Major Absalom Bonham

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Absalom Bonham, son of Rev. Malachia & (1) wife, Jemima (Harker) Bonham, was born 1739; probably in Hunterdon Co., NJ; died 4 Oct 1794 in NC. He married (1) Jemima Harker, his first cousin, who died 1784, then Absalom married (2) Rebecca Morris or Cox.

Absalom was chosen as guardian for Cornelius Harker, a relative of his first wife, Jemima Harker.
According to Hazie in Bonham Revised, 1959, p. 42, Absalom, a post rider, was living in Frederick, MD at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He did not like the officers in the local military so he returned to his native New Jersey and enlisted in the Fourth Battalion, Second Establishment. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Nov. 1, 1777, then transferred to the First Battalion and promoted to 1st Lieutenant, March 27, 1780. He was mustered out as brevet-captain April 1783. He served in Green�s army of South Carolina. After the Revolutionary War, Absalom and his family moved to North Carolina, and his son James who had served as a lad of fifteen in the sige of Yorktown, kept on into South Carolina.
Absalom and Jemima (Harker) Bonham* had:

1. Jemima Bonham, born MD; married on 24 Apr 1779, George Nelson.
2. Elizabeth Rachel Bonham, born ~1762 in MD, who m John Lawrence Dorsey of Baltimore, MD, on 20 Dec 1785 in Frederick Co., MD.
3. Deborah or Mary Bonham, born MD; married on 13 Apr 1782 in Frederick Co., MD, Arthur Flemming or Fleming.
4. James Bonham, born 1 May 1766 in Frederick Co., MD, died 27 Nov 1827 or 1815 in SC; married (1) on 29 Mar 1787, Sarah Whitsel Lewis, born 18 Dec 1765, died 18 Dec 1795; married (2) in 1797, Sophia Butler Smith, born 18 Dec 1780, died 18 May 1858.
5. Malakiah Bonham, born 1767/1768 in MD; married on 24 Sep 1789 in Frederick Co., MD, Mary Williamson. They had Daniel Bonham.