Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

John Dunham

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Merrill — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1348 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1589 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Mar 1668/1669 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Barlow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1622 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leiden, Holland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Dunham

  Jonathan Dunham

  Abigail Dunham

  Joseph Dunham

  Hannah Dunham

  Persis Dunham

  Benajah Dunham

  Daniel Dunham (Ahnentafel No:674 )

• Additional marriages for John Dunham

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  • Spouse:
  • Susanna Keno
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1615

• Sources for John Dunham

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, John Dunham (m. 1642), p. 1.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 276.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2012, Vol. 166, p. 126.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1960, Vol. 114, p. 120.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1954, Vol. 30, pp. 144-146.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1960, Vol. 36, p. 243.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 394, 599-603.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1661.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 99.
  • ¹⁰ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 35.

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