When David Vaughn was born on 14 April 1722, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Vaughn, was 32 and his mother, Johannah Sweet, was 27. He married Sarah (Cole) Vaughn on 5 December 1745, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 11 October 1804, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 82.