Samuel was a weaver residing in Pembroke Parish at the time of his 1705/1706 will. The will mentions Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Jonathan, Martha, and Hannah but it is uncertain who their individual mothers were.
The question of Samuel Sr. and Samuel Jr. and who was married to who is very much uncertain. What is certain is that Samuel Sr. was married to Elizabeth Burgess, and that they had sons Samuel and Thomas. The other children Samuel mentions in his will (Joseph, Benjamin, Jonathan, Martha, and Hannah) are his - but they may be the children of Elizabeth Burgess, Abigail, Elizabeth Stovell, or even some unknown wife. Hallett claims that Elizabeth Burgess died 11/14/1691 - if this is true she is probably the mother of all of them and it was probably Samuel Jr. who was married to Abigail and Elizabeth Stovell. It is probable that Samuel Sr. was the husband of Abigail - Samuel Jr. would have been only 17 or 18 when Abigail's son Nathaniel was conceived. Martha is probably the daughter of Elizabeth Burgess since she is listed as a sister of Thomas (son of Samuel and Elizabeth Burgess) in Thomas' 1690 will. It is probable that there was only one daughter named Hannah - although possible that the earlier one listed by Hallett died before the one who is a daughter of Abigail was born about 1683. If Samuel Sr. was the husband of Elizabeth Stovell, then the Benjamin and Joseph listed on the group sheet for Elizabeth Burgess probably did not exist. Jonathan could be the son of any one of the wives. It is probable that Samuel Jr. was the husband of Elizabeth Stovel since Hallett cites a St. John's Church burial record which calls her the wife of Samuel Jr. But Thomas Donovan Dunscombe thought that all three women were the wives of Samuel Sr. - his citation from St. John's does not specify Samuel Jr., plus Elizabeth Stovell's sons Joseph and Benjamin match the names of sons mentioned in Samuel Sr.'s will. But it seems unlikely that Samuel Sr. would name another son Samuel - and we know that Samuel Jr. was alive at this time since he is mentioned in the later 1702 will of Anne Bond. Consequently the order of the families is probably very close to as they appear on the group sheets - with the exception that the first Hannah (daughter of Elizabeth Burgess) may not have existed, and that Benjamin, Jonathan and Joseph may well be the children of Abigail and not those of Elizabeth Burgess. The will of Ann Squires (Bermuda Archives Book of Wills, Book 2, part 2, pg. 121) also refers to Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Dunscombe Jr. (Hallett letter, 3/27/1989).
"Association Oath Rolls, British Plantations, 1696, Bermuda als Somer Islands in America" (www.rootsweb.com/!bmuwgw/oathrolls.html) lists a Samuel Dunscombe in Pembrook (sic) Tribe.
Samuel states (Composite Volumes of Deeds, etc. vols. 3,1, pg. 45 - Bermuda Archives) May 2, 1696 that he is the youngest son of Thomas and Hannah, long since deceased, she being the late daughter and heir of Thomas Jadwin, deed to Thomas Dunscombe, Pembroke, shipwright, eldest son of Samuel's brother Philip Dunscombe, of property in Parish of St. George, Southwark, Surrey, known as The Unicorn, The Saracen's Head, The Crown, which had belonged to Thomas Jadwin.
Samuel is mentioned in a document relating to a Grand Jury held in St. Georges, November 1659 (Lefroy, J.H. Memorials of the discovery and early settlement of the Bermuda or Somer's Islands, 1511-1687. London : Longman's, Green & Co., 1879, pg. 128). In 1663 Samuel is living on share number 29, Pembroke Tribe, 24 1/3 acres, held by Mrs. Trimmingham, original grantee Sir Thomas Smith (pg. 721).
In 1696 Thomas Dunscombe, son of Philip, sent a power of attorney to Thomas Salter of London to take charge of his property in England left by his great-grandfather Thomas Jadwyn to his son Robert Jadwyn and then to Hannah. The witnesses (John Keele aged 77 and Samuel Dunscombe aged 63) also said that in his minority he lived with his grandmother Hannah ( (Bermuda National Trust Dunscombe file).