John's occupation was Was wife Elizabeth or Mary or both??.
- Occupation Notes
- "...was driven from Falmouth to Kittery in 1675. He returned to Falmouth in 1680 and was killed by indians in 1689..."
"...signed a petition of those who could not submit to Gorges, 8/1/1665, together with his father and his brother Thomas..."
"...resided in Falmouth/Portland and was a prominent man in the early history of the town...during the first indian was, in 1675, he continued in Salem, MA, but at its close he returned to Falmouth/Portland...entered with activity upon his early as well as his later posessions...The Salem records say that certain persons, amoung whom was John Skinnings, "being driven from their havitations by the barbarous heathens, and admitted as inhabitants of the town, they most of them informing they have provisions enough for one year"...when he returned to Falmouth/Portland in 1680 there was granted to him "one houselot on the west side of the lot where his house now standeth, and also the lands that were his fathers at Black Cove are confirmed to him; also a parcel of meadow land about three acres more or less, situated above a mile at Capisic river,"ect...the principle farm of John Skinnings was at Stroudwater, about a mile northwest of Long Creek...he also had seven acres at the neck where Center Street now is, which he obtained of Rev. George Burroughs in 1683, on which he had a house (his son Samuel conveyed the Center Street tract in 1732, to Wm Cotton and others)...the marriage of his children are found on Kittery Records..."
"...in 1685, he and S. Davis purchased from a Samuel Webber, the mill and lands being at "the falls which are above Mr. Munjoy's land, on Long Creek"...was granted lots upon the neck of land near the Fort (Loyall), on the west side of Clay Cove, on the north side of Fore Street, and extended as far as now (1885) Union Street.."
Mr John Skillings 
Details of John's family with Mrs Elizabeth Mary Ingersoll
