Jacob Dunham (1767-1832)

Name

Jacob Dunham (1767-1832)

Identifier

NJS-PER-00373

Given Name

Jacob

Family Name

Dunham

Birth Date

September 30, 1767

Death Date

August 23, 1832

Sex

Male

Description

Dr. Jacob Dunham (1767-1832) was physician in New Brunswick, NJ. He was the son of Azariah Dunham (1718-1790) and Mary Ford Dunham (c. 1734-1802). He practiced medicine in the city and the surrounding area for over thirty years. He enslaved a man named Will and drew income from hiring out Will to perform strenuous labor around the city. In 1808 and 1809, he got paid for hiring out Will to do construction work for the first permanent building for Queen's College (later Rutgers), the building now known as Old Queens.

Dunham's accounting records also document medical treatments that he provided for both enslaved and free people of color in New Brunswick.

Spouse of

Elizabeth Lawson Dunham

Sibling of

Lewis Ford Dunham (1754-1821)

Organization

Rutgers University

Same As

Jacob Dunham (Find a Grave)

Jacob Dunham (WikiTree)

Bibliographic Citation

Bayker, Jesse, Christopher Blakley, and Kendra Boyd. “His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History.” In Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, edited by MARISA J. FUENTES and DEBORAH GRAY WHITE, 58–81. Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Black Health in Early 19th-Century New Brunswick, exhibit by Kendra Boyd (Scarlet and Black Digital Archive)

Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham Genealogy: English and American Branches of the Dunham Family. Norwich, CT: Bulletin Print, 1907. (Page 260)

Clayton, W. Woodford, ed. History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. (Page 514)

Source Resource

https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/1447

Source Site

https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home

Occupation

Medical and Funerary

Child of

Azariah Dunham (1718-1790)

Contributor

Jesse Bayker