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From: "Brownie MacKie" <>
Subject: Re: [NJ-GSNJ] NJ-GSNJ Digest, Vol 2, Issue 117
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 11:41:07 -0600
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It occurred to me after posting that I had not mentioned dates. Brain
overload! :-) Mid-17th century to mid 18th century. Some stayed on in NJ
after the Daniel Coxe affair..but many of the Bonhams migrated (or fled)
southeast.

On Dec 9, 2007 9:07 AM, DEK <> wrote:

> Brownie,
>
> Where and when did these people live in New Jersey? While I don't think I
> have any information about this family, it might help others who might.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Kane
>
>
>
>
>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:04:18 -0600
> From: "Brownie MacKie" <>
> Subject: [NJ-GSNJ] BONHAM, Hunt, Harker, Stout, Dunn, Heath; Anybody
> connected with Bonhams before the Daniel Coxe Affair
> To:
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> Dear All:
>
> Founder of Bonhamton, Nicholas Bonham and his wife Hannah Fuller, raised
> children and had grandchildren in NJ. Their son Hezekiah, Sr. was the
> father of many children, about seventeen in all, four by his first wife
> and
> thirteen by his second
> .
> Many of the Bonhams migrated out of NJ because of the Daniel Coxe affair
> and
> their unwillingness to pay twice for their land. They were a hard-headed,
> irreverent bunch, but managed to survive to produce many, many more
> Bonhams. My ggg grandfather, Absalom Bonham, son of Malakiah, son of
> Hezekiah, Sr, was the grandfather of James Butler Bonham, who was killed
> at
> the Alamo, and Milledge Luke Bonham, who was a governor of Louisiana.
>
> Hezekiah Bonham, Sr. supposedly married a second time to Anne Hunt, but we
> can't prove that. We need to be able to prove his second wife, whom he
> married in about 1700. His first wife, Mary Dunn, daughter of Hugh Dunn,
> died after having four children.
>
> Several of us have been researching this issue for almost four years.
> We've
> read all the books; perused all the records; combed the internet. I've
> been to Trenton to the archives twice. Somewhere out there are old
> letters, old records, sitting in somebody's attic or closet that could
> help
> us. That's my faith. And I'm asking if there is someone who might have
> such records to please come forward. We also need Harker records.
> Absalom
> supposedly married a Jemima or Deborah Harker first and Rebecca Cox
> secondly. We need help.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sincerely,
> Brownie MacKie
>
>
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