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My great-grandmother, a Skillin, did a Skillin genealogy back to Thomas and Deborah years ago, and as a result, I have spent all my time on other branches of my family tree. This means I am a newbie to this particular family. In addition, I am in Calif, and when I try to locate sources, the searches don't show many copies of various books concerning the Skillins east of the Mississippi.
I ran across Wm. Sargent's writings in the Maine Recorder, v.2:100, and he talks about the possibility that Benjamin (s/o Thomas and Deborah, the original immigrants) married an Elizabeth. He suspects this hypothesis is based on the existance of a tombstone in Marblehead. I assume the tombstone in question is the one documented in Vital Records of Marblehead, v.2, p 667:
Skillen, Elizabeth, Mrs., 1772. G.R.2.
From scanning the other records, it seems very likely to me that this tombstone is Elizabeth (Foster) Skillins, wife of Capt. Joseph Skillins. From the same source, v.2, p. 392:
Skillins, Joseph, and Elizabeth Foster, June 7, 1767.
Skillin, Joseph (Capt. C.R.2) and Ruth Searl, June 22, 1773.
Which leaves Benjamin only having two wives, Susanna, named in the birth records of his first two children, and Mary Jewett for whom there is an explicit marriage record (intentions).
My question: is the conclusion that I reached the general concensus? I see lots of web sites that still refer to the tombstone in regards to Benjamin, but it seems to me to require no special leap to conclude the tombstone is Elizabeth (Foster) Skillins.
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