Person:Josiah Dunham (4)

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• History of the Dunham-Donham Family in America

1. ↑ van Antwerp, Lee Douglas, and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993)
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   'The children of Eliazur Downham & Bathshaba his wife ...
   Josiah born June 1794 (plainly a mistake for 1694) ...'

2. ↑ 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.

3.   Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1589-1669. And his descendants. (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 1907).