Ruth (Tryon) Churchill (1740 - 1776)

Born 7 May 1740 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of William Churchill — married 25 Sep 1760 in Farmington, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1776 at about age 35 in Pennsylvania

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Biography

This profile is part of the Tryon Name Study.

Ruth was born in MIddletown in 1740, the daughter of Thomas Tryon and Mary Andrews.^[1][2]

She was the first wife of William Churchill, whom she married in 1760.^[3]

They lived in Farmington, Conn. until about 1769, when they moved together with the large numbers of Connecticuters who settled in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. Daughters Martha & Mary have birth records in Farmington, Connecticut, so it is unclear when Ruth was with her husband in Pennsylvania.

Children:

1. Jemima b 15 Apr 1761, d 13 Apr 1836; never married
2. David b 20 Dec 1762 m Sarah Alcott
3. Phebe b 27 Apr 1764 m Samuel Martin
4. Lemuel b 4 Maar 1766 m Patience Gildersleeve
5. Ruth b 13 Dec 1767 m Lucius Cooke
6. Martha b 25 Oct 1769 m (1) Charles Tryon, m (2) Benjamin Deeming
7. William b 26 Dec 1771 m Jane Dell
8. Mary b 6 Jul 1773 m Lucius Atwater

Ruth died in 1776.

Research Notes

death shown on Ancestry as Armstrong, Pennsylvania on Family search as Northunmberland County, Pennsylvania which in 1776 encompassed all of the Wyoming Valley.

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection): Volume: Middletown, p. 459. Original record Vol. 1, p. 70 (ancestry.com)
2. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7QQ-MRH : 3 December 2014), Ruth Tryon, 07 May 1740; citing Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; FHL microfilm 1,513,707.
3. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPSH-Q4G1 : 12 July 2019), Ruth Tryon in entry for William Churchill, ; citing Marriage, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272227.

• Churchill, Gardener Asaph, Churchill, Nathaniel Wiley and Bodge, George M. (1904), Churchill Family in America, publ. by the Family of G. A. Churchill, Boston, pp. 330, 343. Available on https://archive.org.

• Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775; Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume VI; Churchill Family, p. 147 (Ancestry.com)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #67983435 Ruth Tryon Churchill