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:
Jemima b 15 Apr 1761, d 13 Apr 1836; never married
David b 20 Dec 1762 m Sarah Alcott
Phebe b 27 Apr 1764 m Samuel Martin
Lemuel b 4 Maar 1766 m Patience Gildersleeve
Ruth b 13 Dec 1767 m Lucius Cooke
Martha b 25 Oct 1769 m (1) Charles Tryon, m (2) Benjamin Deeming
William b 26 Dec 1771 m Jane Dell
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
↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection): Volume: Middletown, p. 459. Original record Vol. 1, p. 70 (ancestry.com)
↑ "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.
↑ "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)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruth: