Richard Church
Richard Church was born about 1608. He arrived at Boston in 1630 and was made a freeman of the colony in 1632. From 1633 to 1649 he lived at Plymouth. He was a carpenter, and Savage credits him with building the earliest meeting house at Plymouth. He served in the Pequot War of 1637.
About 1636 he married Elizabeth Warren, a daughter of Richard Warren, who had come in the Mayflower in 1620, and of his widow Elizabeth. On 7 March 1636/7 the Plymouth court recorded lands that the widow Warren had given "unto her sons-in-law Richard Church, Robert Bartlett and Thomas Little, in marriage with their wives, her daughters."
After Plymouth he lived for a short time at Eastham, and then at Charlestown. On 24 January 1653 he bought from Thomas Joy half of the corn mill on the Town Cove at Hingham, with the dam and the stream and half the lot of land belonging to it. He lived at Hingham for the rest of his life, on North Street, and was a selectman in 1665.
He and Elizabeth had a large family. Elizabeth was born at Plymouth in 1636 or 1637. Then came Joseph in 1638, Benjamin in 1640, Caleb, Nathaniel, Hannah, Abigail on 22 June 1647, Charles, Richard, Sarah, Mary and Deborah. Benjamin became the soldier who commanded the party that killed King Philip in 1676. Charles was killed at Hingham on 30 October 1659 when his cart overturned. Richard died young. Mary died at Duxbury in 1662.
Richard Church died at Dedham on 27 December 1668. He was buried at Hingham, where his will had been made. By Savage's account the will gave his son Joseph a double portion because of his lame hand. Elizabeth died at Hingham fourteen months later.
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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Church (1608-1668)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-church-1608-1668-f51bd2.