He married Elizabeth Magill, daughter of Sarah Devey (Denny)and Capt.
(The Government later gave the property to its existing tenant, the Royal Navy, to become the new Admiralty House for the North America and West Indies Station.)
His daughter Caroline Augusta married James Crowdy, a member of the assembly.
[2] His daughter Sarah Christiana married Church of England clergyman Thomas Finch Hobday Bridge.
[3] His son, John Josiah William Dunscombe, married Caroline Birche Durnford, daughter of Major General Elias Walker Durnford and Jane Sophia Mann, and became Collector of Customs for the Port of Quebec.