Plymouth (Plimouth or Plimoth) is in Plymouth County, Massachusetts and was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Mayflower passengers.
Benjah Dunham was born about 1640 in Plymouth.
He married Elizabeth Tilson.
Edmund Dunham (1661, married Mary Bonham),
John Dunham (b. and d. 1663)
Elizabeth Dunham (1664, died as a baby),
Mary Dunham (1669, married Mr. Thompson),
Elizabeth Dunham (1670, married Jonas Wood),
Hannah Dunham (1666; died as a baby), and
Benjamin Dunham (1667, died young).
In 1664 he was made a freeman.
In 1669 he was aa court officer at Eastham.
In 1672, he bought one hundred acres in Piscataway, New Jersey.
In 1673 he was a captain in the militia.
He died on December 24. 1680 in Piscataway.
Piscataway Township in New Jersey was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire.
