Mary Delano

- 1657

• Name	Mary Delano
  Birth	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Married	29 Nov 1655	Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3]
  Rev. Jonathan Dunham, the son of Deacon John and Abigail (Balliou) Dunham. He was born about 1632 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He became a freeman in 1653. He became a freeman on 3 June 1657 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. After Mary's death, on 15 October 1657 Jonathan, married second, Mary Cobb, at age 20, daughter of Elder Henry Cobb and Patience Hurst, in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. On 5 June 1671, the Court ordered "yt some two or three men be appointed in every town of this jurisdiction to have the inspection of the ordinaries or in any other places suspected, to take notice of such abuses as may arise in reference to the premises or otherwise and make report thereof to the Court: appointed for Middleberry: Jonathan Dunham. He was elected on 3 June 1674 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, as a Selectman and served for two years. He was a lay preacher in Falmouth in 1679 according to the following statement of the Committee Representing the Settlement of the Town: "[He was] employed in Preaching the Good word of God amongst us for our edification." He was granted land on 13 July 1681 in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, consisting of ten acres. The Town of Edgartown sought him as a Preacher, however the negotiations, conducted by Matthew Mayhew, had drawn out. Edgartown passed the following on 27 October 1684: that if Mr. Mayhew cannot Prevail with Mr. Dunham the Town desire that to Treat with some other man who he shall think fitt and is ordered to give 35 pounds a year." This provided the need stimulation and, and shortly thereafter the following was recorded: "I Matthew Mayhew being employed by Edgartown in the year of our Lord 1684 to procure Mr. Dunham or some other minister for them did agree with Mr. Dunham as minister of the gospel in the said Town vis: to allow Thirty Pounds per annum was excepted by them which I now for the Better satisfaction do declare to said Town to have been my return to them." He left a will on 28 June 1717 in Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts. He died on Saturday 18 December 1717 in Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts. His estate was probated on 15 January 1718 in Dukes County, Massachusetts. Jonathan's gravestone inscription in Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts, reads: Here lyes ye Body of Rev. Mr. Jonathan Dunham who Died December 18 Anno Don. 1717 ages about 85 years Paster of Church of Christ at Edgartown With Toils and Pains at first he tilled ye ground to dress God's Vineyard & w's faithful Found Full thirty yeas ye Gospel he did dispense His work being Done Christ Jesus called him hence
  Death	Before 16 Oct 1657  [4]
  When her husband remarried.
  Siblings	5 brothers and 3 sisters
  1. Mary Delano,   b. Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Before 16 Oct 1657   2. Philip Delano + 3. Thomas Delano,   b. 21 Mar 1642   d. 5 Oct 1722 to 22 Apr 1723  (Age 80 years) ▻ Rebecca Alden,  m. Before 30 Oct 1667 ;   Hannah,  m. 24 Oct 1699   4. John Delano   5. Jane Delano   6. Rebecca Delano   7. Samuel Delano   8. Jonathan Delano   9. Hester Delano
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Philip Delano,   b. 1602, England d. Abt 1681, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 79 years)  (Father)  Hester Dewsbury  (Mother)
  Person ID, Branch	I16663
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Philip Delano,   b. 1602, England d. Abt 1681, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Hester Dewsbury
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F1867	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Mary Delano( – 1657) 2Philip Delano(1602 – Abt 1681) 3Hester Dewsbury

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 29 Nov 1655 - Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1241] Hayward, Elijah. "Plymouth Colony Records" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume IX, 1855). [S1242] Barclay, Mrs. John E. "Jonathan Dunham of Plymouth and Edgartown, Mass.", (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogis, volume 36, No. 4, October 1960). [S865] Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham Genealogy, English and American Branches of the Dunham Family , (Norwich, Connecticut: Bulletin Print, 1907). [S910] Winsor, Justin. History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts with Genealogical Registers, (Boston: Crosby & Nichols, 1849).