GENERATION 11

GENERATION 10

Biography

JOHN DUNHAM was granted six acres of land by his father, Deacon JOHN DUNHAM, when JOHN was sixteen years old. The land of father and son adjoined. When JOHN was twenty-one years old, he was given a meadow and 20 acres of land northeast of Josiah Cook's. He was admitted freeman, Mar. 7, 1643. He received grants of land by the General Court.

In 1659, he was permitted by the court to select land for himself. In 1661, he and four others were allotted land at Sconset. In 1662, he was granted land by an act of the General Court, "to give to the first born of the Early Comers." He died at Wellsfleet, Eastham, in 1692. His will was made at Plymouth, Feb. 2, 1691.