Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church Marriage Records,

1745-1776.

About 1700 or 1701 a number of the members of the Piscataqua Baptist Church, in Piscataqua township, Middlesex county, withdrew from that church and formed a separate congregation, observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. They chose a minister and deacon, October 11, 1705, and in the fourth month, 1707, organized a Seventh Day Baptist Church, with eighteen members. Edmond Dunham, one of the originators of the church, having been ordained at Westerly, R. I., in 1705, was the first pastor; he had been a lay preacher in the Piscataqua Church since 1689. He continued pastor of the new church until his death, March 7, 1734, in his 73d year. He was succeeded in 1745 by his son, the Rev. Jonathan Dunham, who had preached to the congregation as a licentiate for many years. He occupied the pulpit until March 11, 1777, when he died of the smallpox. The next pastor was the Rev. Nathan Rogers, ordained March 12, 1787, at Westerly, R. I., and who the same year assumed charge of the Piscataway church. The early records of the church have not been preserved. Some years ago Mr. Oliver B. Leonard, now of Perth Amboy, found in Western Pennsylvania the marriage records which had been kept by the Rev. Jonathan Dunham, during his pastorate, 1745 to 1776. He made a careful copy of the records, and has kindly placed the same at the disposal of the editor for publication in this volume.

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Clawson, Zachariah, and Johanna Whitehead..

Collins, Patience, and Ebenezer Giles.

Combs, Mary, and John Dowden.

Compton, John, and Sarah Morgan.
Conger, Dorcas, and Daniel Waldron.
Congar, John, and Mary Dunham.
Coriel, Agnes, and Andrew Smalley.
Corinson, Hannab, and John Arnold..

Davis, Esther, and Isaac Fourat..
Davis, Isaac, and Jane Dunham..
Davis, Jarman, and Esther Ayres.
Dayton, Jonathan, and Elizabeth Hull.
Denuis, Joseph, and Anna Drake.
Dowden, John, and Mary Combs.
Doyle, Elizabeth, and William Smith.
Drake, Andrew, and Rebecca Dunham
Drake, Anna, and Joseph Dennis.
Drake, Elizabeth, and David Pound..
Drake, Reuben, and Sarah F. Randolph..
Dunn, Benjamin, and Mary Roy..
Dunn, Daniel, and Sarah F. Randolph

..1751 Oct. 23

.1768 Sept. 30

1747 July 30

1763 Feb. 1

1750 Feb. 25

1768 Mar. 30

1746 Feb. 26

1765 Dec. 8

Fitz Randolph, Catharine, and Israel Thornell.
Fitz Randolph, Jacob, and Catharine Smalley..
Fitz Randolph, James, and Mary Moore...
Fitz Randolph, Malachi, and Sarah Bonham...
Fitz Randolph, Margaret, and Samuel Fitz Randolph.
Fitz Randolph, Mary, and Jeremiah Dunn, Jr. . . . .
Fitz Randolph, Mary, and Gabriel Laboyteux..
Fitz Randolph, Samuel, and Margaret F. Randolph.
Fitz Randolph, Sarah, and Reuben Drake.
Fitz Randolph, Sarah, and Daniel Dunn...
Fitz Randolph, Thomas, and Elizabeth Dunn..

.1766 Sept. 14

1753 Jan. 2

Fourat, Isaac, and Esther Davis.

1768 May 23

The Scotch Plains Baptist Church was constituted September 8, 1747, by fifteen members from the Piscataqua Church. A building had been erected five years earlier, which was enlarged in 1759. The Rev. Benjamin Miller was the pastor from February 13, 1748, until his death, November 14, 1781. He was succeeded by the Rev. William Vanhorn, in 1785. The early records of the church are quite imperfect. The following list of marriages performed by the Rev. Benjamin Miller was taken from the first book of church minutes by Mr. O. B. Leonard, of Perth Amboy: