Brief Life History of Edmond
When Edmond Dunham was born on 23 July 1782, in Middlesex, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, David Squire Dunham, was 36 and his mother, Mary Dunn, was 33. He married Sarah Lane DeGroot on 25 April 1804. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States in 1850. He died after 8 March 1836, in Middlesex, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, and was buried in Dunham Washington Park Memorial Cemetery, Edison Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
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- Edmund Dunham, "United States Census, 1850"
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
- Edmond Dunham in entry for Mary Ann Dunham, "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988"
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1787 · New Jersey Plan
Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two "houses" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested).
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places called Dunham (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire). Most are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in the Domesday Book as Duneham and this too serves as a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna. Dunham is often difficult to tell apart from Downham .
History: John Dunham (1590–1668) was a Puritan linen weaver who came to Plymouth, MA, via Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1633. He had many prominent descendants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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