Family:Josiah Dunham and Ruth Kempton (2)

Parents: Eleazer Dunham and Bathsheba Watson Josiah Dunham b. Jun 1694 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	Parents: Ephraim Kempton and Mary Reeves Ruth Kempton b. Abt 1691 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Marriage^[1]^[2]

2 Feb 1715/16

Children

		Birth	Death

References

↑ van Antwerp, Lee Douglas, and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993)
page 91.

'Josiah DUNHAM married Ruth KEMPTON Feb. 2 1715/16'
↑ Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
1:83.

'RUTH, born Salem, MA say 1686; married Plymouth, MA 2 February 1715/6 (PVR, 91) JOSIAH DUNHAM, born 1694 (Dunham genealogy, 160), son of Eleazer ... and Bathsheba (Whiston) Dunham.'

While this source estimates Ruth's birth year at about 1686, an adjustment of estimated birth years for her siblings puts her birth year later - say 1691. This makes her closer in age to her husband (who was younger than her) and only about 39 (instead of 44) at the birth of her last known child.