William Dungan

1600-1636 · St Martin in the Fields, London

Born 1600

Died 1636

He was a perfumer, and his residence was in St Martin in the Fields in London. He married Frances Latham, daughter of Lewis Latham, and they had five children: Barbara, William, Frances, Elizabeth and Thomas. Elizabeth died before her father. He never came to America.

He made a spoken will on 13 September 1636, as a dying man, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields a week later, on 20 September. The will was proved on 5 October. His wife was executrix and Mr Thomas Gibbon and Mr Samuel Smith were overseers. He left £70 to each of the four children by name, to be paid at full age or marriage, with the survivors to take the share of any child who died. His widow was to have everything else, "be it in goods, chattels, leases, ready money, plate or other my substance whatsoever," and the bringing up of the children while she stayed a widow, and if she married again she was to give good security to the overseers for the payment of the children's legacies. He left the two overseers ten shillings apiece to buy themselves rings.

His widow did marry again, to Jeremiah Clarke, and took the four children to Rhode Island. One of them, Thomas, became the first Baptist minister in Pennsylvania. Another, Frances, married Randall Holden of Warwick.

Sources

John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (1887), Dungan; Thomas P. Dungan, "Correcting the Ancestry of William Dungan, Perfumer of St Martin-in-the-Fields," The Genealogist, vol. 4 no. 2 (Fall 1983), and his expanded privately printed treatment of 1997; Publications of the Harleian Society vol. LXVI, The Register of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 1619 to 1636, for the marriage, the baptisms and the burial; the Middlesex Quarter Sessions rolls for the 1617 indictment; and the parish Overseers' accounts and Westminster subsidy rolls for the ratepaying years

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