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Allan:
Since you are researching the Dorchester area and profess interest in the Colonial Churchills, thought I should add some pertinet info on the three New England Churchill lines.
First, no data ever surfaced to indicate precisely how, where and when Josiah, John or William arrived America. What is known is Josiah's Wethersfield, Ct. marriage to Eliz. Foote in 1638 was the first time he was recorded.
John of Plymouth Ma. (whose birthday is roughly estimated about 1610) is first recorded 1642 in Plymouth and his marrige to Hannah Pontus folowed in 1643.
William of Manhattan is said to have been born abt 1630 but wasn't recorded in the country until his 1672 Manhattan marriage to Sussanah Brasyer (or other spellings such as Baryster).
To my knowledge, none of three "settlers" ever met or claimed relationship to each other or, knowingly, named any English ancestor. Only the recent DNA tests indicate a common ancestry of some 10-12 generations ago, which would be about the time the three were born in England.
Per my earlier posting, at least Josiah's birth is stated, sans proof, to be Muston - which I take to be the Muston which you indicate is now a bread & breakfast resort,northeast of Dorchester.
I was under the mistaken impression Muston also had a Parish but since your posting I'm now convinced the Muston Churchills attended either St. Peters and/or Holy Trinity in Dorchester.
Was impressed with your references to Puddletown and the fact many Churchills were buried there. Always there is a chance our New England Churchills were baptised in that town's church.
Those ancient Dorchester Churchills, from my limited search, seems to have also settled a circle of about 15 miles surrounding above town. Many, I know, were located in Bradford Peverell - just west of the city. But, like the John Churchill who was rector those many years at Steeple, many Churchills are located in parishes other than those named above.
For what its worth, "Joseph of Fleet Lane London", who is factually recorded as to having supplied arms and other merchandise to the Massachusetts Company during the 1630's, is the same Churchill many internet sources say is the father of Manhattan settler William Churchill. (No proof or primary source ever provided). Eliz. Snell, in her Churchill book, does not discount above Joseph being the missing link.
David Underdown, history professor at Yale University, in a recent book "Fire from Heaven", gives an excellent account of Dorchester, aprox 1600-1650, in which he includes some Churchill background. Underdown has drawn data from various official sources.
regards, dwc
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