Auctioneer in Portree. Birth record in IGI. Mother is Margt.
McCleod Died At Sluggans, Portree
From gravestone memorial marker on Isle of Skye.
from graveyard memorial marker (Margaret Campbell
First son David born at Portsrnouth 1704 married Dinah daughter
of Benjamin Baker of N. Kingston. David and Dinah Vaughan went
to Scituate, R. l. after the birth of their fifth child
Elizabeth born in 1735. The Scituate records contain the birth
records of twelve of their thirteen children. The Will of David
Vaughan (s/o John) was executed at Beekman's Precincts Dutchess
County, N.Y. and transcribed in the book of Wills at the County
Clerk's office in Manhattan, New York City. All thirteen of
David and Dinah's children are named in his will. About 1768
the Will of David was transcribed on the records at N. Kingston
because of his land holdings there and the inheritance factors.
There are four branches of the Vaughan family in this genealogy
which cover the descendants of seven of David and Dinah
Vaughan's eight sons. There may be living today more
descendants of this family than any other Vaughn (an) family of
the same period.
DAVID, son of John and Elizabetn (Bull) Vaughan was born at
Portsmouth, R.l. Oet. 25, 1704. He married, probably at North
Kingstown, Dinah Baker before 1726. She was dau. of Benjamin
and Mary (Havens) Baker. Some genealogists claim wife was
Dinah. Northrup, dau. of Benjamin Northrup, because David
Vaughan mentioned his brother-in-law Benjamin Northrup in his
will. However, David's sister Mary married for her second
husband a Benjamin Northrup, and this was undoubtedly the
brother-inlaw to whom David refers. The Estate Papers of
Benjamin Baker, probated 1726 at North Kingston mentions his
daughter, wife of David Vaughan. Dinah and David's children
were all recorded at Scituate, R.l., except for the youngest,
who may have been born in Dutchess Co., N.Y. The first five of
his children were born at N.K. David was made Freernan at N.K.
May 1730. He bought 100 acres in Scituate Mar. 12, 1734-5, and
was admitted freeman there in 1736. He moved with all, or most
of his family about 1755, to Beekman Precinct, Dutchess Co.,
N.Y. He drew his will Aug. 16, 1761. His will was admitted to
Probate Oct. 30, 1761, and recorded in Liber 23, page 155.
Wills in Surrogate at New York Co., New York City. The will was
later probated at N.K. on May 8, 1768 because of property he
still owned there. The records at N.K. were partially burned,
and a complete copy of the will is not available. Wife Dinah
went to Nova Scotia to live with several of her sons. she died
there after 1772, when she executed a deed to her son Anthony.
David and Dinah sold 161 l/2 acres at Scituate on Mar. 8, 1759
to Tom Eldred, Jr. David's descendants are very numerous and
represent many of the hardy pioneers who converted the
wilderness.
THIS DAVID WAS NOT THE FATHER of Thomas Vaughan of Kingsbury
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One of the discoverers of the Oak Island Treasure.
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Minister of Rodil, Harris before march 26 1604, and minister in
Durnish in 1614
Helped to procure a boat to ferry the prince from Portree to
Raasay, after Culloden. He died when his son Malcolm was still
a child.
In 1776, Malcolm planned on going to America, but did not. He
went to England, where he practiced medicine in Ridgmont, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire. Some of his descendants later moved to
Australia. Details in Hebridean Pioneers.