# Jonathan Singletary

Jonathan Dunham (January 17, 1640 – September 6, 1724), known in his early life as jonathan singletary, was a prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, who built the first gristmill in New Jersey. == Life == jonathan singletary, later Dunham, was born on January 17, 1639/40, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Singletary and Susanna Cooke. He married Mary Bloomfield (a relative of the later New Jersey Governor Joseph Bloomfield, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named).He and his wife migrated to Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, the first Township of New Jersey, which was chartered by King Charles II on June 1, 1669.