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David Church | see FAMILY TREE | |
Born: 01 Sep 1657 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
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Married: 16 Jun 1686 Watertown, Middlesex,
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Died: Before 1751 Killingly, Windham, CT |
FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
Mary
David CHILDREN
1. John Church
2. Sarah Church
David Church
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023
David Church was born 1 Sep 1657 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. (1) He married Mary unknown on 16 Jun 1686 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. (2) There is strong evidence that there were two men named David Church living Watertown at that time. (3) By 1709 he had moved to Killingly, Windham, CT where he was granted a patent as a new proprietor. (4) In 1738 he gave his son John a lot of 25 acres in Killingly. In that deed he named his father as Garrett Church. (5) David Church died in Killingly sometime before 1751. His wife, Mary, was named as a widow of David when she died in Killingly on 7 Dec 1751. (6)
Sources
(1) History of Worcester page 82
Church.---Garrett Church,1 B. Eng. 1611, settled early in Watertown and had
by wife Sarah six children.
Church, David 2, b. at Watertown, Sept. 1, 1657,
m. Mary ____.
(2) New England Marriages prior to 1700
(3) Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical Register page 394
(4) History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II,
1760-1880
Aspinock. Killingly.
Within the time allotted, the grantees had taken up their land, and on October
13, 1709, on the payment of forty pounds through Captain Chandler, a patent of
the remaining lands in Killingly was granted by the Governor and Company of
Connecticut to its proprietors, viz.: Colonel Robert Treat, Major James Fitch,
Captain John Chandler, Joseph Otis, James Danielson, Ephraim Warren, Peter
Aspinwall, Joseph Cady, Richard Evans, Sen. and
Jun., John Winter, Stephen Clap, John and William Crawford, George Blanchard,
Thomas Whitmore, John Lorton, Jonathan Russel, Daniel Cady, William Price,
William Moffat, James and Joseph Leavens, John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill,
John Bartlett, Samuel Winter, Ebenezer Kee, Isaac and Jonathan Cutler, Peter
Leavens, Sampson Howe, John Sabin, John Preston, Philip Eastman,
David
Church, Thomas Priest, Nicholas Cady, John, Thomas, Matthew, Jabez and Isaac
Allen. Nearly one-third of these forty-four patentees were non-resident, so that
Killingly numbered at this date about thirty families.
(5) 1738 Killingly Land Records BK 4 page 255
Another early settler was John Winter, father of Samuel Winter
(6) Death of
Mary, widow of David Church
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