Jonathan Bingham (1735)|K64P-R9D,2HH8-GSC,K1RY-7F4,L786-QZM
JONATHAN was born in Windham 20 Feb. 1735, nine months and baptized 22 February. His mother, MARY ABBE, died twelve days after he was born. A year later, his father married SARAH UPTON, widow of MALTIAH VINTON. JONATHAN not only had a new mother, but a new sister, and he became the second oldest in the family.
JONATHAN grew up on his father’s farm in Windham and at the age of twenty five married RACHEL MUDGE. RACHEL was the sister of LYDIA MUDGE who had married JONATHAN’s uncle, SAMUEL BINGHAM. JONATHAN and RACHEL’s firstborn were twins, but RACHEL and one twin died. RACHEL’s sister LYDIA, and her husband SAMUEL BINGHAM, adopted the other twin.
JONATHAN married, second, ELIZABETH WARNER. Their marriage took place in Mansfield’s First Church 12 Apr 1764. They had two sons whose births were recorded in Mansfield before ELIZABETH died.
JONATHAN married for a third time, perhaps in 1774, a woman from Canaan, Grafton, N.H. Her last name was AMES. Her first name is not known. They had two children who can be accounted for and probably a third. The first child may have been born in Scotland, Connecticut in 1774. But by 1776, JONATHAN lived in Lebanon, Grafton, N.H. By then his children from his second marriage would have been nine and eleven, but records do not indicate if they were living with him or not.
By 1790, JONATHAN lived in Cornish, Chesire, N.H. where the U.S. census recorded him with one male under sixteen and one female over sixteen. JONATHAN’s three oldest children would have been on their own by 1790. The 1800 U.S. census for Cornish showed JONATHAN and wife over forty-five with one male over sixteen, one female over sixteen, and one female under sixteen. From this data we can deduce that son FREDERICK was the child born in 1774, and that daughter AMY died after 1800. If AMY died after 1800 and she was seventeen at the time, as previously reported, then she was born 1784 or after and was the youngest female.
JONATHAN was active in Cornish town affairs serving as surveyor of highways, fence viewer and tithingman before he became deacon in 1804. He appeared on the U.S. census for the last time in 1810 as he died in that year age seventy-five.
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