Androscoggin County ME Archives History - Books .....Skinner Family 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 13, 2008, 4:35 am Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine SKINNER. John Skinner of Cape Elizabeth, a Rev. soldier and pensioner, came to Durham about 1790 and settled on lot 87, which he bought of Willis Hall of Medford for sixty pounds. Hall received this lot by will of Isaac Rovall. Skinner sold 74 acres of this, 24 March 1808, to Samuel Nichols Jr., for $1120. He died 16 March 1844. He married 1 June 1775 Catherine Jordan of Cape Elizabeth. His wife died 19 Jan. 1832. This family moved to Lewiston. Their children were: JOHN JR. b. at Cape Elizabeth 28 Mch. 1777. ANDREW b. 10 Jan. 1781; m. 21 Aug. 1806 Wealthy Green; d. 26 Feb. 1857. A son Jordan b. 18 May 1808, d. 29 Dec. 1863. SARAH b. 18 Aug. 1782; m. 1S08, Job Mitchell of Raymond. PETER b. 17 Jan. 1784. DAVID b. 10 Nov. 1786. JOSEPH b. 11 Oct. 1789. SAMUEL b. in Durham 18 Dec. 1791; m. 18 Mch. 1819 Eleanor Jordan; d. 1876. FREEMAN b. 2 Oct. 1794; m. 15 Jan. 1824 Joanna Robinson of Durham; d. 29 Dec. 1838. JOANNA b. 27 Dec. 1797; d. 21 Feb. 1840. Additional Comments: Part of Chapter XII. GENEALOGICAL NOTES Extracted from: HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES. BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE. PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN. LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 1899. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/androscoggin/history/1899/historyo/skinnerf111nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mefiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb