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Martha (Skinner) Cook (abt. 1741 - aft. 1833)

Martha Cook formerly Skinner
Born about in Colchester, New London, Connecticutmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 27 Jun 1759 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut (USA)map
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 92 in Stamford, Welland, Ontariomap
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Biography

This profile is part of the Skinner Name Study.

Martha Skinner was born in1741, the daughter of Joseph Skinner Martha Kinne; grandson of Sergeant Thomas Skinner & Mary Pratt. The line an be traced back to Pilgrims.

Martha was baptismed 1 Nov 1741, Colchester, New London, Connecticut.[1]

During the Seven Years' (French & Indian) War, her father, Joseph, was killed by Indians when she was fourteen (Jan 1755, Northampton County, PA>

She Married Robert Cook in 1757 and had nine children. During the revolutionary war Robert fought on the side of the British. After the war Robert, Martha and their children moved the Niagara region of Upper Canada. Robert was declared a United Empire Loyalist and was awarded property in Stamford in what is now downtown Niagara Falls

1833, purchased land in Crowland Twp.

Martha died in 1833 and was buried at Old Lundy's Lane Cemetary [2]

Sources

  1. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013.
  2. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:4BQJ-L277 : 8 March 2021), Entry for Martha Skinner Cook, ; Burial, Niagara Falls, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada, Old Lundy's Lane United Methodist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 219915947, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  • The Skinner kinsmen : the descendants of Joseph and Martha (Kinne) p 8 [1]
  • Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999
  • Green, Ernest, Some Graves on Lundy's Lane, Niagara Historical Society, no 22. http://www.niagarahistorical.museum/collection/publications.html
  • "History of the Skinner Family in New England", Ancestry.com, added by Hundson Muir, 2014-08-04.




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