Japhet Byram (1721 - 1801)

Born 21 May 1721 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Allen) Byram — married 14 Dec 1742 (to 1744) in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass. Bay

Descendants

Died 9 Jun 1801 at age 80 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Japhet Byram performed Patriotic Service in New Jersey in the American Revolution.

Japhet Byram served as a Revolutionary Solider. Japhet was a Private in the Morris Co., Militia. He received certificate No. 168, amounting to 1.7.2 Pounds, for the depreciation of his Continental Pay.

Some authorities claim Japhet died at the home of his son Nicholas in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey. Japhet moved to New Jersey with his father, Ebenezer.

Japhet Byram headstone states his name as Jeptha Byram esq.

Marriages

1. Sarah Allen m. on December 13, 1742 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Sarah Allen is the daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Reed) Allen.
2. Unknown Conklin on m. 1746.
3. Elizabeth Tappan m. on January 10, 1754. Records of the Presbyterian Church of Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey state" "Japhet Byram and Elizabeth Tappan were married 10 Jan. 1754 by the Pastor, Rev. Jacob Green".
4. Mary Chamberlain m. on 1762. Mary Chamberlain was the widow of Benjamin Chamberlain.

Child of Japhet Byrum & Sarah Allen

1. Sarah Byram b. 1744. Died on the day she was born along with her mother.

Child of Japhet Byram and Unknown Conklin

1. Nicholas Byram b. 1747

Children of Japhet Byram and Elizabeth Tappan

1. Japhet Byram Jr. b. 1753
2. Hannah Byram b. 1756
3. Elizabeth Byram b. 1760 (Twin) died young
4. Rebecca Byram b. 1760 (Twin)

Children of Japhet Byram and Mrs. Mary Chamberlain

1. Ruth Byram b. 1763
2. Seth Benjamin Byram b. 1765
3. Mary Byram b. 1767

Sources

• DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A018006
• Find A Grave: Memorial #33772678
• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 2129
• Virkus, Frederick Adams. The Compendium of American Genealogy (A.N. Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1933) Vol. V.
• Dodd, Jordan. Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 (Liahona Research, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005)
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2004)
• Frazer, Genivie Irons. (1982). Genealogy of Byram-Irons Families, 1610-1982.
• http://www.jewishgen.org/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I2080&ged=1_522646_u.ged
• Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1916) Vol. 2, Page 383.
• Bridgewater Marriages: "Washburn, Susanna and Jephtha Byram of Mendham, N.J., Feb. 19, 1761"
• “Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V58M-ZJZ : 28 July 2021), Japhet Byram, 1742.
• Japheth Byram, named executor with Catterin Dureberry and Peter Corselius, for George Dureberry, of Newtown, January 1786; witnesses: John Hockenberry, Peter Space and Japeth Byram, in Sussex County History Society [Sussex Co., New Jersey], Will Abstracts, Do-Dz, posted to their website by admin., February 16, 2014: http://www.sussexhistory.org/annals/will-abstracts/dz/