Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » WILLIAM ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL (1649-1710)

Persönliche Daten WILLIAM ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL 

• Er wurde geboren am 2. Dezember 1649 in North Aston, Oxfordshire, England.

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• Er wurde getauft am 2. Dezember 1649 in North Ashton, Oxon, England.
• Er ist verstorben im Jahr 1710 in Bushy Park, Middlesex, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, er war 60 Jahre alt.

  Pass auf: War 9 Monate vor der Geburt (??-??-1712) des Kindes (Susannah Armistead Churchill) bereits verstorben (??-??-1710).

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• Ein Kind von THOMAS MELLER (VA) CHURCHILL und ELIZABETH ELLIS (VA) ARMISTEAD
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 15. Februar 2024.

Familie von WILLIAM ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL

Er ist verheiratet mit Elizabeth Robinson Armistead.

Marriage
Date: 5 Oct 1703
Marriage
Date: 1703
Place: VA

Sie haben geheiratet am 5. Oktober 1703 in Rosegill, Middlesex, Virginia, United States, er war 53 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Judith Armistead Churchill  1690-1722
2. Armistead Armistead Churchill  1704-1763 
3. Priscilla Bladen Armistead Churchill  1705-1757 
4. Elizabeth Armistead Churchill  1710-1779 
5. Susannah Armistead Churchill  1712-1746

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William Churchhill (1649œ1710)
SUMMARY
William Churchhill served as a member of theHouse of Burgesses(1691œ1692, 1704œ1705) and thegovernor‘s Council(1705œ1710). He probably immigrated toVirginiaas a merchant‘s agent, importing merchandise andservantsand exportingtobacco. Churchhill served in local and parish offices in Middlesex County, and waselectedto the House of Burgesses in 1691. London officials named Churchhill to the Council in the commission of Edward Nott as governor in 1705. He attended the body‘s meetings regularly until just before his death in 1710. v
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Contributor:Nancy D. Egloff
Contributor:the Dictionary of Virginia Biography
Churchill was baptized in the parish of North Aston, Oxfordshire, England, on December 2, 1649. He was the youngest of eleven children of John Churchill and Dorothy Churchill (whose maiden name is not recorded), but little else is known of his family, early years, or education. Autographs indicate that he spelled his surname with a doubleh. Churchhill immigrated to Virginia, possibly when he was a young adult and in the capacity of a factor, or agent, for an established merchant. His name appears in Virginia records for the first time on February 1, 1675, when he witnessed a document in Middlesex County. On November 1 of that year Churchhill was appointed an undersheriff of the county. He held that office again in 1677.
Churchhill practiced law in the colony. He may have continued to operate as a factor for London merchants for as long as a decade after arriving in Virginia, but he also hired his own factor to assist in collecting debts that other county residents owed him. His business consisted largely of importing merchandise and servants and exporting tobacco. His success in commerce led him into public office. Churchhill became a justice of the peace on October 14, 1687, and remained a member of the Middlesex County Court until 1705. He was placed on a committee in 1691 to acquire land for a courthouse in the proposed town of Urbanna and the next year purchased a half-acre lot there. Twelve years later, having firmly established his own trade connections, he opposed developing the new town. Within a decade after his arrival in Virginia, Churchhill began acquiring land in the lower end of Middlesex County and by the end of the century numbered among those with the largest landholdings in the county. In 1704 he owned 1,950 acres in Middlesex County, and at the time of his death he owned 2,280 acres in Richmond County as well. His Middlesex County plantation was known later, and perhaps during his lifetime, as Bushy Park. The inventory of his estate, returned four years after his death, recorded sixty-one slaves. Unlike some of his contemporaries who held slaves, Churchhill had some of his slaves‘ childrenbaptized.
Churchhill married at least twice. A 1683 document records his wife‘s first name, Mary, but not her maiden name. Churchhill‘s wife was mentioned but not named in a document relating to an event in November 1693. It is not clear whether that instance referred to Mary Churchhill or to a second wife whose existence is not otherwise known; nor is it certain that later assertions that Churchhill had two daughters during the seventeenth century are correct. On October 5, 1703, Churchhill married Elizabeth Armistead Wormeley after executing a detailed marriage contract to secure the property that she and her children had inherited from her father,John Armistead, formerly a member of the governor‘s Council, and her first husband, Ralph Wormeley, of Rosegill in Middlesex County, who had also been a member of the Council and secretary of the colony when he died in 1701. Their one son and two daughters included Priscilla Churchhill, who married firstthe namesake sonof the land baronRobert —King“ Carterand then John Lewis, a member of the Council. Following his marriage, Churchhill undertook the management of Rosegill, and his influence in the county and colony increased through his alliances with theseprominent Virginia families.
Churchhill won election to the House of Burgesses for the sessions that met in the springs of 1691 and 1692. He took part in drafting several bills and petitions, including a petition to the Crown for chartering a college in the colony, and served on the important committee that apportioned the public levy. Churchhill was elected to the House again in the spring of 1704 to fill a vacancy for the sessions that met in the spring of that year and in the spring of the following year. On April 20, 1705, noting a recommendation from GovernorFrancis Nicholson, officials in London added Churchhill‘s name to the list of Council members in the commission of the new governor, Edward Nott. Churchhill took his seat on August 15, 1705, when Nott was sworn in as governor. Churchhill had a good attendance record as a member of the Council. He attended his last meeting in Williamsburg on October 27, 1710, shortly before his final, fatal illness.
By 1706 Churchhill was a colonel in the county militia. He became avestrymanof Christ Church Parish, in Middlesex County, on June 2, 1684, and several times was appointed warden for the chapel in the lower part of the county. When he wrote his will, Churchhill left £100 to Christ Church Parish with the stipulation that the ministers preach quarterly sermons against atheism, irreligion, swearing, cursing, fornication, adultery, and drunkenness and concluded, —This I would have done forever.“ He made another bequest to support the parish and two £10 bequests for the benefit of the poor in his native North Aston Parish and in Christ Church Parish in London.
Churchhill dated his will on November 8, 1710, and died about two weeks later. Lieutenant GovernorAlexander Spotswoodreported on December 15 that Churchhill had by then been dead for about three weeks. Churchhill‘s will directed that he be buried without conspicuous ceremony. If his fatal illness, which he may have contracted while attending Council meetings in the capital, prevented him from returning home, he may have been buried in Williamsburg; otherwise he was probably buried at his residence in Middlesex County. At the beginning of his will and also in the body Churchhill quoted 2 Kings 20:1: —Set thine house in Order for thou Shall Dye and not Live.“

Descendants of William Churchill (1649-1711), who was born in Northampton, Oxfordshire, England, and died at his home in Middlesex County, Va. According to parish records of North Aston Parish in Oxfordshire he was the youngest of eleven children born to John and his second wife Dorothy Churchill. He immigrated to America in 1669/72. By 1700 he had established himself as one of Virginia's most prominent and successful planters and merchants. He was married twice; (1) to Mary ? (ca. 1652-1700) ca. 1672; (2) 1703 to Elizabeth (Armistead) Wormeley (1667-1716), widow of Ralph Wormeley, and daughter of John Armistead and Judith Bowles of "Hesse" in Gloucester Co., Va. He had two daughters by his first wife and two daughters and a son by his second wife. Descendants are mostly through his son, Armistead Churchill I, to his grandson, Armistead Churchill II, who went to Kentucky near the end of the Eighteenth Century to settle near the town of Louisville. Armistead II married Elizabeth Blackwell in 1761 in Fauquier Co., Va. He was born 1733 in Middlesex Co., Va. and died in Jefferson Co., Ky. in 1795. She was born in Fauquier Co., Va. in 1741 to Samuel and Elizabeth Steptoe Blackwell, and died 1831 in Jefferson Co., Ky. Ancestors have been traced to the late 1300s in England.
Descendants live in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, New York and elsewhere.

History of Virginia Plantation Wilton House
Today, the story of Wilton House, a 1763 Virginia Plantation House on 25 Acres in Virginia‘s Middle Peninsula, can be told more readily than that of the family that rose to prominence to build it and live in it for the first 70 years of its existence. Because the house has come down to us today in very much the state it was 250 years ago, it is quite capable of speaking for itself to anyone who wishes to look and listen. Read on to learn the history of well-preserved Virginia Plantation Wilton House.
The story of the Churchill family, in contrast, is known only in the broadest strokes. It is waiting to be to be re-discovered and told anew. What will this story tells us about daily life at Wilton, about the means and manners of Virginia‘s colonial elite? About the economy of Tidewater Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution?
The Churchill Family & Wilton Plantation House: A Working Historical Timeline
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He arrived sometime in the 1670‘s, the first of the Churchills in Middlesex County. And although he died in 1710 and never lived at the Wilton House we know today, which was completed in 1763, William Churchill generated the wealth and patrimony, hand in glove with the power and the influence, that made the construction of Wilton House possible some 50 years after his death. William Churchill likely came to Virginia first as a factor for English merchants. He would later become a merchant in his own right, a lawyer, a landowner and a planter as well as a prolific public office holder. William‘s son Armistead, born in 1705, followed in his father‘s footsteps in terms of holding local public office and he may have, for a time at least, increased the family patrimony through the extensive marital relations of the Churchills with other with prominent Virginia families, most notably the Carters, and through his landholdings and dealings and income generating activities as a high ranking office holder. But he did not cut the same high voltage profile as the elder William Churchill, and may not have engaged in any of the merchant and trading activities of his father. Armistead died in 1763, the very year Wilton was completed, his resources apparently diminished, and it may well have been Armistead‘s first-born son, William Churchill II, who was the leading force behind the building of Wilton. Like his grandfather William and his father Armistead, William Churchill II was much involved in local county office, but the younger Churchill, it appears at first blush anyway, was content to live the good life of the landed gentry, a planter who managed œ and we know not how well or poorly – what he had inherited. Wilton was sold out of the Churchill family in 1829 by William Churchill, II‘s granddaughter, Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill, beginning several new, and quite different, chapters in its long history.
Timeline
1649
William Churchill is baptized on December 2 in the parish of North Aston, Oxfordshire, the youngest of eleven children of John and Dorothy Churchill.
1670?
It is not known when William Churchill immigrated to Virginia, or in what capacity, though given his subsequent activities, it may have been as a factor for an English merchant. Churchill‘s rise to prominence in the colony appears to have sprung from his commercial success. He practiced law and may have continued to engage as a factor, or agent, for London merchants, but he also became a merchant in his own right, trading in tobacco and perhaps slaves, speculating in land, extending credit and collecting debts.
1674
The first recorded evidence of Churchill‘s presence in Middlesex comes in 1674, when he witnessed a document in the county. According one
20thcentury account, —[b]y 1675 William Churchill had built his gracious and fascinating plantation mansion on the south side of the Rappahannock River, near what today is Mill Creek; first called ”Churchill‘ but later changed to ”Bushy Park.‘“ It seems unlikely that Churchill had managed to build a substantial mansion house by this early date, but his rise to prominence in the county and the colony was clearly underway.
1677
Churchill is appointed deputy sheriff of Middlesex County. This is the first of many positions Churchill will hold in the county, from Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, Vestryman, Church Warden, Colonel of the County Militia, and Clerk of Court.
1688
William Churchill obtains the land on which Wilton was built from the estate of Richard Perrott.
1691
Churchill wins election to the House of Burgesses for the sessions meeting in the spring of this year and in 1692. He served as a Burgess again in 1704 and 1705 to fill a vacancy.
1703
Churchill marries his second (or third?) wife, Elizabeth Armstead Wormley, widow of Ralph Wormley of Rosegil and daughter of Col. John Armistead of Gloucester. They eventually have three children: Elizabeth, Priscilla, and Armistead.
1704
Churchill owns 1,950 acres in Middlesex County.
1705
William Churchill is appointed to the King‘s Council serving there until his death.
Armstead Churchill, who will be the principal heir of William Churchill, is born at Rosegill on July 25.
1710
William Churchill dies. He is the owner of 2,280 acres in Richmond County as well as his considerable Middlesex properties and perhaps others, elsewhere in the Colony.
1716
Elizabeth Armistead Churchill, wife of William Churchill, dies. Her will instructs Mr. Bartholomew Yates [minister of Christ Church, Middlesex County, later Professor of Divinity at William and Mary College] —to instruct my son Armistead in his own house in Latin and Greek.“
1725?
Armistead Churchill is married to Hannah Harrison, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Harrison, of Wakefield, Surry County.
1726?
William ChurchiII II is born, the first son of Armistead Churchill and Hannah Harrison Churchill.
1727
Armistead Churchill is appointed Justice of the Peace, Middlesex County
1731
Armistead Churchill is nominated for the Council by Lt. Gov. Gooch, but not appointed.
1733-34
Armistead Churchill is Sheriff of Middlesex County
1733-1760,
Armistead Churchill is appointed to the position of Naval Office of the Rappahannock District, a highly remunerative post bringing in as much as 60 pounds a year. It is an office he will hold for 27 years. He replaced in that position Charles Carter of Cleve, son of Robert —King“ Carter, whose daughter was to marry Armistead‘s eldest son, William. Charles Carter, in turn, had replaced his brother Robert Carter of Nomini, who was married to Armistead‘s sister, Priscilla, on June 17, 1725; their son Robert would become a Councilor. Priscilla‘s second marriage was to John Lewis of Warner Hall, Gloucester County, also a member of the Council. Armistead Churchill‘s other sister, Elizabeth Churchill, married William Basset of —Eltham,“ New Kent County, and he, too, was a Councilor. Thus, although Armistead Churchill never served on the Council, his father, his father-in-law, two brothers-in-law, and a nephew did.
1749
Armistead makes a deed of gift to his son, and heir apparent, William Churchill, of 410 acres of land in Middlesex County, the nucleus of William‘s later extensive holdings.
1751
—Bushy Park,“ the home of Armistead Churchill on the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County, appears as —Churchill“ on the Jefferson and Fry map, published this year.
On June 7, the marriage is recorded of William Churchill, II, the son of Armistead Churchill, to Elizabeth (Betty) Carter, eldest daughter of Charles Carter of Cleve. The following day Charles Carter pays 1,000 pounds to his new son-in-law.
1758
The will of Armistead Churchill is recorded in the Middlesex County Will Book. He names his sons William, John, Henry, and Armistead as executors. John is to have 2,000 acres of Armistead‘s property in Prince William County, Armistead, 2,000 acres of same, and Henry 400 acres with the remainder of that property to go to his daughters Hannah, Lucy, Priscilla, Judith and Betty. Although not named in this document, William, the first born son, is apparently the heir apparent of the bulk of Armistead‘s estate, including the land where Wilton is built.
1760
Bushy Park, seat of the Churchill Family, burns to the ground.
1761
Armistead Churchill loses the Naval Office, and writes to William Pitt in London to recover the post, or secure another —since,“ according to one contemporary account, —he had fallen on hard times œ his house had burned and most of his slaves had perished of a fever.“ Thirty-eight prominent Virginians support his petition.
1761
Armistead Churchill successfully sues his sister, Elizabeth Dawson of Williamsburg, for 302 pounds for money owed him by her first husband, Col. William Bassett.
1763
Armistead Churchill dies.
1763
The construction of Wilton House, as presently configured, is completed by William Churchill II.
1772
William Churchill II is Clerk of the Middlesex County Court, 1772 to 1799.
1774
Will of Charles Carter of Cleve bequeaths 2,000 pounds to Betsy Churchill, wife of William Churchill II, less the 1,000 pounds already paid to William —the day after his marriage“
1776
Hannah Harrison Churchill, wife of Armistead Churchill, dies, aged 70.
1799
William Churchill II dies.
1801
Thomas Churchill, sole or at least principal heir to William Churchill II, marries Elizabeth Berkeley.
A premarital agreement is entered into between Thomas Churchill and Carter Berkeley, brother to Elizabeth, providing that Wilton is to pass on the death of Thomas to any issue of Thomas and Elizabeth Berkeley.
1802
Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill, daughter of Thomas Churchill and Elizabeth Berkeley, is born.
1802
Elizabeth Berkeley Churchill dies. Thomas Churchill re-marries, to Lucy Burwell Lily.
1806
Thomas Churchill dies. By previous agreement, the Wilton estate goes to Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill. Her guardian is Carter Berkeley.
1820
Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill marries Thomas Nelson Berkeley of Hanover.
1829
Elizabeth Edmonia Berkeley sells Wilton and 650 acres to James Jones for $3,250. Jones subsequently acquires additional acreage, including a portion of neighboring Barn Elms, the —Priams“ property, and the island in the River, now Berkeley Island, making the Wilton estate under Jones‘ ownership in excess of 1,500 acres.
1843
James Jones dies and the Wilton estate is inherited by his son, Elliott Pope Queensbury Jones, whose holdings are said to total 1600 acres.
1877
Wilton is sold by Elliott P.G. Jones, who is said to be deeply indebted and without slaves to work his land, to W. G.R. Gemill.
1879
Gemill conveys Wilton to Charles L. Fears, who farmed up to 300 acres at Wilton for 30 years.
Early 20thCentury
Clarence Palmer, a dairy farmer, at Wilton.
1933
Harold T. Casterton owns Wilton.
1941
Antique dealer Gerald L. Ballantyne, Sr. acquires Wilton and some 400 acres.
1978
Wilton is added to the National Historic Register.
2002
Preservation Virginia acquires Wilton and 25 acres from Gerald L. Ballantyne, Jr. and attaches historical easements to the property.
2011
Preservation Virginia sells Wilton into private hands. Preservation and modernization work begins.

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