Timothy Childs lived in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He served as a scout in Canada in the latter part of Queen Anne’s War (1701-1713), and a lieutenant in Father Rale’s War (also known as Dummer's War, 1722-25). He was granted 300 acres of land near Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, for his war service and also owned land near Peskeompskut (now Turners Falls) in Massachusetts. He and his wife had two children. In 1729, the Childs family lost their home in Deerfield to a fire; the following year, they built the home presently on the site.
Timothy enslaved four people- Humphry, Caesar, Titus, and Phillis. In 1741, he purchased Phillis (born in 1732) for £100 from the estate of the Reverend Nehemiah Bull of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Childs had Humphry baptized in 1762. He also rented Roswell from John Rusell, and Titus and Cato from the Reverend Jonathan Ashley.
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