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Facts and Events
| Name |
Ensign Samuel Churchill |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][3][1] |
1688 |
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
26 Jun 1717 |
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Martha Boardman |
| Death[4][5][1] |
21 Jul 1767 |
Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial? |
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Newington Cemetery, Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Churchill, Samuel Joseph. Genealogy and biography of the Connecticut branch of the Churchill family in America: containing eleven generations and eighty portraits of the families. (Lawrence, Kansas: Journal Pub., 1901)
pas 11, 12.
Samuel [Churchill (an ensign), born in 1688, and married June 26, 1717, Martha Boardman, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Wright) Boardman. She was born December 19, 1695.
They resided at the south end of Newington parish (then a part of Wethersfield, on land inherited from his grandfather, Joseph. Ensign Samuel was a leading man in the parish.
He was of the first foot company on alarm in 1757 to go to the relief of Fort Edward from Sheffield, Massachusetts. They had six children, all born in Newington parish.
1. Giles, b. June 11, 1718.
2. Samuel, b. April 27, 1721, (he is the fourth generation);
3. Charles (a captain), b. December 31, 1723;
4. Jesse (a deacon), b. August 31. 1726;
5. Benjamin, b. April 10, 1729;
6. William, b. November 6, 1732.
The father died July 21, 1767. His wife died December 14, 1780. Their tombstones still exist in Newington graveyard.
- ↑ Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
2:222.
'Ensign SAMUEL [Churchill], ([son of] Joseph, ...), b. ------ 1688, d. in Newington parish July 21, 1769.. He m. June 26, 1717, Martha Boardman, b. Dec. 18, 1695; d. a wid. Dec. 14, 1780.'
- ↑ Tillotson, Edward Sweetser. Wethersfield Inscriptions: a complete record of the inscriptions in the five burial places in the ancient town of Wethersfield, including the towns of Rocky Hill, Newington, and Beckley Quarter (in Berlin), also a portion of the inscriptions in the oldest cemetery in Glastonbury. (Hartford, Connecticut: W. F. J. Boardman, 1899)
page 158.
'In Memory | of Ensn. | Samuel Churchel | Who died July 21st | A : D. 1767 In [th]e 79th | year of his Age'
- ↑ Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
page 230.
'Martha Bordman ([daughter of] Daniel...), born in Wethersfield, Dec. 19, 1695, married June 26, 1717, Samuel Churchill of Newington, son of Joseph and Mary (TouzeyA) Churchill. They lived at the south end of the present town of Newington, ... Samuel Churchill was a leading man in the parish of Newington, ...
His tombstone and that of his wife are to be seen in its burying ground. "Ensign" Samuel Churchill died July 21, 1767, and Martha, his widow, died Dec. 14, 1780. (Weth. Rec.)'
A Catlin
- ↑ Wethersfield Vital Records , in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
65 (typescript).
'Churchill, ... Samuell, Ens.,d. July 21, 1767'
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