Verney property at Wendover Member of Parliament Prior to his election, he was involved with the Marquis de la Luzerne, the French ambassador in some unsuccessful stock speculation during the Nootka Crisis, a dispute between Great Britain and Spain. In 1788, the Churches bought the Verney property at Wendover so that he could run for Parliament, which he did in 1790, when he was elected a Member of Parliament for Wendover. After briefly returning to America in 1785, Church and his family left for England the same year. Return to England Īfter the war, Church and his family lived in Paris from 1783 until 1785 while he performed his duties as a U.S. Two years later, they were contracted as sole suppliers to the American army as well, and ended up making a fortune. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford, Connecticut, he secured a contract for provisioning the French forces in America, becoming Commissary General. In 1780, along with his business partner, Col. In Boston, he began a variety of businesses, including banking and shipping, and speculated in currency and land. He resigned his commission in September 1777, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts. There he operated under a nom de guerre as John Carter. To escape his creditors he went to America, where he became one of three commissioners appointed by the Continental Congress in July 1776 to audit the accounts of the army in the northern department. It was reported that speculation on the stock exchange and gambling were responsible for his bankruptcy in August 1774. Career Ĭhurch was set up in business in London by his mother's brother, a wealthy uncle named John Barker who was a director of the London Assurance Company. John Barker Church was born on October 30, 1748, in Lowestoft in eastern England, the son of Richard Church (1697–1774) of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk by Elizabeth Barker (1701–1800), daughter of John Barker. He was known for his marriage to Angelica Schuyler Church, of the prominent American Schuyler family, and being the brother-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, who died in a duel in 1804 with Aaron Burr, with whom Church had also had a duel in 1799. He returned to England after the Revolutionary War and served in the House of Commons from 1790 until 1796. John Carter, (Octo– April 27, 1818) was an English born businessman and supplier of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
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