When Sarah Tryon was born on 3 June 1764, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Tryon, was 25 and her mother, Mercy Harris, was 22. She married Philemon Church on 28 May 1782, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died after 1830, in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67.