Joseph Church^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]}

1638 - 1711  (73 years)

• Name	Joseph Church
  Born	1638	Plymouth Colony
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Mar 1710/11	Little Compton
  Person ID	I325	Alford Hathaway
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard Church,   b. 1608, England ,   d. 26 Dec 1668, Dedham, Massachusetts  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Warren,   b. Abt 1615,   d. 4 Mar 1669, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 54 years)
  Married	Bef 1636	Plymouth Colony
  Family ID	F145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Tucker,   b. 8 Oct 1640, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. 21 Mar 1710, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island  (Age 69 years)
  Married	13 Dec 1660	Hingham, Massachusetts Colony
  Children	1. Joseph Church,   b. 14 Dec 1662, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. 19 Mar 1715, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island  (Age 52 years)   2. Elizabeth Church,   b. 28 Jan 1664, Hingham, Massachusetts Colony ,   d. Aft Jul 1720  (Age > 56 years)   3. Mary Church,   b. 26 Mar 1666, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. 11 Nov 1748, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island  (Age 82 years)   4. John Church,   b. 5 Jul 1668, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. Jan 1756  (Age 87 years)   5. Alice Church,   b. 5 Jun 1670, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. 3 Jan 1671, Hingham, Massachusetts Colony  (Age 0 years)   6. Benjamin Church,   b. 11 Jan 1672, Hingham, Massachusetts Colony ,   d. 21 Jan 1672, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 0 years)   7. Sarah Church,   b. 4 Sep 1673, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. William Church,   b. 10 Oct 1675, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Deborah Church,   b. 13 Mar 1677, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ,   d. 8 Jun 1752  (Age 75 years)   10. Abigail Church,   b. 1 Jun 1680, Little Compton ,   d. 4 Jul 1720  (Age 40 years)
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2021
  Family ID	F147	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		The Old Common Burial Ground in Little Compton The final resting place of Joseph and Mary Church
  		Warren's Point Little Compton
  		Benjamin Church Marker A stone market honoring Benjamin Church, Colonial war Hero and younger brother of Joseph Church.

  
  

  Documents		1707 Court Ruling by Joseph Church The image of a handwritten court ruling bu Joseph Church, Esquire.
  		Joseph Church's Will Images of the handwritten Will of Joseph Church, Esquire. From the colonial records of Bristol County maintained in Taunton, Massachusetts

  
  

  Headstones		Headstone of Joseph Church The stone reads: “Here Lyeth Ye Body of Joseph Church Esq, He Decest Ye 5 Day of March 1711 in Ye 73 Yeare of His Age” Plot: Old Common Burial Grounds, Little Compton
  		Headstone of Mary Church The stone reads: “Here Lyethy Bod of Mary Ye Wife of Joseph Churches Aged 69 Years Deceased March Ye 21, 1710.” (Ye is written with a small e on top of the Y, as was the practice in that era.) Plot: Old Commons Buriel Ground, Little Compton

  
  

  Flipbooks

  Joseph and Mary Church Joseph Church and Mary Tucker grew up, fell in live, and were married in Hingham, where most of their children were born. In 1679 they moved to the new community in the southwest corner of Plymouth Colony. Joseph became the leading citizen and petitioned the Colony Government to incorporate the town as Little Compton. He remained a town and Colony…

  
  

  Timelines

  Joseph and Mary Church The lives of Mary and Joseph Church mapped against world events

  
  

  Maps

  Little Compton A map of colonial Little Compton showing approximate locations of the homesteads of Joseph Church and Benjamin Church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S45] Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, (NEHGS). [S91] Massachusetts Vital Records Hingham, Town of Hinghan, (Massachusetts State Archives). [S86] The Sprague Project, (http://www.sprague-database.org/). [S65] History of the Town of Hingham, Solomon Lincoln, Jr., (, Caleb Gill Jr. and Farmer and Brown, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1827). [S92] Historic and Architectural Resources of Little Compton, Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, (Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission). [S71] The Entertaining History of King Philip’s War, Colonel Benjamin Church and Thomas Church, (1716 Boston). [S93] Records of Plymouth Colony, Court Orders, Volume V, Nathaniel B, Shurtleff, M.D., Editor, (Press of William White, 1856). [S94] Records of Plymouth Colony, Court Orders, Volume VI, 1678-1691, Nathaniel B, Shurtleff, M.D., (Press of William White, 1856).