Benjamin CHURCH

Abt 1732 - 1831  (99 years)

• Name	Benjamin CHURCH  [1, 2]
  	He married abt. 1769, Joannah Wilbor. She was born in Little Compton 29 May 1732, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Carr) Wilbore. Benjamin's father Joseph Church deeded land on 18 December 1783, to son Benjamin "of Nine Partners, N.Y., a 15-acre lot left me by my uncle Caleb Church," recorded in Little Compton 25 Dec 1783. Benjamin appears as head of household in Washington censuses for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820 and 1830. the town of Washington had been part of the Great Nine Partners Patent of 1697. Washington was formed in 1788 as one of the original towns of the reorganized county. Benjamin made his will and had it witnessed in Washington on 7 July 1824; it was probated there on 23 January 1832. Benjamin mentions sons Samuel, Joseph, and Benjamin, and daughters Martha Church and Elizabeth Stringham. Sons Joseph and Benjamin were appointed executors. Samuel apparently had debts; Benjamin directs in his will "Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Church all the notes & bonds I have against him..." Benjamin makes no mention of his wife Joannah in his will. In his 1810 household no woman of Joannah's age is counted so she had probably died earlier. Although a female in his household in the 1820 census was in Joannah's age cohort (45 and over), this female was likely Benjamin's spinster daughter Martha. [1]
  Birth	Abt 1732	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Dec 1831	Washington, Dutchess Co., New York   [1]
  Person ID	I70898	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Joseph CHURCH,   b. 23 Oct 1710, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Lydia RANDALL,   b. 15 Jan 1709, Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	22 Dec 1731	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [1]
  Family ID	F1880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joanna WILBOR,   b. 29 May 1732, Little Compton, Rhode Island
  Marriage	15 Jul 1751  [2]
  Marriage Fact	Abt 1769  [1]
  Family ID	F28674	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1732 - Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S12084] Mayflower Descendant A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy & History Vol. 68, No. 2 Summer 2020. [S03490] John Reid Wilbor, Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "The Wildbores In America" A Family Tree , ( 1933).