Jonathan Singletary Dunham House
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Jonathan Singletary Dunham House, located in Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, the state's first township, chartered on June 1, 1669, by King Charles II,[4] is a house that was built around 1709 by Jonathan Singletary Dunham (January 17, 1640 – September 6, 1724), an early American settler and freeholder who built the first gristmill in New Jersey nearby the house.[1][5][6][2]
Jonathan Singletary Dunham House | |
Location | 650 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 40°33′51″N 74°16′21″W |
Built | ca. 1709[1][2] |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival |
Part of | Trinity Episcopal Church (ID04000431[3]) |
Added to NRHP | May 12, 2004 |
Jonathan Dunham was born in Newbury, Massachusetts and married Mary Bloomfield with whom he later moved to present day New Jersey. Bloomfield is a relative of Joseph Bloomfield, Governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named.[7][8] After building the first gristmill in New Jersey, he went on to serve the community in a variety of ways and was elected to the New Jersey Provincial Congress in 1673.[5][9][10][6][11][12][13] Jonathan Singletary Dunham was an ancestor of President Barack Obama.[11][14][15]