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  Benjamin Church - Notes
Church returned to the East again in 1696 and 1704, but most of his action was in the Penobscot region and further east.
Church would than indicate (after the captive had sufficient time to contemplate the situation) that his life might be spared if he cooperated and truthfully told all he knew.
Benjamin Church died the 17th of January in 1718, at the age of 78.
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  Church
BENJAMIN CHURCH (August 24, 1734 - 1776), Director General and Chief Physician of the Hospital of the Army, July 27, 1775 - Oct. 17, 1775, was born in Newport, R.
He was the son of Benjamin Church, a merchant of Boston and deacon of the Hollis Street Congregation Church conducted by the Rev. Mather Byles.
In defense Church complained of the jealousy of rivals for his position and is said to have asked for permission to leave the army.
history.amedd.army.mil /tsgs/Church.htm   (1333 words)

  
 Biographies of Dr. Benjamin Church
CHURCH, BENJAMIN (Aug. 24, 1734-1776), physician, traitor, poet, and author, was a grandson of Col. Benjamin Church [q.v.], who was conspicuous in the Indian and French Wars, and a son of Benjamin, deacon of Mather Byles’s church (Boston).
Church, nevertheless, continued in the confidence of the Whigs, for, with Dr. Joseph Warren and others, he was appointed a delegate in 1774 to the Provincial Congress.
Church was tried by court martial, Oct. 1775, Washington presiding, and was found guilty of “holding criminal correspondence with the enemy.” In July 1775, he had sent a cipher letter to the commander of a British vessel Newport.
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 Captain Benjamin Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Church's men were the first Rangers successful in raiding the Indians' hiding places in forests and swamps.
Church kept notes on his tactics and operations which were eventually published in 1716 as "Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War".
He is the grandfather of Benjamin Church, the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Captain_Benjamin_Church   (322 words)

  
 Benjamin Keach in the Pillory | The Reformed Reader
A Baptist minister, Benjamin's crime was to publish a book of instruction for children; its doctrine did not conform to the teachings of the Church of England.
When a Church of England minister raised his voice against Benjamin, it was the Church of England man that the crowd reproached for his godless life.
Benjamin's church grew so rapidly that it had to be enlarged several times.
www.reformedreader.org /rbb/keach/keachbeforejudge.htm   (439 words)

  
 People of the Revolution
Benjamin Church made him colonel, and Arnold raised a regiment and captured the fort on May 10, 1775.
Benjamin Church was a member of both the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and a member of the Sons of Liberty rebel organization along with other patriot leaders such as John and Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock.
Thompson was born in the colonies in 1753.
www.si.umich.edu /spies/people.html   (3265 words)

  
 Little, Ross, and related families: VA - NC - AR
Benjamin CHURCH was born on 11 Jan 1671/72.
Benjamin Church deeded land in Bristol to his natural daughter Elizabeth Rosbotham and her husband Capt. Joseph Rosbotham on 20 July 1705.
Joseph CHURCH was born in 1638 in Plymouth Massachusetts.
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 Research of D. G. Weymouth
Church was so disgusted that he withdrew from the war, only to return seven months later as a volunteer aide to Gov. Josiah Winslow who had been placed in command of the confederated forces.
Later Church was sent for, but his request for entire freedom of action was deemed unreasonable, and he returned in bad humor to Rhode Island, but again feeling rebuked by inaction while his friends were in peril he returned to Plymouth and was given a captaion's commission with some discretionary powers.
BENJAMIN CHURCH, the famous Indian fighter, was the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church and the grandson of Richard Warren of the Mayflower.
www.weymouthtech.com /Genealogy/ps37/ps37_257.htm   (2347 words)

  
 Common-place: Tales from the Vault
After assessing Church's upbringing (he was from a prominent Plymouth and Boston family) and career as a Whig propagandist, he details Church's testimony, his trial, and the pained reactions of his Whig colleagues to his treason.
Church was a double spy, providing a mix of truth and lies to the British, while aiding the patriots.
Church, forced to choose between Tory family and friends and the patriot cause with which he sympathized, became a kind of accidental traitor.
www.common-place.org /vol-06/no-01/tales   (3595 words)

  
 Benjamin Church Re-enactment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Benjamin Church was a first generation colonist, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1639.
Church would become one of the most effective New England officers in leading long range scouts and raids after adopting Indian modes of fighting and tactics.
One of Church’s Indian warriors (Alderman) killed the chief Metacomet, known as King Philip in August of 1676.
www.westbrookfield.org /benjamin_church.htm   (337 words)

  
 Benjamin Church
Benjamin Church was one of the most able and promising members of the Revolutionary generation, but treason prompted by debt largely neutralized his contributions.
Church was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of a prominent New England family.
Church was the first physician on the scene of the Boston Massacre in 1770 and tended the wounded and dying.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1245.html   (765 words)

  
 faq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Benjamin's is the second oldest Lutheran church in Carroll County (Immanuel in Manchester is the oldest), although historians tell us that this group of persons may have been meeting as early as 1757 in the homes or schoolhouses.
Benjamin's was probably one of the six congregations which he served.
Benjamin, however, declared it was his duty to preach Christ and that he could not be silent.
www.qis.net /~stbens/stbens-history.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Benjamin Church - Milwaukee Pioneer:  Family Heritage
Church or Kilbourntown House: due to its distinctive Greek Temple style and constuction materials including hand-hewn timbers and local bricks dated to 1844, the house was rescued in 1938 and moved to Estabrook Park.
Church House in Historic American Building Survey: with four architectural drawings from 1933 survey-- including interior floor plan and exterior details -- plus one fl and white photo of its condition prior to rescue and two data pages that connect the house with the Binzel family.
Benjamin and Family as seen in the 1850 and 1860 census records including his wife Permilia and their children Ann Maria, later called Hannah, Mary or Maria; Ann Augusta, later called Anna, Annie and Nannie; Charles B.; John; and Susan.
www.workingdogweb.com /Benjamin_Church.htm   (1825 words)

  
 Church's Comp.
Church would continue to be the most effective New England officer in leading long range scouts and raids.Church’s exploits during King Philip’s War are well known.
Church then received orders to form a mixed company of Indians and whites, and led it successfully against Philip’s people and the Narragansetts.
Church then wanted to attack the Indian village of Norridgewock, but he was superseded in command and the expedition accomplished very little.
www.snowshoemen.com /Church.htm   (593 words)

  
 Dr. Benjamin Church, American Revolutionary War Rebel Patriot and English Spy
Dr. Church thus became one of the numerous spies which supplied the British with intelligence as to the whereabouts of Rebel munitions during Gage's search for these crucial arsenals in the opening months of 1775.
Church was greatly hated among patriots for his treachery.
The schooner, her crew, and Doctor Benjamin Church never reached their destination and were not heard from again.
members.aol.com /tjoschultz/church.html   (834 words)

  
 Primary Source: Spy Letter from Benjamin Church
Benjamin Church was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1734.
Church was eventually elected to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the popular assembly formed after the British suspended the legislature in the wake of the Boston Tea Party.
Church maintained that he had been captured by the British and forced to appear before Gage.
www.history.org /history/teaching/enewsletter/volume3/january05/primsource.cfm   (1376 words)

  
 Caleb and Hannah Baker Church, son Benjamin
Benjamin's parents were Caleb and Hannah Baker Church.
Samuel was Benjamin's older brother, their birth years being 1805 and 1807 respectively.
The 1913 book by John A. Church, "The Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts," does include Caleb and Hannah Baker Church and their children, but notes that their precise place among Richard Church's descendants is not clear.
genforum.genealogy.com /church/messages/3276.html   (404 words)

  
 Benjamin Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Church was held in high esteem by the patriot leaders, but was secretly a waverer.
From a letter of Governor Hutchinson, dated 29 January, 1772, we learn that Church was then anonymously employing his venal pen in the service of the government.
This was not suspected by the patriots, and Church was chosen to deliver the oration in the Old South meeting-house on 5 March, 1773.
peytonrandolph.com /BENJAMINCHURCH.COM   (335 words)

  
 Keeping the Vision for Domestic Outreach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By applying the principle of scattering seed, Dick Benjamin's church is not just 2,000 people in Anchorage but 10,000 people all across the nation and now in a couple of other nations as well.
Churches with over 3,000 members and 41 or more years of existence reported 3.5 baptisms per 100.'' That is more than three times the fruit of evangelism for the small, young churches.
The resulting church family is a living testimony to the vision that God gave one man. We must keep the vision for ``all the world''--for ``all nations,'' and also ``for our own nations.'' Planting new churches is the single most effective evangelistic method available to Christians.
www.abbottloop.org /alconweb/gospel_t/domestic.htm   (3431 words)

  
 Benedict Arnold and the selling of West Point
Benjamin Church was a member of both the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and a member of the Sons of Liberty rebel organization which included such patriot leaders as John and Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock.
However, Church was really a paid spy for the British general, Sir Thomas Gage.
At the time Church made Arnold a colonel, major general Sir Thomas Gage was both commander-in-chief of British forces in the colonies and the crown's appointed governor of Massachusetts.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/arnoldwp.html   (1172 words)

  
 Captain Benjamin Swett (1624-1677)
Benjamin Swett, son of John Swett, was baptized 12 May 1624 in Wymondham Parish, Norfolk, England.
Worcester ye pastor of ye church at Salisbury appearing on ye behalfe of the peticoner and acknowledging himself much bound to the court if they would be pleased to grant ye said Pikes request, the court grants his request." [Mass.
Newbury vital records provide two corrections to Stackpole's account: Benjamin [10] Swett, son of Benjamin Swett and Hester Weare, was born 5 August 1656 instead of 20 May 1664, and the Benjamin Swett born 20 May 1664 was a son of Stephen Swett and Rebecca Smith.
swett-genealogy.com /05Benjamin.html   (3210 words)

  
 where did the Maryland Readers come from
Benjamin’s Church and deeds and other records in the vicinity of Westminster show the presence of a Michael Reeder or
  Both couples attended St. Benjamin’s church, and Jacob was of the reformed church persuasion as were the Roeders at New Goshenhoppen, although, Jacob and Rosina appeared in both the Lutheran and reformed sessions.
, the records cited here in St. Benjamin's church,  the birth and death dates of many of the first two generations of Reeder/Readers are from tombstone records, with all the inaccuracy that may bring.
www.rader.org /jacob/Maryland_Readers.htm   (2995 words)

  
 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Col. Benjamin Church (1639-1718).
Benjamin Church was born in Puritan times, at the Plymouth colony.
In 1696, "the fierce messenger" was sent to Acadia (all told, Church was to make at least five voyages to pillage the Acadians).
Undoubtedly, Church was highly valued by the New Englanders who were mightily pressed on their borders by the French and their allies (one need only consider the butchery along the Massachusetts and New Hampshire borders, in 1704).
www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Church.htm   (340 words)

  
 Menu - Benjamin Church - Documents
Church's Orders - The first document has the orders received by Maj. Church just prior to setting out on the expedition.
The Official Report - This document is a letter (or formal account) written by Major Benjamin Church, shortly after the event occurred.
Thomas Church supposedly had access to his father's journals, letters, reports, etc. and to his father, who was still alive but quite aged.
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 Newport Notables
Subsequently, the woman was arrested and under interrogation, admitted that the sender of the letter was Dr. Church.
Council of War held in Cambridge, MA in October 1775, presided over by George Washington concluded that Dr. Church was guilty of communicating with the enemy.
Subsequently, Dr. Church was dispatched upon a vessel that was lost at sea, never to be heard from again.
www.redwoodlibrary.org /notables/church.htm   (351 words)

  
 Benjamin Church — Infoplease.com
General Gage's Informers: New Material upon Lexington and Concord, Benjamin Thompson as Loyalist and the Treachery of Benjamin Church,......
Benjamin von Kallay: consul and historian in Serbia from 1868 to 1875.
Benjamin Mays: as the 'schoolmaster of the movement,' he shaped generations of men.
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 Golden, New Mexico - Southwestern Landscape Pastel - Artist Robert Benjamin
The Church at Golden, NM - Gordon Van Wert, a Red Lake Chippewa stone carver and dear friend of mine and I were driving around the east side of the Sandia Mountains looking for scenes for me to paint, in September of 1998.
We found this church near the Ortiz Mountains in Golden, NM.
This was the first serious work in pastels I ever did.
www.robertbenjamin.com /New_Mexico_Calendar/golden.htm   (167 words)

  
 Heritage Church of Christ Family
Karen grew up in the Church of Christ South Hayward in northern California where her father was the Senior Minister.
Karen’s history with restoration churches and Matthew’s passion for the scriptures and outreach led them both to seek a church that models the tradition and evangelistic spirit of our faith’s Early Church.
Ana started working for the church part-time in October 1998 and went full time in November 1998 while we were still at the old Midtown building.
www.heritagechurchofchrist.org /family_staff.html   (2005 words)

  
 Ancestors and Descendents of Lee Allan Wise and Dorothy Mae Smith
She was baptized into the LDS church on 16 JUL 1929.
She was baptized into the LDS church on 20 JUN 1931.
Children were: Sarah CHURCH, Hannah CHURCH, Elizabeth CHURCH, Elizabeth CHURCH, Joseph CHURCH, Benjamin CHURCH Colonel, Nathaniel CHURCH, Charles CHURCH, Caleb CHURCH, Richard CHURCH, Priscilla CHURCH, Abigail CHURCH, Mary CHURCH, Lydia CHURCH, Deborah CHURCH.
members.cox.net /leewise/d15.htm   (935 words)

  
 October 9: Benjamin Keach before Judge Hyde
Index to church history stories: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Benjamin Keach appeared before Lord Chief Justice Hyde on this day, October 9, 1664.
A History of the Baptists; traced by their principles and practices, from the time of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the present.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/10/daily-10-09-2003.shtml   (699 words)

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