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Name |
SKILLIN John |
Gender |
Male |
_UID |
3D14FE30E89D3C488C78A023BC0B1A6D9D98 |
Death |
1689 |
Falmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] [1] |
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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."
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Person ID |
I24401 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
Last Modified |
24 Jul 2009 |
Family |
INGERSOLL Elizabeth, b. 19 Mar 1650, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 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] d. 2 Jan 1757, Cape Elizabeth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] (Age 77 years) |
| 4. SKILLINGS Josiah d. Yes, date unknown |
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Family ID |
F6530 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
29 Mar 2020 |
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| Death - 1689 - Falmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] |
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Sources |
- [S285] Book-Kittery-Old Kittery and Her Families, p.731.
- [S255] Book-Maine-Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and NH, p.662.
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