page_title: Jonathan Singletary Dunham
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Jonathan Singletary Dunham / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo depicts the home that Jonathan Dunham built in 1671 in Woodbridge, NJ
context_page_description: Jonathan Dunham, known in his early life as Jonathan Singletary, was a prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, who built the first gristmill in New Jersey.
context_section_description: Jonathan Singletary, later Dunham, was born on January 17, 1639/40, in Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Singletary. He married Mary Bloomfield (a relative of the later New Jersey Governor Joseph Bloomfield, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named).
  He and his wife migrated to Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, the first Township of New Jersey, which was chartered by King Charles II on June 1, 1669. Possibly due to an unsubstantiated family legend about his father being the heir of the family of Dunham, or because Jonathan himself was the son of an earlier marriage of Richard Singletary to a Dunham wife who had died in 1638/39, Jonathan Singletary called himself Dunham after moving to New Jersey. While all of the other sons of Richard Singletary used the Singletary surname, Jonathan adopted the name of Dunham, and all of his children retained it.
  At Woodbridge, Dunham was granted 213 acres (0.86 km²) of land by the newly appointed Governor of New Jersey. Upon this land, he built the first gristmill in New Jersey. He later received a further grant of 203 acres (0.82 km²) and also acquired many other tracts of land in New Jersey and Massachusetts. After finding success with his gristmill, Dunham went into public life, serving as the Clerk of the Woodbridge Township Court and overseer of highways, and in 1673 he was elected to the New Jersey Provincial Congress.
caption: Jonathan Singletary Dunham House in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Original millstone used by Dunham and memorial plaques appear in foreground.
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