John (Skeels) Skeel Jr. (abt. 1679 - 1727)

Born about 2 Nov 1679 in Woodbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Wheeler (Blakeslee) Judd — married 1710 (to 1727) in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 25 May 1727 at about age 47 in Woodbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

This profile is part of the skeels Name Study.

John Skeel Jr. was born in 1679 to John Skeel Sr. and Hannah Terrill. John had married Hannah Terrill, daughter of Roger Terrill. John Skeels Sr, the immigrant, settled at Stratford, Connecticut and about 1688 removed to Woodbury, Connecticut where he died 5 Oct 1721. Hannah died 11 Nov 1730. John and Roger had arrived in the colonies about the same time (Chipman Skeels, Sheet A, 6th Edition, 1931).

John Jr. was baptized in Woodbury on 2 Nov 1679.^[1]

John Skeel Jr. or II was one of 78 householders of Woodbury to whom a division of meadow land on the Shepaug River was made in 1702. John Jr., his father and his brother Thomas were taxpayers of the North Precinct of Woodbury in 1712 (See Vol 3. page 1547 Biog. Encyclopedia 1917).

John and his wife, Sarah Blakeslee Skeel, became members of the Woodbury Church 4 Sep 1725. ^[2]

John’s will was written on 2 May 1727 and proved 22 June 1727. He gave to his wife Sarah the use and improvement of the house and home lot during her natural lifetime and also some lands and one third of the movable estates; to son Thomas 49 acres of land, the rest of the estate to be divided equally among the other children. he appointed his brother Samuel Blakesley and wife Sarah to act as ‘Administratic’ Witnesses: Benjamin Hickok, Thomas Knowles and Francis Stiles. Inventory of 26 Jun 1717 lists property also the house, barn and considerable land and rights in more land. 21 May 1739 to sons John, Ephraim, Jonathan and Samuel and to daughters Miriam, Abigail, Sarah and Hannah. (District of Woodbury 1726 #4031). There is a deed in 1745 and one in 1748 where Willian Judd quit claimed to all of Sarah (Blakesley) Skeel Judd’s Property except 60 pounds due him by Philip Judd and 40 pounds due him from Samuel Skeel both of Kent Connecticut. Sarah (Blakesley/Blakeslee) Skeel Judd and William Judd removed to New Milford Connecticut.

He died 25 May 1727 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.^[3] Burial in Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony.

Research Notes

Original details:

• Sarah owned the baptismal or ‘halfwaf’ Covenant at the church 6 Mar 1715 (church records?)
• Only three children of John Skeel I and Hannah Terrill (John, Hannah and Thomas) lived beyond infancy.
• John SKEELS^[4][5] was born ^[6] Nov 1679 and was christened ^[7] Nov 1679.
• Pootatucks owned the entire town of Newtown and Woodbury plus other regions. Pootatucks was name of Newtown. Territory of Woodbury called Pomperaug. “To prevent damage from the Pootatucks and Wyantebuck Indians, Captain John Minor and Mr. John Sherman were Appointed to remove them to Stratford and Fairfield.” All colonists had fortified homes but there were few problems. ^[8]

John Skeels Jr. was christened on 2 Nov 1679 in Woodbury.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013.
2. ↑ Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, Woodbury Vol. 113.
3. ↑ Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 550.
4. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 107.
5. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 550. " ... Resided in Woodbury ..."
6. ↑ James Savage, 'A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England', Before 1692: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/skeel-smirking.htm
7. ↑ Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 550.
8. ↑ Trumball’s 'Colonial Records' pg. 110, 124, 75, and 128.
9. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013, Title: Volume 131 Woodbury, p. 128.

• "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F76Y-13N : 3 December 2014), John Skell, 25 May 1727; citing Southbury, Connecticut, reference ; FHL microfilm 3,201.
• Sharpe, William Carvosso. South Britain Sketches and Records (Record Print, Seymour, Conn, 1898 Page 65
• Edythe Wilson Thoesen, The Skeel Family of Connecticut.

See also:

• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

See also:

• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 550.
• Sharpe, William Carvosso. South Britain Sketches and Records (Record Print, Seymour, Conn, 1898 Page 65