Sarah (Taylor) Skinner (1706 - 1791)

Born 1706 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Ebenezer Skinner — married 17 Mar 1725 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 3 Sep 1791 at about age 85 in Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Sarah Taylor was born in 1706, daughter of John & Desire (Fuller) Taylor. Sarah Taylor passed away 3 SEP 1791 in Vernon, Tolland, CT. She married 17 Mar 1725 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut to Ebenezer SKINNER.

The will of Ebenezer Skinner of Hebron dated 2 June 1774, sworn 6 December 1779, names wife Sarah, son Ebenezer, four daughters: Sarah Brown, Elizabeth Mann, Deborah Tarbox and Mary Merrills, son John executor.

Research Notes

• Doris Seymour Wahl, The Skinner Kinsmen, The Descendants of Joseph and Martha (Kinne) Skinner, Niagara Falls, NY, n.d., pp. 1, 5.
• Wm. R. Cutter, Ed., Genealogical & Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston & Eastern Mass., Vol. 1, Lewis Hist. Pub. Co., 1908. Reprinted 1996 Higginson Book Co.
• William R. Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial.
• William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Baltimore, MD: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994, p. 55. Originally published: New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912.
• Malden, Massachusetts Vital Records.
• Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents, Boston, 1900, p. 346.
• Deloraine Pendre Corey, The History of Malden, Massachusetts 1633-1785, copyright 1898.
• Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock Connecticut, Genealogies of Woodstock Families, Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press, 1930.
• Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts 1629-1818, Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1982.
• James Savage, Genealogy Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.
• Joyce Johnson, Oceana County History, Oceana County Historical Society (Michigan), 1992 v2 p. 279: Sergeant Thomas Skinner, first generation in America, came to America from Chichester, England and settled at Malden, MA, in about 1649. He had three sons.
• Myrtle S. Bohme, References: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 53, 1899.
• Dorothy B. West, Thomas Skinner of Malden, MA, Silver Springs, MD
• Hobbies, The Magazine for Collectors. September, 1958. Another Skinner, Thomas, was born 1617 in Chichester Co., Sussex, England, and died March 2, 1703-4 in Malden, Mass. He came to the colonies between 1649 and 1652. He married twice and by his first wife had two sons, both born in Chichester, England: Thomas born 1645, and Abraham born 1649. He was admitted freeman in Malden May 18, 1653 and was there licensed to keep an ‘Ordinary’ or Inn.
• Genevieve S. Copley, Skinners: Descendant of Thomas Skinner of Malden, MA.

skinnerkinsmen.org - Skinner Family Association website.

• Stiles, Henry R. The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor 1635-1891, Somersworth, NH, the New Hampshire Pub Co., 1976. (orig.1891-92). 2 v.

Sources

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2004)