Elizabeth Davis, [Samuel¹, Garrett²] was born 11 November 1658 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Charlestown was the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, located northeast of Boston proper on a peninsula extending southeast between the Charles and Mystic River. She was one of nine children, the daughter of Samuel Davis and Mary Waters.

She married Samuel Church we assume shortly before the birth of her first daughter Sarah circa 1686. Their children were all born in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts between 1686 and 1692.

There were several kidnaped children taken from Groton by Indians between 1694 and 1707 and Elizabeth’s father Samuel Davis died the 28 December 1699 in Groton,as well. These may or may not have been the reason for Samuel moving the family to Voluntown, Windham County, Massachusetts. He appears on a list of inhabitants of Voluntown by 1718. Her husband also signed a petition for the first Presbyterian Church in Voluntown in October 1723.