Deborah Church (1657)

Born 27 Jan 1657 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Deborah Church, the daughter of Richard Church and Elizabeth Warren, was baptized at Hingham March 22, 1656/7. There is no further record.^[1] Anderson says to "See TAG 40:101, 60:131-32 for discussions of her possible fate."

Deborah Church was born 27 January 1656/7 at Hingham.^[2]

Disputed Information

This Deborah Church has had Sylvanus White attached as her husband, initially based on a geni.com tree with no sources. It is probably based on a 1963 theory published in The American Genealogist by Mrs. John E. Barclay, who wrote:

"Deborah Church, daughter of Richard Church by his wife Elizabeth Warren, was born 27 Jan. 1657 and baptized at Hingham, Mass., 22 March 1656/7. Her father died 27 Dec. 1668, when she was 11 year old. Deborah was 17 when her mother died on 2 Oct 1673. [notation to see TAG 40:253] Did Deborah die young unmarried, or what became of her? The Church Genealogy erroneously states that Deborah Church died at Boston 17 Jan. 1690, but that Deborah was the second wife of Caleb Church who was living in the Watertown-Boston area at that time. It has often been stated that she married John Irish, but that too can be proved to be erroneous, and reasons why the mistake was made can be explained."

"Sylvanus White (Peregrine2, William1) had a wife Deborah and died in 1688. Sylvanus White was of Scituate. Deborah Church had a brother Nathaniel who lived in Scituate and when left an orphan, she could have gone there to live with him. Sylvanus White and Nathaniel Church died within a year of each other; if the widow of the former was Deborah Church, she could have moved, after they died, to Little Compton, R.I., to live with or near her brothers Joseph Church and Benjamin Church.

"It must be distinctly understood that no evidence whatever has been found for the above suggestion, and it is made solely in the hope of stimulating research which might produce evidence, either for or against the suggestion."^[3]

Based on the Anderson information, Sylvanus White has been detached from this Deborah Church.

Also, the death dates of June 29, 1688 and January 17, 1690 have been removed as they appear to be the death dates of different women named Deborah Church.

NOTE: Deborah's Find A Grave Memorial^[4], which has no headstone and no sources, includes much of that incorrect information.

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "The Pilgrim Migration, Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633," 2004, page 108.
2. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, Richard Church and His Descendants for Four Generations, 1998, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, page 9.
3. ↑ Mrs. John E. Barclay, The American Genealogist, 40(1963):101
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #129136525

• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol II, p.125