Rachel Skinner, last child of Joseph Skinner by his 2nd wife Mary Bliss, b. of record 5 Oct. 1770 at Colchester, CT and baptized 10 June 1778 at Bolton, CT following her father's 1773 death at Bolton. Her older half-brother William Skinner and his wife Elizabeth Church were early settlers of Middlefield, Hampshire County, MA and her mother as the widow "Molly" Skinner appears in the 1800 Middlefield, MA census as a one person household enumerated immediately following the two person household of Jonathan Woodward.
Previously on 27 June 1799 at Middlefield, Rachel m. Jonathan Woodward, who by the 1810 census were residing at Windsor, Berkshire County with 2 females age 45 and older , one undoubtedly being Rachel's widowed mother. According to the Windsor VRs, the widow Mary Skinner died at Windsor on 27 Sept. 1811 and Rachel (Skinner) Woodward at Windsor of fever on 1 March 1830, a. 63, where she was interred at the Windsor Hill, aka Hill, Cemetery in Windsor.
Whether Rachel's gravestone is still intact and readable remains to be determined. But if her transcribed age at death is correct she was born in ca. 1768, not in 1770 as recorded in the Colchester, CT VRs.
8/1/2021
Previously on 27 June 1799 at Middlefield, Rachel m. Jonathan Woodward, who by the 1810 census were residing at Windsor, Berkshire County with 2 females age 45 and older , one undoubtedly being Rachel's widowed mother. According to the Windsor VRs, the widow Mary Skinner died at Windsor on 27 Sept. 1811 and Rachel (Skinner) Woodward at Windsor of fever on 1 March 1830, a. 63, where she was interred at the Windsor Hill, aka Hill, Cemetery in Windsor.
Whether Rachel's gravestone is still intact and readable remains to be determined. But if her transcribed age at death is correct she was born in ca. 1768, not in 1770 as recorded in the Colchester, CT VRs.
8/1/2021
Rachel Skinner, last child of Joseph Skinner by his 2nd wife Mary Bliss, b. of record 5 Oct. 1770 at Colchester, CT and baptized 10 June 1778 at Bolton, CT following her father's 1773 death at Bolton. Her older half-brother William Skinner and his wife Elizabeth Church were early settlers of Middlefield, Hampshire County, MA and her mother as the widow "Molly" Skinner appears in the 1800 Middlefield, MA census as a one person household enumerated immediately following the two person household of Jonathan Woodward.
Previously on 27 June 1799 at Middlefield, Rachel m. Jonathan Woodward, who by the 1810 census were residing at Windsor, Berkshire County with 2 females age 45 and older , one undoubtedly being Rachel's widowed mother. According to the Windsor VRs, the widow Mary Skinner died at Windsor on 27 Sept. 1811 and Rachel (Skinner) Woodward at Windsor of fever on 1 March 1830, a. 63, where she was interred at the Windsor Hill, aka Hill, Cemetery in Windsor.
Whether Rachel's gravestone is still intact and readable remains to be determined. But if her transcribed age at death is correct she was born in ca. 1768, not in 1770 as recorded in the Colchester, CT VRs.
8/1/2021
Previously on 27 June 1799 at Middlefield, Rachel m. Jonathan Woodward, who by the 1810 census were residing at Windsor, Berkshire County with 2 females age 45 and older , one undoubtedly being Rachel's widowed mother. According to the Windsor VRs, the widow Mary Skinner died at Windsor on 27 Sept. 1811 and Rachel (Skinner) Woodward at Windsor of fever on 1 March 1830, a. 63, where she was interred at the Windsor Hill, aka Hill, Cemetery in Windsor.
Whether Rachel's gravestone is still intact and readable remains to be determined. But if her transcribed age at death is correct she was born in ca. 1768, not in 1770 as recorded in the Colchester, CT VRs.
8/1/2021
Inscription
From old inscription records:
In Memory of Rachel
wife of Jonathan Woodward
who died March 1 1830
aged 62 years
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