Jonathan Singletary Dunham
Jonathan Dunham, known in his early life as Jonathan Singletary, was a prominent early European-American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, who built the first gristmill in New Jersey. He was an ancestor of President Barack Obama.
Memorial at Trinity Episcopal Church in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
Jonathan Singletary Dunham House in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Original millstone used by Dunham and memorial plaques appear in foreground.
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
Woodbridge Township is a township in northern Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is a regional hub of transportation and commerce for central New Jersey and a major bedroom suburb of New York City, within the New York metropolitan area. Located within the core of the Raritan Valley region, Woodbridge Township hosts the junction of the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, the two busiest highways in the state, and also serves as the headquarters for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates both highways.
The New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) in Woodbridge Township, near its intersection with the Garden State Parkway
The Jonathan Singletary Dunham House, built in 1709
Woodbridge River in Woodbridge Township, 2008
Heards Brook in Woodbridge Township