Reverend Samuel Skelton -11th Great Grandfather

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Samuel Skelton-11th Great Grandfather
Another Ancestral Connection to Salem Massachusetts
Surname Branches: Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Olney-Marsh-Skelton


Reverend Samuel Skelton
BIRTH Feb 1592
Boston, Boston Borough, Lincolnshire, England
DEATH 2 Aug 1634 (aged 42)
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Today I discovered another ancestral Great Grandpa who was one of the men responsible for the founding of the 1st church in Salem Mass.

Samuel Skelton was one of my 11th Great Grandfathers in a line that comes down to me through my mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski via one of her many family branches back to Colonial New England.

I found this amazing man and the story of his life while researching a line that goes back to my 'Basset" family branch of Medieval England that I have been looking into of late.

I also came upon an interesting possible further family connection to another of my ancestral great grandfathers, Roger Williams, through Samuel's mother who's maiden name is Williams. Sarah Williams, who would be my 12th Great grandmother and who married Samuel's father, William Skelton.

Sarah was born in 1565 in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England and though I have been unable to find her parents at this point, I have a feeling that she is closely related to Roger Williams as the connections via the Salem Church and Roger being one of it's members, leads me to surmise that somewhere there is an intimate relationship....

I discover at least 4 new ancestral great grandparents each day and I find myself so lucky to have been born to this woman who I have discovered has a pedigree that is so utterly amazing.
If she only knew of all of this while she was alive.

Mary Ayer Parker-12th Great Aunt

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Mary Ayer Parker
12th Great Aunt

Victim of The Salem Witch Trials of 1692


The other day I found myself researching another of my family tree lines and I came upon 2 different 10th Great Grandmothers from one of my mother's family lines, Love Ayer Kingsbury and Ruth Ayer Dennison.
I found it odd that while looking into this genealogy, they had the same maiden names.

A little more research and looking at a few of my trees and I figured out that they were 1st cousins to one another...
Their fathers, Thomas and Peter respectively, were brothers, both being my 11th Great Grandfathers (born of John & Hannah Ayers) that sired two different lines, eventually leading to me and my siblings and their children
I can't tell you how many times this has happened in my mother's family tree branches.

I then found the sister of Thomas and Peter Ayers, my 12th Great Aunt, Mary Ayers Parker.

Today I would like to introduce everyone to this ancestral family member.

Her story starts in Haverhill Mass. in Colonial New England around 1637 and also ends in September of 1692 in Colonial New England, more specifically in Salem Mass......

Come along and meet my 12th Great Aunt, Mary Ayer Parker.....and a glimpse of my 10th and 11th Great Grandparents from another of my mother's family branches.