Jane Brown

Jane Skipper was christened 9 Jan 1634/1635 in Thorp-in-the-Marsh, Lincoln, England, died AFT 1682. She was the daughter of 2. William Skepper (Rev) and 3. N.N.. She married Abraham Browne 19 Aug 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He died AFT 1689/1690.

Jane Skipper of Boston, Spinster, obtained in January 1652, security for £50 from Valentine Hill of Dover, in company with Rev. Thomas Cobbett and Joshua Scottow. (Suffolk Co., Deeds, 1:182.)

From "The Pioneers Of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn From Records Of The Colonies, Towns And Churches And Other Contemporaneous Documents". 2017. Archive.Org. Accessed April 8 2017. https://archive.org/stream/pioneersofmassac00pope#page/417/mode/1up

SKIPPER, SKEPPAR, Mr. William, [Lynn,] had writings made 14 (3) 1640 for his 4 children. [L.] He d. and admin, was gr. to Mr. Cotton and Mr. Cobbett by Gen. Court 16 Oct. 1650, at request of Zaehary Phillips and his wife who was a daughter. Perhaps Theophilus, an apprentice to Benjamin Keayne, Jr., of Lynn, whose rights were guarded by Gen. Court 4 Nov. 1646, and Jane, spinster, Boston, a creditor of Valentine Hill. 18 (11) 1651, were also children of William.

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From Richardson, Douglas (2011) Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Ed., Vol. III, p. 217 Line18.

[Rev.] WILLIAM SKEPPER (or SKIPPER), younger son by his father's 2nd marriage, baptized at Boston, Lincolnshire 27 Nov. 1597. He obtained a B.A. degree at Sidney College, Cambridge University, 1617-8. He served a Rector of Thorpe-in-the-Marsh, Lincolnshire, 1630-8. He married (1st) _____. They had three sons, John, Theophilus (1st of name), and Theophilus (2nd of name), and four daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Zachariah Phillips), Mary, Jane (wife of Abraham Brown), Katherine (wife of John Maverick and John Johnson). He married (2nd) at Boston, Lincolnshire 17 Jan. 1638/9 SARAH FISHER. They had one daughter, Sarah (wife of Walter Fairfield). He and his family immigrated to New England in 1639, where he died intestate sometime before 1646.

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