Person:Richard Church (28)

"RICHARD, Plymouth 1633, had, prob. come to Mass. in the fleet with Winthrop for he req. adm. as freem. 19 Oct. 1630, yet did not after take the o. but rem. from Weymouth to P. and was rec. as freem. of that Col. 4 Oct. 1632. He m. Elizabeth d. of Richard Warren, wh. prob. came with her mo. in the Ann 1623; was engag. as a carpenter in build. the earliest ch. edif. at Plymouth, serv. in the Pequot war, sold his est. at P. in 1649, and was at Charlestown 1653, and for final resid. sat down at Hingham. Giv. evid. at Sandwich, 25 Aug. 1664, he call. hims. 56 yrs. old, and he made his will at H. 25 Dec. 1668, and d. at Dedham a few days after. It provides for wid. Elizabeth and equal portions to all the ch. without nam. them, exc. that Joseph, on acco. of his lame hd. should have a double one. To name those ch. older, is not easy, perhaps not all of them with confidence. Beside Joseph, we kn. Benjamin, the gr. soldier, b. 1639; Elizabeth wh. m. 20 Jan. 1658, Caleb Hobart; Richard, wh. d. young; Caleb; Nathaniel; Hannah, bapt. 8 Aug. 1647; Abigail, wh. m. 19 Dec. 1666, Samuel Thaxter, and d. 25 Dec. 1677; Charles, k. by casual. 30 Oct. 1659; Deborah, b. 27 Jan. 1677, wh. m. John Irish, junr. says Winsor, as his sec. w. (tho. ano. author, wh. gives the date of his m. May 1708, calls her Priscilla); and perhaps Mary, wh. d. at Duxbury, 30 Apr. 1662."

Deposition made at Sandwich 25 Aug 1664 (Plymouth Colony Court Orders, Vol. IV, p. 92): "aged about 56 yeares", so born about 1608.

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Weymouth
REMOVES: Plymouth 1631, Eastham 1649, Charlestown by 1653, Hingham 1654

BIRTH: About 1608 (deposed 25 August 1664 aged about 56 [PCR 4:85; MD 4:152]).
DEATH: Dedham 26 December 1668 [DeVR 11], probably on a visit to his son Caleb. In his will, written the day before his death, he calls himself of Hingham, but the witnesses are all of Dedham

p 125 CHURCH. 1. Richard, b. 1608, arrived at Boston, 1630; freeman, 1632; and from 1633 to 1649 inc. a resident of Ply. Mass. Subsequently he was for a short time at Eastham, removing thence to Charlestown. Jan. 24, 1653, he purchased of Thomas Joy "one halfe or moytie of his Corne mill standeing vpon y* Ryuer caled y* towne Coue in hingham It is with r damme head & streame thereunto belongeing and halfe y* lott of Lande Lying there unto contayneing fower or six acres w1* was formerly r lands of Abraham Martyn," etc. (S. R. Vol. II. pp. 82, 83). Richard, without doubt, was a resident of Hing. during the re mainder of his life. He m. ab. 1636 Elizabeth, dam of Richard and Elizabeth (Jouatt) Warren, who, in 1620, came to Plymouth in the " Mayflower." She d. in Hing. 4 March, 1670. He d. at Dedham, 27 Dec. 1668, "though he was buried in Hing., and his will was made here." " Carpenter." Selectman in 1665. Resided on the spot now owned and occupied by heirs of the late Col. Charles Lane, on North St.