James Skiffe, Jr.

1638 - 1724  (85 years)

• Name	James Skiffe  [1]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	12 Sep 1638	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [4]
  Alternate death	Aft 1719  [2]
  Death	7 Jun 1724	Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [5]
  Person ID	I19882	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	James Skiffe,   b. of Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Aft 9 Jun 1687
  Mother	Mary   d. 21 Sep 1673, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F12097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Barnard   d. 24 Aug 1732, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Mar 1677  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Patience Skiff
  Family ID	F12049	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  One of the four original proprietors of Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, but he appears to have lived there only briefly. He was one of those involved in the short-lived 1673 "Dutch Rebellion" against the overlordship of Thomas Mayhew. Writes Charles Edward Banks (citation details below): "He does not appear to have been punished for it directly, but the ruling family found opportunity to reach him in other ways. Thomas Dagget entered complaint against him in 1674 for slander, in calling him 'a theif, a lyer and knave and other opprobrious words,' and thenceforth his usefulness and personal safety were ended. He remained several years, the last record of his residence here being in 1677, and then removed to Nantucket. He had contracted a second marriage with Sarah, daughter of Robert Barnard of that island, in March 1676-7, and thenceforth became a townsman there."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1566] Early Settlers of Nantucket by Lydia S. Hinchman. Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1901. [S2130] The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts by Charles Edward Banks. Boston: George H. Dean, 1911. [S1573] "Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records." The Mayflower Descendant 14:166, 1912. [S2272] Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1925-1928. Also online here and here. [S2647] Charles Edward Banks, "Diary of Reverend William Homes." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 48:446, 1894; 49:413, 1895; 50:155, 1896.