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Naomi Marchant

*1715-1785

Death: Naomi, wife of Seth [daughter of John Marchant and Hepzibah (Huxford)], "with a Pain in her breast: died sudden," [buried] Dec. 14, 1785, age 70. (private record, from a record of deaths kept by Rev. Samuel Kingsbury and the Rev. Joseph Thaxter, with additions by Miss Harriet M. Pease, now in the possession of Mrss. Harriet M. Pease, of Edgartown)

p.222, * Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society,1906.)

See * Dunham Genealogy by Isaac Dunham, 1907, pp.134-135

66. Seth 4 Dunham, (Gershom, 3 Jonathan, 2 John 1), b. 1714; res. Edgartown, cooper. He married Naomi Marchant, who was b.
1715 and d. Dec. 1785. He d. Aug. 1799. They had the following named children:
160. Elijah, 5 b. 5 Jan. 1734.
161. Seth, b. 17 June 1742.
162. Naomi, b. 26 Aug. 1743; m. Nathaniel Fish(er) (39) 18 Oct. 1764.
163. Ethannah, b. 9 July 1745; m. George Daggett (415) 18 Sept. 1769.
164. Elisha, b. 3 May 1747.
165. Ruth, b. 6 June 1751.
166. Phebe, b. 26 Sept. 1753; m. Cornelius Pease (308) 14 Feb. 1771.
167. Jerusha, bapt. 1754; m. Anthony Swasey (12) 10 Aug. 1774.
168. Persis, bapt. 1756.
 pp. 157, * History of Martha's Vineyard Volume 3, by Charles Edward Banks, Dukes County Historical Society 1925)

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