JOHN DONHAM |
Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. was not the very first of the DONHAMs, but he was one of the most important to us because he was the pioneer who went west from New Jersey. We are also descended from him three times — once from his first wife Mary SUTTON, and twice from his second wife Keziah CROSLEY.
He was born in 1733 Woodbridge, Middlesex County, NJ.107 Previous books and histories say that he was the son of Nathaniel DONHAM Sr. and Joannah THORNELL. This was unlikely for two reasons. Nathaniel DONHAM Sr. was born in 1679, making him 54 when Nathaniel Jr. was born. Nathaniel DONHAM Sr. also already had a child named Nathaniel. This other Nathaniel DONHAM, who was born 17 October 1726, married an Elizabeth WILSON and moved to New York.
Brent SCHLOTTMAN, of Chandler, AZ, suggested on the Prodigy computer service in Fall 1994 that Nathaniel was actually the son of John DONHAM, and grandson of Nathaniel DONHAM Sr. Back then the title "Junior" only meant that there was someone older in town who had the same name, whether he was the father or not. John DONHAM, who was born in 1708, would have been of an appropriate age to be Nathaniel Jr.'s father. Also Nathaniel DONHAM Jr.'s oldest son's name was John — It was a common tradition to name the oldest son after the grandfather. Brent also said that Isaac Watson DUNHAM's book gave a clue by saying that this John DONHAM went to Pennsylvania. We know that Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. went to Pennsylvania and could have taken his father with him. There is still no proof of this relationship, as Nathaniel could easily be the child of any of Nathaniel DONHAM Sr.'s other sons, but it seems to be the most likely one at this point.
Another history says that Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. was the third child of the second marriage of his father. Further, "[The father] was twice married in New Jersey. By his former wife there was born to him but one child, christened by name John. By the second marriage there were three sons and one daughter. The sons were William, Jonathan, and Nathaniel...."108 John DONHAM Jr., the book says, got his father's estate. Jonathan DONHAM married and stayed in New Jersey. William DONHAM moved to northern Alabama.
SUTTON |
Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. married in 1765 to Mary SUTTON and had four children. Mary died and Nathaniel remarried to Keziah CROSLEY about 1773. They had six more children.
Nathaniel was in the American Revolution. One source said that he was a private out of New Jersey. He enlisted in the army as a Private in Matthias OGDEN's 1st Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line, on 4 February 1777, at Woodbridge, New Jersey, serving until 20 May 1783.
Another source gives his Revolutionary record as follows:109 Private, Captain MORRISON's Company, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; enlisted at Woodbridge, New Jersey, April 4, 1777, for three years; deserted August 1, 1777; mustered, May 1778; transferred to Captain MEED's Company, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; on rolls, January 1781; transferred to Captain Nathaniel LEONARD's Company, Colonel Matthias OGDEN's Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; mustered May 20, 1783 by Colonel W. STEWART, Inspector of the Northern Army.
This desertion on 1 August 1777 makes sense because Nathaniel's son Abel DONHAM was born 19 August 1777. Nathaniel must have wanted to be at home with Keziah for the birth of their son. Nathaniel rejoined the war in May 1778.
CROSLEY |
Sometime after Abel's birth and probably before the birth of the next child, the family moved to Washington County (Greene County), Pennsylvania. This would be where John DONHAM, possibly the father of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr., died, if indeed he went to Pennsylvania with his son. The rest of Nathaniel's children were born in Pennsylvania.
The Ohio histories say the following about Nathaniel DONHAM in Pennsylvania, "Nathaniel, as we are told, became an enterprising conductor of one of these then fast lines of transit, engaged in carrying in pack-saddles, lashed to horses, those necessary commodities through this long wilderness to his good people at their home in the woods. After a few years in the service, and having accumulated a little means, he emigrated still farther into the West, came down the Ohio River..."110 The Pennsylvania records show that there was a Nathaniel DONDEN who was a frontier ranger in Westmoreland (Washington, Greene) County, PA.111
"Nathaniel DUNHAM" purchased 215 acres of land in Washington County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in 1787. The cost was ten pounds per hundred acres. Interest was to commence on 1 March 1787. The deed was signed by the Honorable Charles BIDDLE, Esq., on 1 October 1787. The land included "an [unreadable] on the waters of Ten-mile Creek adjoining lands of James BELL and others". Three years later, on the 1790 U.S. Census of Washington County, Nathaniel DONHAM was listed with six sons under 16 years of age.
The Ohio history quoted above continues, "... he emigrated still farther into the West, came down the Ohio River with most of his family, and landed at the mouth of the Little Miami, A.D. 1794, twelve miles above Cincinnati. In a short time he made his way about twelve miles up that little stream, and established a home on what was then, and is still, known as the 'Round Bottom' of the Little Miami River." He was definitely in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH, by 1799 as he appears on the voters list there. He was also the first DONHAM of record in Clermont County, OH.112
Pete MANN, of Miami, FL, informed me by e-mail that in Ohio on 11 June 1805, "Nathaniel & Keziah (CROSLEY) DONHAM sold their land on Harner's Run, near Milford, to move 10 to 15 miles southeast near their son's. But their son Henry DONHAM and James & Abner ARTHUR moved from Harner's Run to Shaylor's Run near those mentioned above."
Nathaniel DONHAM Jr.'s will appears in Clermont County, OH in 1820.113 It was probated on 20 August 1820, so he probably died a short time before that. Following is the text of his will:
I give and bequeath to my wife Kezia one bed and furniture, two cows, one horse, her choise, sadel and bridel. & I give to my children: to my sons, David, Lewis, Henry, Able, Amos, Robert, & Jonathan one dollar each, and to have no more of my estate. I give to my daughter Mary one bed & I give my land to my son William with a reserve to my wife, as long as she lives. And as for the rest of my estate I give one half to my wife, and the other half to my son William to be divided as they see cause, & I do appoint my wife & my son William to be executors. & I do utterly disalow, revoke and disawill all and every other testament, will, and legacies executors by me willed or maid or decred. Rattafiing and confirming this & no other, to be my last will and testament, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Nathaniel DONHAM (seal). Witnesses: Jesse SEVERN, James ARTHUR, Joseph ARTHUR.
The four children of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. and Mary SUTTON were John, David, Lewis, and Mary DONHAM. The histories and other prior genealogical materials claim that Mary was a daughter of Keziah CROSLEY instead of Mary SUTTON. They also say that there was an unknown daughter of Mary SUTTON who either died or never left New Jersey. It is my theory that Mary DONHAM was the female daughter of Mary SUTTON. Mary DONHAM was born 5 May 1774. The (female) DONHAM was born about 1773. Keziah CROSLEY was very young when she married Nathaniel DONHAM, so by saying that Mary DONHAM was a daughter of Mary SUTTON, that extends by two years the amount of time it would have to be before Mary SUTTON dies and Nathaniel marries Keziah. Also, one of Mary DONHAM's children was David Sutton LEE. Since most of her other children were named after close members of the family — John, William Donham, Henry, Nathaniel, Jonathan, David, and Mary LEE — it is possible that this David Sutton LEE was named after some relation of her mother, Mary SUTTON's family. It was common back then to name a daughter after the mother, but not a previous wife!
Mary SUTTON was the first wife of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr., and the mother of his first four children. They were married in 1765 New Jersey. I have not yet seen anything definitive on her ancestry, or even her parents. In the last half of 1994 I did lots of work on the SUTTON lines. Any SUTTON wife would have had to have been descended from George SUTTON who immigrated to America in 1634, probably through George's son William who moved to New Jersey. I traced as many descendents as I could through at least the end of the 1700s, trying to find a Mary SUTTON or a widow Mary SUTTON who might have been the wife of Nathaniel.
I have only found two possibilities, one more likely than the other. The unlikely one was a Marah "Mary" SUTTON, daughter of Rev. David SUTTON and Sarah TREMBLAY. Marah was born in 1728, five years before Nathaniel DONHAM, which wasn't very common. Also her mother Sarah, the daughter of Jean du TREMBLAY (son of Jean Jacques TREMBLES) and Mary NOE, was of French-Huguenot ancestry, an ethnicity never mentioned in any of the DONHAM histories. A point in favor of Marah is the name of her father. Mary DONHAM and Henry LEE's son David Sutton LEE might have been named after his grandmother's father.
The other possibility was Mary SUTTON, daughter of John SUTTON and Mary MARTIN. This Mary was born in about 1735, two years after Nathaniel. And she was born in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ, a neighboring town to Woodbridge. Although, one source did claim that she married an Elijah SMITH,114 son of Richard SMITH. I have not seen that fact written anywhere else.
There is another clue that this could be the correct Mary SUTTON. Looking through the old histories and genealogies, one finds that each source will say that the DONHAMs are descended from either the SINGLETARY line or the Deacon John DUNHAM line. The books never agree. If this were the correct Mary SUTTON, then both of them would be true. Mary SUTTON's maternal grandmother was Elizabeth DUNHAM, who was a great-granddaughter of Deacon John DUNHAM. The children of Nathaniel and Mary could have been told the SINGLETARY story by their father and the Deacon John story by their mother. They carried on whichever story they preferred or understood and their descendents passed that on to the written histories.
If this is the correct Mary SUTTON, one can see that far along her maternal line we would be descended from the FULLER family. Samuel FULLER came to America on the Mayflower with his parents Edmund FULLER and Ann. On 8 April 1635 in Scituate, Plymouth County, MA, at the home of James CUDWORTH, he was married by Miles STANDISH to Jane LATHROP, daughter of Reverend John LATHROP and Hannah HOWSE.
William SUTTON, possibly great-grandfather of our Mary SUTTON, was married to Damaris BISHOP, the daughter of Richard BISHOP and Alice MARTIN. Since this is far up on the paternal line of the SUTTONs, we would still be descended from him even if it was a different Mary SUTTON that Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. married. For example, Marah SUTTON is also descended from William.
Alice MARTIN was the daughter of Christopher MARTIN and Mrs. Marie PROWER. Christopher was the governor of the Mayflower, the representative from the Adventurers' Club who provided money for the voyage. The following is a description of him.115
He was a large, red faced man, self-important, pugnacious, fat and breathless, with a soup-stained shirt front. At the end of the journey he was a changed man — having lost his good red color and such an amount of flesh his slovenly clothes hung loosely upon him, his face a sickly yellow, patched with scurfy areas. He was a lumbering boar and a bellowing bull worn down to a crying wreck before his death. Treasurer MARTIN's accounts were not in the best condition and he sent for John CARVER concerning them the day before he died on 1/18/1621.
Christopher's daughter Alice is a very fascinating ancestor. Alice MARTIN was married first to George CLARK, by whom she had two children, Abigail and Martha CLARK. She married second Richard BISHOP and had one daughter Damaris BISHOP. I've seen many short mentionings of the fact that she was a witch who was hung for the murder of her daughter. The most complete account that I've seen about the murder and the events afterwards was from WATERFORD's book:116
July 22, 1648, tragedy struck the young family. For reasons unknown to anyone, Alice killed four year old Martha CLARK. An inquiry into the death of little Martha was requested by Gov. William BRADFORD. The Committee formed included John HOWLAND, James HURTS, Robert LEE, Gyellis RICHARD, Richard SPARROW, Thomas POPE, Frances BILLINGTON, and William NELSON. Rachel, wife of John RAMSDEN, testified that she had entered the BISHOP house on an errand. Alice BISHOP asked her to fetch her some buttermilk from Goodwife WINSLOW and gave her a kettle. Before leaving the dwelling, however, she saw the child asleep on her bed. Alice appeared in a normal state of mind. When she returned, however, Alice was distraught and upon investigation, she found the body of the young girl, who had been killed with a sharp knife. At the time Alice did not seem to comprehend she had committed the act. At a Court held on Oct. 4, 1648, before Gov. BRADFORD, Miles STANDISH, and others, Alice confessed she had murdered her child and was sorry for it. She was found guilty by the Court and sentenced to be the "first person hanged in the colony." A Court also authorized John CHURCHILL to dispose of the house and land that belonged to George CLARK for the benefit of the remaining daughter Abigail....
Richard BISHOP not only had a problem of two small girls to raise, the notoriety of his wife being a murderer of her own child, but seemed to have his own problem of stealing other peoples' belongings. On March 6, 1649, in Plymouth, he was presented at court for stealing a neighbor's spade. He was found guilty and sentenced to both sit in stocks and replace the spade before the June Court or he would be whipped. He did not comply!! He had moved to Eastham, Mass., by 1654 and had tracts of land allotted to him but he still had his problems. In 1670 he entered George CRISP's property and helped himself to the fleece taken from the sheep. He was arraigned and ordered to pay thirty shillings — which he did. Soon after this incident he sold his property to Capt. CHURCH and moved to Piscataway, New Jersey, to live with his only daughter Damaris and son-in-law William SUTTON.
William SUTTON's parents were George SUTTON and Sarah TILDEN. George came to America in 1634 from County Kent, England, on the ship Hercules. He was a servant to Nathaniel TILDEN and later married his daughter. In 1668, because of persecution of the Quakers, George SUTTON, his wife Sarah, and his children Joseph, Nathaniel, Sarah, and Elizabeth moved to Perquimans County, North Carolina.
After Mary SUTTON died, Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. remarried to Keziah CROSLEY who bore his last six children, all sons.
In 1994 I was part of an e-mail correspondence group on Prodigy concerning the CROSLEY / CROSSLEY lines. This group was unofficially led by Pete MANN, of Miami, FL, and also included Brian BROWN, Kirsten CROSSLEY, Hermon FAGLEY, and Bob ORR. We all did research and shared the new discoveries online, trading ideas and information as soon as we had them.117
We figure that Keziah CROSLEY might have been the daughter of John CROSLEY and Alice MALIN. But we do not yet have any proof of this. It just seems to be the most likely family because of the times and places. We had more luck uniting descendents of Reuben CROSLEY (m. Rachael HARVEY) and Abel CROSLEY (m. Joannah CAMPBELL) than the descendents of Charles CROSLEY (m. Hannah) through his son John. Pete MANN will probably publish a book someday showing all of our information on these lines.
CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL DONHAM JR. & MARY SUTTON
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1 NAME: John DONHAM
BORN: 7 Apr 1767 PLACE: ,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: 15 Aug 1856 PLACE: Ohio Twp,Clermont,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Donham Hill Cem,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Sallie JENNINGS
MARR: Bef 1792
SPOUSE: Elizabeth BROWN
MARR: 5 Feb 1811 PLACE: Indian Creek Ch,Clermont,OH
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2 NAME: David DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1769 PLACE: ,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: PLACE: ,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: Elizabeth GARRISON118
MARR: Bef 1790
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3 NAME: Lewis DONHAM
BORN: 24 Jun 1771 PLACE: Perth Amboy,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: 1845 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: Amy MAPLE
MARR: 1805 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
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4 NAME: Mary DONHAM
BORN: 5 May 1774 PLACE: Perth Amboy,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: 9 Feb 1839 PLACE: Riley,Vigo,IN
BUR.: PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Henry LEE
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CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL DONHAM JR. & KEZIAH CROSLEY
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1 NAME: Henry DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1776 PLACE: Perth Amboy,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: 18 Dec 1852 PLACE: Riley,Vigo,IN
BUR.: PLACE: Old Oak Hill Cem,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Mary LEE
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2 NAME: Abel DONHAM
BORN: 19 Aug 1777 PLACE: Perth Amboy,Middlesex,NJ
DIED: 17 May 1853 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Love Family Cem,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Elizabeth FERGUSON
MARR: 1800 PLACE: ,,OH
SPOUSE: Mrs. Sarah Ann HANCOCK
MARR: 2 Sep 1852 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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3 NAME: Amos DONHAM119
BORN: Abt 1779 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: Aft 1832 PLACE: ,,the South
MARR: PLACE: ,Brown,OH
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4 NAME: Robert DONHAM
BORN: 16 Feb 1782 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: Abt 1846 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Ruth FERGUSON
MARR: PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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5 NAME: William DONHAM
BORN: 13 Jun 1784 PLACE: Mapleton,Greene,PA
DIED: Abt 1849 PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Sarah ARTHUR
MARR: 15 Dec 1802 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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6 NAME: Jonathan Singleton DONHAM
BORN: 16 Feb 1786 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 21 Sep 1856 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Hila ROSS
MARR: Bef 1809
SPOUSE: Elizabeth AYERS
MARR: 19 Apr 1818 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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Lewis DONHAM married Amy MAPLE in 1805 Greene County, PA. She was the daughter of Stephen MAPLE (b. 1759 NJ; served in the U.S. Revolution out of New Jersey; d. 23 October 1844) and Mary Elizabeth SLACK (b. 1758; d. 1846).
Lewis and Amy had only one son, John DONHAM (b. 26 September 1806; d. 12 November 1884). John married Rebecca ENGLE (b. 10 July 1806; d. 21 April 1889), daughter of Peter ENGLE (b. abt 1748; d. 1833) and Susanna BUGH (b. abt 1769; d. aft 1833). John and Rebecca were both born and died in Green County, PA. They are buried at the Donham Cemetery, in Greensboro, Monongahela Township., Greene County, Pennsylvania.
CHILDREN OF JOHN DONHAM & REBECCA ENGLE
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1 NAME: Amy M. DONHAM120
BORN: 17 Oct 1830 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 13 Nov 1908 PLACE: ,Preston,WV
BUR.: PLACE: Mt. Olive Cem,Preston,WV
SPOUSE: Andrew Kramer DIXON
MARR: 5 Dec 1855 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
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2 NAME: Lewis N. DONHAM
BORN: 1 Apr 1833 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 6 Aug 1902 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
BUR.: PLACE: Fairview Cem,Greene,PA121
SPOUSE: Cathryn BARB
SPOUSE: Martha LUCAS
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3 NAME: Susanna DONHAM
BORN: 28 Feb 1835 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 26 Jan 1903 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
BUR.: PLACE: Donham Cem,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: George HERRINGTON
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4 NAME: Peter E. DONHAM
BORN: 19 Jun 1837 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 3 Jan 1905
BUR.: PLACE: Monongahela Cem,Greene,PA122
SPOUSE: Roseann BARB
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5 NAME: Catherine DONHAM
BORN: 9 Oct 1839 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 31 Jul 1920 PLACE: ,Greene,PA123
BUR.: PLACE: Donham Cem,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: (never married)
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6 NAME: David Garrison DONHAM
BORN: 8 Nov 1841 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 1921 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
BUR.: PLACE: Monongahela Cem,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: Harriet A. WILLIAMS
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7 NAME: Nancy DONHAM
BORN: 17 Nov 1843 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
SPOUSE: Benjamin REITZ
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8 NAME: Barnett DONHAM
BORN: 2 Sep 1846 PLACE: ,Greene,PA
DIED: 1930
SPOUSE: Mary HANNA
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Mary DONHAM, daughter of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. and Mary SUTTON, married Henry LEE, probably the son of Sq. William LEE and Cathren LEE.124 Henry was born in 1769 and died 21 January 1838 at Riley, Vigo, IN. Mary was born 5 May 1774 in Middlesex County, NJ, and died 9 February 1839 in Riley.
CHILDREN OF HENRY LEE & MARY DONHAM
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1 NAME: John Rosse LEE /Captain
BORN: 7 Jun 1797
DIED: 22 Mar 1864
SPOUSE: Elizabeth GREEN
MARR: 8 Nov 1818
SPOUSE: Sarilda PERKINS
SPOUSE: Nancy
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2 NAME: William Donham LEE
BORN: 1798
SPOUSE: Sarah HOOK
MARR: 1 Mar 1821 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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3 NAME: Rachel LEE
BORN: 27 Jun 1800
DIED: 26 May 1877
SPOUSE: Isaac PIERCE
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4 NAME: Rhoda LEE
BORN: 25 Jul 1803
DIED: 22 Sep 1850
SPOUSE: Clayton LAMBERT
MARR: 2 Aug 1821 PLACE: ,Warren,OH
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5 NAME: Henry D. LEE
BORN: 20 Jul 1805
DIED: 20 Jul 1871
SPOUSE: Harriet Evelyn GORDON
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6 NAME: Nathaniel LEE
BORN: 9 Jan 1807
DIED: 29 Oct 1884
SPOUSE: Elizabeth HAWLEY
MARR: 12 Sep 1834
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7 NAME: Jonathan LEE
BORN: 22 Oct 1809
DIED: 27 Feb 1852
SPOUSE: Elizabeth RAY
MARR: 24 Mar 1833
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8 NAME: David Sutton LEE
BORN: 25 May 1812 PLACE: ,Warren,OH
DIED: 27 Apr 1884 PLACE: Riley,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Anna A. FERRAL
MARR: 3 Sep 1834 PLACE: Riley,Vigo,IN
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9 NAME: Mary Maria LEE
BORN: 2 Feb 1816 PLACE: ,,IN
DIED: 16 Nov 1848 PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
BUR.: PLACE: Donham Cem,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Nathaniel DONHAM
MARR: 30 Jun 1833 PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
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10 NAME: Anna LEE
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Sq. William LEE was born 23 January 1741 in Virginia and died 21 February 1807 in Monroe, Warren County, OH. His wife Cathren LEE was born in 1740 and died in 1793 Greene County, PA. Some LEE descendents believe there is a connection to General Robert E. LEE, but nothing definite has been found. They had children:
Cathren LEE (1761-1785)
William LEE Jr. (1762-1790)
Elizabeth LEE (1763-1790)
Lidia LEE (1764-1785)
David LEE (1765-1792)
Heziah LEE (1766-1798)
John LEE (b. 26 Jul 1767; d. 26 Sep 1829 in Clifty Bartholomew County, IN)
Henry LEE (b. 1769; d. 21 Jan 1838 in Riley, Vigo County, IN)
Katherine LEE (b. 1775; d. 11 Jul 1848 in Warren County, OH)
Robert LEE (b. 1776)
Zephaniah LEE (b. 1776; d. 1 Dec 1854 in Warren County OH)
Hannah LEE (b. 8 Jan 1794; d. 9 Jan 1867 in Warren County, OH)
Nathaniel LEE.
DESCENDENTS OF HENRY LEE & MARY DONHAM
THREE GENERATIONS
1 - Mary DONHAM, BORN: 5 May 1774 Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, NJ
DIED: 9 Feb 1839 Riley, Vigo County, IN
BUR.: Vigo County, IN
sp- Henry LEE, BORN: 1769
DIED: 21 Jan 1838 Riley, Vigo County, IN
Son of William LEE /Squire & Cathren LEE
2 - John Rosse LEE /Captain, BORN: 7 Jun 1797
DIED: 22 Mar 1864
sp- Elizabeth GREEN, BORN: 12 Apr 1802
MARR: 8 Nov 1818
DIED: 1840
3 - Henry LEE
3 - David LEE
3 - Nancy LEE
3 - Zephaniah LEE, BORN: 17 Dec 1835
DIED: 1915
sp- Nancy LUTHER
MARR: 22 Jan 1859
sp- Mary DENTON, BORN: 7 Jul 1844
MARR: 20 Dec 1866
DIED: 26 Jan 1939
3 - Lucinda LEE
sp- Sarilda PERKINS
sp- Nancy
DIED: 1864
2 - William Donham LEE, BORN: 1798
sp- Sarah HOOK
MARR: 1 Mar 1821 Clermont County, OH
3 - Sarah Jane LEE, BORN: 6 Jun 1828 Hamilton County, OH
DIED: Apr 1913 Charleston, IL
sp- Jesse Huston KING, BORN: 14 Aug 1828
MARR: 6 May 1849 Vigo County, IN
DIED: Abt 1870/1880
3 - Keziah M. LEE, BORN: 2 Feb 1832 IN
DIED: 20 Jul 1904 Arcadia, IN
BUR.: Ch. of Brethren, IN
sp- James H. LAMBERT
Son of Clayton LAMBERT & Rhoda LEE
sp- Daniel MILLER, BORN: Abt 1820 OH
MARR: 4 Jul 1861 IN
DIED: 12 Jan 1875 IN
2 - Rachel LEE, BORN: 27 Jun 1800
DIED: 26 May 1877
sp- Isaac PIERCE
2 - Rhoda LEE, BORN: 25 Jul 1803
DIED: 22 Sep 1850
sp- Clayton LAMBERT
MARR: 2 Aug 1821 Warren County, OH
DIED: 1884
3 - Aaron LAMBERT, BORN: 28 Dec 1828
DIED: 5 Apr 1879
sp- Arminda LEE, BORN: 10 Jan 1834
MARR: 1 Aug 1852
DIED: 30 Aug 1900
Dau of Jonathan LEE & Elizabeth RAY
3 - Lucinda LAMBERT
3 - James H. LAMBERT
sp- Keziah M. LEE, BORN: 2 Feb 1832 IN
DIED: 20 Jul 1904 Arcadia, IN
BUR.: Ch. of Brethren, IN
Dau of William Donham LEE & Sarah HOOK
3 - John W. LAMBERT
3 - Mary J. LAMBERT
3 - Sarah A. LAMBERT
3 - Henry Donham Lee LAMBERT
sp- Sarah BROWN
MARR: 1 Aug 1852 Fayette, IN
3 - Harris LAMBERT
3 - William B. LAMBERT
sp- Mary J. HENRY
3 - Dorina LAMBERT
3 - Valinda LAMBERT
3 - Louisa LAMBERT
3 - Josiah LAMBERT
2 - Henry D. LEE, BORN: 20 Jul 1805
DIED: 20 Jul 1871
sp- Harriet Evelyn GORDON, BORN: 7 Jan 1806
DIED: 21 Oct 1883
3 - Ferdinand LEE, BORN: 9 Feb 1827
DIED: 20 Mar 1834
3 - Sarah Ann LEE, BORN: 12 Aug 1828
sp- Richard C. PIERCE
MARR: 25 May 1848
3 - William Dailey LEE, BORN: 8 Nov 1830
DIED: 23 Dec 1908
sp- Naomi Ann REES, BORN: 20 Jan 1837
MARR: 16 May 1855
DIED: 4 Aug 1909
3 - Mary Jane LEE, BORN: 5 Mar 1832
3 - Rebecca Church LEE, BORN: 27 Jan 1834
DIED: 1916
sp- Hiram J. HARTLEY
MARR: 20 May 1855
3 - Hester Ann LEE, BORN: 23 Feb 1836
DIED: 28 Dec 1907
sp- William Riley RAY III, BORN: 25 Dec 1835
MARR: Nov 1858
DIED: 1912
Son of John RAY & Rebecca
3 - John Gordon LEE, BORN: 28 Aug 1838
3 - Alma LEE, BORN: 17 Nov 1840
DIED: 4 Jun 1913
sp- Leander DONHAM
3 - Camillus C. LEE, BORN: 19 Apr 1843
3 - Patrick Henry LEE, BORN: 17 Apr 1845
DIED: 22 Feb 1873
3 - Frederick LEE, BORN: 17 May 1849
2 - Nathaniel LEE, BORN: 9 Jan 1807
DIED: 29 Oct 1884
sp- Elizabeth HAWLEY, BORN: 19 Nov 1810
MARR: 12 Sep 1834
DIED: 8 Mar 1886
3 - Sylvia LEE
sp- James F. PEARCE, BORN: 12 Jun 1824
DIED: 24 May 1901
3 - Jasper Newton LEE, BORN: 1839
DIED: 1927
sp- Alice SINGHURSE, BORN: 1845
MARR: 22 Sep 1864
DIED: 19 Jan 1942
3 - Mary Eliza LEE, BORN: 1850
DIED: 1923
sp- Michael FOX
2 - Jonathan LEE, BORN: 22 Oct 1809
DIED: 27 Feb 1852
sp- Elizabeth RAY, BORN: 2 Mar 1815
MARR: 24 Mar 1833
DIED: 7 Mar 1852
Dau of William RAY II & Sally MILLER
3 - Arminda LEE, BORN: 10 Jan 1834
DIED: 30 Aug 1900
sp- Aaron LAMBERT, BORN: 28 Dec 1828
MARR: 1 Aug 1852
DIED: 5 Apr 1879
Son of Clayton LAMBERT & Rhoda LEE
3 - Caroline LEE, BORN: 5 Nov 1836
3 - William Henry LEE
3 - Mary Jane LEE
3 - Sarah LEE, BORN: 10 Jun 1845
3 - Eliza Isabelle LEE, BORN: 9 Dec 1849
2 - David Sutton LEE, BORN: 25 May 1812 Warren County, OH
DIED: 27 Apr 1884 Riley, Vigo County, IN
sp- Anna A. FERRAL, BORN: 26 Mar 1816 Butler County, OH
MARR: 3 Sep 1834 Riley, Vigo County, IN
DIED: 16 Feb 1888 Riley, Vigo County, IN
3 - Henry H. LEE, BORN: 2 Mar 1837
DIED: 4 Nov 1919
sp- Nancy J. HIXON, BORN: 1840
MARR: 17 Jan 1861
DIED: 1921
Dau of John HIXON & Sarah LINDSEY
3 - Clarinda LEE, BORN: 1840
DIED: 1863
sp- George Van Buren FAGIN, BORN: 16 May 1837
MARR: Vigo County, IN
DIED: 17 Aug 1903
Son of Stephen FAGIN & Eliza DONHAM
3 - Liona LEE
sp- Charles M. CARTER, BORN: 18 Oct 1838
MARR: 2 Mar 1866
DIED: 14 Apr 1885
3 - Isaac Madison LEE, BORN: 24 Feb 1844 Riley, Vigo County, IN
DIED: 18 Feb 1910 Cory, Clay County, IN
sp- Mary Elizabeth HARPER, BORN: 29 Feb 1848 Dellroy, Carroll, OH
MARR: Jan 1871 Clay County, IN
DIED: 17 Jun 1879 Riley, Vigo County, IN
Dau of Hugh HARPER & Rebecca Love SEMPLE
sp- Hannah CARITHERS, BORN: 1849
MARR: 14 Nov 1880
DIED: 1932
3 - Modillen LEE, BORN: 1846
DIED: 1912
sp- Taylor MCMASTERS, BORN: 1847
DIED: 1930
3 - Jonathan S. LEE, BORN: 29 Mar 1848
DIED: 18 Feb 1900
sp- Susanna GROSS, BORN: 25 Mar 1853
MARR: 1874
DIED: 3 Dec 1889
3 - Olive J. LEE, BORN: Abt 1853 Vigo County, IN
DIED: 1897
sp- William M. CROSLEY, BORN: Abt 1846 IN
MARR: Abt 1875 Vigo County, IN
Son of David Wallace CROSLEY & Hannah MULLENS
2 - Mary Maria LEE, BORN: 2 Feb 1816 IN
DIED: 16 Nov 1848 Vigo County, IN
BUR.: Donham Cem, Vigo County, IN
sp- Nathaniel DONHAM, BORN: 17 Dec 1811 Clermont County, OH
MARR: 30 Jun 1833 Vigo County, IN
DIED: 30 Aug 1849 Vigo County, IN
BUR.: Donham Cem, Vigo County, IN
Son of Robert DONHAM & Ruth FERGUSON
3 - Isaac Ferguson DONHAM, BORN: 8 Apr 1840 IN
DIED: 20 Jul 1919 Caldwell, Sumner County, KS
BUR.: Corzine Cem, Sumner County, KS
sp- Elizabeth DONHAM, BORN: 4 Sep 1840 Clermont County, OH
MARR: 31 Mar 1864 Clermont County, OH
DIED: 30 Apr 1898 Corbin, Sumner County, KS
BUR.: Corzine Cem, Sumner County, KS
Dau of Nathaniel DONHAM & Mary SWEM
sp- Jane PIERCE
MARR: 17 Nov 1904
2 - Anna LEE
Abel DONHAM married Elizabeth FERGUSON, daughter of Isaac FERGUSON and Elizabeth LEEDOM. Abel's brother Robert DONHAM married Elizabeth's sister Ruth FERGUSON. Thus the children of Abel and Robert were double first cousins to each other since they shared both sets of grandparents. Robert DONHAM and Ruth FERGUSON had eleven children:
CHILDREN OF ROBERT DONHAM & RUTH FERGUSON
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1 NAME: John S. DONHAM
BORN: 1809 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
DIED: 1868 PLACE: Spencer,Owen,IN
SPOUSE: Rachel FAGIN
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2 NAME: Isaiah DONHAM125
BORN: 12 May 1810 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
DIED: 13 Jun 1913 PLACE: Terre Haute,Vigo,IN
BUR.: PLACE: Christy Cem,Clay,IN
SPOUSE: Martha Ann CROSLEY126
MARR: 28 Feb 1833 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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3 NAME: Nathaniel DONHAM
BORN: 17 Dec 1811 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
DIED: 30 Aug 1849 PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
BUR.: PLACE: Donham Cem,Vigo,IN
SPOUSE: Mary Maria LEE
MARR: 30 Jun 1833 PLACE: ,Vigo,IN
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4 NAME: Isaac DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1813 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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5 NAME: Nancy DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1814 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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6 NAME: Zachariah DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1816 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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7 NAME: Thomas DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1817 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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8 NAME: Robert DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1819 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Emeline BENNETT127
MARR: 28 Mar 1844 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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9 NAME: Eliza DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1820 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
DIED: 13 Oct 1878 PLACE: ,,IN
SPOUSE: Stephen FAGIN
MARR: 15 Dec 1831 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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10 NAME: Mary DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1822 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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11 NAME: Ruth DONHAM
BORN: Abt 1824 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
SPOUSE: Jonathan R. CORBLEY128
MARR: 3 Sep 1845 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH
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The youngest child of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. and Keziah CROSLEY was Jonathan Singleton DONHAM, born 16 February 1786. Jonathan married first Hila ROSS before 1809. He fought in the War of 1812. He married Elizabeth AYERS on 19 April 1818 in Clermont County, OH,129 and had eleven children. Jonathan died 21 September 1856 in Clermont County. As far as I know, Jonathan is also the only child of Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. for whom there exists a photograph. Looking at the photo, shown here, one can see the strong resemblance between Jonathan Singleton DONHAM and Ferdinand Lee DONHAM. Ferdinand should look like Jonathan — after all, Jonathan is his granduncle and his half-granduncle at the same time.
The will of Jonathan S. DONHAM (of Clermont County, OH) is in Vigo County will Book 1, page 94, dated 10 February 1855, and recorded 5 October 1859. An abstract shows that it lists daughter Elizabeth Caroline DONHAM, daughter Harriett DONHAM, daughter Eliza Mary DONHAM, daughter Hiley Ann DONHAM, daughter Florilla Jane DONHAM, daughter Eveline DONHAM, son Perry Jackson DONHAM, son Harrison Layfeett DONHAM, son Erasmus Johnathan DONHAM, and son Robert Warren DONHAM. Executors were Perry Jackson DONHAM and Leafeitte DONHAM. Witnesses were Robert F. WATKINS, Wm. HOBSON, and Nathan LAYCOCK.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN SINGLETON DONHAM & ELIZABETH AYERS
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1 NAME: Perry Jackson DONHAM
BORN: 1824 PLACE: Cincinnati,Hamilton,OH
SPOUSE: Sarah M. McCLAIN
MARR: 1 May 1851 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH130
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2 NAME: Mary Eliza DONHAM
BORN: 1827
SPOUSE: Benjamin ELY
MARR: 16 Aug 1855 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH131
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3 NAME: Erasmus Jonathan DONHAM
BORN: 1829
SPOUSE: Helen LINDSEY
MARR: 27 Nov 1862 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH132
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4 NAME: Cordelia E. DONHAM
SPOUSE: James Augustus HITCH
MARR: 2 Nov 1865 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH133
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5 NAME: Harrison Lafayette DONHAM
BORN: PLACE: Mount Washington
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6 NAME: Robert Warren DONHAM
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7 NAME: Hiley Ann DONHAM
SPOUSE: Thomas KENNEDY
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8 NAME: Evaline DONHAM
SPOUSE: Thomas L. NICHOLS
MARR: 18 Dec 1836 PLACE: ,Clermont,OH134
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9 NAME: Florella Jane DONHAM
SPOUSE: J. H. SIMMONS
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10 NAME: Harriet L. DONHAM
SPOUSE: H. M. KECK /Reverend
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11 NAME: Elizabeth Caroline DONHAM
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