Jeremiah Bonham

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1810, Frederick Co, Virginia
• Census: 1820, Hampshire Co, West Virginia
• Census: 1830, Hampshire Co, West Virginia
• Census: 1840, Hampshire Co, West Virginia
• Census: 1850, Hampshire Co, West Virginia

Notes:

1815 Tax List, Frederick Co. VA: BONHAM, Jeeremiah; Leeds Manor; located 20 miles southeast of the county courthouse at Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia
Martha Grenzeback graymatters@alltel.net (posted to Old Fred Co. list - this is her line)

Census:
Benj A. Bonham pg 41
Name: Benj A Bonham
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Frederick, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 bef 1765
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 4

same pg Jesse Orear
pg 42: William Payne
pg 40: Jane Madden, John Gaunt, William Madden,
John McCormick, Jesse Orear

1810 Frederick Co, Virginia
Jeremiah Bonham
Name: Jeremiah Bonham pg 51
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Frederick, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 1785-1794
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 1766-1784
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 1
Number of Household Members:

same pg John Mitchell, John and John R Palmer, Calmes Catlett
among purchasers of Catherine Ackley Bonham Jones:
John Palmer, Benjamin Mitchell, John McCormick, John Moffett


Census:
Name: Jermiah Bonham pg 35
[Jeremiah Bonham]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Hampshire, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Slaves - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Commerce: 4
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total Slaves: 1
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 9


Census:
Name: Samuel Bonham
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Hampshire, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 3

Name: Jeremiah Bonham
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Hampshire, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5


Census:
Name: Jeremiah Bonham
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Hampshire, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4


John A Cox and Thomas S. Cox between Susannah Bonham and Jeremiah.

widowed dau-in-law)

Name: Susanna (Yinger) Bonham (wid of Benj Bonham
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Hampshire, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 1801-1810
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6


Census:
Jeremiah Bonham 76 VA no occupation, $1200 cannot read/write
Ellen 76 VA

Jeremiah married Eleanor (Ellen) McDonald on 5 Jan 1796 in Loudoun Co, Virginia. Eleanor was born in 1774 in Virginia; died after 1850 in of, Hampshire Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Bonham was born about 1797 in Loudoun Co, Virginia; died before 1852 in Illinois.
2. Sarah Bonham was born in Nov 1796 in Loudoun Co, Virginia; died on 21 Dec 1886 in Caldwell, Missouri.
3. Benjamin Bonham was born on 5 May 1801 in Frederick Co, Virginia; died on 6 Oct 1836 in Shelby Co, Ohio.
4. Samuel Bonham was born on 18 Oct 1802 in Loudoun Co, Virginia; died on 26 Jun 1866 in Hampshire Co, West Virginia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1742, Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey
• Residence: Between 1770 and 1774, Loudoun Co, Virginia; tithables
• Census: 1810, Frederick Co, Virginia

Notes:

1742 - b New Jersey
1755, July 1 - Stated in grandfather Benjamin Martin's will: "bequeath unto my grandson Benjamin Bonham son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Bonham that lott of land which I bought of William Winfield lying at the place called the vinyard."
1764 - Loudoun Co, Va (tax duplicate)
1771-1780 - Loudoun Co, Va (tax records)
1782 - Frederick Co, Va (tax records)
1788 - moved back to Loudoun Co, Va
- to Fauquier Co, Va
- back to Frederick Co, Va
Benjamin was probably a minister, as was at least three of his sons. All were educated well by standards of the time.

Nathan was a minister and moved to Wythe Co, Va in 1791 and married several of the Bonham family there. Among the marriages was that of Nehemiah Bonham and Isabelle Scott and Deborah and Benjamin Peck, both couples married on the same day, 5 Jn 1796. Jeremiah bonded for her.
Smith and David left Virginia "which was becoming controlled by slaveholders and which made it difficult for a man of modest means to make a living for their growing family; so they decided to go to Ohio, which was opened up as a free State." (he Bonham Family)

Residence:
1770-1774 Loudoun Co Tithables: Stephen Jones -1; 5 scalps; Benjamin Pool -1; 5 scalps
(A List of Tithables taken by Stephen Donaldson for the year 1770. Tithables, Wheel Carriages & Squirrel Scalps)
Also listed: John Palmer & Samuel Palmer -2; 10 scalps
Peter Ackley, Barnett Ackley -2; 10 scalps
Bonhams listed: Aaron-, Amariah-, Benjamin-, Elijah-, Hezekiah- -, Joseph-, Nehemiah-, Nehemiah Jr-, Nehemiah Sr-, Peter-, Samuel-.

HEZEKIAH BONHAM sons (2nd wife):

(sons of Hezekiah/Runyon)
- Hezekiah 1731 (or Hezekiah 1741, s/o Nehemiah)
- Joseph 1735
- our Samuel

Nehemiah Sr. c 1702
- Benjamin
- Nehemiah Jr. c 1722
-- Aaron c 1741
-- Elijah c 1746
-- Nehemiah c 1748
- Hezekiah 1741

Amariah
-- Peter

Census:
Benj A. Bonham pg 41
Name: Benj A Bonham
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Frederick, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 bef 1765
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 4

same pg Jesse Orear
pg 42: William Payne
pg 40: Jane Madden, John Gaunt, William Madden,
John McCormick, Jesse Orear

1810 Frederick Co, Virginia
Jeremiah Bonham
Name: Jeremiah Bonham pg 51
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Frederick, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 1785-1794
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 1766-1784
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 1
Number of Household Members:

same pg John Mitchell, John and John R Palmer, Calmes Catlett
among purchasers of Catherine Ackley Bonham Jones:
John Palmer, Benjamin Mitchell, John McCormick, John Moffett

Benjamin married Phoebe Oney about 1766 in Loudoun Co, Virginia. Phoebe was born in 1745 in Wythe Co, Virginia; died on 1 Jun 1830 in Blount Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1722, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; tax list
• Other-Begin: 10 Mar 1729/30, Hopewell Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey
• Other-Begin: 1734, Hopewell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey
• Residence: Bef 1754, Kingwood Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey
• Residence: Between 1770 and 1774, Loudoun Co, Virginia; tithables
• Residence: Between 1775 and 1781, Loudoun Co, Virginia; tithables
• Research Notes: 26 Jan 2013; dna

Notes:

He was in Hunterdon Co, NJ in 1722. The tax roll contained the names of 138 men subject to taxation and among them was Nehemiah Bonham. the town records of Hopewell for 1729-1730 lists Nehemiah as "Constable." (The Bonham Family)
There is a possibility of another child, Amy Bonham, b: May 18, 1725 in New Jersey, but she is not listed in "The Bonham Family" by Samuel J. Bonham.

Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims, National Society of the Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol 3, pg 695. Submitted by Frank Cardwell Moffett, Olympia Washington, #8328 (Shows Nehemiah son of Ann Hunt. Line goes through Nehemiah, Jr. to Elizah Bonham & Phebe Harlan.)

Residence:
He had 2 head of cattle and 150 acres. His land was next to Anne's brother, Benjamin Stout


Other-Begin:
At a town meeting held on March 10, 1729/1730 Nehemiah Bonham and John Carpenter were elected constables for Hopewell Township.


Other-Begin:
Nehemiah Bonham lost title to his land about 1734 as a result of the Coxe Affair.
The Coxe Affair - Many residents of Hopewell Township lost ownership of their land to Colonel Daniel Coxe. Coxe demanded that Hopewell landowners either purchase their property from him again or be evicted. On April 22, 1731, fifty landlowners unsuccessfully sued Coxe to resist eviction.Some families immediately left and settled further south in Virginia and North Carolina, others paid him, and some resorted to acts of revenge.
http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Bonham%20Family/BonhamNehemiah1703.html

Residence:
1770-1774 Loudoun Co Tithables: Stephen Jones -1; 5 scalps; Benjamin Pool -1; 5 scalps
(A List of Tithables taken by Stephen Donaldson for the year 1770. Tithables, Wheel Carriages & Squirrel Scalps)
Also listed: John Palmer & Samuel Palmer -2; 10 scalps
Peter Ackley, Barnett Ackley -2; 10 scalps
Bonhams listed: Aaron-, Amariah-, Benjamin-, Elijah-, Hezekiah- -, Joseph-, Nehemiah-, Nehemiah Jr-, Nehemiah Sr-, Peter-, Samuel-.

HEZEKIAH BONHAM sons (2nd wife):

(sons of Hezekiah/Runyon)
- Joseph 1735
- our Samuel

Nehemiah Sr. c 1702
- Benjamin
- Nehemiah Jr. c 1722
-- Aaron c 1741
-- Elijah c 1746
-- Nehemiah c 1748
- Hezekiah 1741

Amariah
-- Peter

Residence:
1775-1781 Loudoun Co Tithables:
Jones: Daniel Jr, Enos, George, Henry, Isaac, Isaiah, Jabez, James, John, John Jr, John Sr, Joshua, Mary, Miskell, Philip, Richard, Robert, William.
Bonham: Aaron, -Ameriah, -Benjamin, ?John, -Joseph, ?Josias, -Nehemiah, -Peter, -Samuel, ?William


HEZEKIAH BONHAM sons (2nd wife):

(sons of Hezekiah/Runyon)
- Joseph 1735
- our Samuel

Nehemiah Sr. c 1702
- Benjamin
- Nehemiah Jr. c 1722
- Aaron c 1741

- Amariah
- Peter

note: only one Nehemiah listed, unk if Sr. or Jr.


Research Notes:
(dna) designation means he has been matched to the others marked (dna) as brothers. As of 2009, matches are Amariah, Nehemiah, Malakiah and Uriah.

Nehemiah married Elizabeth Martin about 1740 in Middlesex Co, New Jersey. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Martin and Philoreta Slater) was born on 9 Jan 1711 in Piscataway Twp, Middlesex Co, New Jersey; died in 1789 in Piscataway, Middlesex Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is indicated in the will of her father, Benjamin Martin.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Episcopal clergyman

Notes:

It it believed that he was born during his father's migration from Massachusetts to New Jersey. According to Jack D. Ross, Hezekiah was born in Barnstable Township, Barnstable, Maryland. At the death of his father he was made executor of thill along with his mother, although he was not of legal age. Thus, he surely had the confidence and respect of his father.
He was accepted as a townsman of Piscataway 2 Jan 1687/8 apparently on coming of age. He married in 1690 Mary Dunn, daughter of Hugh Dunn and Elizabeth Drake, one of the immigrant families of Mass. Hugh Dunn mentioned Hezekiah in his will. ry was born 19 Jan 1671 in Piscataway. They had four children: Mary, Samuel, Hannah and Sarah, their births being preserved in the Piscataway records." Family tradition indicates that he was an Episcopal clergyman. He was a farmer by trade.
During the period 1690 to 1699 there were numerous land transfers made by Hezekiah and his wife Mary, including receiving a patent for land at Piscataway in 1695. "Bonham's lot," also "Bonham's creeks," and "Nicholas Bonham's land" are spn of in different conveyances.
On 1 May 1697 Hezekiah Bonham received confirmation of a grant of 182 acres "in right of his late father Hezekiah Bonham, Thomas Ffarnewoorth and Daniel Lippington." Hezekiah Bonham and wife Mary later sold two of these tracts.
On 9 Oct 1697 Hezekiah Bonham of Piscataway and wife Mary sold land in Piscataway part of which was the "remainder of land held by Bonham in the right of Daniel Lippentone"
Hezekiah and wife Mary sold further land in Piscataway to Edward Slater on 27 Oct 1698. (Lippentone and Slater were brother-in-laws).
One Sunday in about 1697 or 1698 Hezekiah, who was credited with being a religious man and one of influence in the church, was found working by the very religious Edmund Dunham, his brother-in-law. Hezekiah's sister Mary had married Edmund Dm in 1681. Mr. Dunham was the first white child born in Piscataway township, and his father, Benjajah Dunham, is said to have settled here years before any other Englishmen arrived. Oliver B. Leonard in writing on "Piscataway Planters" says "Edmund Dunham grew to be an influential member of society, and became a lay preacher, helping to mold the tender consciences and direct the religiously inclined of the pioneer community." At that time Edmund was pastor of the Baptist Church of Piscataway. Because Edmund found Hezekiah working on Sunday he took him to account. To quote Morgan Edwards on the incident:
"Bonham put Dunham to prove that the first day of the week was holy by divine institution. How the debate was carried on is not known; but it is known that the above attack was the thing which set Mr. Dunham to study the subject; and that cing the seventh day of the week was the effect. In a short time after 17 people sided with Mr. Dunham which opened a prospect of having a Sabbatarian church in Piscataway; to prepare for it Mr. Dunham went to Westerly, (RI) and there received ordination at the hands of Rev. William Gibbons; and in 1705 he and his party were formed into a church," the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Piscataway.
Hezekiah was not among the organizers. He had moved to Hunterdon in West Jersey in about 1698 as he appears in no record of any kind in Piscataway after 1698, except the sale of further land in Piscataway to Edward Slater on 27 Oct 1698. (Lintone and Slater were brother-in-laws). Evidently the property was sold after their move since on 18 March 1698/9 he appears in a list of inhabitants of Maidenhead when Gov. Jeremiah Basse and others, as agents, sold 100 acres to the inhabitants of Maidenhead for 5 shillings, for a meeting house, school and burial ground, thus indicating that he had an interest in that section of New Jersey.
(my note: there is no evidence of this 2nd marriage and 15 children)
Mary Dunn died Nov 7, 1699 and he remarried in 1700 in Hunterdon Co. By his second wife he had 15 more children, some thirteen of whom bore names ending in the Biblical "iah". Hence they are called the"iah" BONHAMS. These children were Heze, Jr.; Nehemiah; Zachariah; Zedekiah; Amariah; Temperance; Malachiah; Amaziah; Jeremiah; Ephraim; Josiah; Isaiah; Obadiah; Zephamia; and Uriah.
On 28 Aug 1701 he is mentioned as an abutter in Middlesex Co,; on 26 Aug 1703 he was among those who consented to an agreement between Dr. Daniel Coxe, Esq. and Thomas Revell, on behalf of purchasers of land in Maidenhead and Hopewell Townsh
On 1 Jan 1712/3 he contributed money to organize a new county (in this document he is Hezekiah Bonham, Sr., indicating that a younger Hezekiah, not necessarily his son, was in the town).
On 24 Nov 1722 he witnessed the will of Jonathan Stout of Hopewell Township.
In 1723 he was a judge in Hunterdon Co.
On 6 Nov 1730 his original signature appears with others on an agreement to sell the town lot to the highest bidder.
On 21 April 1732 his bond is mentioned in the codicil to the will of Daniel Howell of Trenton.
On 9 July 1738 his signature appears on the will of Henry Merson, the last known recording of his name. The exact date of his death and burial place are unknown.
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There is some debate as to the identity of his second wife. According to "Mayflower Families through Five Generations," Vol 4, p 37, "Hezekiah Bonham does not appear in the Hunterdon Co. court records but is mentioned in the following document, none of which mention a second wife or any other children." It also states "This claim may have originated in misinterpretation of the will of Samuel Hunt of Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co, dated 15 Jan 1717/8 in which he decreed that his real estate was to be partititioned among Samuel Hunt's heirs by son Samuel, by Hezekiah Bonham, and by John Prince."
According to "The Bonham Family" by Samuel J. Bonham, pg 9, she was Ann Hunt, daughter of Ralph or Samuel Hunt. This theory is derived from the will of Samuel Hunt, New Jersey Archives, Vol. 21, p 248.
According to "Bonham and Related Family Lines" by H. E. Bonham 1996, says on page 229, that Hezekiah's second wife was Mary Bishop, daughter of David & Mary (Alger) Bishop according to the will of David Bishop 07 Jan 1684 where he mentions a Hezekiah Bonham married to his daughter Mary. However, in 1684 Hezekiah, son of Nicholas, was 17 years old and it was four years later that he married Mary Dunn in 1690. There must have been another Hezekiah Bonham; although, according to references, there was no evidence of another Hezekiah Bonham.

Hezekiah* married Ann Hunt, (2nd wife?) in 1700 in Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey. Ann (daughter of Samuel Hunt and Mary Burroughs) was born in 1678 in Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died after 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some say 2nd wife was mary Bishop, daughter of David & Mary (Alger) Bishop, according to the will of David Bishop 7 January 1684 (source: "Bonham & Related Family Lines" by H.E. Bonham 1996, p 229.

Other sources say his Hezekiah's second wife was Ann Hunt, daughter of Ralph or Samuel Hunt, and that they were married in 1699 in Maidenhead, New Jersey.
The children listed are listed as the children of Hezekiah and Ann Hunt.

From Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 4, p 38:
*Note: No evidence found to support Monette's claim that Hezekiah had second wife Ann Hunt. The claim may have originated in misinterpretation of the will of Samuel Hunt of Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co, dated 15 Jan 1717/8 in which he decreed tht his real estate was to be partitioned among Samuel Hunt's heirs by son Samuel, by Hezekiah Bonham, and by John Prince.
Monette lists the following as children of Hezekiah Bonham and his unproven 2nd wife Ann Hunt: Hezekiah, Nehemiah, Zachariah, Zedekiah, Amariah, Temperence, Malachiah, Amaziah, Ephraim, Jeremiah, Josiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Uriah & Obadiah.
(The ancestors of Ann Hunt were supplied by Foxlover@aol.com of Salt Lake City.)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: Jul 1755, Piscataway Twp, Middlesex Co, New Jersey; written

Notes:

Will:
Will was written, mentioned Nehemiah and Elizabeth.

Benjamin married Philoreta Slater about 1707 in Piscataway Twp, Middlesex Co, New Jersey. Philoreta (daughter of Edward Slater and Elizabeth Bonham) was born on 23 Feb 1691 in Piscataway Twp, Middlesex Co, New Jersey; died after 1 Jul 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]