Deborah (Prince) Hadley (abt. 1623 - aft. 1692)

Born about 1623 in South Petherton, Somerset, England [uncertain]

Wife of Thomas (Skillings) Skilling — married about 1642 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Wife of George Hadley — married 29 Jun 1668 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 24 Jun 1692 after about age 69 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Deborah was born about 1623 probably in South Petherton, Somerset, England. She is depicted in several sources as the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Patch) Prince III of South Petherton, but this information needs to be further verified as does her birth name "Prince."

Deborah married 1st Thomas Skillings about 1642 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay. This marriage year is inferred from birth of their first child in November 1643 and as described in Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.

Apparently, Deborah's birth name designation derived from Babson's work entitled The History of the town of Gloucester... (1860), wherein on page 129, he refers to when Thomas Prince, alleged brother of Deborah, calls Thomas Skillings his "brother-in-law;" however, Thomas Prince's wife, Margaret Skillings, is thought to be the sister of Thomas Skillings, which could have generated the reference. The double intermarriage of families among pairs of siblings certainly did occur, nonetheless, ongoing research will either confirm or dispute Babson. Of note, and to add to the confirmation side, Deborah, wife of Thomas Skillings, testified on behalf of Margaret (Skillings) Prince at a Court hearing in March 1657 against William Browne. This legal support suggests that the two families were associated enough to generate first hand knowledge of the other in order to have produced credible and documented testimony in Court proceeding.

Of course, the arrival date of both these Skillings' and the Prince' families to New England will inform, since both marriages appear to have taken place in Gloucester/Salem area, the 1st being 1642, the approximate year of marriage between Thomas and Deborah Skillings, and the 2nd being 1649, the marriage year between Thomas and Margaret Prince. Each brother could have arrived to New England with their younger sisters. In the case of Thomas Prince and his alleged sister, Deborah, their mother died in South Petherton in the year 1623 and their father in 1637. Loss of their parents amidst the time of the Great Migration could have precipitated their travel to the new world. In the case of Thomas Skillins, he is noted to have arrived in Salem in the year 1640 as per the Filby Passenger and Immigration record. As research reveals, this profile will be updated with new findings.

After Thomas died in 1667, Deborah married George Hadley on June 29, 1668 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay.

From her 1st marriage to Thomas, Deborah was the mother of the following children: Thomas, John, Benjamin, Deborah, Abigail, (1), Abigail (2), Elizabeth, and Joseph.

She married Thomas Skillings of Salem, Gloucester, and Falmouth, Maine.

Their 1st child was born about 1640, probably at Salem, Massachusetts Bay.

Deborah Skillings was the 2nd wife of George Hadley. They were married June 29, 1668 at Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay.^[1]

She was alive in 1670 when George Hadley conveyed property to her on June 9, 1670.

Deborah passed away in Ipswich some time after she was deposed at a Salem witch trial on June 24, 1692 in support of her neighbor, Elizabeth Howe, who was executed on July 19, 1692.

Note

Note: Salem witchcraft testimony

http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=23bd5edc-ea69-46a2-85c5-aa7dd4386293&tid=23180050&pid=4697

Sources

1. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015

• Babson, John. History of the town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including town of Rockport. Gloucester, MA: Proctor Bros., 1860, p. 129.

• Minor Descent, Thomas Prince, Sr. (Posted September 13, 2010), Blog at WordPress, Accessed March 17, 2019: https://minerdescent.com/2010/09/13/thomas-prince-sr/

• Woodward, William Eliot. Records of Salem Witchcraft: Copied from Original Documents. Roxbury, MA: 1864, 2:78.

• Louise Marguerite Prince, Prince: Outstanding Members of the Prince Family, 1600-1950's (Bangor, Maine: L.M. Prince, 1975).

• U.S. and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. [Repository: Source Citation: Place: Salem, Massachusetts; Year: 1640; Page Number: 265; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.] (Immigration index record for Thomas Skillings)

• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, p. 677. [Repository: Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (database on-line, Frame #692 of 1022). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.] (1st marriage to Skillings)

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records (hand scribed registry, p. 47), 1620-1988, Ipswich, Church Records, with Births, Marriages, and Deaths. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, Frame #57 of 180). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (2nd marriage to Hadley)

• Henley, Thomas Shaw, Thomas Skillin of Falmouth (now Portland), Maine and His Descendants. South Portland, ME: Draft Volume 1, June 11, 2001.

• Descendants of Thomas Skilling: First Generation, RootsWeb, Accessed March 17, 2019: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~arlene/genealogy/Skillings/d0/i0001240.htm

• Drymon, M. M., PhD, A Forgotten Landscape: How A Place Called Crocketts Corner Became the Maine Mall, South Portland, ME: The Landscape History Institute, 2017 (399 pp.) [ISBN 978-1-387-42150-3], p. 151.

See Also:

• New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.subscription site
• The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) "Umbilical Line of Virginia (Woodman) Cordes" Vol. 19, p. 118subscription site
• "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849" by Essex institute, Salem, MA, publ 1910, vol 2, pg 199, online at familysearch.org

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrew White for creating WikiTree profile Prince-752 through the import of APW_2013-03-26.ged on Mar 26, 2013.
• Geni.com profile for Deborah (Prince) Skillings managed by Thomas Edward Shirley et al, created on June 1, 2007 by Skip Bremer, (accessed March 17, 2019)
• WikiTree profile Skillings-16 created through the import of Ancestors of PBHowe.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Buck Howe.