Samuel Church

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	12 Dec 1766	Orange, Orange Co., VT
Marriage	1788	VT	to Elizabeth Stickney
Death	Aug 1844	Greenfield, Hancock Co., IN
Burial

Immediate family in my direct ancestry

 Generation 6       Generation 7            Generation 8

                                     +-- (unknown)
                                     |   (????-????)
                 +-- Samuel Church --+
                 |   (1766-1844)     |
Erastus Church --+                   +-- (unknown)
(~1808-1878)     |                       (????-????)
                 +-- Elizabeth Stickney
                     (1770-1860)

Sources:

Children

(children with Elizabeth Stickney)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Erastus Church	M	~1808	Orange, Orange Co., VT	Lucy Whitten	direct line

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Orange, Orange Co., VT	birth-?
Wayne Co., IN	15 Oct 1835
Greenfield, Hancock Co., IN	Aug 1844

Sources

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1	1840 United States Federal Census, Centre Twp., Hancock Co., Indiana, page 5. Census is not dated. entry #18 from top: Family headed by Samuel Church: 3 males <5, 1 male 5-10, 2 males 30-40, 1 male 70-80, 1 female 5-10, 2 females 20-30, 1 female 70-80. Samuel is 74 and Elizabeth 70 in 1840. This is Samuel Church living with his wife and two families of his children and grandchildren. Erastus Church is 32 and Caroline Church 8 and the four oldest sons of Erastus and Lucy are 7, 5, 3, and 1 in 1840. These all agree with persons in the above list. Lucy Whitten should be 32 also and this is not in agreement.
2	1850 United States Federal Census, Centre Twp., Hancock Co., Indiana, page 5 and 6. Census dated 9 Sept 1850. Lines 32-42 (page 5) and 1-2 (page 6): Erastus Church, 42, farmer, $1500 real property; Lucy, 42; Warren, 17, farmer, Caroline, 19; Langdon, 15; Uzziel, 13; Oscar, 11; Melville, 9; Arminta, 7; Chester, 5; George, 3; Lucy Ann, 2; Elizabeth Church, 76. All children attended school. Erastus, Lucy,Warren and Caroline b. Vermont, Elizabeth b. New Hampshire, all others b. Indiana.
3	BLM Land Grant Certificate for Samuel Church of Wayne Co., IN, indicating that he now owns 70.53 acres in the "East half of the North West quarter of section seven in Township Fifteen North of Range Seven, East in the District of Lands subject to sale at Indianapolis Indiana." The certificate is dated 15 Oct 1835.
4	Gravestone for Elizabeth Church. It reads "ELIZABETH CHURCH DIED Dec. 30 1860 AGED 90 Y. 1 M. & 3 D." This corresponds to a calculated birthday of 27 Nov 1770.
5	Membership application for Sons of the American Revolution for applicant Fred Albert Dawson. Mr. Dawson indicates that he is a descendant of Revolutionary War veteran Timothy Church and lays out a path of descendancy to himself. According to the path given, Timothy Church was born 12 May 1736 and died 13 Nov 1823. His son was Samuel Church, born ~1765 and died after 1845. Samuel was married to Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) prior to 1821. Their daughter was Rebecca Church, born ~1801, died ~1866, married to George Dawson in 1831. The applicant follows the Dawson line down from there to himself. Timothy Church served as a Lieutenant Colonel from Brattleboro, VT, in the war. He is buried in Brattleboro, VT, and his tombstone designates him as a Colonel and that he died 13 Nov 1833 at the age of 86. The applicant indicates that other records regarding Timothy Church give a death year of 1823 and that the tombstone may be in error. In support of the claims of this application, the applicant gives the following sources as proof: Vermont Rev. Rolls., Pages 822,823,826. New York in the Revolution Vol 15, page 277. Annals of Brattleboro, Vol 1., pages 67, 68. Analysis of Vermont Rev. Rolls. and Annals of Brattleboro (both available on Google Books) revealed that they only contained data regarding Timothy Church's revolutionary war experience and not any information about descendancy.

Source Notes

• [2] Elizabeth is seen here living with her son's family, suggesting that she is now a widow.

Research

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R1	Personal Research of Laurence Seitz. Mr. Seitz has prepared an in-depth document describing the descendants of Samuel Church and Elizabeth Stickney. While most data in this document are thoroughly sourced, a few items--particularly those relating to Samuel and Elizabeth--are referenced to public trees found on Ancestry.com. We do not consider Ancestry.com trees to be a reliable source of good data, so anything found here that is only referenced to this source should be considered conjectural at best. Because Mr. Seitz has done such a good job of referencing his sources, we have been able to duplicate many of those sources above.	N/A