Vaughan of Barbados is a record of the branch of the Barbados Vaughan clan or extended  family based in the parish of St Andrew on the east coast of the island of Barbados in the West  Indies (eastern Caribbean) where a Vaughan family is recorded as settled in the census of 1712.  The earliest Vaughan of Barbados, Edward, is registered in the census or electoral role of small  landowners of 1639. 
 Over the following years,as early maps of the island show and the registers of land ownership  record, several small properties are listed in the possession of Vaughans,descendants of the  original Edward Vaughan, mainly in the east coast parishes of St John, St Joseph and St Andrew.  The census of 1712 lists 15 acres of land in the possession of Benjamin Vaughan,aged 32, his wife  Jane,23, and their two children Elizabeth,6, and John,2. They had at the time no (African) slaves  or (European) indentured servants in their service. 
 Just over a century later the Vaughan plantation had grown to 100 acres, 60 in sugar cane and  rotated subsistence food crops, and 40 in grazing, woodland  and non agriculture use.