Deacon Edward Church

Abt 1628 - 1704  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Deacon Edward Church  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1628  [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Sep 1704	Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I22331	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Richard Church,   b. Abt 1600   d. 16 Dec 1667, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age ~ 67 years)
  Mother	Anne,   b. Abt 1600   d. 10 Mar 1684, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years)
  Family ID	F13491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. 30 Sep 1690, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1653  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca Church,   b. Abt 1654   d. 9 Jun 1726 (Age ~ 72 years) + 2. Hepzibah Church,   b. Abt 1679   d. 13 Sep 1745, Bolton, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 66 years)
  Family ID	F13484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Deacon at Norwalk, Connecticut in 1654; removed to Hatfield, Massachusetts and was deacon there. Edward Church (1628-1704) = Mary (d. 1690) Rebecca Church (d. 1726) = Joseph Selden (1651-1724) Samuel Selden (1695-1745) = Deborah Dudley (1701-1800) Rebecca Selden = Wells Ely (d. ~1804) Amy Ely (1777-1876) = Theodore Gridley (1758-1826) Elizabeth Ely Gridley (1826-1921) = George Selden Butler (1820-1907) Amy Gridley Butler (1848-1916) = George Manney Ayer (1840-1914) Adele Augusta Ayer (1867-1938) = Levi Addison Gardner (1861-1916) Dorothy Ayer Gardner (1892-1967) = Leslie Lynch King (1882-1941) Leslie Lynch King, Jr., whose name was changed in childhood to Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913-2006), 38th US President

  
  

• Sources

  [S2519] Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Dwight Brainerd, ed. Donald Lines Jacobus. Montreal, 1948. [S389] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants." The American Genealogist 27:79, 27:161, 1951; 28:56, 1952. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.