Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
George Stillman II
— married
1679 in England
Descendants 
Mother of
George Stillman III
Died about
at about age 25
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Jane was born about 1659 to unknown parents. See Research Notes regarding the unproven link to Gilbert Pickering.
She married George Stillman II. They had a child:
George Stillman III, who married Deborah Crandall.
Research Notes
There is zero evidence that Jane Stillman was the daughter of Gilbert Pickering. The website stillman.org has a rather large presentation of the life of Gilbert, but there is no sourcing for his supposed daughter Jane, and there is also no sourcing provided for the extensive story regarding the events in England and her death at sea.
From the G2G post from 2020, a source exists for Elizabeth Pickering Creed, the proven daughter of Gilbert Pickering:
"See the Deed of gift for Ringstead upon Elizabeth’s marriage to John Creed, in which Elizabeth is named as ‘sole daughter’ of Gilbert - meaning all other daughters were dead by 1668. Even if there was a Jane (which there wasn’t) she would have been dead long before the 1677 marriage date."
Sources
- New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, p. 1453. STILLMAN, George (-1728) & 1/wf Jane PICKERING? (-1684); by 1679; Wethersfield, CT. STILLMAN, George (-1728) & 2/wf Rebecca [SMITH] (1668-1750); by 1688, ca 1686; Hadley
- Find A Grave: Memorial #45598970. The biography presented on Find A Grave is unsourced from the website stillman.org.
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- Can anyone prove the existence of Lady Jane Pickering? May 10, 2020.
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There may well have been a ‘Jane Pickering’ who married a George Stillman, but every detail of her biography is unsourced & the details are also nonsensical.