Family:David Church and Mary Howe (1)

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Marriage[1][2] 21 Jul 1710 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
    326.

    Wilder, Mary and Dauid Church, July 21, 1710.

  2. Howe, Daniel Wait, and revised/edited by Gilman Bigelow Howe. Howe Genealogies. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historical Genealogical Society (Printed by Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Mass.), 1929)
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    Mary Howe, d/o Isaac Howe and Frances Woods, m. (2) 21 Jul 1710 David Church, s/o Garrett and Sarah Church.
    [This source appears to be wrong in identifying David as the son of Garrett and Sarah. If so, he would have been born 1 Sep 1657, age 53 at the time of the marriage, and so 20 years older than Mary. Hence, he was probably not the man who proceeded to father 4 children over the next decade. The David Church who was son of Garrett had two known children (John and Sarah) and perhaps others by a wife Mary in Watertown where he was an innkeeper and tailor. He moved to Marlborough about 1701, but then moved to Killingly, Connecticut, in 1708, where he became Town Clerk, and appears to have lived there the rest of his life. So he is a different person than the David Church of Marlborough who married Mary in 1710, lived in Marlborough for roughly the next decade. They are commonly confused. One possibility is that David of Watertown had a son David whose birth was not recorded, moved to Marlborough with his parents and was the one who married Mary. Another possibility is that the David Church who is warned out of Providence in 1720, not long after the last recorded child of David and Mary in Marlborough was born in 1717, is David and Mary leaving Marlborough in favor of Providence. This David Church of Providence is thought to be the son of Samuel Church of Groton. Either way he ends up being a grandson, not son, of Garrett Church. (See NEHGR, p. 123:186 for a detailed discussion of this family.)]