Person:Samuel Dunham (1)

He became a freeman in 1648 in Plymouth. He sued John Andrews, in 1653, for his wife, for compensation for services rendered before their marriage. He served in Plymouth as a Selectman between 1667 and 1674, as the Deputy in 1668, as a Constable in 1673, as Surveyor of Highways in 1675, and as Gaol Keeper (Jailer) in 1689.

References

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, 1:599-603.
• Barclay, Florence. Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass., The American Genealogist 30:143-155.
• Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham Genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669, and his descendants, Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 1907
• Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986

Links

• History of the Dunham-Donham Family in America

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633
   p. 602.
2.   James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's. (1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994)
   Vol. 2, p. 81.
3.   Lee D. van Antwerp. Vital Records of Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Picton Press, Camden, ME 1993).
4.   Dunham Genealogy
   p. 13, # IV.