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George Howard Earle

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George Howard Earle

30th Governor of Pennsylvania


    Sarah Church

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    • 5th Great-grandmother of George Howard Earle — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 153 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1678 
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    • Death Date:
    • 13 Apr 1745 
    • Death Location:
    • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 29 Dec 1699 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
    • Notes: 
    • Sarah is said to be the daughter of John and Abigail Church of Dover, and she is also said to be the sister of Col. Benjamin Church who was present at the killing of King Phillip during the Great Swamp Fight. Both statements cannot be true as the sister of Benjamin Church was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Tucker) Church.

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  • Sources for Sarah Church

    • 3 Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1925), Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 461.
    • 4 Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
    • 5 Hughes, Thomas Patrick, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 01, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1887), 28.
    • 7 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 741, 743-744.