Excerpt from Descendants of Captain Samuel Church, of Churchville In the spring of 1806, Richard and Rebecca (warner) Church came from Massachusetts and with the families of their sons Samuel and Elihu established a home in West Pultney - now the town of Riga, New York. Rich ard died the following year. If he brought to this West ern New York wilderness a record of his ancestors it had been lost long before a grandson of Elihu attempted to compile a record of his descendants. Elihu Church, Esq., of New York, was engaged on this work at the time of his death in 1881, but had been unable to establish the parentage of Richard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.