SKILLIN John[1]

Male - 1689


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  • Name SKILLIN John 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 3D14FE30E89D3C488C78A023BC0B1A6D9D98 
    Death 1689  Falmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • (killed by Indians.)
    Notes 
    • He was driven by the Indians from Falmouth to Kittery [according to Stackpole] in 1675. He returned to Falmouth in 1680 and was killed by Indians in 1689.

      "In a history of Portland (originally Falmouth), John Skillings is said to have fled from the Indians to Salem, not Kittery as [Mr. Stackpole's book indicates]. In 1676, the forty families living in or near Falmouth Neck were driven away by the Indians. George Ingersoll, John Skillings and others had fled to Salem the year before. Several men were killed, and other families made captive. Two years later, in 1678, after the peace with the Indians, the scattered families of Falmouth returned to their homes.

      John Skillings was the second son of Captain Thomas Skillings. He inherited property in 1667 from his father. In 1680, after the Province of Maine was purchased by Massachusetts, President Danforth confirmed grants in Portland; to John Skillings, he granted one house lot on Clay Cove, the land that was his father's on Back Cove, and a parcel of land on the Capsie River. These were but a small portion of the land he had received from his father's estate.

      In 1683, John Skillings made an exchange of property with the Rev. George Burroughs. Rev. Burroughs transferred to John Skillings seven of thirty acres near Centre Street in exchange for the house lot on Clay Cove."
    Person ID I24401  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2009 

    Father Capt. SKILLIN Thomas   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Living 
    Family ID F11159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family INGERSOLL Elizabeth,   b. 19 Mar 1650, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Bef 1679  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. SKILLINGS Rebecca   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. SKILLINGS John, Jr.   d. Yes, date unknown
    +3. SKILLINGS Samuel,   b. 25 Jul 1679, Kittery, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jan 1757, Cape Elizabeth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     4. SKILLINGS Josiah   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F6530  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S285] Book-Kittery-Old Kittery and Her Families, p.731.

    2. [S255] Book-Maine-Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and NH, p.662.