Simeon Church
Simeon Church was born at Lyme, Connecticut, in 1708. He settled in the north part of Saybrook, on the Connecticut River, which became the parish of Chester and later its own town. He was a blacksmith by trade.
He was the first clerk of Chester parish. A parish in colonial Connecticut was a church society inside a town, and its clerk kept the records of its meetings and its rates. The 1914 genealogy says his records were "unusually well written." They were lost late in the nineteenth century, after the compiler had seen them in 1880.
He married Eunice Warner, born about 1719. Their children included Titus in 1745, Lois in 1747, Eunice in 1748, Simeon in 1750, Philemon in 1752, Elizabeth in 1753, John in 1755 and Samuel in 1759. Elizabeth married Isaiah Huntley of Lyme in 1779 and went north with him.
His memorial adds that he served in the Revolution in Captain Stevens' company of Chester volunteers, when he was in his late sixties. He died on 7 October 1792 and was buried in the Old Burying Ground at Chester. Eunice outlived him by seventeen years.
A genealogy of his descendants, Simeon Church of Chester, Connecticut, 1708-1792, and his Descendants, was printed at Waterbury in 1914. It names his parents as Samuel Church and Susannah Hungerford and carries the line back to a Richard Church who was at Hartford by 1637. Four other printed works give the same parents, among them a lineage book of 1923 and a family history of 1940. A land record of his brother Richard names their father as Samuel Church of Lyme.
Samuel Church died at Lyme on 24 June 1718, when Simeon was ten. His mother had died in February 1713. The family books make Samuel the son born on 4 August 1663 to Deacon Edward Church of Norwalk and Hatfield, whose births are in Judd and Boltwood's History of Hadley. No known record names both Hatfield and Lyme for him.
Edward Church died at Hatfield, Massachusetts, in September 1704, aged seventy-six. A son of his was killed in the Falls Fight of 1676, a battle of King Philip's War on the Connecticut River. Edward's father, Richard Church, was at Hartford by 1637, signed the agreement of 1659 to found Hadley, and died there in 1667. The 1914 book gives Richard a London birth in 1610, from an English report that a family typescript of 1949 calls discredited.
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Cite: Heirology, "Simeon Church (1708-1792)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/simeon-church-1708-1792-35d50d.