Edwin Dunham and Jane C. Cornwell

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Husband Edwin Dunham ¹

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           Born: 5 Jan 1800 - Fabius, Onondaga Co, NY 1
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         Father: David Dunham (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 31 Dec 1821 1

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Wife Jane C. Cornwell ¹

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         Father: Aspinwall Cornwall (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Frances [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Edwin Dunham

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In 1819 his father purchased 288 acres of land near the present site of Pleasantville, Venango County, PA. In 1820, he removed to this portion of the country. In connection with Abraham Lovell, he obtained a contract of Aaron Benedict to plow thirteen acres, which embraced a portion of the present site of Pleasantville. They worked early and late, but their task was little more than an acre per day. The price per acre was twenty shillings, but they had to pay two shillings each day for the use of a plow, and were forced to use four oxen. In the spring of 1821, his father, mother, and the rest of the family arrived. They traveled in a sleigh to Orlean Point, and from thence they came in a boat down the Allegheny river to Holeman’s Ferry, at which place they were only a few miles from their destination.
He and his wife were the parents of eight children, three of whom were still living in 1879.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 550.

2 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 807.