York County ME Archives Biographies.....Churchill, Ichabod June 21, 1764 - September 15, 1855
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Carol Eddleman carolcurrieeddleman@gmail.com January 25, 2024, 3:07 pm

Author: J. W. Dearborn

John Churchill was a resident of Plymouth, Mass., and his name enrolled among
those capable of bearing arms as early as 1643. In 1644, he married Hannah 
Pontus. They had a son Joseph, who on June 3, 1672, married Sarah Hicks. In 
turn, their son Barnabas, b. July 6, 1686, m. Lydia Harlow, Feb. 14, 1714. Their 
son Thomas, b. in Plymouth, April 30, 1730, m. Mary Ewer, daughter of Seth Ewer, 
of Barnstable, Mass.; moved to Newmarket, N.H. Ichabod Churchill, the first 
settler of the name in town, was the son of said Thomas, born in Newmarket, June 
21, 1764, and married Elizabeth Doe; moved to Parsonsfield in 1797 and settled 
on the farm ever since retained in the name, now the property of his grandson, 
Nathaniel H. Churchill. He was by occupation a farmer and shoe-maker. His wife 
Elizabeth died Nov 23, 1809, and he married Leah Allen, Oct. 27, 1810, who died 
Sept. 3, 1858. He died Sept. 15, 1855. By his first wife he had six children, 
viz.: 
Nicholas, b. June 3, 1790; lived on the homestead ; unmarried. 
Betsey, b. March 27, 1793; unmarried; lived in Sandwich, N.H.; d. Mar. 30, 1877. 
John, b. Sept. 22, 1795; moved to Sandwich; d. Oct. .5, 1873 unmarried. 
Thomas, b. Jan. 20, 1798, remained on homestead; m. Mary Banks March 14, 1830; 
had eight children, viz.: Thomas S., Otis B., John C, Reliance Nathaniel H., 
Elizabeth, Joseph and Lydia, all living save Elizabeth and Joseph. Mr. Churchill 
died Oct. 16, 1878. Mrs. Churchill is yet living with her son, Nathaniel H.
Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1801; m. Robinson Blaisdell, of Madison; d. May 17, 1865. 
Nancy, b. Oct. 8, 1803; m. Greenlief Smith, of Cornish; d. March 2, 1877. 

Thomas S., eldest son of Thomas and Mary, b. May 6, 1831; m. Mary A. Dixon; had 
three children, only one now living, William D. D. Churchill, of Cornish, who 
married Mabel, only daughter of Dr. Moses E. Sweat. Otis B., second son of 
Thomas and Mary, b. Nov. 5, 1832; m. Susan E. Ferrin, of Freedom, N.H., June 2, 
1861, and they have had three children: Wilbur F., b. April 24, 1862?, d. June 
19, 1862; Charlie C, b. June 2, 1863, and Sarah M., b. June 14, 1865. Mr. O. B. 
Churchill is a successful farmer of Parsonsfield. John C., third son of Thomas 
and Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1843; m. Annie Burk, of Boston, Oct 18, 1869; resides in 
Freedom, N.H. and has four children. Nathaniel H. resides on the homestead; b. 
May 8, 1839; m. Sophia Edgar, of New York, Jan. 7, 1885. The daughter, Reliance, 
midride Nehemiah Libby, of Parsonsfield, and Lydia
married John W. Colcord, of Cornish, Maine.


Additional Comments:
(Source: A History of the Town of Parsonsfield, Maine, Portland, Me., Brown 
Thurston and Co., 1888, p. 369-70.)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/york/bios/churchil76gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/

File size: 3.2 Kb