The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Churchill · ◉ direct ancestor

♂Samuel Churchill

Born 1688. Died 1751, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Samuel Churchill (died 20 April 1751) was a deacon of the church at Plympton, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his daughter Mehitable Churchill (1716–1797).

His parents were William Churchill, one of the first settlers of Plympton, and Lydia Bryant (1662–1736), who had married at Plymouth in January 1684. Samuel had brothers William, James, Isaac, Benjamin and Josiah, and sisters Mehetabel and Lydia.

He married Joanna Bryant (1690–1746), a daughter of John Bryant of Plympton, and the town book enters their family under the heading “The Children of Samuel Churchill by Johana his Wife”, recording there the birth of their daughter Mehitable on 5 November 1716. When Mehitable married James Morton of Plymouth at Plympton on 16 September 1736, the town’s record named her only as “d. Dea. Samuel”, the daughter of Deacon Samuel; it is the earliest of the records to give him that title. The clerk called him deacon again when his wife died at Plympton on 18 April 1746, entering her as “the wife of Dea. Samuel Churchill”. Samuel Churchill died at Plympton five years later, on 20 April 1751. The town record of his death describes him as deacon of the church in Plympton and gives his age as 63 years and 5 days, which places his birth about 15 April 1688.

Family time line

◉ Samuel Churchill 1688–1751
◉ Joanna Bryant 1690–1746
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
computed: d. 20 Apr 1751 'a. 63 y. 5 d.' (Plympton VR deaths p.463)
 15 Apr 1688 on record
Living at
at the birth of his daughter Mehitable, Plympton
 5 Nov 1716 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record
Death
Deacon of the Church in Plympton; aged 63 years and 5 days
 20 Apr 1751 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Occupation
Deacon
 on record
16881751 17001710172017301740

Sources

  • Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923) — Birth, about this person
  • Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1923), births (archive.org vitalrecordsofpl00plym) — Living at
  • Plympton, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - the Churchill family entries (Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988), pp.516-517 — Living at, Death, about this person
  • Plympton, Massachusetts marriages - Mehitable Churchill and James Morton, 16 Sep 1736 (Mass. Vital Records to 1850, p.286) — Occupation, about this person
  • Plymouth County, Massachusetts, probate: will of William Churchill Senior of Plympton, 27 Mar 1722 — about this person
  • Plympton, Massachusetts, town book 'Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1695-1832' - marriages p.133 — Marriage (Joanna Bryant)

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. William Churchill 1656–
    1. John Churchill –1662
    2. Hannah Pontus abt 1623–1690
      1. William Pontus –1653
      2. Wybra Hanson
  2. Lydia Bryant 1662–1736
    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

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–