Excerpt from Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Mass In addition there were some pre-revolutionary immigrants who arrived in time to take part in that struggle. The best known of them was Gen. Philip Church. David of Marlborough has been confounded constantly with David the son of Garrett, but the evidence that they were different men is convincing. David of Marlborough was one of the patentees of that town in 1709 and married Mary Wilder in 1710. He may have gone there earlier, perhaps in 1703. His ancestry and the date of his arrival, if an immigrant, are not known. Probably he was a young man. He had four children, Adonijah 1710, Noah 1712, Ephraim 1714 and Mary 1717. Noah moved westward to the boundary of 'new York and founded the town of New Marlborough. Garrett's David was born in Watertown, Mass, 1657, married there Mary and had John 1687 and Sarah 1689. In 1708-9 he went to Killingly, Conn., of which place he was a patentee and. Town clerk for twenty years. In 1738 he deeded land to his well beloved son John and mentions his grandson John. The grandson married Amy Winter and after his death his son, also John, went with his mother to Fort Western (augusta), Me. The cessation of children after the second child has led to the supposition that Garrett's David lost his wife, and the genealogists say that he married again, another Mary but there is no evidence of the fact. The records of Killingly have the death of Mary widow of David Church, 17 Dec., 1751. He had seven great grandchildren born in Killingly to John and Amey Church. Thus the lives of the two Davids run parallel from the year 1708 or 9, he of Marlborough having four children in seven years, 1710 to 17, during which years the son of Garrett rose from 57 to 64 years of age. One family moved west, the other east. It is possible that the Marlborough David belonged to one of. The other families, though the names Adonijah and Noah seem to be confined to his family. Eliminating mere conjecture these are the known facts that distinguish the two Davids. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.