Benjamin CHURCH, Sr.

Male 1680 - 1755  (74 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Benjamin CHURCH, Sr. was born on 01 Sep 1680 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (son of Samuel CHURCH and Mary CHURCHILL); died on 15 Jan 1755.

    Benjamin married Miriam HOVEY on 13 Jan 1709. Miriam (daughter of Thomas HOVEY and Sarah COOKE) was born on 27 Aug 1689 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died in 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Benjamin married Sarah SMITH on 29 May 1724 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 10 Apr 1689 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Benjamin married Hannah DICKINSON on 23 Sep 1714 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 06 Sep 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Samuel CHURCH was born in 1638 in Hartford, Connecticut; died on 13 Apr 1684 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: 1657, Freeman of Connecticut

    Samuel married Mary CHURCHILL about 1659 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Josiah CHURCHILL and Elizabeth FOOTE) was born on 24 Mar 1639 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1690 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary CHURCHILL was born on 24 Mar 1639 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (daughter of Josiah CHURCHILL and Elizabeth FOOTE); died in 1690 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
    Children:
    1. Mary CHURCH was born on 23 Jan 1665 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died on 18 Jun 1700.
    2. Samuel CHURCH, Jr. was born on 19 Aug 1667 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died about 1737.
    3. Richard CHURCH was born on 09 Dec 1669 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 15 Oct 1696 in Murdered by Indians.
    4. Mehitabel CHURCH was born on 11 Jan 1672 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 25 Sep 1748.
    5. Josiah CHURCH, Sr. was born on 10 Apr 1673 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
    6. Joseph CHURCH was born on 26 May 1678 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died in 1721.
    7. 1. Benjamin CHURCH, Sr. was born on 01 Sep 1680 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jan 1755.
    8. John CHURCH, Sr. was born on 24 Dec 1682 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 21 Mar 1751 in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Josiah CHURCHILL was born about 1615 in England; died on 01 Jan 1686 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Will: 17 Nov 1683

    Notes:

    Excerpt from "The Descendants of Nathaniel Foote Sr. & Elizabeth Deming" by Ellwood Count Curtis:

    "The first documented appearance of Josiah in Wethersfield was at the time of his marriage. The next record concerned his real estate. The town records indicate that on 28 February 1641 he owned land in Wethersfield on the river......
    This homestead was on the east side of High street, on the north corner of an ancient road leading to the Great Meadow, and the river. It faced the southern extremity of the Common, which stretched north from his house to the river in December 1659 the records show that Josiah moved a few doors south.
    An earlier genealogist, Hinman, stated that "He was a gentleman of more than a medium estate for the time in which he lived, and of reputation in the Colony". He was apparently active in public affairs. He was a juror of the Particular Court in 1643, 1649, and 1651, at the Quarter Court in 1664 and 1665, and at the County Court in 1666, 1670 and 1675. He was chosen a constable in 1657 and 1670. He was elected one of the two town surveyors in 1666 and 1673.
    Josiah left a will dated 17 November 1683. The inventory of his estate was taken on 5 January 1687 by James Treat and John Buttolph, selectmen of Wethersfield. It was worth 618 pounds 13 shillings and 6 pence. It showed that at his death he owned two home lots and two hundred acres of land. His son Joseph received the house and home lot he was living on along with all other buildings thereon and several other parcels of land. His son Benjamin was to have the old homestead after his mother died and some other land. The daughters received shares of the "moveable estate", as was the custom at that time. Among the items mentioned were a great chest, two bibles, and other books.

    Josiah married Elizabeth FOOTE in 1638 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING) was born on 08 Sep 1616 in Colchester, England; was christened between 14 Jan 1617 and 1618 in St. James, Colchester, County Essex, England; died on 08 Sep 1700 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Elizabeth FOOTE was born on 08 Sep 1616 in Colchester, England; was christened between 14 Jan 1617 and 1618 in St. James, Colchester, County Essex, England (daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING); died on 08 Sep 1700 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Birth: Abt 1616, England

    Children:
    1. 3. Mary CHURCHILL was born on 24 Mar 1639 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1690 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
    2. Elizabeth CHURCHILL was born on 15 May 1642 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    3. Hannah CHURCHILL was born on 01 Nov 1644 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died about 1689 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
    4. Sergeant Joseph CHURCHILL was born on 02 Dec 1649 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 01 Apr 1699 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    5. Lieutenant Benjamin CHURCHILL was born on 16 May 1652 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died between 1728 and 1730 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    6. Son CHURCHILL was born about 1655 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1656 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    7. Sarah CHURCHILL was born on 11 Nov 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 14.  Nathaniel FOOTE was born on 21 Sep 1592 in Colchester, England; died before 11 Dec 1644 in Intestate; was buried in Wethersfield, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Birth: Abt 1593, England
    • Emigration: 1633
    • Death: 20 Nov 1644, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    • Fact: 20 Nov 1644, Inventory of estate taken.

    Notes:

    Excerpt from "The Descendants of Nathaniel Foote Sr. & Elizabeth Deming" by Ellwood Count Curtis:
    From all that we an learn Mr. Foote came from Shalford, in Colchester, England, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The first mention I find made of his name is in the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1633, when he took the oath of freeman.........
    Mr. Foote married in England, about the year 1615, to Elizabeth Deming, sister of Mr. John Deming, who was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, and for many years one of the magistrates of the Colony of Connecticut, and one of the patentees named in its charter. His children were all born in England, except perhaps the youngest. Mr. Foote died in 1644, aged about 51 years, and was buried in the ancient burying ground in the rear of the Meeting House, where are gathered together the ashes of nine generations. He left behind him, surviving, a widow, two sons and five daughters. He left no will. At a Particular Court held at Harford, 20 November 1644, the following inventory of his property and distribution of his real estate were exhibited, and an order of court granting distribution of his estate and directing a distribution to be made, was passed.
    "An inventory of the good and lands of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, deceased, being truly taken and indifferently apprised by Richard Treat, Samuel Smith, and Nathaniel Dickinson. The estate was valued at over L380."

    Excerpt from "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines": Nathaniel, with his wife and probably six children, emigrated to New England where he became a freeman of Watertown, Massachusetts,on September 3, 1634, owned a homestead of sixteen acres and a two-acre marsh and was still a proprietor as late as 1642, but removed before that date to Wethersfield, Connecticut, probably with the first group of its settlers in 1634-6.
    In this new home he was the wealthiest man and the largest holder of the so-called "Adventurers' lands." He held a ten-acre home lot and gradually added various other tracts including the southern part of "Pennywise Island." In 1639 he laid out a road two rods wide which ran east from the Connecticut River "to the Wilderness" through his "3 mile lot." Farming was his occupation and, apparently, he established a good reputation as a stock raiser, or else he had superior breed of swine, for in May 1637, when the time "army" of ninety men under Captain John Mason was being provisioned to go against the Pequots, the Colonial authorities specified that "there shalbe 1 hogg provided att Wythersfield for the designe in hande, wch is conceiued to be Nathanial Footes.........."
    He acted as Representative to the General Court from 1641-4 and served the community in other useful capacities.
    This family, as a whole, had a large share in the tragedies of that early day for Philip Smith, husband o Rebecca Foote, was announced to have been "murdered with an hideous witchcraft"; among the members of the early generations, Nathaniel Foote had, (a), a daughter-in-law and two of her children taken captive by the Indians and another child killed; (b), a daughter and three of her children killed, while (c), her husband and two other children were made captives; and (d), two more of her children wounded; and Frances Foote lost two husbands by the Indians as well as one son-in-law killed and another, with four of his children, taken into captivity.
    Nathaniel, aged about fifty-one, died intestate before December 11, 1644.

    Nathaniel married Elizabeth DEMING about 1615 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of John DEMING, Sr. and ? UNKNOWN) was born about 1595 in Colchester, England; died on 28 Jul 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 15.  Elizabeth DEMING was born about 1595 in Colchester, England (daughter of John DEMING, Sr. and ? UNKNOWN); died on 28 Jul 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Will Proved: Between Aug and Sep 1683
    • Will: 16 Aug 1682

    Children:
    1. 7. Elizabeth FOOTE was born on 08 Sep 1616 in Colchester, England; was christened between 14 Jan 1617 and 1618 in St. James, Colchester, County Essex, England; died on 08 Sep 1700 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
    2. Nathaniel FOOTE, Jr. was born about 1620 in Colchester, England; died in Jun 1655 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
    3. Mary FOOTE was born about 1623 in England; died after Aug 1685 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
    4. Lieut. Robert FOOTE was born on 08 Dec 1627 in England; died in 1681 in Branford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
    5. Frances FOOTE was born in 1629 in East Berghoist, County Suffolk, England.
    6. Sarah FOOTE was born about 1632 in England; died in 1673 in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
    7. Rebecca FOOTE was born on 03 Sep 1634 in England; died on 06 Apr 1701 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.