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             Husband: John CHURCH (1 2 3)
                Born: l 1741 (4)
             Married: 30 NOV 1769 in Derby, New Haven, CT (50 51 52)
                Died: 09 NOV 1803 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (5 6 7)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (8 9)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses: unknown
                Wife: Rachael DAVIS
                Born: 04 JUL 1752 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (10 11)
          Christened: 06 AUG 1752 in St. James Episcopal Church, Derby, New Haven, CT
                Died: 10 MAR 1788 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12 13)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (14 15)
              Father: Joseph DAVIS
              Mother: Mary WHEELER
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): William CHURCH (16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26)
                Born: 01 NOV 1770 (27 28 29)
                Died: 24 MAR 1852 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (30 31 32)
             Spouses: Lois PITCHER
02               (M): Abel CHURCH (33 34 35)
                Born: 10 FEB 1774 (36 37 38)
                Died: 10 JUN 1857 (39 40 41)
             Spouses: Anna
03               (F): Abigail CHURCH
                Born: 17 MAY 1776 (42 43)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Polly CHURCH
                Born: 20 SEP 1778 (44 45)
          Christened: 15 NOV 1778 in St. James Episcopal Church, Derby, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Bethelda CHURCH
                Born: 16 MAR 1785 (46 47)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
06               (F): Rachael CHURCH
                Born: 06 FEB 1788 (48 49)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 1790 Derby Census.
  2. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 38.
  3. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
    ... located in Derby, Ct., about 1767-8 ...
  4. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  5. Ibid., 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  6. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
    He died September 24, 1803.
  7. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 38.
    CHURCH, John, d. [ , 1802], ae. 65.
  8. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  9. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem5571.html.]
  10. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  11. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 216.
  12. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  13. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  14. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  15. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem5572.html.]
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 97.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/097.html.]
  17. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 70.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  18. Ibid., 304.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/304.html.]
  19. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 60.
    .. Lois Pitcher, born 1765, widow of Ebenezer Johnson, of Oxford...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/060.html.]
  20. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  21. Emma Lounsbury, Oxford - A Historical Sketch (Seymour Record, 1914).

    When my grandfather Wm. Church came to Oxford to district school, from Chestnut Tree Hill, from the place where Frank Curtiss now lives, when he was 10 years old, the school house stood where the church now is.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/short-stories/lounsbury-sketch.html.]
  22. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 38.
  23. 1800 Oxford Census.
    [one slave.]
  24. 1820 Oxford Census.
  25. 1840 Oxford Census.
    [Probably the 60-70 yr old male listed w/ Sheldon Church.]
  26. 1850 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ son Sheldon and family.]
  27. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  28. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 209.
    [CHURCHILL], CHURCHELL, CHURCHEL ...
  29. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  30. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  31. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 21.
    died March 24, 1850.
  32. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 38.
    [He lost his wife and three children in Oct 1819.]
  33. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 26.
  34. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 504.
  35. Ibid., 424.
    ... a rope-maker ...
  36. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 22.
  37. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 209.
    [CHURCHILL], CHURCHELL, CHURCHEL ...
  38. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  39. The Diaries of Laura Davis 1856-1857.
    Mon 8th Clear.... Abel Church died.
    [June 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  40. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 424.
    Abel died June 10, 1857.
  41. Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem5889.html.]
  42. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  43. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  44. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  45. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  46. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  47. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  48. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  49. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.
  50. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 17.
  51. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 216.
    DAVIS ...
    Rachel, m. John CHURCHELL, b. of Derby, Nov. 30, 1769, by Rev. Richard Mansfield.
  52. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 423.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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