In 1658, Provided and her brother Daniel Southwick was arrested for being Quakers and imprisoned in Salem, Massachusetts. She was only 18 years old. Her parents had already been jailed, improverished through repeated fines and run out of town for being Quakers and not following Puritans ways. She was sentenced to be sold into slavery to the English in Barbados or Virginia because she had no money to pay her fines. Fortunately they weren't sold into slavery. Much later John Greenleaf
Whitter wrote a poem about Provided, but he changed her first name to her mothers name, Cassandra, because he felt that Provided was not poetic enough.
- - - source - - - The history of Salem, Massachusetts by Sidney Perley (1924)
"... enlisted in Company H. First Vermont Cavalry, Nov.30, 1863, and served till the close of the Civil War. Then live in Holden, and have children.
Mr. Churchill has been deeply interested in the progress of this volume, and has given much valuable assistance in compiling this branch." - per Churchill Family in AmericaCensus: 05 June 1900, Chittenden Town, Rutland, Vermont, living with his son Charles
Military service: Civil War1870 census: Farmer
1880 census: Farmer
1900 census: Living with son Charles and family (before remarrying later that year).
Per TOWN OF CHITTENDEN; RUTLAND COUNTY; 1881-1882 http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/BusinessDirectory_RutlandCo_Chittenden.html
Churchill Charles H., (Pittsford,) r 6, lumberman and farmer 150.
1860 census: Teacher
1880 census: Keeping House
He was a farmer in Chittenden, VT - per Churchill Fam. in Am.
Birth recorded bt C.W. Perry, Town Clerk of Chittenden.
1850 census: Farmer . Value of real estate $2800.
1860 census: Carpenter. Value of real estate $5000, value of personalestate $2500.
1870 census: Farmer. Value of real estate $4000, value of personalestate $2000.
Served in 12th Infantry Regiment, Co. G, VT Volunteers in the Civil War
Per VT Company Muster Roll: "Remarks: Died April 12th of Typhoid fever, at Private House near Regiment, Wolf Run, Va, ..."
1860 census: Farm laborer (F.L.)
20 yrs 3 mos. 4 days at death.
Listed as "EVA A. CHURCHILL" on death notice w/ town clerk in Chittenden