Christopher Mitchell, II

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mitchell-889

Christopher Mitchell Jr. married three times: 1) to Mary Brackett, daughter of Thomas Brackett of Casco Bay, 2) to Sarah (?Dudley)[3] and 3) to Eleanor Larrabee in December 1715.

Christopher was a farmer, shipwright, and landowner in York County, Maine District, Massachusetts Bay Province, New England.[4]

Will: 8 JUN 1739 Kittery, York, Maine (refer to source)
Death: 18 OCT 1743 in Kittery, York, Maine Dist., Mass. Bay
Probate: 18 OCT 1743 Kittery, York, Maine Dist., Mass. Bay

Christopher & Mary Brackett had one daughter:

1. Mary Mitchell, b: ca. 1691,[5] who married, 14 Nov. 1711, Charles Brown, likely the son of Andrew Brown of Scarborough, Maine.

7 Known children of Christopher & Sarah:

1. Samuel b. 22 Jan. 1694; m. Elizabeth[5].
2. Joanna b. 14 Feb. 1696; m. Timothy Blake 25 March 1716[5].
3. Sarah b. 8 June 1699; m. Jonathan Partridge 17 Jan. 1716/17[5][6].
4. Elizabeth b. 27 Jan. 1701 ; m. Zachariah Leach 23 Dec. 1721[5].
5. Benjamin b. 23 August 1704; not named in will[5].
6. Miriam m. Andrew Phillips 1 Jan. 1727/28[7][5].
7. Susanna m. Edward Howard. Pub. 7 Dec. 1728[5]

Notes

HIST: Christopher (poss. s/o John 7), One child possibly was the unidentified Christopher, cordwainer, Falmouth whose deed of 1734 includes phrase "my right and my brethren which we have or ought to have in our grandfather Christopher M., late of Kittery deceased" (Y. D. 17: 49). This Christopher married 1 Dec. 1715 Eleanor Larrabee (6); of Kittery, he bought in Falmouth in 1726 and was living there with her 1748 and later, age 59 in Nov. 1750 (addition p. 792).

Research Notes

Note that the research connecting Christopher Mitchell as spouse of a Sarah Dudley is not documented by a primary source. No record of marriage exists, beyond the mention her name was "Sarah". The fact that there is an illegitimate daughter of Margaret Dudley born ca. 1664 is mentioned in [1] However this reference from Watson's work is referencing [2] This reference simply states that Sarah Dudley / Pafat "by my reckoning married as his second wife, sometime before 1694, Christopher Mitchell of Kittery, ME." The only association is the fact that some of Christopher and Sarah's descendants chose the surname of Dudley and Winthrop. Since there is no reference to a marriage record, deed, probate or court record calling Christopher's wife Sarah a Dudley or a Pafat this should be regarded as an unverified claim.

Other Resources:

• Research by Kurt Odenwald at Rootsweb
• We Relate suggests that his 2nd wife was Sarah Couch: We Relate: Christopher Mitchell but she was the wife of his brother, Richard Mitchell, according to Old Kittery and her families, pg. 611

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Origins

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/MITCHELL.htm

The Estate of Christr Mitchell Senr Decd £5"(8)

On 20 Jan. 1723/4 Sarah gave to her son William Mitchell of Scarborough, all her estate in Kittery.(9)

Issue-

• I. William- m.1. before 1702 Honor ______, 2. before 1715 Elizabeth Tenney, killed by Indians at Scarborough 18 Apr. 1724
• II. Christopher- m.1. Mary Brackett, 2. Sarah ______, 3. 1 Dec. 1715 Portsmouth, NH, Eleanor Larrabee, 4. Sarah ______, will 8 June 1739- 18 Oct. 1743
• III. Robert- b.c.1669, m. Sarah Deering (b.c.1675, d. Feb. 1736 Kittery), adm. 11 May 1731
• IV. Richard- m. Sarah Couch, adm. 12 July 1756
• 3V. JOSEPH- b.c.1673, m. 1702 JOANNA COUCH, inv. 12 Nov. 1746
• VI. Elizabeth- b Apr. 1676, m.1. 1698 John Tenney Jr., 2. 28 Nov. 1715 Kittery, Samuel Johnson, living in 1755

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References

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mitchell-889 cites

1. Watson, Marston. Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry. Second Edition. Volume One: Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants Through Five Generations. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 13 and 37, accessed via Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/49325/FLHG_RoyalFamilies2ndED-...
2. Gray, Philip Howard. "Penobscot Pioneers". Camden, Maine, Penobscot Press., 1992, Vol. 2, p. 63
3. Watson, Marston. Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry. Second Edition. Volume One: Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants Through Five Generations. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 13 and 37, accesssed via Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/49325/FLHG_RoyalFamilies2ndED-...
4. Watson, Marston. Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry. Second Edition. Volume One: Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants Through Five Generations. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 13 and 37, accesssed via Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/49325/FLHG_RoyalFamilies2ndED-...
5. Stackpole, E. S. (2001). Old Kittery and her families. Rockport, ME: Picton Press.
6. "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F48F-KGJ : 10 February 2018), Jonathan Partridge and Sarah Mitchell, 17 Jan 1716; citing , reference p 46; FHL microfilm 11,322.
7. "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F48F-LDC : 10 February 2018), Andrew Phillips and Miriam Mitchell, 01 Jan 1727; citing , reference p 65; FHL microfilm 11,322
8. Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill, compiler, The Mitchells from Kittery :, a reprint from Descendants of Edward Small and allied families (Cambridge, Mass: Priv. print. at the Riverside Press, 1911, c. 1910), Page: 1308
9. Gray, Penobscot Pioneers, 2:97-99
10. NEHGR; T. M. Jackson; [July 1904], Vol 54 page 351
11. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZ24-65J