Nathaniel
Church
III
Born in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Nathaniel Church
and Judith (Bosworth) Church
Brother of
Mary Church, Abigail Church, Judith (Church) Clift, Deborah (Church) Fish, Joseph Church and Caleb Church
Husband of
Jerusha (Perry) Church
— married
24 Mar 1719 in Scituate, Massachusetts Bay
Husband of
Mary (Faunce) Church
— married
2 Nov 1758 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Church,
Lydia (Church) Palmer,
Nathaniel Church IV,
Abigail (Church) Briggs,
William Church,
Sarah Church,
Jerusha Church,
William Church,
Charles Church,
Constant Church,
Lemuel Church,
William Church,
Lemuel Church,
Mary (Church) Copeland and
Nathaniel Church
Died in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Nathaniel Church III was born 07 March 1698 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts[1]. He was the eldest son of Nathaniel Church Jr and the grandson of Nathaniel Church Sr. His mother was Judith Bosworth Church.
Aged 21, he married Jerusha Perry on 24 March 1719 in Scituate[2]. Their first child, Thomas, was born 20 Jan 1720, just nine months later. They went on to have 12 more children together[3], all born in Scituate.
Jerusha died at some point after the birth of their last child in December 1743 and before Nathaniel remarried.
Nathaniel married Mary Faunce Curtis, the widow of Amos Curtis, on 2 November 1758 in Scituate. They had two children together, Mary in 1760 and Nathaniel in 1763. The fifteen children Nathaniel had span a remarkable 43 years, from his 22nd year to his 65th year.
Nathaniel died in 1778 in Scituate[3].
On 21 December 1778, his eldest son Thomas Church and his widow Mary Church were appointed to administer the estate of Nathaniel Church of Scituate, yeoman. The 27 April 1780 division went to widow Mary Church; eldest son Thomas Church; sons Constant, Lemuel, and William Church; children of Nathaniel Church dec'd; heirs of Charles Church dec'd; daughters Lydia Palmer wife of Ezekiel Palmer of Hanover; Abigail Briggs, wife of Seth Briggs of Pembroke; Sarah Lathrop, wife of Josiah Lathrop of Bridgewater; Jerusha Briggs, widow of Cornelius Briggs late of Scituate; and Mary Church the youngest daughter.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4LQ-MHN : 15 January 2020), Nathanial Church, 1698.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHCM-SP5 : 24 January 2020), Nathanial Church, 1719.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Mass. by Church, John A. (John Adams), 1843-1917 Publication date 1913 page 72 https://archive.org/details/descendantsofric00chur/page/72/mode/2up
- Dreger, Alice H., William1 Perry of Scituate and Marshfield, Massachusetts, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1995) Vol. 70, Page 46.
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Administration on the estate assigned to Thomas Church, yeoman, and Mary Church, widow, both of Scituate 21 Dec 1778. Plymouth County Probate File #3974.