GASKILL GENEALOGY
Also GASCOIGNE, GASCOYNE, GASKOYNE, GASKIN
SURNAMES CONNECTED TO "GASKILL":
BURNELL, COOK, HOBBY, JOY, LAMBERT, NEEDHAM, PARKER, PHELPS, PICKERING, POPE, SOUTHWICK, WHARTON, WHITTIER, WOODIN
EDWARD GASKILL
1604-1690
Edward GASKILL was born 06 JUN 1604 in Tetnal, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated from England to Boston in 1635. He was a Huguenot shipwright, who had a grant of land at Salem, Mass. in 1639.
He married Sarah PARKER 1636 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, b: 1605 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Notes: possibly born in Gascony, France; Huguenot refugee to this country; possibly English or Dutch. A shipwright. "Edward Gascoigne..." gives references to shipbuilding activities.
According "Records of 1st Church" Edward was a member of the church 33rd Month (May?) 1643
Elizabeth Potts Koleda, Gaskill Family, p. 2: "Edward was employed by Richard Hollingsworth, who established a shipyard at "Salem Neck." In 1641 a ship of 300 tons was built at this yard. By 1654 Hollingsworth had died and Edward sued the estate for work done; the jury found in his favor. In 1659 Edward went into ship building for himself. He also became a land owner. In 1690 he conveyed his property to his son-in-law John Lambert reserving to himself a life estate."
New Jersey Genesis Quarterly, p.93: "The Gaskills and the Gaskins of Monmouth and Burlington Counties are of Huguenot origin, descending from Edward Gascoyne, a shipwright, who had a grant of land in Salem, MA, in 1639."
CHILDREN OF EDWARD GASKILL AND SARAH PARKER:
SAMUEL GASKILL (1639-1720) married Provided SOUTHWICK in 1662.
SARAH GASKILL (b.1643) married Peter JOY.
PRESERVED GASKILL (1639-1711) married John LAMBERT of Salem (1629- 1710) and they were parents of nine children.
NOTE: copies of pgs 67-70 of the Snow-Estes Ancestry; Edward Gaskill Family. "Edward Gascoyne or Gaskoyne, originally Gascoigne, had the pleasure before his death of turning into a Gaskin and then into a Gaskill, by which latter name his son Samuel was always known. A shipwright, he had a grant of land in Salem in 1659, of which town he was a proprietor in 1636. In 1639, his wife Sarah was a member of the Salem church."
SAMUEL GASKILL, Sr
1639-1720
Samuel GASKILL was born 7 Aug or JUNE 1639 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, was christened 1639 1st Congregational, Salem, Mass and died 06 OCT 1720 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
Note: christened 7 6th month 1639
He married Provided SOUTHWICK, 30 DEC 1662 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Lawrence SOUTHWICK and Cassandra BURNELL . Provided SOUTHWICK was born 6 DEC 1641 in Salem,Essex Co.,MA
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Note: Salem, Ma. records show that Samuel joined the Quakers, and over the years he and his family were persecuted, fined and jailed for not attending the established church meetings. Ref" Gussie Gaskill. The Gaskill Family. One line of descendants of Edward Gaskill of Salem, Ma. 1636.About Provided Southwick Gaskill: In 1658, Provided Southwick was arrested for being a Quaker and imprisoned in Salem, Massachusetts. She was only 18 years old. Her parents had already been jailed, impoverished through repeated fines and run out of town for being Quakers and not following the Puritan ways. She was sentenced to be sold into slavery to the English in the Barbados or Virginia because she had no money to pay her fine. Much later, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about Provided, but changed her first name to her mother's name, Cassandra, because he felt that Provided was not poetic enough. --source-- The History of Salem, Massachusetts by, Sidney Perley (1924)
Samuel Gaskill interested himself in Quaker doctrines and attended meetings of that sect, became amenagle to the strict Puritan law operative against heretics and was severely punished for this offence, as June 29, 1658, "among the persons punished for attending a Quaker Meeting at Nicholas Phelps' are John, Daniel and Provided Southwick, Joseph Pope, Anthony Needham, Edward Wharton, Samuel Gaskin, or Gaskill....."
Samuel and Provided are the progenitors of numerous Gaskills in New Jersey. They were the parents of seven children. Family members were Quakers in New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana." Gaskill Genealogy: By Elizabeth Potts Koleda; Printed in Prineville, Oregon 1989
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL GASKILL Sr AND PROVIDED SOUTHWICK:
JOSIAH GASKILL b: 11 JUL 1678 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
EDWARD GASKILL b: 23 OCT 1667 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
SAMUEL GASKILL Jr. b: 23 JAN 1663 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
PROVIDED GASKILL b: 22 APR 1672 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
SARAH GASKILL b: 06 SEP 1674 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
MARY GASKILL b: 01 OCT 1678 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
HANNAH GASKILL b: 02 JAN 1669 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
SAMUEL GASKILL Jr.
1663-1725
Samuel GASKILL was born b: 23 JAN 1663 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts He married Bethiah WOODIN in 1685 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She was born 22 JAN 1663 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, the daughter of John WOODIN and UNKNOWN.
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL GASKILL Jr AND BETHIAH WOODIN:
BETHIAH GASKILL b: 08 MAY 1686 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
NATHAN GASKILL b: 26 JAN 1698 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
PROVIDED GASKILL b: 26 JAN 1700 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
SAMUEL GASKILL III b: 28 SEP 1687 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
MARY GASKILL b: 26 APR 1703 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
HANNAH GASKILL b: 16 JUN 1709 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
CONTENT GASKILL b: 30 JUN 1707 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
PATIENCE GASKILL b: 28 SEP 1689 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
EBENEZER GASKILL b: 23 AUG 1691 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
SARAH GASKILL b: 1709 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
BETHIAH GASKILL b: 20 JUN 1694
JONATHAN GASKILL b: ABT 1704 in Salem, Massachusetts
JONATHAN GASKILL
ABT 1704-1758
Jonathan GASKILL was born about 1704 in Salem, Massachusetts. He died 12 DEC 1758 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island. He married Alice PICKERING 29 SEP 1726 . She was born 19 Nov 1703 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, the daughter of Benjamin PICKERING and Jane HOBBY.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN GASKILL AND ALICE PICKERING:
WILLIAM GASKILL b: in Cumberland, Rhode Island
SAMUEL GASKILL
PATRICIA GASKILL
PROVIDED GASKILL ABT 1727 in Of Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts married Caleb COOK
OLIVE GASKILL
JONATHAN GASKILL
SILAS GASKILL
PROVIDED GASKILL
ABT 1727-1789
Provided GASKILL was born about 1727 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts and died 10 Feb 1789 inSwanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire . She married Caleb COOK 15 Sep 1753 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He was born 25 Sep 1727 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN OF PROVIDED GASKILL AND CALEB COOK:
ABIGAIL COOK b: Stillborn twin 19 Jun 1754 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
GEORGE COOK Twin b: 19 Jun 1754 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
OLIVE COOK b: 30 Mar 1756 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
FREELOVE COOK b: 19 Feb 1758 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
PATIENCE COOK b: 30 Oct 1760 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
ZURIEL COOK b: 22 Oct 1763 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
AURILLA COOK b: 22 Oct 1763
JEMIMA COOK b: 10 Oct 1765 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
SIMEON COOK b: 8 Dec 1770 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
ELIZABETH COOK b: 31 Aug 1772 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts