Ancestors

William Churchill

1656-1722 · Plympton MA
Born 1656
Died 1722
Father: John Churchill
Mother: Hannah Pontus
Children include William

Born at Plymouth in 1656, the fifth child of John Churchill the immigrant, and six years old when his father, dying, willed him the purchase land at Punkatussett. He took it up as a man. The tract was set off as the town of Plympton in 1707, and the Plympton records afterwards identified him and half his descendants by one phrase, one of the first settlers in Plympton.

He married Lydia Bryant at Plymouth on 17 January 1683, a daughter of the Plymouth Colony immigrant Stephen Bryant. Both of them were members of the church at Plymouth. Their eight children fill the Plympton books, and two of the sons married two sisters out of a second and unrelated Bryant household.

He died on 5 October 1722. The town book says he was 66, which fits his birth in 1656; his gravestone says 63. It also records, in the place where his father's name should be, only that the man lived at Hobb's Hole in Plymouth. That is where John Churchill lived and died.

Sources

Gardner Asaph Churchill and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, The Churchill Family in America (Boston, 1904), second generation, no. 4, quoting Bradford's manuscript notes; and Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1923), births and deaths under Churchell and Churchill

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Cite: Heirology, "William Churchill (1656-1722)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-churchill-1656-1722-42b57c.