| 8. | Thomas* Dungan, (immigrant) was born on 13 Feb 1632 in St. Martin, Westminster, London, England (son of William* Dungan, (son?) and Frances* Latham, (immigrant)); died on 1 Feb 1688 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. Notes:
BIOGRAPHY: Thomas (Dunkin) Dungan was born 13 Feb 1634/35 in St. Martin, Westminster, London, England, and died 1 Feb 1687/88 in Cold Springs, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Elizabeth Weaver 1663 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, daughter of Clement Weaver and Mary Freeborn. She was born 1647 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, England, and died 1690 in Cold Springs, Bristol Township Bu cks, Pennsylvania.
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Name: Rev. Thomas Dungan Sex: M Birth: 1632 in London, England Death: 1687 in Cold Springs, Pennsylvania Note:
The Rev. Thomas Dungan (1632/4 - 1687) was born about 1632 in London, England, the son of William Dungan, perfumer, and Frances Latham. After the death of his father in 1636, his mother married Jeremiah Clarke with whom she and her four children came to America. Little is known of the early years of Rev. Thomas Dungan except that he likely received his education under Roger Williams or his brother Robert Williams, who was a schoolmaster at Newport.
Numerous records have been found which give us a picture of Thomas Dungan in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. He was elected a Freeman at the Court of Election held on 20 May 1656 at Portsmouth. About 1663 he married Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of Clement Weaver, Jr. and Mary Freeborn. Their children, all born in Rhode Island, were: William, Eliza-beth, John, Clement, Rebecca, Thomas, Jeremiah, Mary and Sarah.
About 1670 he acquired 240 acres in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. His half brother, Gov. Walter Clarke, also purchased land in Monmouth New Jersey. Thomas' land in New Jersey was sold in 1674 to Mrs. Sarah Reape.
On 7 Jun 1671 Thomas Dungan was a member of a special court to try two Indians, as a juror from Newport. On 31 October 1677 he was named one of the Patentees in the charter of the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. In April 1678 he was elected one of the two Representatives from East Greenwich to the Rhode Island Assembly. The other Representative was his brother-in-law, Clement Weaver. In 1681, the year in which Wil-liam Penn's charter was granted, Thomas was re-elected to the Assem-bly. During the time he was in the Assembly he probably studied for the ministry under his step-father, the Rev. William Vaughan.
Although the majority of the colonists of Penn's settlement were Quakers, there were also many Baptists, and Mr. Dungan decided to move to Pennsylvania. He conveyed his estate of 100 acres in East Greenwich by deed of gift dated June 28, 1682, to his nephew, Thomas Weaver. Three months later he sold his 50 acre homestead in Newport to John Bailey. Shortly thereafter his moved his family to Pennsylvania, settling in Cold Springs in Bucks County, where he founded the first Baptist Church in Pennsylvania. He continued as the pastor of this church until his death in late 1687 or early 1688. The church is no longer there except for the graveyard where Thomas Dungan is buried.
Rev. Thomas Dungan's will dated March 3, 1687, was proved February 29, 1688. On April 2, 1689, his four sons sold two hundred acres of the four hundred acres "granted by William Penn to Thomas Dungan, Sr. and his son, Clement Dungan." Elizabeth Weaver Dungan probably died about 1690. Thomas and Elizabeth Dungan had nine children.
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references:
"Richard Dungan Master Plasterer of London in Shakespeare's Time (A Continuing Quest for Origins)" by Thomas P. Dungan (2003)
"A Quest for Origins The Search for the Parentage of William Dungan, Perfumer of St. Martin-in-the-Fields," by Thomas P. Dungan (1997)
"John Dongan of Dublin An Elizabethan Gentleman and his Family" by Thomas P. Duncan (1996)
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e: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
DDowell1029 (View posts) Posted: 26 Sep 2004 9:31PM
Classification: Biography
Edited: 2 Jan 2006 12:11PM
Surnames: Dungan
Although this old bio got the place of birth wrong, it still has interesting information:
"Dungan, Rev. Thomas, was born in Ireland, and for some time he was a resident of Rhode Island, but in 1684, when advanced in years, he came into Pennsylvania. He settled three miles north of Bristol, at Cold Spring, and there he constituted the first Baptist church in Pennsylvania, built a meeting-house, and secured a burial-place for the dead. In 1688, Mr. Dungan was enabled to guide Elias Keach, when distressed in guilt, to the Savior. He baptized him, and he was sent forth a minister of Jesus from the Cold Spring church. This was the most important event in the history of Mr. Dungan, or of his church, as will be seen by a reference to the memoir of Mr. Keach. He entered the heavenly rest in the year 1688; and before 1692 it is nearly certain that the church had ceased to exist. In 1770 'nothing remained of the Cold Spring church' but a grave-yard and the names of the families that belonged to it: the Dungans, Gardeners, Woods, Doyles. He had five sons and four daughters, whose descendants in 1770 numbered between six and seven hundred persons. Mr. Dungan was the first Baptist minister in Pennsylvania. He was buried in the grave-yard surrounding the church. Nothing belonging to his church edifice or cemetery now remains to mark a spot so full of interest to Pennsylvania Baptist, except some foundations which can be distinctly traced across and on one side of a road which passes by the celebrated Cold Spring. The church site is two miles from Tullytown, Bucks County, and about two rods from the pike leading to it, and the same distance from the toll-gate on the Tullytown road. Some of the stones employed to mark graves in the burying-ground are in possession of persons in the neighborhood. The father of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush is said to have been interred in this beautiful ground. Elias Keach, whom Mr. Dungan baptised, established the Lower Dublin church, now the oldest Baptist community in Pennsylvania."
[Cathcart, William, The Baptist Encyclopaedia, a Dictionary: the doctrines, ordinances, usages, confessions of faith, sufferings, labors, and successes, and of the general history of Baptist Denominations in all lands. (Philadelphia: Louis H. Evert..., 1881)]
Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
ROBINGARRAWAY (View posts) Posted: 9 Sep 2006 4:22PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dungan
04-30-1678 Elected as one of the representatives of the town or East Greenwich to Rhode Island Assembly the other representative was his his brother in law Clement Weaver.. Re-elected in 1681the year in which William Penn's charter was granted. He studied for the ministry under his step father the Rev. William Vaughan.
1656 Freeman of the court of Election.
10-31- Named one of the patentees in the charter of
east Greenwich RI
1670 Bought 240 acres in Shrewsbury NJ his step brother Gov. Walter Clarke also purchased land in Monmouth NJ. his land was sold in 1674 to Mrs. Sarah Reape.
Moved 1684 to Cold Springs Bucks County PA
Established first First Baptist Church of Pennsylvania and was first Pastor. The church is no longer there except for the graveyard where he is buried.
After the death of his father his mother married Jeremiah Clarke. He likely received his education under Roger Williams or his brother Robert Williams who was a school master in Newport.
From Bucks County History:
On 6-7-1671 he was a member of a special court to try two Indians as a juror from Newport. 10-31-1677 he was named one of the Patentees in the charter of the town of East Greenwich RI.
His will dated 03-03-1687 was proved 02-29-1688. On 04-02-1689 his four sons sold 200 acres of the 400 acres "granted by William Penn to Thomas Dungan Sr. and his son. Clement Dungan"
One incident of 1686 regarding Rev. Dungan appears in several publications. A young man named Elias Keach, son of a famous English minister, came to the Philadelphia area and passed himself off as a minister. He dressed in black, wore a band, and started preaching. At one time while a large group of people were listening he "went on for a time in his sermon, but all at once stopping short, and looking astonished, he was supposed to have been suddenly disordered; and upon being questioned, he frankly confessed, with tears and much trembling, that he was practising deception in holy things! In his distress, hearing that there was a Baptist minister from Rhode Island, Thomas Dungan, at Coldspring, Bucks county, he repaired to him, was baptized and ordained."
Bucks County PA History
Names and Page # Index
DUNGAN FAMILY
DUNGAN FAMILY. Reverend Thomas DUNGAN, was born in London, England, about the year 1632. His father, William DUNGAN, was a merchant of London, and was of a cadet branch of the DUNGANS of Dublin, Ireland, ennobled by Queen Elizabeth. The senior branch ended under the following circumstances: William DUNGAN, Earl of Limerick, died in 1698, without leaving issue, in consequence of the death of his son, Lord Walter DUNGAN, colonel of dragoons at the Boyne, in 1690. The title of Earl of Limerick, then came to Colonel Thomas DUNGAN, brother of the Earl of Limerick. Thomas, under the will of his father, Sir John DUNGAN, baronet, inherited an estate in the Queenâ??s county, and served in the army of Louis XIV till 1678 as colonel of an Irish regiment, worth to him about 5,000 pounds per annum. He had from Charles II a life pension of 500 pounds a year: was made lieutenant governor of Tangier, in Morocco, and subsequently governor of New York in America. The title of Earl of Limerick ceased in the DUNGAN family on the death of Colonel Thomas DUNGAN in December 1715, he leaving no heirs. William DUNGAN died in London in 1636, leaving four children, Barbara, William, Frances, and Thomas. The mother of Rev. Thomas DUNGAN was Frances LATHAM, daughter of Lewis LATHAM, sergeant falconer to Charles I. She had married (first) Lord WESTON and (second) William DUNGAN, and soon after the latterâ??s death married Captain Jeremiah CLARKE, and with him and her children emigrated to New England and settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where Captain Clarke became prominent, serving in the provincial assembly and filling other official positions. He died in 1651, and his widow married (fourth) Rev. William VAUGHAN, paster of the first Baptist church in America. Mrs. VAUGHAN died in September 1677, at the age of sixty-seven years.
Thomas DUNGAN came to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1637, with his mother and stepfather, Captain CLARKE, and was reared and educated in that colony, probably receiving his education in a school established there by Roger WILLIAMS. His second stepfather being a Baptist clergyman he imbibed that faith and became an eminent Baptist preacher. He was a representative in the colonial assembly of Rhode Island, 1678-81, and a sergeant in the Newport militia. He became one of the patentees of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, but sold his real estate there in 1682 and removed with a colony of Welsh Baptists from Rhode Island to Cold Spring, Falls township, Bucks county, and established the first Baptist church in Pennsylvania. He died in 1688. He married in Newport, Rhode Island, Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of Sergeant CLEMENT and Mary (FREEBORN) WEAVER, Clement WEAVER was a member of colonial assembly in 1678, and his father-in-law, William FREEBORN served in the same body in 1657. Elizabeth (WEAVER) DUNGAN died at Cold Spring, Bucks county, in 1690. The children of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth (WEAVER) DUNGAN were as follows:
William, born 1658, preceded his father to Bucks county, died there 1713; married Deborah WING of Newport and left five children.
Clement died in Northampton township, Bucks county, in 1732, without issue.
Elizabeth married Nathaniel WEST and had four children, one of whom, Elizabeth, married Joseph HOUGH of Warwick, and has numerous descendants in Bucks.
Thomas, born about 1670, died June 23, 1759, married Mary DRAKE and had nine children, Thomas, Joseph, James, John, Jonathan, Elizabeth, who married John HELLINGS: Mary, married Thomas BARTON; and Sarah married -------- Stevens.
Rebecca married Edward DOYLE, who died in 1703, leaving sons Edward and Clement, who were the ancestors of the DOYLES for whom Doylestown is named.
Jeremiah, born about 1673, died in Bucks county, April 6, 1766, married Deborah DRAKE and had eight children.
Mary married a RICHARDS and had three children.
John, who died without issue.
Sarah, who married James CARREL, and had six children.
The sons and sons-in-law of Thomas and Elizabeth DUNGAN became large landowners in Bucks county, and they and their descendants were prominent in the affairs of the county, province and state.
James DUNGAN, son of Thomas and Mary (DRAKE) DUNGAN, of Northampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was the great-great-grandfather of Howard O. FOLKER, the historian of the family, and a full account of his is given in his "Levi DUNGAN, the Pioneer," among the archives of the Bucks County Historical Society. He married Rebecca WELLS, daughter of Samuel WELLS, a farmer in Lower Dublin township, near the present site of Bustleton, Philadelphia county, and lived and died on a farm in Lower Dublin township.
Rev. Thomas Dungan, soldier, legislator, pioneer, became the first Baptist minister in the Province of Pennsylvania, having been born probably in London about 1634, and came to New England with his mother about 1637.
As early as 1655 he was living at Newport, R. I., where he was Sergeant of the Newport Militia in 1676. He acquired 240 acres at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, about the year 1670. In 1678 and again in 1681 he was elected to the Rhode Island Assembly. His half brother Walter Clarke was then Deputy Governor of Rhode Island.
In 1682 he sold his estate of 100 acres in East Greenwich, R. I., and his Newport homestead of 50 acres and, having completed his education for the ministry, he shortly thereafter removed to Pennsylvania and settled at Cold Spring, Bucks County, where he founded a Baptist Church in 1684, the first of its denomination in Pennsylvania, and continued as its pastor until his death in 1687.
He married at Newport about 1663 Elizabeth, daughter of Sgt. Clement Weaver, She was born in 1647 and died at Cold Spring in 1697. His Will, probated 29 February 1688, is one of the earliest on record in Bucks County.
Rev. Thomas Dungan and Elizabeth Weaver are buried in the graveyard of the Cold Spring Church. They were the parents of five sons and four daughters, all born in Rhode Island:
William Dungan, married Deborah Wing.
Elizabeth Dungan, married to Nathaniel West, Jr.
John Dungan, died without issue.
Clement Dungan, died without issue.
Rebecca Dungan, married to Edward Doyle.
Thomas Dungan, Jr., married Mary Drake
Jeremiah Dungan, married Deborah Drake.
Mary Dungan, married to Abraham Richards.
Sarah Dungan, married to James Carrell.
In regard to his son Thomas, the records give some light. He was Freeman, Newport, R. I., 1656. On a jury at Newport, 1671. Named with forty-seven others who took grant of 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich, 1677. He was Sergeant at East Greenwich, 1678, and Deputy from that town 1678, and also 1681. He was at Newport again, 1681, when he was Constable there, and three years later he went to Cold Spring, Penn., and established a Baptist church, of which be was the first pastor1 and he died at that place four years later, in 1688.
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Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
ROBINGARRAWAY (View posts) Posted: 9 Sep 2006 4:25PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: dungan
Marriage by the Rev. Thomas Mountford D.D. Vicar of St. Martin in the Fields. listed as Guiliemus Dungan and Francisca Ladham.
His will "William Dunghen of ye Parrish od St. Martin in ye fields in ye Countie of Middx. perfumer" mentions his wife and children.
Will located at Somerset House, London. "William Dunghen of ye Parrish od St. Martin-in-the-fields in ye Countie of Middx. Perfumer" dated 16 Sep. 1636 probated 10-25-1636 (Prerogative court of Canterbury:103 pile) Mentions wife and children: Babara, William, Francis, and Thomas. Contrary to a statement by A.R. Justice (p.109) "referring to the parish register of St. Martin in the Fields, there is no mention of William or Francis or of their Children." from Dungan Family.org
The Dungan name is seen in both English and Irish people. This line which came to the Colonies in the 1600's was an English family, one branch of which had a Title in Ireland.
William Dungan, Gentleman, who was born about 1606, a London Merchant and Perfumer. His wares were in great demand and quite necessary to offset the obnoxious odors arising from the gutters in a thickly settled district subject to heavy fog and having surface drainage.
By his Will dated 13 September 1636 he gave all his property to his wife Frances, after bequeathing £70 to each of his four children whom he mentions by name. They made their home at St. Martins-in-the-Fields where later he died and was buried 20 September 1636, leaving her a widow at age 26 with four little children between the ages of 2 and 8 years.
From the parish Registers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, 1619-1636
published 1936, volume 2, pages 143, 72, 89, 99, 112, 313 we see:
Marriages:
27 Aug. 1629: Guillielmus Dungan & Francisca Ladham, with license.
Baptisms:
28 Sep 1630: Barbarea Dunken filia Guillelmi et Franciscae
12 Nov 1632: Frances Dungan filia Willimi et Frannciscae
13 Dec 1663: Elizabetha Dungan filia Guillelmi et Francesscae
13 Feb 1634/5: Thomas Dunkin fillius Guillelmi et Franscescae
Burials:
20 Sep 1636: W'mus Dungham, vir.
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Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
ROBINGARRAWAY (View posts) Posted: 9 Sep 2006 4:30PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: dungan
You can go to my web page for more info on this line
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/a/r/Robin-Garra...
Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
kwolfgen (View posts) Posted: 19 Jun 2007 3:58PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Carrell, Dungan, Latham
The only information that I can add is:
Thomas Dungan
B/date: Aft 1575 - Ireland
D/date: Aft 1600
Married to: (Abt 1605/Ireland?)
Mary Lnu
B/date: Abt 1580
D/date: Aft 1600
Son: William Dungan
B/date: abt 1600 - Celbridge, Kildare, Ireland
D/date: Sept 18, 1636 - St. Martin, Westminster, London
Married to: (Aug 27, 1629/Middlesex, London)
Frances Latham
B/date: Feb 15, 1608/09 - Kempston, Bedfordshire, England
D/date: Sept 1677 - Newport, Rhode Island
Son: Thomas Dungan
B/date: Feb 13, 1634/35 - St. Martin, Westminster, London
D/date: 1687-1688 - Cold Springs, Pennsylvania
Married to: (1663 /Rhode Island)
Elizabeth Weaver
B/date: 1645 Newport, Rhode Island
D/date: 1697 Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Daughter: Sarah Dungan (My Relative)
B/date: Abt 1678 - Rhode Island
D/date: bef. May 29, 1760 Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
Married to: (1697/ Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
James Carrell
B/date: 1666 Ireland
D/date: 1730 Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
I take you for the additional information that I did not have.
Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
jldungan67 (View posts) Posted: 18 Jul 2009 3:13AM
Classification: Query
All this information is wrong. It comes from a biopic in which the author simply guessed. Don't believe anything you find on Ancestry.com its all unproven crap. This website is designed to take your money. Read the terms of service the information is for entertainment purposes and is not proof of anything. It can be helpful if you know what you are doing and know how to sort the truth from the lies otherwise its pure crap.
Thomas Dungan
B/date: Aft 1575 - Ireland
D/date: Aft 1600
Married to: (Abt 1605/Ireland?)
Mary Lnu
B/date: Abt 1580
D/date: Aft 1600
Son: William Dungan
B/date: abt 1600 - Celbridge, Kildare, Ireland
D/date: Sept 18, 1636 - St. Martin, Westminster, London
Married to: (Aug 27, 1629/Middlesex, London)
Frances Latham
B/date: Feb 15, 1608/09 - Kempston, Bedfordshire, England
D/date: Sept 1677 - Newport, Rhode Island
Re: Thomas DUNGAN, Newport, RI, d. 1688
jldungan67 (View posts) Posted: 18 Jul 2009 3:43AM
Classification: Query
William Dungan Perfumer of St Martin in the Fields is the father of Rev. Thomas Dungan.
The parentage of William Dungan Perfumer of St Martin in the Fields is unknown but his father is believed to be Richard Dungan Master Plasterer of London. The myth that Thomas Dongan was Williams father has been dispelled since the 1970s.
If you are researching the Dungan surname there are three texts you'll need.
"Ancestry of Jeremy Clark of Rhode Island and Dungan Genealogy" by Alfred Rudolf Justice
"A Quest for Origins - The Search for the Parentage of William Dungan, Perfumer of St. Martin-in-the-Fields" by Thomas P. Dungan
There are a few mistakes in the Justice book but if you can find a second edition of which only 176 copies exist most have been corrected. I will not disclose those which have not as this is will be part of my publication. Thomas P. Dungans book "Quest for Origins" dispels the erroneous parentage of William Dungan which has resulted in the grandaddy of all myths "the royal lineage" and points researchers in the right direction.
I'll tell you what the third is when I finish my book!
http://boards.ancestrylibrary.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=233&p=surnames.dungan
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Thomas* married Elizabeth* Weaver, (immigrant) in 1663 in Newport Co, Rhode Island. Elizabeth* (daughter of Sergeant Clement* Weaver and Mary* Freeborn, (immigrant)) was born in 1647 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England; died in 1697 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (possibly); was buried in Cold Spring, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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