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CHURCHILL. One representative of this
ancient Massachusetts family now living in
East Bridgewater is Newton Churchill, selectman
of that towTi, and identified with business
interests as traveling salesman for the
United Shoe Machinery Company of Boston.
He is a descendant in the eighth generation of
John Churchill, the emigrant ancestor. Some
account of the family in the Old World will
be found in another Churchill sketch. We
give herewith a brief record of the forefathers
of Newton Churchill.
acquired, by grant or purchase, quite a large
land property. His wife Hannah was the
'daughter of William Pontus, who was at Plymouth
as early as 1623, and was born in Hol-
land or England in 1623. William Pontus was
a citizen of some prominence and influence in
the Colony; and a member of the Court, 1636-
1638,
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inclusive. The children of John and
Hannah (Pontus) Churchill were: Joseph,
Hannah, Eliezer, Mary, William and John.
(II) William Churchill, son of John, born
in 1656, in Plymouth, married there Jan. 17,
1683, Lydia, daughter of Stephen and Abigail
(Shaw) Bryant, who died Feb. 6. 1736, in the
seventy-fourth year of her age. Mr. Churchill
inherited lands in what is now Plympton and
was among the first settlers of the town, where
he lived and died. He was the progenitor of
the Plympton branch of the Chyrchill family.
He and his wife were members of the church
in Plymouth. Their children born in Plympton
were: William,, born Aug. 2, 1685; Sam-
uel, born April 15, 1688; James, born Sept.
21, 1690: Isaac, born Sept. 16, 1693; Benjamin,
born in 1695 ; Lydia, born April 16, 1699 ;
Josiah, born Aug. 21, 1702; and Mehetabel.
(III) William Churchill (2), son of Wil-
liam, born Aug. 2, 1685, in Plympton, Mass.,
married Jan. 4, 1704, Ruth, daughter of John
Bryant, who died May 15, 1757. in Plympton,
Feb. 3, 1760. Their children were all b.orn
in Plympton, as follows: Ebenezer, born Oct.
(I) John Churchill, the emigrant ancestor,
was a native of England and first appeared at
Plymouth in New England in 1643. Here at
Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 18, 1644, he married
Hannah Pontus; bought a farm in 1645; was
admitted freeman in 1651; in subsequent deeds
8, 1705; Hannah, born Oct. 23, 1707; David,
born Nov. 4, 1709; Rebecca, born Jan. 8,
1712; William, born Dec. 15, 1714; Ruth, born
Sept. 14, 1716; Nathaniel, born May 11, 1718;
Abigail, born July 11, 1720; Ichabod, born
Sept. 24, 1722; Sarah, born Feb. 7, 1725; and
Joanna, born May 22, 1727 (died April 16,
1728).
(IV) David Churchill, son of William (2),
born Nov. 4, 1709, in Plympton, Mass., married
in 1729 Mary Magoon, who died May 18, 1785.
They
he is called "planter." Mr. Churchill settled
at Hobb's Hole, where he lived and died, his
death occurring Jan. 1, 1662-63. His estate
fell into the hands of his son Eleazer. He had
lived in Plympton, where he is said to
have built the house where, in 1827, William
Bradford lived. He died Sept. 27, 1785. Their
children, all born in Plympton, were: David,
born Aug. 9, 1729; Hannah, born June 17,
1733 (died March 17, 1744) ; William, born
Nov. 28, 1739 (married Sarah Rider) ; Elias,
born Aug. 7, 1742 (died June 3, 1751); and
James, born May 29, 1746 (married Priscilla
Soule).
(V) David Churchill (2), son of David,
born Aug. 9, 1729, in Plympton, married
(first) Feb. 30, 1750, Jane Ellis, who died
Aug. 21, 1775. He married (second) Lurana
McFarland. He lived in Plympton, and, late
in life, in Hingham. He was one of the "minute-men"
of the Revolution, serving in Capt.
Thomas Loring's Company, which marched to
Marshfield on the alarm of April 19, 1775. He
lived to be eighty-two years of age, and died
Feb. 23, 1812. His children, all born in
Plympton, were: Hannah, born June 14, 1752,
married Elkanah Cushman ; Molly, born July
21, 1754, married Shadrach Standish, of
Plympton; Jane, born Aug. 30, 1756, married
Daniel Ripley; Elias, born Jan. 26, 1759, married
Hannah Cushman ; Levi, born July 4,
1761. died young; Patty, born March 12, 1764,
died Sept. 25, 1775; Sylvia, born Feb. 21, 1767,
married Joshua Churchill ; David, born May
18, 1775, died young; David (2), born Jaine
11, 1778, married a Hersey, of Boston; Levi,
born Feb. 20, 1780, is mentioned below; Thaddeus
was born March 18, 1788; Jesse, born
Aug. 28, 1784, married Anna Barrell, of Scituate;
Asaba was bom Feb. 19, 1787: Rufus,
aged seventy-two. Mr. Churchill lived at what
w'as known as "Rocky Gutter" in born Oct. 10, 1789, married Eunice Lewis, of
Plympton.
Both he and his wife were members of the
Plympton Church. He was a man of character
and influence in the town, was several times
representative
to the General Court. He died
Hingham; Lydia, born about 1791, married a
Mott, of Hingham ; and Otis died young.
(VI) Levi Churchill, son of David (2) and
Lurana (McFarland) Churchill, born Feb. 20,
1780, in Plympton, Mass., married (first)
Sept. 19, 1799. Cynthia Packard, of East
,
Bridgewater, Mass., who died in 1832. He
married (second) Oct. 20, 1833, Adaline C.