"OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE: A MEMORIAL HISOTRY OF TIOGA COUNTY NEW YORK"
EDITED BY: LEROY W. KINGMAN
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. ELMIRA, N. Y., 189?
"The Dunham family has been well represented in Nichols, nine brothers coming hither between 1812 and 1836, of whom five made here their permanent homes. Sylvanus Dunham, their father, born in 1754, in England (correction - it is more likely that he was born in Massachusetts), settled at East Town, Saratoga county, was a captain in the revolutionary army. Here he kept many horses, imported from England. He removed to Madison county in 1806 and owned a ferry on North river. He was at one time very wealthy, but had little at his death, September 4, 1814, at 60 years. He married Mrs. Ursula (Wright) Gilbert. They had thirteen children. The sons were Henry, Isaac, Wright, Sylvanus, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Daily, Sidney and Nelson. Mr. Dunham was buried in the Indian Opening at Madison. Mrs. Dunham survived him, lived long in. Nichols with her sons Daily and Wright, and was buried in "the Dunham burying ground." Henry Dunham married Amelia Wright and settled on Wappesening creek, on the farm his son George now occupies."
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COLUMN "Concerning Your Ancestors"
Conducted by Mrs Clara H. Manning
New York Hearld, Sunday August 30, 1903, p.13
Queries
638.—DUNHAM.-Sylvanus Dunnam was a Revolutionary soldier in Albany county militia. N. Y. His widów, Ursula, went to Nichols, Tioga county, N. Y., in 1810, with a large family of children. Did Sylvanus Dunham oome from Plymouth, Mass.? What was his wife Ursula's surname? TIOGA
EDITED BY: LEROY W. KINGMAN
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. ELMIRA, N. Y., 189?
"The Dunham family has been well represented in Nichols, nine brothers coming hither between 1812 and 1836, of whom five made here their permanent homes. Sylvanus Dunham, their father, born in 1754, in England (correction - it is more likely that he was born in Massachusetts), settled at East Town, Saratoga county, was a captain in the revolutionary army. Here he kept many horses, imported from England. He removed to Madison county in 1806 and owned a ferry on North river. He was at one time very wealthy, but had little at his death, September 4, 1814, at 60 years. He married Mrs. Ursula (Wright) Gilbert. They had thirteen children. The sons were Henry, Isaac, Wright, Sylvanus, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Daily, Sidney and Nelson. Mr. Dunham was buried in the Indian Opening at Madison. Mrs. Dunham survived him, lived long in. Nichols with her sons Daily and Wright, and was buried in "the Dunham burying ground." Henry Dunham married Amelia Wright and settled on Wappesening creek, on the farm his son George now occupies."
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COLUMN "Concerning Your Ancestors"
Conducted by Mrs Clara H. Manning
New York Hearld, Sunday August 30, 1903, p.13
Queries
638.—DUNHAM.-Sylvanus Dunnam was a Revolutionary soldier in Albany county militia. N. Y. His widów, Ursula, went to Nichols, Tioga county, N. Y., in 1810, with a large family of children. Did Sylvanus Dunham oome from Plymouth, Mass.? What was his wife Ursula's surname? TIOGA
"OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE: A MEMORIAL HISOTRY OF TIOGA COUNTY NEW YORK"
EDITED BY: LEROY W. KINGMAN
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. ELMIRA, N. Y., 189?
"The Dunham family has been well represented in Nichols, nine brothers coming hither between 1812 and 1836, of whom five made here their permanent homes. Sylvanus Dunham, their father, born in 1754, in England (correction - it is more likely that he was born in Massachusetts), settled at East Town, Saratoga county, was a captain in the revolutionary army. Here he kept many horses, imported from England. He removed to Madison county in 1806 and owned a ferry on North river. He was at one time very wealthy, but had little at his death, September 4, 1814, at 60 years. He married Mrs. Ursula (Wright) Gilbert. They had thirteen children. The sons were Henry, Isaac, Wright, Sylvanus, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Daily, Sidney and Nelson. Mr. Dunham was buried in the Indian Opening at Madison. Mrs. Dunham survived him, lived long in. Nichols with her sons Daily and Wright, and was buried in "the Dunham burying ground." Henry Dunham married Amelia Wright and settled on Wappesening creek, on the farm his son George now occupies."
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COLUMN "Concerning Your Ancestors"
Conducted by Mrs Clara H. Manning
New York Hearld, Sunday August 30, 1903, p.13
Queries
638.—DUNHAM.-Sylvanus Dunnam was a Revolutionary soldier in Albany county militia. N. Y. His widów, Ursula, went to Nichols, Tioga county, N. Y., in 1810, with a large family of children. Did Sylvanus Dunham oome from Plymouth, Mass.? What was his wife Ursula's surname? TIOGA
EDITED BY: LEROY W. KINGMAN
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. ELMIRA, N. Y., 189?
"The Dunham family has been well represented in Nichols, nine brothers coming hither between 1812 and 1836, of whom five made here their permanent homes. Sylvanus Dunham, their father, born in 1754, in England (correction - it is more likely that he was born in Massachusetts), settled at East Town, Saratoga county, was a captain in the revolutionary army. Here he kept many horses, imported from England. He removed to Madison county in 1806 and owned a ferry on North river. He was at one time very wealthy, but had little at his death, September 4, 1814, at 60 years. He married Mrs. Ursula (Wright) Gilbert. They had thirteen children. The sons were Henry, Isaac, Wright, Sylvanus, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Daily, Sidney and Nelson. Mr. Dunham was buried in the Indian Opening at Madison. Mrs. Dunham survived him, lived long in. Nichols with her sons Daily and Wright, and was buried in "the Dunham burying ground." Henry Dunham married Amelia Wright and settled on Wappesening creek, on the farm his son George now occupies."
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COLUMN "Concerning Your Ancestors"
Conducted by Mrs Clara H. Manning
New York Hearld, Sunday August 30, 1903, p.13
Queries
638.—DUNHAM.-Sylvanus Dunnam was a Revolutionary soldier in Albany county militia. N. Y. His widów, Ursula, went to Nichols, Tioga county, N. Y., in 1810, with a large family of children. Did Sylvanus Dunham oome from Plymouth, Mass.? What was his wife Ursula's surname? TIOGA
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