Birth: 1616 in Meston, Dorset,
England
Name: Churchell
Marriage: 1638 in Wethersfield, CT
Birth of Daughter: 24 MAR 1639
Name: Mary Churchill
Land Rec: 28 APR 1641
Details: Wethersfield, Connecticut - six acres on the Connecticut River.
His homestead was on the east side of High Street, slightly south of his first
home, on land formerly belonging to Charles Taintor.
Birth of Daughter: 14 MAY 1642
Name: Elizabeth Churchill
Note: "He was a gentleman of more than a medium estate for the time in which he
lived, and of reputation in the colony." He was active and useful in public affairs,
though not holding the highest positions.
Juror of the Particular Court: 1643, 1649,
1651
Birth of Daughter: 01 NOV 1644
Name: Hannah Churchill
Birth of Son: 16 MAY 1652
Name: Benjamin Churchill
Birth of Daughter: 11 NOV 1657
Name: Sara Churchill
Constable: 1657 and 1670
Birth of Son: 1659
Name: Henry Churchill
Juror at the Quarter Court: 1664 and 1665
Juror at the County Court: 1666, 1670 and
1675
Town Surveyor: 1666 and 1673
Land Rec: 1670
Details: Granted 18 acres of land in the town's Western Division.
Will: 17 NOV 1683
Details: Inventory of estate taken 05 JAN 1687 by James Treat and John Buttolph,
selectmen of Wethersfield, and was found to amount to 618 pounds, 12 shillings and 6
pence. This inventory shoews that at his death he owned two home lots and two hundred and
ten acres of land. He left his son Joseph "that house and home lot he now lives
on" together with "all other buildings thereon." He left to Joseph also
several other pieces of land, and a fifty acre lot, "at ye west end of Wethersfield
bounds" in the newly settled tract which later became the parish of Newington. He
left to his son Benjamin a number of pieces of land, and the old homestead at the decease
of his mother. According to the custom of the times his daughters were given certain
shares of "movable estate." Among the items in the inventory are " a great
Chist," and "2 bibells and other books." This "great Chist"
probably reappears in the inventory of his son Joseph whis specifies a chest with the
initials "J. C." as well as a piece of "Turkie work"
Mention is made of his children Joseph, Benjamin, Mary Church, Elizabeth Buck, Anne Rice
and Sarah Wickham.
Death: 01 JAN 1686 in
Wethersfield, CT
Parents are unknown