Esther (Martin) Dunn (abt. 1682 - aft. 1744)

Born about 1682 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey

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Died after 1744 after about age 62 in New Jersey

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Esther Martin was the 3rd child born of this name to John Martin and Dorothy Smith. There were two daughters named Esther with recorded birth and death dates transcribed from the town book of Piscataway but not a third. Esther was mentioned in the will of her father dated 1703.^[1] She married to Samuel Dunn Sr., brother-in-law of her older sister Elizabeth who married to Hugh Dunn. Their marriage occurring shortly after the death of her father in 1704. The records of the Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church, where their families were members, list Samuel and Esther Dunn as constituents in 1704-1707 but no marriage record exist for this congregation at this early date. Esther Martin was listed as born in 1682 among the children of John Martin and Dorothy Smith in the publication of Everybody's Ancestry by Louise N. Lodge, as were the two daughters who passed, Elizabeth, Patience, Dorothy, and John, but in error this Esther Martin was listed as having married to Jonathon Compton, the gentleman proven by his will to have married her cousin of the same name.^[2][3] Esther was surviving when Samuel Dunn made his Will the 9th of November in 1744. It is probable she too died in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey.

1703 May 21 . Martin , John , of Piscatteque, yeoman; will of. Wife Ann. Children—Elizabeth Dun, Ester Martin, Dorthy Martin, John Martin (under age), Richard Martin, brothers Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas Martin, sisters Mary Hall and Lydey Smalley. Real and personal estate. Executors—brother Benjamin Martin and Samuel Blackford. Witnesses—Benjamin Martin, Joseph Martin and Stephen Willson. Proved April 18, 1704. Lib. I, p. 34, and Middlesex Wills 1703 June 12. Inventory of the personal estate (£219.17.6); made by John Royse and Edmond Dunham. 1708 April 21. Administration on the estate granted to Hugh Huddy, principal creditor. Lib. I, p. 196^[4]

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1. ↑ https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE106591
2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/everybodysancest00lodg/page/22
3. ↑ https://archive.org/details/calendarnewjers00edgoog/page/n114
4. ↑ https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE106591

Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey, vol. 23 on ExLibris Rosetta. pg 308

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The New Hampshire genealogical record : an illustrated quarterly magazine devoted to genealogy, history, and biography : official organ of the New Hampshire Genealogical Society by New Hampshire Genealogical Society; New Hampshire Society of Genealogists; Chaplin, Ann Theopold. Dover, N. H. : George W. Tibbetts, 1903-1904. pg 150

• https://archive.org/details/newhampshiregene01newh/page/150?

Orra Eugene Monnette. First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey. The Leroy Carman Press, Los Angeles, California, 1930. (SLFHL 974.941 D2m and Fiche 6046407)

Anthony T. Christensen. A branch of the Piscataway Dunn family : a few members of the Dunn family whose ...on ExLibris Rosetta. pg 1-11. *https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE10080686

O. B. Leonard. Genealogical Collection of the Inhabitants of Piscataway and Woodbridge, New Jersey, and some of their descendants. (SLFHL F945947-945950, 947065-947069)

Burnett, Edgar Albert, 1865-1941. The Burnett genealogy / by Edgar Albert Burnett ; supplementing the Burnap-Burnett genealogy (1925) by Henry Wyckoff Belknap. Pg 68.

• https://archive.org/details/burnettgenealogy00burn/page/n133

Research Notes

This sources lists Esther b. 1682 dau. of John and Dorothy as incorrectly marrying to John Compton in 1701, (source does include 7 ch. of John and Dorothy) including Patience b. 1684. This same source lists Esther Martin b. 4 Aug 1683 dau. of Benjamin (John's brother) and Margaret Reynolds. She positively married to John Compton per his will dated 1745 naming brother-in-law Peter Martin and Jonathan Martin).

• Lodge, N. Louise. Everybody's Ancestry,1864-. Indianapolis, Ind. 1917.https://archive.org/details/everybodysancest00lodg/page/22

Will of John Compton

• New Jersey Historical Society, William Nelson, Abraham Van Doren Honeyman, Elmer T. Hutchinson (ed.). Calendar of New Jersey wills, administrations, etc, Volume 30 pg 106.https://archive.org/details/calendarnewjers00edgoog/page/n114

Acknowledgements

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