Husband of Dinah (Rogers) Skolfield M. 01-15-1780
Husband of Margaret (Hall) Skolfield M. 10-15-1798
Joseph2 Skolfield (Thomas1) was born 1 March 1757 in Brunswick, Maine; married, first,
Dinah Rogers, daughter of George Rogers and Margaret Campbell, on 15 January 1780 in North
Yarmouth, Maine. There were no children of this marriage. He married, second, Margaret H. Hall on
15 October 1798 in Georgetown, Maine. He died 25 September 1815 and was buried in the First Parish
Cemetery in Brunswick.
The Brunswick Town Record Book has an entry, dated 28 May 1789, which excuses Mr. Joseph
Skolfield from serving as constable "in consideration of his having no real property in this town and the
great cost he has borne to Doctors by reason of so much sickness in his family."
Dinah Rogers was born circa 1757; died 20 March 1797 in Brunswick, Maine. She was buried in
the First Parish Cemetery in Brunswick, where her tombstone calls her the first wife of Joseph Skolfield.
Margaret H. Hall was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire. She married, second, Jotham W. Rogers, on 18 January 1818 in Harpswell, Maine.
The children of Joseph2 Skolfield and Margaret H. Hall were:
43. i.Thomas3 Skolfield was born 25 April 1799; married Jennette Ferrin.

ii. Robert Skolfield was born 1 December 1800 in Brunswick, Maine; died in 1821. His
career is recounted in The Skolfields And Their Ships, by Erminie S. Reynolds and
Kenneth R. Martin: "Robert, age sixteen, sailed for Guadeloupe in the Bath brig William,
Joseph Lament, master, with his brother Thomas and cousin Clement (49). In May 1818,
he joined the brig Minerva of Bath, Moses Owen, master, for St. Michaels, and, in 1819,
made two voyages in the brig Acton under Captain William Stanwood. He served on board
the brig Cordelia, Sawyer, master, which cleared Portland for Guadeloupe on 7 August 1821. Robert died on board the Cordelia at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe." The Portland Eastern Argus of Tuesday 6 November 1821 printed the following: "Died in St.Petre[sic] on board brig Cordelia

44. iii. John Skolfield was born 3 February 1803; married Hannah Harding Crooker.

iv. Matthew Skolfield was born 17 April 1805; married Deborah Bowker on 4 September 1827 in Bath, Maine. In 1825, his seaman's certificate (#3741) describes him
as 21 years, 5' 8%", light complexion with brown hair (1827 list). On the 1857 certificate,(#37), he is described as age 51,5' 91/2", light complexion, grey hair and eyes. His career as a master mariner is recounted by Erminie S. Reynolds and Kenneth R. Martin in The Skolfields and their Ships.
as follows: "Matthew sailed as an apprentice seaman at age
seventeen in the new schooner Exchange of Portland, John Given, Jr., master, for Barbados. From 1827 to 1830, he served as mate in five Bath vessels' West Indian voyages: the brig Maine, William Heddean, master (1827), the schooner North Star, David Sanborn, master, and schooner Bolivar, Thomas J. Lewis, master (1828); the brig
Harward, Redford Tallman, master (1829); and the brig John, Wilder Thompson, master(1830). Matthew's first command was the Harward in August 1830, when her regular
skipper, Captain Tallman, took a vacation. In 1831, Matthew became master of the coasting schooner Lady of Bath; in 1832, he was master of the schooner Laura of Boston,for voyages to the Caribbean and to Sydney, Nova Scotia; and master of the schooner Ward, sailing round trip from Boston to Sydney. The next year he took command of the brig Arlitta of Wilmington, North Carolina, taking her to Marseilles with staves and returning with salt. He skippered the brig Chariot in June 1834. Returning in that vessel to Philadelphia from Bonaire, he encountered a severe squall. The Chariot sprung a leak and stranded and bilged on Long Cay in the Crooked Island passage, Bahamas. No lives were lost. The vessel was stripped and the men were taken to Nassau by a wrecking crew. From 1836 to 1842, Matthew was active in the coasting trade as master of the sloop Betsey (1836) and the schooners Ceres (1838), Comet (1838-1840), Star (1840), and Mary Ann
(1841-1842). From 1842 until 1847, he was part owner and master of the schooner Convert of Bath, making several voyages to Cuba. In 1844, he made one voyage to Cuba
in command of the brig New York; then returned to the Convert and, in 1847, took the Dresden to Havana. He made one more voyage in the Convert before taking the New York
again to Cuba. He was master of the schooner Henry Nason, 1849-1851, making six voyages between New York and Curacao. The last of these was beset by difficulties.
Outward bound, all but one of the crew was ill with "bilious fever," and Matthew was exhausted from lack of sleep, having to take the wheel half the time and minister to the sick. Homeward bound, the schooner encountered a waterspout and was partially
dismasted, losing most of her sails, and had to be taken under tow. In 1853, Matthew commanded the brig America of New York, making two trips to Cuba. In the celebrated
gale of January 1854, the brig was wrecked on Hog Island, Virginia, without loss of life. From September of that year until May of the next, Matthew was master of the brig
Matallak of Bath for two Cuban voyages. The ship Roger Stewart was at Portland in October 1855, and Matthew shipped as mate under her captain, Alfred Skolfield for a
voyage to Mobile, Liverpool, and return in April 1856. Later that year, Matthew skippered the schooner Minehaha of Richmond, Maine. His last known voyage was as mate in the schooner Julia Ann of Orrington, Maine, Josiah G. Staples, master, which cleared Bath 28 March 1857 for Havana." He is listed in the 1860 Bath, Maine, City Directory as in the "provisions" business. He died 28 August 1864 in Bath, of tuberculosis, and was buried in
Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine.

45. v. Dinah Skolfield was born 15 August 1807; married Samuel Austin.

vi. Samuel Skolfield was born 1 April 1810 in Brunswick, Maine; died 25 August 1837 in
Brunswick, Maine, "killed accidentally," and was buried in the First Parish Church Cemetery, Brunswick, Maine. In applications for Seamen's Protection Certificates, Bath,
Maine, 4th quarter 1830, number 67, dated 9 October 1830, was one which belonged to Samuel Skolfield, who described himself as age 20, 6' 6" in height and had a light
complexion, brown hair and blue eyes and born in Brunswick.

46. vii. Sarah Hall Skolfield was born 11 May 1813; married Frederick Plumer Conant.

47. viii. Joseph Skolfield, Jr. was born 25 December 1815; married Lucy Ann Percy.

Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"