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Thomas Chittingden, (Scituate,) in his will, calls himself weaver, Oct. 7, 1668 ; sons Isaac and Henry. (Gen. Reg.) This must have been the Thomas Chittingden, with wife and sons Isaac and Henry, who came to N. England in 1635. Isaac assisted in taking the inventory of Samuel House's estate in Scituate, Sept., 1661; also the inventory of John Pickles, deceased of Scituate, Dec. 4, 1664, and in Sept. of the same year, witnessed the will of Timothy Hatherly, of Scituate. (See His. Gen. Reg.) This Isaac was prob- ably the son of Thomas, the weaver, who came from England with his father and his family mentioned above.
Farmer notes Thomas Chittenden, of Scituate, 1638, where he lived and died.
CHITWOOD, SIR RICHARD, was the father of Grace, the sec- ond wife of Rev. Peter Bulkley, of Concord, Mass., and the mother of Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of N. London, Wethersfield and Glasten- bury, and the maternal ancestor of all the Bulkleys of those places ; also of Hartford, Colchester, New York, and Wilkesbarre, Penn. (See BULKLEY.)
Grace Bulkley, (Chitwood,) after the death of her husband, in 1659, went to New London, where she purchased the homestead of William Hough, and remained there with her son, Rev. Gershom, while he continued there. (Caulk., p. 132.) Whether his mother went with Rev. Gershom to Wethersfield, after he left New Lon- don, is not said.
CHOCK, PETER, at an early period, acknowledged a deed of land at Stratford, before Joseph Curtis, J. P. Petter (Peter) Chock,
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of Newtown, L. I., in 1689 or '90, purchased of Thomas Jeffery and Mary, his wife, of Stratford, one acre of meadow in ye Great Neck, for £7. Also a right in the common meadow that had formerly be- longed to Richard Harrison, &c., signed by Tho's Jeffery and Mary, and recorded at Stratford, April, 1690.
CHRISTY, CHRISTIE, JAMES, of Flushing, L. I., was accept- ed a freeman of Connecticut by the Gen. Court, in May, 1664. (See JOHN BURROWS, ante.)
James Christie was warmly engaged with Capt. John Coe and others, of Middleburg, (Newtown,) L. I., in shaking from their necks the galling yoke of the Dutch government, and placing themselves under the government of Connecticut ; and Christie being a warm advocate for the change, he was selected as a safe and efficient per- son to carry the letter of those of Middleburg, favorable to the pro- ject, to the Gen. Court at Hartford-who, on his return to the island, found Director Stuyvesant absent at Boston, kindled a fire in Hemp- stead, Jamaica, Flushing, &c., on the island, which lodged him in Fort Amsterdam, and thence before the council for examination, &c. (See Col. Rec., Annals of Newtown, Panton.)
Christie has six coats of arms ; Chrystie has one, and Christy one. CHRISTOPHERS, CHRISTOPHER and JEFFERY, brothers, were the first of the name in Connecticut, at New London, about 1665.
CHRISTOPHERS, JOHANNA, daughter of Jeffery Christo- phers, married John Mayhew, of Devonshire, England, Dec. 26, 1676.
CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, of New London, son of Christo- pher Christophers, married Lucretia, daughter of Daniel Bradley, Jan. 26, 1684, and had issue, Christopher, b. Dec. 2, 1683, m. Sa- rah Prout, of New Haven, Jan. 22, 1711-12 ; Richard, b. Aug. 18, 1685, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall; Peter, b. July 18, 1687 ; John, b. March 15, 1689-90. Lucretia, wife of Richard, died Jan. 7, 1690-1. Richard m. for second wife, Grace Turner, Sept. 3, 1691, and had Joseph, b. July 14, 1692 ; Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1694 ; Jonathan, b. Sept. 19, 1696, d. Oct., 1696 ; Grace, b. Oct. 14, 1698, m. John Coit, May, 1721 ; Ruth, b. Sept. 26, 1705, and Joanna, b. March 19, 1706-7.
CHRISTOPHERS, JOHN, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Hal- ford, of Long Island, July 28, 1696. Children, Samuel, b. July 24, 1697 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 15, 1698, m. Joshua Raymond, Aug. 31, . 1719 ; John, b. May, 1701; Hester, b. June 20, 1703, m. Thomas
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Manwaring, April 6, 1723. Lieut. John d. in Barbadoes, Feb. 3, 1702-3.
MR. RICHARD, son of Richard Christophers, m. Elizabeth Sal- tonstall, Aug. 14, 1710, and had issue, Richard, Jun., b. July 29, 1712, m. Mary, daughter of Mr. John Pickett, 1734 : Elizabeth, b. Sept. 13, 1714 ; Mary, b. Dec. 17, 1716 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1719; Joseph, b. Nov. 30, 1722 ; Catherine, b. Jan. 5, 1724-5. Richard, the father, died June 9, 1726.
CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, JUN., and MARY, his wife, of N. London, had children, Mary, b. May 23, 1734; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1735, m. Capt. Joseph Hurlbut, and died March 11, 1798. Richard, the father, died Sept. 28, 1736.
This family was one of the best families at New London, and married into some of the most noted families of that day, though not as early settlers in the colony as many others.
Coats of arms. Christopher, (London,) has one ; Christophers, one, and two others.
Christopher Christophers was one of the citizens of New London in 1671-2, who was informed against by Mr. Mathew Griswold and others of Lyme to the County Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, for attempts by violence to drive them off their land, resistance to au- thority, and assault. It was in fact a quarrel between New London and Lyme, as to the ownership of a tract of land. (See 2d vol. Col. Rec., Appendix, pp. 557, 558.) Christopher Christophers died July 23, 1687. Miss Caulkins says, in the Hist. of New London, that two brothers of this name, both mariners, came to New London about 1665, and were engaged in the exchange trade with Barba- does. Jeffery aged 55 in 1676, and Christopher aged 56 in 1687, at his death. Jeffery, in 1700, lived at Southold, L. I., with one of his daughters, as he had no sons then living. (See Miss Caulkins' interesting account of the family, in her Hist. of N. London, pp. 316-18.)
CHURCH, RICHARD, was rated £1,116 at Plymouth in 1632-3. He was born in 1608, and came to New England in 1630, a car- penter by trade, was made free 1632, in Plymouth Colony. He m. Elizabeth Warren, 1636, (Guide to Plymouth, p. 349,) and is said by Bradford to have been the father of Col. Benjamin Church, who was noted as famous in the Indian wars. Richard proved his skill in the trade of a carpenter, in building the first church at Plymouth. He lived at Eel River, at Eastham, at Hingham and Dedham. He died at the last place, Dec., 1668. His wife Elizabeth died at Hing-
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ham, March 4, 1670. (His. Duxbury.) He was the same Richard Church who sold his " house, houseing and land, with all the meadow ground, &c.," he had of Goodman Kempton, at the Eel River ; and his wife Elizabeth gave her free approbation to said sale. (See Note, Gen. Reg., vol. ii., No. 3, 1848.) Yet the life of Church, in his memoirs, calls Joseph, of Duxbury, the father of Col. Benjamin. Farmer names Benjamin Church, of Little Compton, the celebrated warrior, " son of Joseph Church," and born at Duxbury, 1639 ; m. Alice Southworth, and had children, Thomas, Constant, Edward, Benjamin, Charles and one daughter. (Col. Church died Jan. 17, 1718, aged 77.) Richard requested freedom October 19, 1630, and Farmer says, he probably was the same who afterward was at Hing. ham, and possibly the Richard Church, a first settler at Duxbury, whom Mr. Bradford makes the father of the great warrior. (See Farmer and Gen. Reg.) "Richard Church shall speedily build the carriage for another piece of ordnance," when finishing the fortifica- tion on Fort Hill in 1642. (Guide to Plymouth, p. 205.) Richard was a sergeant in the Pequod war, and had children by Elizabeth Warren, viz .: Elizabeth ; Benjamin, b. at Plymouth, 1639; Rich- ard, d. young ; Nathaniel, Hingham and Little Compton, m. Sarah Barstow, and died before 1700. (See Winsor's Hist. of Duxbury, p. 245.) This could not have been the Richard Church who settled at Hartford, 1636.
CHURCH, JOSEPH, of Duxbury, 1639, (Farmer says,) had sons Joseph, Caleb and Benjamin, and perhaps others. That Caleb lived at Watertown, and his brother Joseph and Benjamin at Little Compton, cites the life of Church in his memoirs, p. 159. Caleb Church m. Joanna Sprague, Dec., 1667, at Hingham. Abigail Church m. Sam- uel Haxter, at Hingham, Dec., 1666. (His. Reg.) Caleb in the list of freemen in Watertown, March 22, 1689-90. (His. Reg.).
CHURCH, GARRET, free in Mass., in 1649. John, son of Gar- ret and Sarah, b. at Boston, 1637; Samuel, b. 1640; Sarah, b. 1642.
CHURCH, JOHN, b. 1641, received an inhabitant of Dover, New Hampshire, 19th day, Ist mo., 1665-6 ; taxed at Cocheco, 1662-1672 ; killed May 7, 1696. John, b. 1668 ; killed, 1711. (His. Reg.) Nathaniel Warren, Sen., (of Plymouth,) in a supplement to his will, names his sister Elizabeth Church, (probably wife of Richard,) da- ted July 15, 1667. (See His. Reg.) John, of N. H., also had a son Jonathan, b. April 12, '1666, and Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1672. (His. Reg.) Nathan Folger m. Sarah Church, the 29th day of
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Dec., 1699, and Thomas Clark m. Mary Church, the 13th day of Dec., on Nantucket. (His. Reg.)
CHURCH, CHARLES, EsQ., sheriff of the co. of Bristol, was one of those noble subscribers for Prince's Chronology.
CHURCH, SAMUEL, of Hadley, took the oath of allegiance " by order from our Gin'll Cort," Feb. 8, 1678. (His. Reg.) Samuel, in Connecticut, took the oath of freeman, 1657-same man.
CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, of Hartford, Conn., ap- peared at Norwalk in the early settlement of the plantation. If he settled there, he did not long remain. In a list of accounts in 1654, the name of Edward Church is found there. He owned land there which he sold to Thomas Fitch, yet his name is not found in Hall's lists of early landholders in Norwalk. Mr. Roger Ludlow, of Fair- field, purchased of the Norwalk Indians, the town of Norwalk, i. e., the grounds " betweene the twoe Rivers, the one called Norwalke, the other Soakatuck, to the middle of sayed Rivers, from the sea a days walke into the country." Deed dated Feb. 26, 1640. June 19, 1650, an agreement was made between said Ludlow and Nath'l Eli, Ritchard Olmested, with the " rest," for settling and planting Norwalke ; Edward Church is named as one of the grantees. Anoth- er indenture dated February 15, 1651, made between a body of In- dians, Piamikin and fifteen other Indians, and Richard Webb, Nath'l Eli, Edward Church and others, " Planters of Norwake, conveying to them all their lands," known by the name of Bunckinheage, Roo- atan," and which was " Recorded Feb. ye 24th, 1708-9, Per John Copp, Record"." Edward Church early disappeared. Edward Church was at Hartford before he went to Norwalk. He had a dau'r Mary, b. at New Haven, 1656, but was not an original proprietor at New Haven. Edward Church and his wife Mary, were at Hadley in 1662, and his son Samuel died there May 6, 1662. He was taxed at Hatfield in 1682. His son John died at Hatfield, 1676. The same Edward, who was at Norwalk, son of Richard, Sen. (See below.)
CHURCH, RICHARD, was an early settler at Hartford ; proba- bly came there with Mr. Hooker's company in 1636. He drew twelve acres of land in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639, and sixty acres in the division of land in East Hartford, 1666. He had land at the cow-pasture in Hartford, in 1640, and had a house and land in Burr Street in 1640. Viewer of chimneys in 1647. He was freed from watching, warding and training at Hartford, by the Gen. Court, March 7, 1654-5. He was one of the sixty persons
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who " At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April 18, 1659," signed an engagement to remove themselves and families out of Connecticut into Massachusetts, for the purpose of forming the town of Hadley. (See p. 97 of this book.) He accordingly re- moved, with Ann his wife, as he had stipulated. He was made free in Conn., 1658.
When Richard removed to Hadley, he left personal and real es- tate at Hartford. Who was the father of Richard Church, who came to Hartford, is not found, or from what place he came to Hartford.
Richard Church, Sen., of Hartford, and afterward of Hadley, died at Hadley Dec. 16, 1667. His wife Ann died in Hatfield, March 10, 1684. They had three sons and one daughter, viz .:
1. Edward, of Hartford, Norwalk, New Haven and Hadley.
2. John, remained and died at Hartford.
3. Samuel, removed to Hadley.
4. Mary, m. Isaac Graves, of Hatfield, Mass.
These children were probably born before Richard came to Hart- ford, as none of them were recorded as born there.
CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, Sen., the proprietor of Norwalk in 1651-2, m. Mary -- , and had a daughter Mary born at New Haven, 1656, 9th mo., 17th day, and perhaps others born there. His children as far as known, were :
1. Rebecca, m. Joseph Selden, 1677, and settled at E. Haddam, Conn.
2. Mary, b. 1656, 9th mo., 17th ; m. Philip Russell in 1679.
3. Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1663.
4. Naomi, b. May 12, 1666; m. Joseph Rodman, 1687.
5. Sarah, b. May 18, 1670; m. William Porter, 1697.
6. John, was slain by the Indians, May 19, 1676.
7. Richard, b. January 18, 1675 ; lived at Hatfield.
8. Hepzibah, b. Dec. 24, 1678; m. Samuel Spencer, of Hartford, ancestor of Hon. Ambrose Spencer.
9. Hannah, b. -; m. Ebenezer Billings in 1690.
If John, who settled at E. Haddam, was of this family, he was b. after the death of the above John.
Edward, the father, settled at last in Hatfield, Mass., where he died Sept. 19, 1704, aged 76, and his wife Mary died there in 1690 or 1691. As his estate was not settled by the court of probate, he may have had children not recorded.
CHURCH, JOHN, son of Richard and Ann Church, of Hartford and Hadley, settled at Hartford, and m. Sarah, daughter of Richard Beckley, of New Haven, in 1657. His children are found on the probate record at Hartford, viz .:
1. Richard, went first to Westfield, and then to Colchester, and d. in 1730.
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2. John, (Jun.,) lived in Hartford.
3. Samuel, lived in Hartford.
4. Joseph, aged 15, probably, counting to the time of his father's death.
5. Deliverance, 12 years old.
6. Sarah Knight.
7. Mary Standige.
S. Ruth Church.
9. Ann Church.
10. Elizabeth Church.
John, Sen., above, had his father's lands in Hartford. He d. at Hartford in 1691. He was made free, May, 1658.
CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Richard, Sen., and Ann, m. Mary Churchill, of Wethersfield, daughter of Josias, and she is noticed in her father's will. She d. in 1690, and he d. April 13, 1684. He probably removed to Hadley with his father Richard and his family, about 1659 or '60. Their children were :
1. Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1665; m. Samuel Smith.
2. Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1667 ; lived in Hadley.
3. Richard, b. Dec. 9, 1669 ; killed by the Indians, Oct. 5, 1696.
4. Mehetabel, b. Jan. 11, 1671 or '2 ; m. Nehemiah Dickinson.
5. Josiah, b. April 10, 1673. Had a family at Hadley, but removed.
6. Joseph, b. May 26, 1678 ; d. single in 1721.
7. Benjamin, b. Sept. 1, 1680 ; resided in Hadley.
8. John, b. Dec. 24, 1682. This was probably the John who settled at East Haddam.
CHURCH, RICHARD, son of John, of Hartford, and grandson of Richard, of Hartford and Hadley, left Hartford, and for several years was located in Westfield, Mass., where several of his children were born. He m. Elizabeth Noble, of Westfield, March 3, 1692, and had Hannah, John, Rachel, James, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel and Elizabeth. From Westfield, he removed to Colchester, Conn., where he died in 1730.
CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of John, of Hartford, settled in Hart- ford ; m. -, and had sons and daughters. Among his sons I only mention Samuel, Jun., and Ebenezer. The latter was by trade a hatter, and settled in Norwalk. He m. Susannah Fitch, Jan., 1746, and had children, 1. Daniel, (m. Sarah Pickitt, 1768, and had four sons and three daughters,) b. 1746 ; 2. Richard, b. Oct., 1747. His wife d. Oct. 7, 1747, and he m. 2. Ruth -- , Nov., 1755, and had 3. Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1756 ; 4. Ebenezer, b. July 31, 1758 ; 5. Ruth, b. Jan. 29, 1760 ; 6. Esther, b. March 23, 1762 ; 7. Samuel, b. Nov. 25, 1763; 8. Grace, b. Aug. 7, 1765 ; 9. Jo- siah, b. Jan. 10, 1767 ; 10. John, b. Jan. 12, 1769 ; 11. Elizabeth,
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b. Oct. 10, 1770 ; 12. Isaac, b. May 3, 1772. (Hall.) Of the above family are the Churches of Fairfield county.
CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Samuel, Jun., was by trade a sad- dler. He m. Mary Porter, of Farmington, and removed to Bethlem, then a part of Woodbury, and pursued his trade. He died there in the great sickness, which nearly desolated that parish, and left nine children. His sons were, Joshua, Samuel, Ebenezer and Nathan- iel.
CHURCH, JOSHUA, son of Samuel above, was many years a merchant at Bethlem, where his children were born, among whom was Samuel Church, many years town-clerk of Bethlem, who left a family in his old age ; also, Rollin Church, who resided in Beth- lem, son of Joshua. He also had several children, among whom is now living, Leonard H. Church, Esq., of the city of New York. He m. Sarah Sophia Morris, daughter of Harvey Morris, Esq., of Woodbury, Conn., and has two children, Roderick Henry and Ellen Morris. This L. H. Church is the present popular cashier of the Empire City Bank, in New York, who by his industry, integrity and strict attention to business, was lately honored and rewarded for it, by the directors of the Empire City Bank, who presented to him as a reward of merit, an elegant service of silver plate, worth $1,000, for his unremitting efforts as cashier to the interests of the bank.
CHURCH, NATHANIEL, youngest son of Samuel, Sen., of Bethlem ; by the death of his father, he was left an orphan, only three years of age. He learned the trade of a weaver, and at the age of eighteen years, he absconded from the severe usage of a hard master, and enlisted a private soldier in Col. Silliman's regiment in the Continental army, where he was severely wounded by a grape- shot at the battle of White Plains, (which grape-shot was extracted, and is now in possession of his son, Judge Church, of Litchfield, Ct.) He was a long time in the hospital at Danbury. After his recovery he went to Canaan, in Litchfield county, and followed his trade as a weaver, and became a man of wealth. He m. Lois Ensign, the second daughter of Capt. John Ensign, of Canaan, Ct., a descendant of James, Sen., the Puritan, of Hartford, in 1636. Soon after he m. he removed to Salisbury, where he resided until he died, in Nov., 1837, and left a noble family. His sons were, Ensign, Judge Sam- uel, Leman, Esq., John, Nathaniel, Jun., Frederick and William.
CHURCH, HON. SAMUEL, m. when young, and has a family of most promising sons. (See Note.)
CHURCH, LEMAN, EsQ., was a lawyer by profession, and set-
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tled in his profession at Canaan, Ct., and by his industry and talents, with a few years' practice, ranked with the three first of his profes- sion in Litchfield county. He died in middle life, and left a large estate to his widow and children, which he had accumulated by a short life of industry in his practice.
John Church m. Anne Curtis, of Wethersfield, Dec. 11, 1735, and had children born in Wethersfield, John, b. 1736 ; Hepzebah, b. Feb. 20, 1738; Anne, b. Feb. 20, 1740 ; Christian, b. 1642; Eli- sha, b. 1747 ; Daniel, b. Aug. 17, 1750. Samuel Church m. Phebe Fuller, at Colchester, June 24, 1744. Rebecca Church m. Joseph Selding, of Hadley, 1676. Sergeant Samuel, of Hadley, died April 13, 1684. Richard was one of the number in Massachusetts, who desired to renew his oath of a freeman, under the act of the General Court at Boston, May 14, 1634.
John Church, of Colchester, had his wife Thankful, and children Ruth, Ezra, John and Abigail, bap. Jan. 20, 1734. John Church, son of John, of Hartford, m. Abigail Cadwell, 1699 ; he died 1735. Mary, Joseph, Daniel, b. 1710, at Hartford, and others. James Church was an original settler at Litchfield. Samuel Church m. Elizabeth Clark, Aug. 17, 1710. James m. Abigail Stanly, Dec. 10, 1712. James and Abigail had Joseph, b. April 21, 1724 ; Abi- gail, b. Feb. 11, 1727-8 ; Jerusha, b. 1729-30, m. Wm. Pitkin.
CHURCH, GEORGE, a servant of Stephen Kent, with others, passengers intended for New England, in the good ship Confidence, of London, John Jobson, master, by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's warrant, of the 11th of April, 1638. Dated, Southampton, 24th April, 1638. ( Stevens.)
CHURCH, MARTIN, sixteen years old, passenger for Virginia, in the Safety, August, 1635, from England.
Coats of arms .- Church or Churche, (Earls Colne, co. Essex,) has 1; Church, (as borne by Henry Church, Esq., R. N., and by the Rev. William Church, of Hampton, co. Middlesex,) 1; Churche, (Essex,) 1; and one other for Churche.
NOTE. As so much has lately been published of the Church family in Connecticut, I with- hold a large share of the facts collected on this family.
NOTE. Hon. Samuel Church, the son of Nathaniel, of Salisbury, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 1803. He read law in the office of Judge Reeve, at Litchfield, and settled in his pro- fession at Salisbury, when quite young, and soon became prominent in his profession at the Litchfield bar, which at that time was one of the most prominent bars in the state, viz., Gould, Allen, Tracy, Bacon, Benedict, Boardman, &c. In 1818 he was elected a member of the
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CHURCHILL, CHURCHIL, CHURCHEL, JOSIAS, (JOSIAH,) was an early settler at Wethersfield, and perhaps came to Wethers- field, (then called Watertown,) from Watertown, Mass., where most of the first settlers were from. There was also John Churchill,*
Gen. Assembly, and six sessions afterward. He was state senator, elected 1825 and '27, by general ticket. In 1833 he was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and in 1847, was appointed Chief Justice, which office he now holds-all which places of trust he has most faithfully filled, to the perfect satisfaction of the public. He married, when young, and has a small family of promising children. One of his sons, Albert E., is now a professor at the Military Academy at West Point, and another, Dr. Samuel P., at Derby. Judge Church has probably become more celebrated than any of the descendants of Richard, Sen., of Hartford.
* CHURCHILL, JOHN, who is not found to have been a relative of Josiah, who was an early settler at Wethersfield, Conn., came from England, and stopped at Plymouth-the year not known-but at an early period of the settlement of New Plymouth; married Hannah Pontus, of Plymouth, Dec. 18, 1644, and died there between Dec. 24 and Feb. 11, 1662. The will of John Churchill was exhibited in court at Plymouth, May 3, 1662, and proved. He gave his sons " Joseph and Eleazer, lands at Plymouth," and sons John and William, other property, &c. In. ventory, £74, 14s. 6d. (Gen. Reg., 1842.) In August, 1643, the names of the males able to bear arms, from sixteen years old to sixty, were taken in the several townships, and with the 148 names thus enrolled, is found that of John Churchill, vol. 5, p. 259.
The children of John and his wife Hannah, were :
Joseph, m. Sarah . . Birth or death of either not known.
Eleazer.
John.
William.
Hannah. These children are found in the will of their father, John, of Plymouth ..
JOSEPH, son of John, m. Sarah ----; had children, Margaret, Barnabas, b. July 3, 1686, Joseph, and perhaps John.
BARNABAS, son of Joseph, m. Lidiah -; children, William, Ichabod, Joseph, b. May 19, 1721, Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Ebenezer, Lydia, John, (Mariah Ryder, b. Dec. 2, 1724.)
JOSEPH, son of Barnabas, m. Mariah Ryder, at Plymouth, Sept. 23, 1745, daughter of Sam- uel Ryder, son of John and Hannah, b. 1698, and Mary Sylvester, who were m. at P., Nov. 2, 1722. Joseph d. in P. soon after his daughter Lucy was born. His widow m. Arehippus Fuller, and with all their children they moved to Woodstock, Vt., and lived to be aged. His children were, Ichabod, b. Aug. 9, 1746; Joseph, b. July 14, 1748; Lucy, b. Aug. 22, 1750, and Con- sider Fuller, Seth, Samuel, Polly and Mariah Fuller.
JOSEPH, son of Joseph, b. 1748, m. Saralı Cobb, daughter of Gersham Cobb and Miriam Thomas ; m. at Middleborough, Mass., March 3, 1739. Joseph and Sarah m. in M., March 21, 1771, and continued in M. until 1777, when they removed with three children to Woodstock, Vt., and continued there until 1819, when they removed to Stowe, and Joseph d. in 1823, and his wife Sarah in 1836. All his children survived them. Children, Levi, b. April 24, 1772; Miriam, b. Aug. 16, 1774 ; Sarah, b. April 13, 1777; Lucy, b. March, 1779 ; Joseph, b. July 7, 1781; Sylvester, b. Aug. 2, 1783 ; Isaac, b. Feb. 19, 1787, and Susan, b. July 17, 1794.
SYLVESTER, b. 1783, m. Lucy Hunter at Windsor, Vt., Aug. 30, 1812. He being an officer in the army, had no fixed residence, but was stationed at different military posts. His wife was a daughter of Wm. Hunter, who was b. in Sharon, Ct., Jan. 3, 1754. His parents were David Hunter and Rebeckah Marvin. Gen. Sylvester Churchill is now Inspector General in the United States army. Two of his sons were educated at West Point, and have since done signal ser- vice for their country. His children :
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