The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Bryant · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Lydia Bryant

Born 1662, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1736, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Lydia Bryant (23 October 1662 – 6 February 1736) was a woman of Plymouth Colony and, with her husband William Churchill, one of the first settlers of Plympton. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007) through her son Samuel, and also his seventh great-grand-aunt, as the sister of John Bryant (born 1650).

The Plymouth Colony records give her birth at Plymouth and name Stephen Bryant as her father, but not her mother. A compiled account of the Great Migration gives her mother as Abigail Shaw.

On 17 January 1684 she married William Churchill at Plymouth. They settled in the part of the town that became Plympton in 1707, and the Plympton records remember them as “one of the first Settlers of Plympton”. Their children were William, Samuel, James, Isaac, Benjamin, Josiah, Mehetabel and Lydia. Her son Samuel married Joanna Bryant, the daughter of her brother John, and her son William married Joanna’s sister Ruth, so both lines of the family meet in Samuel’s children.

She died at Plympton on 6 February 1736, in her seventy-fourth year.

Family time line

◉ Lydia Bryant 1662–1736
◉ William Churchill 1656–
Married 17 Jan 1684, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
○ William Churchill abt 1685–1760
◉ Samuel Churchill 1688–1751
○ James Churchill abt 1690–1754
○ Isaac Churchill abt 1693–1778
○ Benjamin Churchill abt 1696–1771
○ Josiah Churchill 1702–
○ Rebecca Churchill 1711–1742
○ Mehetabel Churchill
○ Lydia Churchill

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 23 Oct 1662 Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America on record
Death
'in 74th y.' (= b. 1662), wife of William Churchill; gravestone gives 16 Feb
 6 Feb 1736 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record
16621736 1670168016901700171017201730

Sources

  • Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (1620-1691), Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. & Pulsifer, editors, Boston; 1855-61, Page number: volume 8, page 187-196, This should have multiple citations with links — Birth, about this person
  • Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1923) - Deaths, CHURCHILL and KING — Death, about this person
  • Boutelle, J. A., Stephen Bryant of Plymouth Colony in 1632 and Some of His Descendants (1870) — about this person
  • Plymouth County, Massachusetts, probate: will of William Churchill Senior of Plympton, 27 Mar 1722 — about this person, family with William Churchill
  • Plympton, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - the Churchill family entries (Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988), pp.516-517 — family with William Churchill
  • Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1923), births (archive.org vitalrecordsofpl00plym) — family with William Churchill
  • The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 13 (1911), pp.204-205: Plymouth town records, marriages 1683-1690 — Marriage (William Churchill)

Borders as they stood about 1650 (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. 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

Descendants

  1. William Churchill abt 1685–1760
    1. Hannah Churchill 1707–1797
      1. Sarah Bisbee 1746–1822
        1. Benjamin Warren 1787–1836
  2. Samuel Churchill 1688–1751
    1. Marcy Churchill 1714–
    2. Mehitable Churchill 1716–1797 ⚭
      1. James Morton 1739–aft 1810
        1. Josiah Morton 1767–1842
        2. Mary Morton 1768–1816
        3. Mehitabel Morton 1774–1846
        4. Abigil Morton 1780–
        5. James Morton 1782–
        6. Jonathan Holmes Morton 1790–
      2. Ichabod Phinney 1746–
      3. Barnabas Harlow 1750–
    3. Alice Churchill 1719–
  3. James Churchill abt 1690–1754
  4. Isaac Churchill abt 1693–1778
    1. Averick Churchill 1723–
      1. Shadrach Standish 1746–1837
        1. Levi Standish 1779–1843
    2. Susanna Churchill 1726–1759
      1. David Weston 1754–1836
        1. Keziah Weston 1787–1853
  5. Benjamin Churchill abt 1696–1771
    1. Elizabeth Churchill 1725–1804
      1. Ezra Thomas 1760–1811
        1. Ezra Thomas 1786–1825
    2. Lydia Churchill 1737–1821
      1. Ebenezer Cobb 1759–1826
        1. Sylvanus Cobb 1798–1866
  6. Josiah Churchill 1702–
    1. Israel Churchill 1728–
      1. Joseph Churchill 1779–1850
        1. Dorcus Abigail Churchill 1823–1903
  7. Rebecca Churchill 1711–1742
    1. William Ford 1739–1804
      1. Betsey Ford 1781–1839
        1. Isaac St. John Rumsey 1803–1865
  8. Mehetabel Churchill
  9. Lydia Churchill