Richard Church
Richard Church was at Hartford, Connecticut, by 1637, among its first English settlers. A family genealogy of 1914 says he came with the Rev. Thomas Hooker's company, which went overland from Massachusetts Bay to found Hartford in 1636.
The same book says he drew twelve acres in the first land division at Hartford in 1639, and served in 1647 as a viewer of chimneys. The viewers inspected chimneys for the risk of fire.
In 1659 he signed the agreement to found a new town up the Connecticut River, and he moved there. The new town was Hadley, in Massachusetts.
On 10 July 1660 he witnessed the deed by which Umpanchala, a Native sachem, conveyed the Hadley lands to the settlers.
His wife was Anne. Their children included Edward, born about 1628, who became a deacon at Norwalk and Hatfield; John, born about 1636; Samuel; and Mary, who married Isaac Graves.
He died at Hadley on 16 December 1667. Anne lived another sixteen years and died at Hatfield on 10 March 1684, in her eighty-fourth year.
The 1914 genealogy also gives him a birth in London on 6 February 1610 and a marriage in 1627 to Anne Marsh of Braintree in Essex. That account came from a genealogist's report made for Alonzo Church. A family typescript of 1949 says the English work was discredited by Gardner Bartlett, the English-records specialist. His origin is unknown.
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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Church (d. 1667)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-church-1667-82806b.