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HISTORY 01' BUCKS COUNTY 



1. William, born 1658, preceded his 

 father to Bucks count}-, died there 1713; 

 married Deborah Wing of Newport and 

 left five children. 



2. Clement, died in Northampton 

 township, Bucks county, in 1732, without 

 issue. 



3. Elizabeth, married Nathaniel West 

 and had four children, one of whom, 

 Elizabeth, married Joseph Hough of 

 Warwick, and has numerous descendants 

 in Bucks. 



4. 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. 



5. 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. 



6. Jeremiah, born about 1673, died in 

 Bucks county, April 6, 1766, married 

 Deborah Drake and had eight children. 



7. Mary, married a Richards and had 

 three children. 



8. John, who died without issue. 



9. 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 afifairs of the county, province 

 and state. 



James Dungan, son of Thomas and 

 Mary (Dr^ke) Dungan, of Northampton 

 township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, 

 was the great-great-grandfather of How- 

 ard O. Folker, the historian of the fam- 

 ily, and a full account of him is given 

 in his "Levi Dungan, the Pioneer," 

 among the archives of the Bucks County 

 Historical Society. He married Re- 

 becca Wells, daughter of Samuel Wells. 

 a farmer in Lower Dublin township, 

 near the present site of Bustleton, Phil- 

 adelphia county, and lived and died on 

 a farm in Lower Dublin township. 



JOHN DUNGAN, the gfeat-grand- 

 father of Mr. Folker. was a son of James 

 and Rebecca (Wells) Dungan, and w^as 

 born in 1753, died March 22, 1798. He 

 was a lieutenant in Captain Andrew 

 Long's company, Pennsylvania Rifle 

 Regiment, Colonel Samuel Miles. This 

 company was in the disastrous battle of 

 Fort Washington, November 16, ^77^, 

 under the command of Lieutenant John 

 Spear, and was almost annihilated. 

 'Lieutenant John Dungan was a farmer 

 in Northampton township, Bucks county, 

 and is buried at Southampton. He mar- 

 ried Mary Hyle, and had four children- 

 two sons: Uriah and Jonathan: and two 

 daughters: Esther, who married William 

 Hibbs. Jr., and I^Jizabeth, who married 



Ezekiel Wilson. Another daughter, Re- 

 becca, died young. Uriah, born 1777^ 

 died October 4, 1822, had children: 

 Mary, who married Edmund Van Arts- 

 dalen, of Springville, Northampton 

 township, whose daughter Elizaueth 

 married Elias Hogeland, (see Hogeland 

 Family); and John and Martin. Mary, 

 the widow of Uriah, married (second) 



Everett, and (third) Jonathan 



Knight. John, son of Uriah, had four 

 sons : William, now living at Ringoes, 

 New Jersey; Edmund B., who died at 

 Harlingen, New Jersey, in 1900, leaving 

 live children; Charles, deceased; and 

 Thomas A., now a resident of Chicago. 

 Nelson Y. Dungan, son of Edmund B., 

 is a practicing attorney at Somerville, 

 New Jersey, ex-district attorney, state 

 senator for two terms and major of 

 Second Regiment National Guards of 

 New Jersey. 



COLONEL THOMAS DUNGAN. 

 Joseph Dungan, son of Thomas and 

 Mary (Drake) Dungan, born 1710, died 

 1785 married Mary Ohl, born 1710, died 

 1788, and had children: Thomas, Joshua, 

 Sarah (wife of Benjamin Corson) and 

 Hannah, (wife of Benjamin Marple). 

 Both Joseph and his wife are interred at 

 Southampton churchyard. 



Thomas Dungan, eldest son of Joseph 

 and Mary (Ohl) Dungan, was born in 

 Warwick township, Bucks- county, Penn- 

 sylvania, March 16, 1738, entered the 

 University of Pennsylvania (then "Col- 

 lege of Philadelphia,") in 1762 and grad- 

 uated in 1765. Was a tutor there 

 1764-66; professor of mathematics 1766- 

 69; and Master of Arts 1767. On May 

 2. 1767, he was called to preach at the 

 Southampton Baptist Church, but de- 

 clined. In 1774, March i8th, he was 

 chosen principal of the Germantown 

 Academy. Soon after this date, how- 

 ever, he entered the continental army, 

 and was commissioned paymaster of the 

 Twelfth Regiment, Continental Line, 

 April 29, 1777; was transferred to Sixth 

 Pennsylvania, and commissioned ensign 

 June 2, 1778; made paymaster of Sixth 

 Regiment, September i, 1778; promoted 

 to Lieutenant January i. 1781, and 

 transferred to Second Pennsylvania, 

 January i. 1783. General Washington 

 in refering to the deplorable condition 

 of the troops while suffering from 

 smallpox in their winter quarters at 

 ]\Iorristown, New Jersey, mentions the 

 special efiforts made by Paymaster Dun- 

 gan to ameliorate their conditon and 

 his persistent importuning of Robert 

 Morris, the financier of the Revolution, 

 for money for necessary clothing and 

 medicine. He served until the close of 

 the war and then returned to the charge 

 of the Germantown Academy, where he 

 remained until about 1800. He died at 

 Germantown, April 26. 1805. aged sixty- 

 seven vears, and is buried in Hood's 



