Barbara (Dungan) Barker (bef. 1630 - 1677)

Ancestors Descendants [Note: Father's name is listed as ??Thomas in NEHGRv169. see: Barbara was born about 1628, daughter of Thomas and Frances (Latham/Clarke) Dungan. See: NEHGR: Vol. 169: p. 209: Fiske, Jane Fletcher & William Wyman Fiske. The Rhode Island Barker Family: Suffolk Background and Connections to Other New England Immigrants: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015 p. 205-15

Biography

Birth: before 28 SEP 1630 Essex, England (christening date).^[1]

Baptism: 28 SEP 1630 Baptised at the St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, England^[1]

Marriage: 1644 Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island

Death : 1677-09 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

Father's Will: SEP 1636 Mentioned in her father's Will^[1]

Barbara Dungan was daughter of William Dungan and Frances Latham of London, England. ^[2]

Her father was a London merchant and resided at St. Martin's in the Fields in that city. His will, on file in London was dated September 13 and proved October 5, 1636, names wife Frances and children Barbara, William, Frances and Thomas to each of whom he gave a legacy of seventy pounds and the remainder he bequeathed to his wife whom he appointed executrix. ^[2]

Her mother Frances then married Captain Jeremiah Clarke and emigrated to America shortly after their marriage accompanied by the children of William Dungan, settling in Rhode Island about 1638. ^[2]

Barbara married Honorable James Barker about 1644 at Rhode Island. ^[2] James, son of James Barker, was baptized at Southwold, England on October 22, 1622. His father left a widow, Elizabeth (unk) Barker, but it is unknown if she was James' mother. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

James died in 1702. ^{[5] [6]}

Children

1. Elizabeth born about 1645; died on July 5, 1676: married November 30, 1666, Nicholas Easton, son of Peter and Ann Coggleshell) Easton. ^{[5] [7] [8] [6]}
2. James born about 1648; died on December 1, 1722; married about 1673, Sarah Jefferay, daughter of William and Mary (Gould) Jefferay. ^{[5] [8] [9] [6]}
3. Mary born about 1649 at Newport; died on September 19, 1723 at Warwick, Rhode Island; married first Elisha Smith son of Edward Smith; married second Israel Arnold, son of Stephen and Sarah (Smith) Arnold on April 16, 1677. ^{[5] [8] [6]}
4. Joseph born ___; died in 1725; married Sarah Read. ^{[5] [8] [6]}
5. William born in 1662; died on November 3, 1741; married. Elizabeth Easton, daughter of Peter and Ann (Coggleshell) Easton. ^{[5] [8] [6]}
6. Sarah born about 1665; died unmarried. ^{[5] [8] [6]}
7. Peter born ___; died in 1725; married first in 1692, Freelove Bliss of John and Desmaris (Arnold) Bliss ^{[5] [8] [6]}; married second, in 1712, Susanna Saunders; Peter and Susan Barker are named in the will of James Peckham, likely her uncle. ^[10]
8. Christina born ___; married William Philips son of Michael and Barbara Philips. ^{[5] [8][6] [11]}

[Note: Nicholas Easton is listed on the Mary & John, March 1634, , Barker's not listed as a passengers, see p. 30 notes One Hundred Allied Families]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Olga Jones (Wear) Edwards and Ina Wear Roberts. Descendants of East Tennessee Pioneers, (2nd edition) page 278
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Leach, Josiah Granville. Genealogical and Biographical Memorials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham, and Elkins Families, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1898 p. 220-3
3. ↑ Fiske, Jane Fletcher & William Wyman Fiske. Continued: The Rhode Island Barker Family: Suffolk Background and Connections to Other New England Immigrants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, Massachusetts, Vol. 170, p. 76- (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)
4. ↑ Fiske, Jane Fletcher & William Wyman Fiske. The Rhode Island Barker Family: Suffolk Background and Connections to Other New England Immigrants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015 p. 205-15 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9} Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland 1887 p. 14-15: 67: 111: 148: 152: 293: 380
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8} Austin, John Osborne. One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, Salem, Massachusetts, 1893 p. 14: 26: 192. Reprint: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 2009
7. ↑ Canfield, Rosemary. Nicholas Easton of Newport and Some of His Descendants in: Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 17, Rhode Island Genealogical Society, Warwick, Rhode Island, 1975, p. 72-3. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7} The Newport Historical Magazine, Volume 1, July,1880, Newport Historical Publishing Company, Newport, Rhode Island, 1881 p. 44-45: p. 256-7
9. ↑ Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995 p. 1083-4 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
10. ↑ The Rhode Island Dictionary in: The American Genealogist, Volume 24, New Haven, Connecticut, 1948 p. 72 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11818/72/134812260
11. ↑ William and Christiana (Barker) Phillips of Newport, Rhode Island in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 143, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989, p. 221-227 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11712/229/23526912

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• Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (1887)
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)
• Ancestry.com (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006) Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/1231806/family Repository: #R-2145025786