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Robert DUNHAM

Male 1726 - Abt 1790  (63 years)


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  • Name Robert DUNHAM 
    Born Nov 1726  St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt 1790  Dunham's Bluff, Marion County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Buried on his Plantation at Dunham's Bluff, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7289  Bob-Millie Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 Jan 2025 

    Father John DUNHAM
              b. 24 Dec 1695, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Abt 1726, St .Thomas St. Dennis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Hannah SINGLETARY
              b. 18 Oct 1696, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Married Abt 1713  St.Thomas & St.Denis Parish, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2854  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susan BURNE
              b. 1730
              d. 1800, Marion County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 1746  Dorchester, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth DUNHAM
              b. 1748, St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     2. Susan Mary DUNHAM
              b. 1753, St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1825, Marion County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)  [natural]
     3. Joseph DUNHAM
              b. Abt 1754, St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     4. Ann DUNHAM
              b. 1758, St Thomas St Denis Parish, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     5. RobertSr Commander DUNHAM
              b. 1760, Marion County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1813, Baldwin County, Mississippi Territory (now Baldwin County, AL.) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)  [natural]
     6. Thomas DUNHAM
              b. 1763
              d. 1820, Columbia County, Ga.. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)  [natural]
     7. Hannah DUNHAM
              b. 1764
              d. 1812  (Age 48 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 22 Jan 2025 
    Family ID F3530  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Robert Dunnam and Susan Burn(e) migrated to Georgetown then up the Great Pee Dee River to Marion District where he developed a Plantation on the Pee Dee River, near Snow Island, at a place known to this day as Dunham's Bluff. During the American Revolution, Robert, John, and Ebenezer Dunnam, along with his brother in law, Andrew Burn(e), brother to Susan, gathered supplies for General Francis Marion, who quartered his troops during the Winter, on Snow Island. There are many Indents, dated around 1780-85, a form of receipt in the South Carolina Archives, giving evidence of their work. There are Indents for hogs, sheep beef, corn and other supplies.

      Robert Dunnam is said to have lost his life trying to fly with a large pair of wings he had constructed. He jumped from a tall tree on his plantation at Dunham's Bluff into "Nigger Lake" and drowned. He was buried at the family plot on his plantation.