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- Thomas came to America around 1638 with his mother and stepfather, Jeremiah CLARKE.
Thomas studied for the ministry under both Roger WILLIAMS and Rev. William VAUGHN, who became his mother's fourth husband.
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 settled 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 graveyard 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.
(Source: excerpted from a biographical sketch by Norman Wesley Merritt with notes by America's First Families from The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; website of America's First Families, Ancestor Roll of Honor)
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