Meribah Churchill

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Meribah Churchill (Perry)

Also Known As: "Widow Gibbs"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: November 16, 1774 (79)
Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Benjamin Perry, of Stoughton and Dinah Perry
Wife of Cornelius Gibbs and William Churchill, Jr.
Mother of Sarah Tilton; Ebenezer Gibbs; Susannah Churchill; Thomas Gibbs; Nathan Gibbs and 1 other
Sister of Remembrance Tupper; Seth Perry; Benjamin Perry, Jr.; Susannah Washburn; Abner Perry and 3 others

Managed by: John H. Nye
Last Updated:

About Meribah Churchill


Biography

Meribah, daughter of Benjamin and Dinah Swift Perry, was born at Sandwich on June 11, 1695.[1] She married Cornelius Gibbs there at age 21.[2] After his death she married William Churchill on November 9, 1757.[3]

Children

  1. Sarah Perry Tilton (born Gibbs)
  2. Ebenezer Gibbs
  3. Susannah Churchill (born Gibbs)
  4. Thomas Gibbs
  5. Nathan Gibbs
  6. Eunice Danforth (born Gibbs

Sources

  1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Perry-8820
    1. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-R7XP : 18 February 2020), Meribah Perry, 11 Jun 1695; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934221.
    2. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC3Y-B58 : 24 January 2020), Meribah Perry in entry for Cornelius Gibbs, 1716.
    3. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHND-5NY : 24 January 2020), Merabath Gibes in entry for William Churchel, 1757.
    4. The Connecticut Quarterly (Hartford, Conn., 1897) Vol. 3, Page 238
    5. American Ancestry: Embracing lineages from the whole of the United States. 1888. Ed. by Frank Munsell. Page 150.
    6. Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 18 Part 1 of 3, Richard Warren, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004. "The Silver Book" Page 177
    7. Find A Grave: Memorial #44254505 Headstone photo by Joan Ellis Pulis https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44254505
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Meribah Churchill's Timeline

1695
June 11, 1695
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1716
May 8, 1716
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
1719
May 20, 1719
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1723
July 5, 1723
Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
1727
May 3, 1727
Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
1729
April 22, 1729
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1732
September 14, 1732
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
1774
November 16, 1774
Age 79
Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States