Solomon Dunham

Notes:

Revolutionary War soldier.

Solomon married Sarah (Sally) Blanding on 22 Jan 1784 in Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Blanding and Sarah Lane) was born on 15 Jun 1760; died on 5 Jan 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sally Dunham was born on 15 May 1789 in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire; died on 4 Mar 1874.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 18 Feb 1729, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 1 Dec 1790, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

Given in Isaac Watson Dunham's Dunham Genealogy (citation details below) as a son of Nathaniel Dunham and Elizabeth Pratt. Florence Barclay's "Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass.", The American Genealogist 30:143, 1954, shows that there were at least four Nathaniel Dunhams living at this time, and that the record is insufficient to properly distinguish them from one another, to say nothing of their alleged marriages and progeny.

Isaac Watson Dunham's 1907 Dunham Genealogy was described in 1953 by Donald Lines Jacobus as "poorly arranged, poorly indexed, and containing many erroneous and impossible statements," which, if anything, is understating the case.

Solomon Dunham and Sarah Hill's marriage is recorded in the Norton vital records, but noted to have happened "in Attleborough."

The birth date of Solomon Dunham is listed in the published Norton vital records (citation details below) as "Feb. 29 [sic], 1729". This record is marked "G.R.2.", indicating that it came from a gravestone in the Norton Common Cemetery. Our genealogical software won't allow us to enter an impossible date, so we register it as merely February 1729. We are unsure of the basis on which Fred D. Clark (citation details below) gives his date of birth as 18 Feb 1729.

His death date, 1 Dec 1790, is recorded in the published vital records (citation details below) of both Norton and Attleborough, towns which are adjacent to one another. The Attleborough record is noted as coming from a Bible in the possession of one Susan Dunham.

Solomon married Sarah Hill on 4 Nov 1756 in Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of George Hill) was born on 10 Oct 1739 in of Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Hills. The record of their marriage in the Attleborough published vital records (citation details below) says "Solomon (Donham), of Norton, and Sarah Hills of A., int. Sept. 25, 1756."