Elisha Dunham
1747-1822
1790 Census (#2174)
1800 Census (#2171)
1810 Census
(#2164)
1820 Census
(#2172)
Birth: Dunham, Elisha, child of Seth and Neomi [Naomi, Dukes County
Record, Court Vol 1] May 3, 1747, (p.31
*Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 1906,
Boston Mass. 1906)
Marriage: Dunham, Elisha and Rebecca Vinson, Apr. 4, 1769, p.119
*Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Boston
Mass. 1906)
Death: Dinham, Elisha, Aug. 29, 1822, a. 75 y. 3 m. 27 d. ["Mortification
occationed by a Cut on his Leg with a Scyth," age 73, ] (p.222
*Vital Records of Edgartown,
Massachusetts, to the Year 1850* Boston Mass. 1906)
Dunham family genealogy, see *Dunham Genealogy by Isaac Dunham, 1907, pp.
134-135-136.
Elisha 5 Dunham, (Seth, 4 Gershom,3 Jonathan, 2 John 1), b. 3 May
1747; residence Edgartown, farmer. He married (1) Rebecca Vinson 4 Apr. 1769, who was b.
1742 and d. 16 Sept. 1817; (2) Dinah Fisher 1820, who was b. 15 Aug. 1769
and d. 25 May 1844. He had the following named children by first wife:
1. Persis, 6 b. (1770) ; m. William Brown 30 July 1820.
2. Jane, b. (1778); in. Henry Fish, 3rd, 10 Nov. 1796.
3. Jonathan, b. (1775); m. Sukey Marchant (64) 18 Nov. 1798.
4. Seth, b. 1778; m. Mahala Pease (387) 10 Jan. 1802.
5. Elisha, b. 1780; d. 31 Dec. 1830; m. (1) Rebecca Ripley 8 Apr. 1804; (2)
Elsie Fisher (127) 24 March 1822.
(*History of Martha's Vineyard Volume 3, pp. 160, by Charles Edward
Banks, Dukes County Historical Society 1925)
Note: * These books are available for free download at American Libraries
