Ancestry of
Thomas Skinner

(1712–1762)

Thomas Skinner

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Nathaniel Skinner 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mary Gillett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Apr 1712 
  • Birth Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Oct 1762 
  • Death Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Westchester Cemetery, Westchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • There are conflicting accounts in published sources concerning the wives and parentage of Rev. Thomas Skinner. Some have him marrying an Elizabeth Mudge and dying in 1807. More evidence is needed to clear up if there are two Thomas Skinners being confused or if this Thomas Skinner had an earlier marriage.

• Marriages for Thomas Skinner

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Newhall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Jul 1740
  • Marriage Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Thomson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Oct 1746
  • Marriage Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Thomas Skinner

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 150, Birth record for daughter Mary Skinner.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 152, Death record for Rev. Thomas Skinner.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 152, Marriage record for Thomas Skinner and Mary Thomson.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 152, Birth record for Thomas Skinner.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/08/2019).
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1849, Vol. 3, p. 155.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1858, Vol. 12, p. 241, Marriage record for Rev. Thomas Skinner and Mary Newhall.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1899, Vol. 53, p. 402.
  • ⁹ Dwight, Melatiah Everett, The Kirbys of New England: A History of the Descendants of John Kirby of Middletown, Conn. and or . . ., New York: The Trow Print (1898), 195.
  • ¹⁰ Fernald, Natalie R., ed., The Genealogical Exchange, Buffalo, New York, 1904, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 19-20.
  • ¹¹ Goodwin, Nathaniel, The Foote Family: or the Descendants of Nathaniel Foote, One of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with . . ., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1849), 53.
  • ¹² MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 60.
  • ¹³ Waters, Henry F., The Newhall Family of Lynn, Massachusetts, Part 1, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for Essex Institute (1882), 38, 67-68, gives Thomas's marriage date as 15 JUN 1740.