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Ephraim Churchill was born September 1759, the son of Zacchaus and Mary Churchill. He emigrated from Plymouth, Mass. to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1783, after the American Revolution. He did not like living in the United States because he was a British loyalist. He moved to Canada, following his cousin Lemuel, so he could live in a British colony.

He married Asenath Hibbard in Nova Scotia. Asenath is buried at the Churchill Cemetery. She died February 2, 1830, at the age of 62 years, 5 months, and 6 days. Ephraim built a home in about 1765 near the present-day "Churchill Cemetery" in Dayton, Yarmouth County.

Ephraim died March 20, 1826, at age 65. He donated the land for Churchill Cemetery in Dayton, near Yarmouth, where he is buried.

His children were as follows:

1. Zaccheus, born Feb. 23, 1786. His first wife was Susannah Rose Killam, who died Nov. 18 [year is too blurry to read] at age [year is blurry]. His second wife was [name is blurry] and they had 6 children. He died May 23, 1861.  A great-grandson of Zaccheus was Stanley Horace Churchill, born in 1887.
2. Stephen, born April 15, 1789, lost at sea.
3. Thomas, born June 6, 1791. Married November 17, 1815 to Mary Harris who died June 21, 1890 at age 96. Thomas died November 7, 1847, after having 8 children, including Nathan Churchill, father of Nelson Churchill.
4. Rufus I, born May 19, 1793. He died August 2, 1865. On December 10, 1816, he married Gertrude Flint. Gertrude died July 30, 1881 at age 86. The famous sea captain, Aaron Flint Churchill, was one of his descendants.
5. Nathaniel, born July 1, 1795. He married Abigail Valpey.
6. Mary, born Sept. 1, 1798. She died Oct. 4, 1891 at age 93. She married David Flint on January 26, 1819 and had 8 children.
7. William. Born December 17, 1800. Married twice but had no issue. His first marriage was Dec. 28, 1828 to Mary Corning. He was married April 21, 1855 to Lidia Durkee.
8. Elizabeth, born May 10, 1803. Married Ebenezer Corning, no issue. She married Abraham Killam, and had 7 children.
9. Walter, born in June 1805. He married in 1828 to Hannah Flint and had 6 children. Then he married Elsie Murphy and had four more children.
10. Hannah, born Sept. 9, 1807. Married Thomas Byrnes on Oct. 29, 1826 and had four children.
11. Ephraim, born July 29, 1809, died young.
12. Asenath, born March 30, 1812. She married John W. Scott, and had 4 children.
13. John, born Sept. 23, 1814. He married Betsy Flint on Feb. 4, 1832, and had three children. Then he married Mary Anne Haskett and had four more children. Then he married his third wife, Mrs. Almira (Goudy) Sanders.

Zaccheus was born February 20, 1735 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was the son of Ephraim and Priscilla Churchill. He married Mary Trask on September 16, 1754 and had eight children. One of his sons, Ephraim, left Massachusetts and settled in Nova Scotia.

Mary Trask was born about 1734 in Plymouth. Her father was Elias Trask. Her mother was Mary Bolter. It is possible that the father, Elias, emigrated to Yarmouth from Plymouth, and was known in Yarmouth as "Elias Trask 1st." If so, his daughter Mary was his child by his first marriage. If that is the same Elias Trask, it means that Mary Trask had both a son and a father who left Plymouth and emigrated to Yarmouth.

The children of Zaccheus and Mary Churchill are as follows:

1. Elizabeth, born January 24, 1755 or 1756. Married to Paul Doten on November 6, 1774.
2. Zaccheus, born December 1, 1757.
3. Mary, born November 24, 1758. Married August 8, 1777 to William Hueston (or Huston) and had five children.
4. Ephraim, born September 1759. He was married in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Asenath Hibbard.
5. Thomas, date of birth unknown. He married Mary Kief on May 23, 1777.
6. Rufus, no further record about him.
7. Nathaniel, no further record.
8. Priscilla, no further record.

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Our family is not directly descended from Lemuel Churchill, but he is an important person because he emigrated from Plymouth, Massachusetts to Chebogue, Nova Scotia around 1763 or 1764. He went to Canada because there was plenty of free land. The "Treaty of Paris" was signed in 1763 whereby the French ceded all their lands in North America to the British. French people were kicked out of Canada. The British government wanted to attract English people. To entice English colonists in Plymouth to move to Nova Scotia, the governor in Nova Scotia offered them free land and no taxes.

Life was hard for people like Lemuel who went to Nova Scotia at that time. They faced starvation conditions and bitter cold without adequate shelter.

Twenty years after Lemuel went to Nova Scotia, he was followed by our ancestor, Ephraim II, who was born in 1759.

Lemuel was the fifth generation from John Churchill. Lemuel was born July 12, 1723. He married twice, in 1747 and in 1752. He had five children, and eventually some of his descendants ended up in northern Maine.

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