Family Group Sheet
NameRev. Thomas DUNGAN
BurialCold Springs Church, Bucks, PA
Will3 Dec 1686, Cold Springs, Bucks, PA [693]
Immigration1637, Newport, Newport Co, RI
Move1682, Cold Springs, Bucks, PA
Deathbef 13 Nov 1687, Cold Springs, Bucks, PA (will proven) [693]
Death MemoWill recorded Feb. 1, 1688
Land Purch1670, Shrewsbury, NJ [693]
AFN2RNC-FG
OccupationBaptist preacher [777]
FatherWilliam Dungan (1607-1636)
MotherFrances Latham (ch. 1608-1677)
Marriage1663, Newport, Newport Co, RI [777]
SpouseElizabeth WEAVER
Birthabt 1647, Newport, Newport Co, RI [2]
Death1690, Cold Spring, Bucks, PA [777]
AFN9JVW-V9
FatherClement WEAVER (~1620->1683)
MotherMary FREEBORN (1627->1664)
Children
1 MJeremiah Dungan
Birthabt 1673, Rhode Island [693]
Death6 Apr 1761, Northampton, Bucks Co, PA [693, Cites Southampton Church rec]
AFNL8DH-TR
SpouseDeborah Drake
Marriageabt 1702, Bucks Co, PA [693]
SpouseDeborah King
Marriage1690, Bucks Co, PA
Birth1665, RI
Deathabt 1696, Burlington, Burlington, NJ
BurialCold Spring, Bucks, PA [693, Cites Pennypacker church rec]
AFNL8DH-NW
SpouseNathaniel West Jr.
Marriageabt 1684, Newport, Newport Co, RI
6 FRebecca Dungan
Birth1670, Newport, Newport Co, RI [693, Cites Pennypacker church rec]
Death1722, Bucks Co, PA [693, Cites Pennypacker church rec]
AFNL8DH-RF
SpouseEdward Doyle
Marriageaft 1686, Bucks Co, PA
SpouseDavid Griffith
Marriage29 Sep 1706, Bucks Co, PA [693]
7 MThomas Dungan
Birth1671, Newport, Newport Co, RI [1001]
Death23 Jun 1759, Bucks Co, PA [693, Cites Southampton church rec], [779]
AFNL8DH-SL
SpouseMary Drake
Marriage1697, Prob. Penn.
SpouseAbraham Richards
SpouseJames CARRELL
Marriageabt 1697, Bucks Co?, PA
SpouseNicholas Fitzroy
Marriageabt 1720, Pennsylvania
Notes for Rev. Thomas DUNGAN
Representative in the colonial assembly of Rhode Island 1678-1681. Founded first Baptist church in PA when he moved there in 1682. [ [777]]
May 20, 1656, at the Court of election holden at Portsmouth, he was elected a freeman. (20, p. 336).
June 7, 1671, he was a member of a special court to try two Indians, as a juror from Newport. (21, p. 394).
October 31, 1677, he was named as one of the Patentees, in the charter of the town of East Greenwich, R. 1. (21, p. 588).[ [693]]
From America’s First Families website:
REV. THOMAS DUNGAN RHODE ISLAND (1634/35-1688)
Thomas DUNGAN was born in London on Feb. 13, 1634 to William DUNGAN and Frances Weston (Latham). William was a perfumer and he and Frances were the parents of two boys and two girls with Thomas the last born.... William DUNGAN died in 1636 and his wife Frances married Jeremiah CLARKE. Thomas came to Rhode Island with his mother and step-father before 1638, and were some of the first settlers of Newport.
Thomas studied the ministry under both Roger WILLIAMS and the Rev. William VAUGHN in Rhode Island. William VAUGHN was Frances LATHAM's fourth husband after Jeremiah CLARKE died.
In 1656 Thomas was a freeman and in 1663 he married Elizabeth WEAVER (1645-1697) daughter of Clement WEAVER and Mary FREEBORN. Thomas and Elizabeth became the parents of nine children.
In 1677 he was named with forty-seven others who took grant of 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. He deeded his cousin (i.e. nephew) Thomas WEAVER, of Newport, 100 acres in East Greenwich, for love and in 1682 he and his wife Elizabeth sold John BAILEY, late of Portsmouth, 50 acres in Newport.
In 1684 Thomas DUNGAN and his family moved to Cold Spring, PA and established a Baptist church, of which he was the first pastor. Morgan EDWARDS gives the following account of him. "In 1684, Thomas DUNGAN removed from Rhode Island and settles at a place called Cold Spring, Bucks County, between Bristol and Trenton."
After alluding to the breaking up of the church in 1702 (an old grave yard stone marking the site of the church in 1770 when Edwards wrote), he further says of Mr. DUNGAN, "The Rev. Thomas DUNGAN, the 1st Baptist minister in the Province, now (1770), exists in a progeny of between 600 and 700."
Thomas DUNGAN died in 1688 and was buried in the churchyard in Cold Spring.
Submitted by Norman Wesley Merritt with notes by America's First Families from The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/roh/dungan.htm)
5g grandfather of Eleanore Widener, who donated the Widener Library at Harvard, through son William. See Notable Kin column #58.
May 20, 1656, at the Court of election holden at Portsmouth, he was elected a freeman. (20, p. 336).
June 7, 1671, he was a member of a special court to try two Indians, as a juror from Newport. (21, p. 394).
October 31, 1677, he was named as one of the Patentees, in the charter of the town of East Greenwich, R. 1. (21, p. 588).[ [693]]
From America’s First Families website:
REV. THOMAS DUNGAN RHODE ISLAND (1634/35-1688)
Thomas DUNGAN was born in London on Feb. 13, 1634 to William DUNGAN and Frances Weston (Latham). William was a perfumer and he and Frances were the parents of two boys and two girls with Thomas the last born.... William DUNGAN died in 1636 and his wife Frances married Jeremiah CLARKE. Thomas came to Rhode Island with his mother and step-father before 1638, and were some of the first settlers of Newport.
Thomas studied the ministry under both Roger WILLIAMS and the Rev. William VAUGHN in Rhode Island. William VAUGHN was Frances LATHAM's fourth husband after Jeremiah CLARKE died.
In 1656 Thomas was a freeman and in 1663 he married Elizabeth WEAVER (1645-1697) daughter of Clement WEAVER and Mary FREEBORN. Thomas and Elizabeth became the parents of nine children.
In 1677 he was named with forty-seven others who took grant of 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. He deeded his cousin (i.e. nephew) Thomas WEAVER, of Newport, 100 acres in East Greenwich, for love and in 1682 he and his wife Elizabeth sold John BAILEY, late of Portsmouth, 50 acres in Newport.
In 1684 Thomas DUNGAN and his family moved to Cold Spring, PA and established a Baptist church, of which he was the first pastor. Morgan EDWARDS gives the following account of him. "In 1684, Thomas DUNGAN removed from Rhode Island and settles at a place called Cold Spring, Bucks County, between Bristol and Trenton."
After alluding to the breaking up of the church in 1702 (an old grave yard stone marking the site of the church in 1770 when Edwards wrote), he further says of Mr. DUNGAN, "The Rev. Thomas DUNGAN, the 1st Baptist minister in the Province, now (1770), exists in a progeny of between 600 and 700."
Thomas DUNGAN died in 1688 and was buried in the churchyard in Cold Spring.
Submitted by Norman Wesley Merritt with notes by America's First Families from The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/roh/dungan.htm)
5g grandfather of Eleanore Widener, who donated the Widener Library at Harvard, through son William. See Notable Kin column #58.
Notes for Elizabeth WEAVER
Conflicting reports show her the daughter of Clement and Rebecca (Holbrook) Weaver or their son Clement and his wife Mary Freeborn. The Weaver genealogy shows her the daughter of the former. However, that would make her over 30 at the time of her marriage, rather old to start having 9 children.
