Ancestral Glimpses » Joseph Church (1638-1711)

Personal data Joseph Church 

• He was born in the year 1638 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British America.
• He died on March 5, 1711 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America, he was 73 years old.
• A child of Richard Church and Elizabeth Warren
• This information was last updated on March 9, 2015.

Household of Joseph Church

He is married to Mary Tucker.

They got married on December 13, 1660 at Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British America, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Joseph Church  1662-1715
2. Elizabeth Church  ± 1663-????
3. Mary Church  1666-1748
4. John Church  1668-????
5. Alice Church  1670-± 1671
6. Benjamin Church  1672-1672
7. Sarah Church  1673-????
8. William Church  1675-????
9. Deborah Church  1676-1772 
10. Abigail Church  1680-1720

Notes about Joseph Church

Joseph Church - TimeLine

JOSEPH,2 (Richard 1), b. 1638; d. 1711, Mar. 5.
m. Hingham, Mass., Little Compton, R. I.
MARY TUCKER, of John Tucker. b. 1641; d. 1710, Mar. 21.

He was a carpenter.

1679-80. Little Compton. Grand Jury.
1680, Jun. 1. He took oath of fidelity.
1681, Oct. 28. The following order was addressed to him. " Whereas, the court are informed that your neighborhood is destitute of leading men, either to call a meeting or otherwise to act in your public concerns, this court empowers you, the above named Joseph Church, to call your neighborhood at Saconnett, together in convenient time, to make such necessary and wholesome orders as may be for your common good and peace," &c, and choice was to be made and persons sent to said court to serve in the office
of constable and as grand jurymen.
1682, Jun. 6. Upon petition of himself and the rest of the proprietors of Saconett, the court granted from this time, a township to be called by name of Little Compton.
1682, Jun. 6. Freeman.
1683-86. Selectman.
1686, Jun. 4. Ensign.
1689, Oct. 2. He was authorized to solemnize marriages.
1689, Dec. 25. He and two others were appointed for the county of Bristol, to settle the charges of the late war.
1690. Deputy.
1690-91. Court associate (county magistrate).
1711, Feb. 15. Will—proved 1711, Mar. 1. Exs. sons Joseph and John. Overseers, friends John Palmer and Thomas Church. He directs that a small farm of 35 acres and dwelling house I now live in, and several other pieces of land, as well as all personal estate, shall be sold to best advantage. To daughters Elizabeth Blackman, Mary Wood, Deborah Gray and Abigail Simmons, enough each to make them equal, with what land they had before. To eldest son Joseph, two shares, and one share each to son John, and daughters Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Blackman, Mary, wife of John Wood, Deborah, wife of Samuel Gray, and Abigail, wife of William Simmons. To Mary Torobono, now living with me, a bed, &c. for her former kindness to my wife and some to myself, provided she continues upon reasonable wages. To Indian boy Amos, half of a 15 acre lot if he serve his time out. Certain sums borrowed of testator are to be put in the inventory and paid, viz: due from Joseph £10, 7s. 6d., from son John £16, 2s., from son-in-law William Simmons £14, 16s.
Inventory, £669, 14s., viz: wearing apparel £30, 25 acres £175, dwelling house thereon £70, two 24 acre lots £64, two 15 acre lots and three quarters £41, pewter, punch bowl, due from children (as before said), negro man and bed £18, cheese press, 3 pair of old cards, linen wheel, woolen wheel, plate cup 15s., silver money £3, 5s. 5d., mare, 29 sheep, &c.

Joseph Church, was bom 1638, died March 5, will proved March 11, 1711; the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church, who were also the parents of the Indian fighter, Colonel Benjamin Church. Richard was a Sergeant in the Pequod War. Joseph was on the Grand Jury at Little Compton, R. I., and he took the oath of fidelity June 1, 1680; was Freeman, June 6, 1682; Selectman, 1683 to 1686; Ensign, June 4, 1686; authorized to solemnize marriages, October 2, 1689; Deputy, 1690; Court Associate, 1690 to 1691.
He married Mary, daughter of John Tucker, born 1641, and died March 21, 1710. Their daughter Deborah married, first, Samuel Gray.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, page 121-122.

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