Father:
  • John Dunham 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Barlow   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Tilson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edmund Dunham (Ahnentafel No:356 )

  • Notes: 

  • Benajah Dunham's given name is also seen as Bennaiah.

• Sources for Benajah Dunham

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 603.
  • ² Dunham, Isaac Watson, Dunham Genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669, and His Descendants, Norwich, Connecticut: Bulletin Print (1907), 250.
  • ³ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 41.