FATHER

Richard Evans

MOTHER

Mary or Martha

HUSBAND

John Church Sr

CHILDREN

1. John Church b. 05.Mar 1708/09 Killingly, Windham, CT

2. Elizabeth Church b. 1714 Ct

3. Mary Church b. Abt 1718

4. Sarah Church Abt 1716

5. Jonathan Church b. 27 Sep 1724 Killingly, Windham, CT

Elizabeth Evans
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023

Elizabeth Evans was born 23 Apr 1688 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony. (1) In 1693, when she was 9 years old,  her father, Richard Evans, purchased 200 acres of land in what would become Killingly and he was described as "late of Rehoboth."  (2) She met and married John Church about 1708 and their first child was born 5 Mar 1709 in Killingly.  She must have died about 1735/6 when her youngest child was about 11.  Her husband remarried on 15 Dec 1736.  (3)

Sources

(1) Birth of Elizabeth Evans

(2) History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880
Aspinock. Killingly.
 
In 1693, the future Killingly received its first known white settler-Richard Evans-who purchased, for twenty pounds, a two-hundred, acre grant of the Rev. James Pierpont, of New Haven, and is described in the deed as "late of Rehoboth, but now resident of the said granted premises." Little is known of this first settler of Killingly beyond the fact of his early settlement. The bounds of his farm cannot now be identified. It was laid out in the wilderness, about a mile east of the Quinebaug and three miles from Woodstock, just south of Woodward's and Saffery's line. It was in the northern extremity of the subsequent township of Killingly; was afterwards included in the "South Neighborhood" of Thompson, and now forms a part of the town of Putnam. Mr. Evans was accompanied by a grown son, Richard Evans, Jun., and in time built two homesteads and made various improvements. His establishment served as a landmark for all the surrounding region, many tracts of land being identified by distance or direction from Richard Evans.

(3) From The American Genealogist Vol. 52 page 221