DUGGAN
 
      William Duggan of Ireland was probably the father of John Duggan. John as born about 1690 in Fermanagh (Ulster), Northern Ireland and his wife's name was Mary ___?___. Their three sons, also born in Ireland, were John, William and Thomas.

            Two Bertie County documents show that the senior John had immigrated to North Carolina before 1725:

August 12, 1725: Henry Speller to John Duggan, 60 pds. for 250 A. on Smithwick’s Creek adj. Richard Swain, Edmond Smithwick. Wit: William Charlton, William Charlton Jr.

April 25, 1729 [May 5, 1729]: … 100 acres … for the love and affection...unto William Robinson and wife Mary during their lives...[then] to William Robinson Jr. ... my godson .…  That plantation where the Robinsons now live on South Morratuck River and Devil’s Gut Swamp. Wit: John Duggan, John Marden

         The son William married Mary Smithwick. Their children were William, Pheraby, Chonnah, Elizabeth (Hardison), Sarah (Anderson), and martha (Hardie).

                The youngest brother Thomas married Mary _______. Their known children were sons Thomas and Jesse.

            John, supposedly the eldest son,  married , _______ Lanier, the daughter of Robert Lanier. In 1763 John died of malaria.  In his will of that year, his wife is not mentioned.  His children were John, William, Lanier, Aaron, Elizabeth, Millicent, Ann, [and] "three small girls".  In another document concerning the will, Henry Robertson is among those appointed to divide the estate. He was probably the father of James Robertson (see below). In this document a Josiah Duggan is placed under the care of William Hyman and Rhodia, John Duggan's daughter, is to remain with Hyman. [This will was provided to us by Margaret Hensley of Garland, Texas.]

       Millicent Duggan married James Robertson in Martin County, NC. Their children were Henry, John, Harmon, Noah, Chloe, Luke, Mary, Martha, Millia, and Anna. Asa may have been another son. [Much of our Martin County, NC information, and the Irish heritage of the Duggan family, was supplied by Betty and Bill Atherton of Fort Worth, Texas.]

      The son, John Robertson, married first "Winnie" (Winnefred) Wollard, perhaps the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Vines) Wollard.  After Winnie's death, he married Penny Stallings.

      His daughter Cynthia was born in 1806 in Martin County, NC. She married Humphrey Stallings, who was ordained to preach in 1832 and was a pastor at Smithwick’s Creek Meeting House, belonging to the Old School Baptists.  They migrated to Dyer County, Tennessee, where their daughter Lydia Ann was the second wife of William B. Nash, known as the Nash family’s “Galvanized Yankee.”