AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
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Elizabeth Evans | see FAMILY TREE | |
Born: 23 Apr 1688 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA | ||
Died: Abt. 1735 Killingly, Windham Co., CT |
FATHER
MOTHER
Mary or Martha
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
1. John Church b. 05.Mar 1708/09 Killingly, Windham, CT
2. Elizabeth Church b. 1714 Ct
3. Mary Church b. Abt 1718
4. Sarah Church Abt 1716
5. Jonathan Church b. 27 Sep 1724 Killingly, Windham, CT
Elizabeth Evans
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023
Elizabeth Evans was born 23 Apr 1688 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony. (1) In 1693, when she was 9 years old, her father, Richard Evans, purchased 200 acres of land in what would become Killingly and he was described as "late of Rehoboth." (2) She met and married John Church about 1708 and their first child was born 5 Mar 1709 in Killingly. She must have died about 1735/6 when her youngest child was about 11. Her husband remarried on 15 Dec 1736. (3)
Sources
(2) History of Windham County,
Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880
Aspinock. Killingly.
In 1693, the future Killingly received its
first known white settler-Richard Evans-who purchased, for twenty
pounds, a two-hundred, acre grant of the Rev. James Pierpont, of New Haven,
and is described in the deed as "late of Rehoboth, but now resident of the
said granted premises." Little is known of this first settler of Killingly
beyond the fact of his early settlement. The bounds of his farm cannot now
be identified. It was laid out in the wilderness, about a mile east of the
Quinebaug and three miles from Woodstock, just south of Woodward's and
Saffery's line. It was in the northern extremity of the subsequent township
of Killingly; was afterwards included in the "South Neighborhood" of
Thompson, and now forms a part of the town of Putnam. Mr. Evans was
accompanied by a grown son, Richard
Evans, Jun., and in time built two homesteads
and made various improvements. His establishment served as a landmark for
all the surrounding region, many tracts of land being identified by distance
or direction from Richard
Evans.
(3) From The American Genealogist Vol. 52 page 221