John Barker Church
BIRTH
1748
Lowestoft, England
DEATH
April 27, 1818
London, England
FAMILY
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Church, John Barker
(1748-1818)
John Barker Church (1748-1818) was a merchant and public official and the spouse of Angelica Schuyler Church. Angelica Schuyler Church was a social hostess whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected John Barker Church to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Lowestoft, England and later dying in London, England, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including John Barker Church in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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John Barker Church was born on Oct 30, 1748 in Lowestoft, England. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Barker Church with work or public activity as a merchant, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.














