James Skiffe

- Aft 1687

• Name	James Skiffe  [1]
  Birth	of Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 9 Jun 1687  [2]
  Person ID	I19948	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. 21 Sep 1673, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. James Skiffe, Jr.,   b. 12 Sep 1638, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 7 Jun 1724, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age 85 years) + 2. Bathsheba Skiffe,   b. 26 Apr 1648, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F12097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Or Skeff, Skeffe, etc. First appears in New England at Lynn about 1635; said to have come from London. Like his son James Skiffe Jr., he was an original proprietor of West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, but he never lived there. It is said that he was tolerant of Quakers, and that for this he was at one point refused a seat at the Massachusetts General Court. Charles Edwards Banks (citation details below) says nothing of this, but says that he was a representative for Sandwich to the court for thirteen years beginning in 1645.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1573] "Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records." The Mayflower Descendant 14:166, 1912. [S2130] The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts by Charles Edward Banks. Boston: George H. Dean, 1911.