BONHAM, Nicholas

1630 - 1684  (54 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	BONHAM, Nicholas
  Birth	30 Jun 1630	Stanway Hall, Essex, England
  Christening	25 Dec 1630	Stickford, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jul 1684
  Death	20 Jul 1684	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
  WAC	29 Jan 1915	SLAKE
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  Person ID	I28183	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Family	FULLER, Hannah ,   b. 8 Oct 1636, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial Americad. 29 Oct 1683, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1658	Massachusetts
  Family ID	F15544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  He was born in Essex, Co. England. He was not on the 1643 Plymouth Colony list of those able to bear arms, so must have been under 16 then. (Elmer B. Hazie, 1977: Bonham, 1631-1977, p.38, quotes Barnstable Town Records (Plymouth Colony, p.2 "At a town meeting the 3rd of Oct. 1662. Ordered and agreed by ye town the sons of the present inhabitants shall successively be received as inhabitants and allowed equal Town Provileges and it is further agreed that these following be admitted as inhabitants." Among those listed were Nicholas Bonham and Samuel Fuller. His marriage and the births of his first two daughters are in Plymouth Colony Vital Records (=VR) (Mayflower Descendant, Vol.18, 1916, p.198). New Amsterdam fell to the English in 1664, and with it control of New Jersey. Nicholas Bonham moved his family to East Jersey, to Piscataway, where he was in 1672 when he signed the Oath of Allegiance (B.C. MacGunnigle, p.7) He founded Bonhamtown, near Perth Amboy, north of the Raritan River estuary, in Middlesex Co., N.J. His will of 6 Feb. 1683/4 gives Piscataway house to wife Hannah, then to hezekiah; wife Hannah to support children. Will of Nicholas Bonham The sixth day of February in ye year one thousand six hundred eighty three, I Nicolas Bonham of ye Town of Piscataway in ye County of Middlesex in East New Jersey being feeble in body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to the almighty God and calling to remembrance the uncertain estate of this transitory life, yet all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please God to call, do make, constitute, ordain and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, revoking and annulling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments, Will and Wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writings and this is to be taken only for my last Will and Testament and none other . . . And first being penitent and sorry from ye bottom of my heart for my Sins past most humbly desiring forgiveness for ye same I give and consine my Sole unto almighty God my Savior and redeemer in whom & by ye Merits of Jesus Christ. I trust and believe assuredly to be saved & so have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins & my sole with my body at ye general day of Resurrection shall rise again with joy and through ye merits of Christs death and passion passes & inherit ye Kingdom of Heaven prepared for his elect and chosen, and my body to be buried in such place where it shall please my executors here after named to appoint. And now for ye things of my temporal estate & such goods, chatels & debts as it hath pleased God far above my deserts to bestow upon me I do order give and dispose ye same in manner and form following that is to say... first I will pay all those debts & duties as i owe in right or conference to any manner of person or persons whatsoever shall be well and truly contented and paid, or ordained to be paid within convenient time after my decease by my executors here after named... (The will goes on to list the items and to whom they would go.) Will proved 18, Dec 1684 Nicholas Bonham and Hannah Fuller Posted 16 Sep 2017 by genung1012 Nicholas Bonham and Hannah Fuller Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey Barnstable County, Massachusetts consists of Cape Cod and its associated islands. It was settled in 1638. Nicholas Bonham and Hannah Fuller married on January 1, 1658 in Barnstable. They started their family in Barnstable. Their children are listed in First Settlers of ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge Olde Easte New Jersey, Part 4. Hannah Bonham Lippington was born on October 8, 1659. Mary Bonham Dunham was born on October 4, 1661.Sarah Bonham Fitz Randolph was born on February 16, 1664/65. Elizabeth Bonham Slater was born about 1665. Nicholas Bonham was born about 1667. Elijah Bonham was born about 1669. Justice Hezekiah Bonham was born about 1670. Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning. Piscataway Township, New Jersey was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire. The family moved to Piscataway about 1670-72. They were members of First Baptist Church of Piscataway. Samuel Bonham was born on September 7, 1672. Jane Bonham was born on January 29, 1675. She died on February 25, 1675/76. Priscilla Bonham Langstaff was born on November 11, 1677. Hannah married in 1677. Mary married in 1681. Samuel died on October 1, 1682 at the age of ten. Nicholas died July 20, 1684. Hannah died in 1685. Their son, Hezekiah was the executor and inherited Nicholas' land when he was only 14 years old.