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Me again--re: Portland graves. I've visited there, too (I'm in NYC). Charles, Joseph's son, was the last buried in CT. Charles, and brother, David, owed Churchill shipyard at Chatham (now Portland). They built 12,500 tons of shipping betw. 1798 and ca. 1830. Sold the yard to the Gildersleeves who owned it till 1932. Charles and David built USS Boxer and Saranac--still a Boxer afloat (6th), and built and ran 2 privateers: Holkar I and II. Holkar I was run aground off Narraganett Bay 5/1813 by HMS Ramlies and frigate Orpheus. The Charlestown RI militia put up a 10-hour fight to keep the Brits from salvaging the ship. From the Early American newspaper database it appears that Holkar I took 5 British prizes betw. 11/12 and 5/13 and engaged Ramilies twice. One capture in the eastern Atlantic was of Aurora, en route to Australis with 47 women convicts on board who were deposted at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. I have yet to write the woman who's written the book on the 47 women, some of the first to go to Austr. Of course, the Brits began shipping convicts to Austr. because after we won the REv, they could no longer use VA, MD and GA as their criminal dumping grounds.
Anyway, John Churchill, Charles's son moved to OH ca. 1832. S. Sylvester graduated from Med School there and was Lucy's (h. John Eaton) father.
So we have a lot of history in our family, even if we were fairly minor players.
Kay