Elizabeth (Foote) Churchill (abt. 1616 - 1700)

Born about 1616 in Colchester, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Churchill — married about 1638 in Wethersfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1700 at about age 84 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Elizabeth (Foote) Churchill immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and his wife Elizabeth Deming was baptized 14 Jan 1617/8, ST. James, Colchester, Essex.^[1]

Elizabeth came to New England with her parents about 1630 or 1632.

Elizabeth Welles, Elizabeth's mother, in her will dated 1678, named her "daughter Churchill" and her children, specifically naming her grandsons Joseph and Benjamin Churchill.^[2]

Elizabeth married Josiah Churchill and their first child was born 24 March 1639.^[3][4][5]

The widow Elizabeth (Foote) Churchill died September 8, 1700.^[4] At the time of her death, Newington, was still part of Wethersfield. Her husband owned land in what would become Newington, their son John inherited this land. As far as known there is no record of their burials in either the old cemetery in Wethersfield or Newington.

Children of Josiah and Elizabeth (Foote) Churchill:^[6]

1. Mary b 24 Mar 1639 married Samuel Church, son of Richard Church of Hadley, MA
2. Elizabeth b 15 May 1642 married 31 Oct 1660 to Henry Buck of Wethersfield
3. Hannah b 1 Nov 1644 married Jan 1667 to Samuel Royce of New London
4. Ann b 1647 married Mr Rice
5. Joseph Churchill b 7 Dec 1649 married 13 May 1674 to Mary Burnham [Note: extensive discussion of Mary's surname at http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/churchill/2604/ ]
6. Benjamin b 16 May 1652 married Mary ----
7. a son who died aged 1 year
8. Sarah b 11 Nov 1657 married ---- Wickham [Hinman says she married Thomas Wickham but E. S. Wells, an expert genealogist, finds the wife of Thomas Wickham and mother of his 6 children was MARY]

Sources

1. ↑ McCracken, George E. Nathaniel Foote's English Relatives. The American Genealogist. 53:206. 1977
2. ↑ Manwaring, Charles William (compiler), at Internet Archive.org, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. Vol I Hartford District, 1635-1700, (pp 379/80). Hartford: RS Peck & Co., Printers, 1904
3. ↑ "Wethersfield Vital Records 1635-1665" The American Genealogist 9:29. 1932/3
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Records of Weathersfield, Conn" printed in New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol 16, April 1862, p 138 https://archive.org/stream/newenglandhisto75unkngoog#page/n160/mode/1up
5. ↑ http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/churchill.html
6. ↑ "Churchill Family in America" complied by Gardner Asaph Churchill, Nathaniel Wiley Chuchill and George M. Bodge, publ by the family of Gardner A. Churchill, date 1904 handwritten, pp 323-325 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009592546

• Stiles, H. R. (1904). The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693 : from date of earliest settlement until the present time. New York: Grafton.
• Torrey, C. A. (2011). "CHURCHILL, Josiah (1614-1687) & Elizabeth [FOOTE] (1616-1700)." In New England marriages prior to 1700, 1, 316. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
• Goodwin, N. (1849). The Foote family. Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company.
• Roberts, G. B. (2009). Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
• Ancestral File Number: 8WB4-T1

Several sources list the Foote Family and additional facts may be found in these sources.

• Goodwin, Nathaniel. The Foote family: or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with genealogical notes of Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., and John Foote and others of the name, who settled more recently in New York. Press of Case, Tiffany and company, 1849. At Google Books.

• Anderson, Robert Charles Great Migration Article on Nathaniel, listing information on the children. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.

• Stiles, Henry Reed. Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Wethersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families. Vol II. 1904.At HathiTrust

• Foote, Abram William. Foote family, comprising the genealogy and history of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his descendants; also a partial record of descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass., Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va., and John Foote of New York City. Rutland, Vt. : Marble City Press-Tuttle, 1907 (v. 1) ; Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Printing, 1932 (v. 2) at archive.org

• Churchill, Samuel Joseph. Genealogy and Biography of the Connecticut Branch of the Churchill Family in America (Journal Pub. Co., Lawrence, Kansas, 1901) Page 10