{"id":2030,"date":"2020-12-10T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2020-12-10T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:41:55","slug":"benjamin-e-dunbar-mayflower-descendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin E. Dunbar, Mayflower Descendant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/121020_1741_BenjaminEDu1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>Most people with Mayflower lineage are descended from more than one Pilgrim. Does my family? I have some clues to pursue.\n<\/p>\n<p>This month I wrapped up my research into the Mayflower lineage of my ancestor, Lucy Snow Hall (1760-1795). I have documented her descent through both her father and her mother from Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins.\n<\/p>\n<p>I still need to investigate the possibility that she had another Mayflower ancestor. In addition to Stephen Hopkins, her father Thomas Snow (1735-1790) may have counted William Brewster as his ancestor. The line would run through Thomas Snow&#8217;s paternal grandmother, Sarah Freeman.\n<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was the only other Mayflower line I might have, and I do need to investigate this possibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>Then earlier this week, a surprising hint of yet another Mayflower ancestor landed in my inbox. Family Search sent me a message claiming that my 3rd great-grandfather, Benjamin E. Dunbar (1774-1831) descends from Mayflower passenger Mary Chilton. Dunbar was Lucy Snow&#8217;s son-in-law having married her daughter Rhoda (1784-1850) in 1805.\n<\/p>\n<p>I wonder about this proposed Mayflower line. The family tree posted on Family Search lists Dunbar&#8217;s Mayflower pedigree as running through his mother Hannah. They say she was Hannah Latham, daughter of Joseph Latham II.\n<\/p>\n<p>My copy of the Dunbar family genealogy, the heavily-researched <em>The Descendants of Robert Dunbar of Hingham, Massachusetts<\/em> by Ann Theopold Chapin (1992), says Benjamin E. Dunbar was the son of Hannah Hathaway, not Hannah Latham.\n<\/p>\n<p>Who was his mother, and what is his maternal heritage? I had already settled on Benjamin Dunbar as my research subject for 2021.  A possible Mayflower line for him would make the research year all the more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people with Mayflower lineage are descended from more than one Pilgrim. Does my family? I have some clues to pursue. This month I wrapped up my research into the Mayflower lineage of my ancestor, Lucy Snow Hall (1760-1795). I have documented her descent through both her father and her mother from Mayflower passenger Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-mayflower-descendants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}