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Provided (Southwick) Gaskill (1641 - 1728)

Provided Gaskill formerly Southwick
Born in Salem, Essex, Massachusettsmap
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Wife of — married 30 Dec 1662 in Salem, Essex, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 86 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

DO NOT MERGE THIS PROFILE WITH SOUTHWICK-127. LAWRENCE AND CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK HAD TWO DAUGHTERS NAMED PROVIDED.[1]

John Greenleaf Whitter's poem "Cassandra Southwick" -- while it bears, for whatever reason, her mother's given name rather than her own -- in fact tells with reasonable accuracy the tale of Quaker Provided Southwick and her younger brother Daniel, whom puritan governor John Endicott of Massachusetts Bay attempted to send into slavery in Virginia or Barbados. Endecott's vindictive sentence, part of his wider punitive effort to banish or even exterminate the Quaker faith -- as further witnessed by his lethal banishment of the senior Southwicks and the hanging of several Quakers, including Mary Barrett Dyer in 1660 -- was thwarted only because he could find no ship's captain willing to become an accessory to the scheme.

Whittier's poem -- which, given his own Quaker beliefs, unsurprisingly judges Endicott harshly and is profoundly sympathetic to Provided and her sibling -- may be seen on the profile page of the namesake sister who predeceased her, Provided Southwick.

Name

Provided Southwick

Birth

06 DEC 1641 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Death

04 DEC 1727 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Sources

  1. James M. Caller and Mrs. M. A. Ober, “Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Mass”, J. H. Choate & Co., Salem, Mass., 1891, pages 68-69.




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Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick had two daughters named Provided. The first, Southwick-127 was born in 1635 and died in 1640. The second, Southwick-71, was born in December 1641, and married Samuel Gaskill in December 1662.
posted by Kay (Johnson) Wilson

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