Ruth Sharp Stelle Dunham
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00498
- Given Name
- Ruth
- Family Name
- Dunham
- Alternate Name
- Sharp
- Stelle
- Sex
- Female
- Biographical Description
- Ruth Dunham (formerly Mrs. Ruth Stelle, née Sharp) was an enslaver who lived in Piscataway, NJ. She the second wife of John Dunham. In 1807, John and Ruth Dunham jointly manumitted an enslaved woman named Margaret. Ruth signed the manumission paperwork by her mark; this suggests that she was not able to write.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Places
- Piscataway
- Enslaver of
- Margaret (b. 1786)
- Spouse of
- John Dunham (1740-1823)
- References
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Dunham, Isaac Watson, ed. Dunham Genealogy: English and American Branches of the Dunham Family. Norwich, CT: Bulletin Print, 1907. Page 288.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1807-06-03 Manumission: Margaret (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)
- Resource class
- Agent