William Dungan

Birth: ABT 1606

Marriage: 27 AUG 1629  St. Martin in the Fields, London, England

Occupation:  London Merchant and Perfumer
Details: 
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.

Birth of Daughter: 28 SEP 1630 (baptized)
Name: Barbara Dungan

Birth of Daughter: 12 NOV 1632
Name: Frances Dungan

Birth of Son: ABT 1632
Name: William Dungan

Birth of Daughter: 13 Dec 1633
Name: Elizabeth Dungan

Birth of Son: 13 FEB 1634/5
Name: Thomas Dungan

Will: 13 SEP 1636 
Details: 
In the name of God amen, I, William Dunghen, of the parish of St. Martins 'the Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Perfumer, being sick of body, but of good and perfect memory and understanding (thanks be given to Almighty God therefore doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament, in manner and forme following, That is to saye, First and principally, I commit my sole unto the hands Almighty God, my Maker, Saviour and Redeemer, through whose mercies and merits , I hope to be saved and to enjoy everlasting life in his heavenly kingdome. My body I commit to earth from whence it came to be buried at the discretion of my loving wife and executrix, here under named. And for my wordly goods wherewith God hath endowed me (my just debts being first paid and funeral expenses discharged I give and bequeath to each of my children, viz: Barbara Dunghen, William Dunghe Frances Dunghen and Thomas Dunghen, three score and ten pounds apiece, to paid unto them when they shall attaine to their full ages, or daye of marriage. if it happen, any of my said children shall dye before they come of age or happen marry, then my will and meaning is, that the part or porcion of him or her, or the soe dyeing, shall revert and come to the survivor or survivors of my said children to be equally divided part and portion alike between them. Any my further and meaneing is, that my said wife shall dureing her widdowhood, have the governing of my said children's porcions, then my true intent and meaning is, that my said wife shall give good security to my overseers hereunder named, for the true and sure payment of the said legacies bequeathed to my said children as aforesaid according to my true intent and meaneing herein expressed. Item: All other my estate, whatsoever be it, in goods, chattels, leases, ready money, plate, or other my substance what ever, I bequeath to my loveing wife Frances Dunghen, whome I make full and executrix.
William Dunghen.

Death: 1636

Buried:  20 SEP 1636  St. Martins-in-the-Fields

Click to see parents:  Thomas Dungan and Mary ?

 

Frances Latham

Baptized:  15 FEB 1609/10  Kempston, Bedfordshire, England

Note:  Frances Latham now generally called "The Mother of Governors," because no less than fourteen of her direct descendants, and many sons-in-law in succeeding generations, became Governors or Lieut. Governors.

2nd Marriage: ABT 1637  to Jeremy Clarke

Immigration: ABT 1637 
Details: Jeremy and Frances came to Rhode Island about the year 1637 bringing the four young children by her first marriage. They settled at Newport where Mr. Clark became the first Constable, and in 1648 Governor and Treasurer of the Rhode Island Colony. His family were members of the Society of Friends at Newport, the first Quaker settlement in America. Here at age 46 Jeremy Clark died, and here according to records of Friends Meeting lie was buried 11 mo. 3rd, 1651.

Birth of Son: 1638
Name:  Walter Clarke

Birth of Daughter: 1641
Name:  Mary Clarke

Birth of Son: 1643
Name:  Jeremiah Clarke

Birth of Son: 1645
Name:  Latham Clarke

Birth of Son: 1648
Name:  Weston Clarke

Birth of Son: 1649
Name:  James Clarke

Birth of Daughter: 1651
Name:  Sarah Clarke

3rd Marriage: ABT 1655  to Rev. William Vaughan, Doctor of Civil Law, poet and distinguished scholar, one of the original members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, and one of the founders of the Second Baptist Church of which he was the first minister.

Death: September 1677

Burial:  Governor's Lot, Newport, Rhode Island
Inscription: "Here Lyeth ye Body of Mrs. Frances Vaughn, Alias Clarke, ye mother of ye only children of Capt'n Jeremiah Clarke. She died ye 1 Week in Sept. 1677 in ye 67th year of her age."

parents are Lewis Latham and Elizabeth ?

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