The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Bryant · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Joanna Bryant

Born 1690, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1746, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Joanna Bryant (13 November 1690 – 18 April 1746) was a woman of Plympton in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the wife of Deacon Samuel Churchill, whose death the town clerk recorded with unusual care, down to her age in years, months and days, her parents and her brother. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Mehitable Churchill (1716–1797).

Family

Joanna Bryant was born at Plympton on 13 November 1690, the fifth of six children of John Bryant and his wife Sarah. Her father had been born at Plymouth in 1650, the eldest son of Stephen Bryant, who was at Duxbury by 1643 and later settled at Plymouth, and of Abigail Shaw, a daughter of the early Plymouth settler John Shaw. A family genealogy published in 1870 lists her brothers and sisters as John, James, Ruth, Sarah and George. Her younger brother George became a captain and was a figure of standing in Plympton.

Marriage

She married Samuel Churchill of Plympton, later a deacon of the church there. The town book records the marriage at Plympton on 6 September 1711, by Mr Isaac Cushman, and a memorial website gives the same date. The same book records the couple’s children under the heading “The Children of Samuel Churchill by Johana his Wife”, among them a daughter Mehitable, born on 5 November 1716.

Death

Joanna Churchill died at Plympton on 18 April 1746, and a compiled memorial record places her gravestone in Hillcrest Cemetery there. The town clerk wrote an unusually full entry for her, describing her as “the wife of Dea. Samuel Churchill”, “aged 55 years, 5 months and 5 days”, born 13 November 1690, “the daughter of Mr John Bryant and Mrs Sarah his wife”, and “a sister of Capt. George Bryant, all of Plympton”. The stated age agrees exactly with her birth and death dates, which suggests the clerk worked from the birth record rather than an estimate; most burial entries of the period give no parents at all, and an age only to the nearest year. Her husband survived her by five years and died on 20 April 1751.

Notes

Plympton had a second John Bryant in the same years, Lieutenant John Bryant, who married Stephen Bryant’s daughter Abigail in 1665. He was not Joanna’s father: the town book names her mother as Sarah.

Family time line

◉ Joanna Bryant 1690–1746
◉ Samuel Churchill 1688–1751
Married 6 Sep 1711, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Plympton, Massachusetts Bay Colony
○ Marcy Churchill 1714–
◉ Mehitable Churchill 1716–1797 ⚭
○ Alice Churchill 1719–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 13 Nov 1690 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Death
aged 55 years, 5 months and 5 days
 18 Apr 1746 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record
Burial
plot R7, P11, S2 (Find a Grave); undated - the stone gives the death only
 Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
16901746 17001710172017301740

Sources

  • Plympton, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - the Churchill family entries (Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988), pp.516-517 — Birth, Death, about this person
  • Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923) — Death, about this person
  • Find a Grave memorial 35957610 - gravestone of Mrs Joanna Churchill, wife of Deacon Samuel Churchill, Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Massachusetts — Burial, about this person
  • Boutelle, J. A., Stephen Bryant of Plymouth Colony in 1632 and Some of His Descendants (1870) — about this person
  • Plympton, Massachusetts, town book 'Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1695-1832' - marriages p.133 — Marriage (Samuel Churchill)

Borders as they stood about 1700 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. John Bryant 1650–1736
    1. Stephen Bryant abt 1620–
      1. John Bryant 1592–1638
        1. John Bryant 1554–1599
        2. Rose Church 1574–1610
      2. Grace Wayford 1582–1648
        1. George Wayford 1550–
        2. not yet known
    2. Abigail Shaw abt 1624–1694
      1. John Shaw abt 1597–abt 1664 ⚖☘
      2. Alice (surname unknown) –1655
  2. Sarah Bonum 1653–1742
    1. George Bonum –1704
    2. Sarah Morton abt 1620–
      1. George Morton abt 1587–1624 ⚓
      2. Juliana Carpenter abt 1583–1664
        1. Alexander Carpenter
        2. Priscilla (surname unknown) 1560–1653

Descendants

  1. Marcy Churchill 1714–
  2. Mehitable Churchill 1716–1797 ⚭
    1. James Morton 1739–aft 1810
      1. Josiah Morton 1767–1842
        1. Lucy Morton 1798–
        2. Josiah Morton 1802–1883
        3. Levi S. Morton 1807–1894
      2. Mary Morton 1768–1816
        1. John Curtis 1792–1792 ✧
        2. Waterman Curtis 1793–1859
        3. Junia Curtis 1795–1809 ✧
        4. Truman Curtis 1804–1885 ⚭
        5. Electa Curtis 1811–1888
      3. Mehitabel Morton 1774–1846
        1. Sally Stanton 1794–1865
        2. Amos Stanton 1796–1883
        3. Lucinda Stanton 1800–1868
        4. Warren Stanton 1802–1874
        5. Eunice Stanton 1804–1877
        6. Belinda Stanton 1806–1885
        7. Robert Stanton 1808–1865
        8. Laura Stanton 1810–1872
        9. Eliza Stanton 1814–1814 ✧
        10. Lovina Stanton 1817–1877
      4. Abigil Morton 1780–
        1. Quartus Angell 1800–1842
        2. Stephen Angell 1802–1884
        3. Ira Angell 1803–1885
        4. Laura Angell 1805–1807 ✧
        5. Diadema Angell 1806–1831
        6. Jedediah Angell 1807–1809 ✧
        7. Laura Angell 1810–1854
        8. Mary H. Angell 1812–1867
        9. James Morton Angell 1817–1896 ⚭
        10. Henry A. Angell 1818–1889
        11. Minerva Abigail Angell 1820–1871
        12. Levi Angell 1823–1912
      5. James Morton 1782–
      6. Jonathan Holmes Morton 1790–
        1. Arvilla Morton 1814–1900
        2. Sarah Morton 1815–1898
        3. Jonathan Holmes Morton 1817–1897
        4. Charles S Morton 1820–1902
        5. Mary Christiana Morton 1822–1889
        6. William Leslie Morton 1825–1904
        7. Betsy Ann Morton 1827–1877
        8. Lovina A Morton 1829–1874
    2. Ichabod Phinney 1746–
    3. Barnabas Harlow 1750–
  3. Alice Churchill 1719–