Nathaniel Duncan

Bef 1586 - Bef 1669  (< 82 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Duncan
  Birth	Bef 12 Mar 1586	Crediton, Devon, England   [1]
  Baptism	12 Mar 1586	Crediton, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 26 Jan 1669	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I18359	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Peter Duncan,   b. Exeter, Devon, England d. Jan 1604
  Family ID	F11389	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jourdain
  Marriage	6 Jan 1616	St. Mary Arches, Exeter, Devon, England   [1, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Peter Duncan,   c. 10 Sep 1629, St. Olave, Exeter, Devon, England
  Family ID	F11384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  He was a merchant. An educated man, fluent in Latin and French and a skilled accountant, he was many times a deputy to the Bay Colony general court, and auditor general of the colony from 1645 to his death. Savage and Pope have him emigrating in 1630, but Anderson notes that records of his presence in New England begin only in 1633, and argues that "it is hard to believe that a man of his prominence would not have been seen in colony records much earlier." Anderson believes Nathaniel Duncan was probably on the ship that arrived 24 Jul 1633, the name of which has been lost.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1540] Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923., year only. [S1540] Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923., month, year, and place only.