CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCHILL FAMILY [5] Page 25--Here is a condensed genealogy of the Churchill family John Churchill, d. 1663 Three Sons I. Joseph, b. c. 1650 A. Elkanah, b. ? B. Elkanah, b. 1726 1. Elkanah, b. 1754 II. Eleazer, b. 1652 A. Eleazer (2nd), 1680-1754 1. Eleazer (3rd), b. 1714, m. 1738 2. Josiah, b. 1716 3. Jonathan, b. 1720 a. Eleazer (4th), b. 1744, m. 1776 III. John, b. c. 1657 A. John, b. 1691 1. John, b. 1727 In 1768, Jonathan Churchill, b. 1720, son of the third Eleazer Churchill (1680-1754), and his wife Hannah, sold the ninety acres of woodlot including a small piece of meadow at South Pond to Henry Richmond for twenty pounds, as recorded in Book 54, Page 19, in the Plymouth Registry of Deeds (see the photograph of the deed). CHAPTER V. COTTON FAMILY LAND [6] Page 28--_Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_, p. 29. [7] Page 28--In an unrelated matter, but of interest, the town records indicate that Josiah Cotton had a black slave in 1732 named Quamony. Theophilus Cotton had a slave in 1751 named Phillis. _Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_, p. 20, Davis estimates that in 1740 there were at least fifty slaves, all ages. CHAPTER VI. HENRY RICHMOND AND HIS SON, ELIAB [8] Page 31--Regarding Henry Richmond and his son Eliab’s purchase, the deed shows how the boundaries were to be determined. His son was to have some 580 feet on the shore of the pond, starting on the southwest corner of the property and then northerly and northeasterly to such a point of the compass as to include the exact quantity of thirty acres, thence easterly to the boundary with Jonathan Holmes and by his land to the first corner. Eliab and Hannah Richmond held these thirty acres from January 1773 for eleven years until April 1784, and probably lived on and farmed these acres. These years coincide closely with those of the American Revolution. When he sold them to Nathaniel Clark, Book 63, Page 69, for 11 pounds 8 shillings, he took a loss of some two pounds during the eleven years. Nathaniel Clark had bought Henry Richmond’s property a year earlier. [9] Page 32--Henry Richmond had some interesting property transactions during the fifteen years 1768-1783 he owned the property, I discovered in my perusal of many deeds. Book 74, Page 54, January 14, 1773, records three transactions all on the same day. Perhaps economy was the motive.