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CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL
- b. before 1639
- m. before 1665 SARAH ANDREWS (b.c.1641, d. Nov. 1732 Kittery)
- d. Apr. 1688 Kittery, ME
"Att a Court of Assotiats houlden for the County of Yorke the 21st day of May 1660: at Wells before Major Nicho: shapleigh, Mr Edw: Rishworth & Mr Abra Preble, Assotiats- Christopher Michell acknowledged Judgt before Major Nic: Shapleigh & Edw: Rishworth Assotiates of a debt due to Mr Ric: Cutt of eighteene pounds 6s:1d & charges 9s."[1]
"Att a Court of Assotiates houlden at Sacoe the 27th of March, 1661, for the County of York, by Major Nicho: Shapleigh, Mr Hene. Joclein, Mr Robert Jordan & Edw: Rishworth- Christopher Michell plant: In an Action of the case for Certen moneys payd for him to ye valew of fourteene pounds, Contra Robert Skinner Defendt: the Court finds for ye plant 4:14:2 1/2 & costs of Court 2:4:6."[2]
Christopher had a house at Brave Boat Harbor in Kittery by 1665 as on 22 Apr. 1665 Francis Morgan and his wife Sarah, widow and administratrix of Capt. John Mitchell, sold to John Cutt of Portsmouth: "one Prcell of Marsh ground, scituate & being neare to Christopher Michells house at Bray boate Harbour... which land was formerly bought of one John Lander."[3] The boundary was a point of dispute between Christopher and his sister-in-law as Philip Atwell, Christopher Mitchell and John Billings were summoned to court: "at the Poynt to answere their tumultuous carages about the laying out & bounding a pcell of Marsh given unto Fran: Morgan by execution." On 10 Sept. 1672 Philip Atwell was fined "16s... for his contempt in Cutting of the lyne... & Christopher Michell and John Billine 5s a peece and with an admonition are discharged."[4]
Christopher had a grant from the town of Kittery of 30 acres in Aug. 1674 adjoining his house at Brave Boat Harbor.[5] He signed the petition to the General Court to allow Isaac Wells to preach. He was on the grand jury in 1678.[6]
"A true and perfect Inventary of all and Singular the goods Cattle and Chattles of Christopher Mitchell late of the Towne of Kitery in the Provynce of Mayne who deceased Aprill ye Last Ano Dm 1688 As followeth vizt:
It one Yoake of Oxen att....................... 07 : 00 : 00
It one Mare 2 ........................................ 02 : 00 : 00
It Three Cows and Calves after ym....... 09 : 15 : 00
It Two cows att ..................................... 06 : 00 : 00
It Two Heyfers 2 ................................... 04 : 05 : 00
It ffive Shoats or Swine 2 ..................... 01 : 10 : 00
It one Sow and Three Piggs 2 ............... 00 : 15 : 00
It Nine Ewes and Nine Lambs .............. 03 : 12 : 00
It One Ram 2 ......................................... 00 : 06 : 00
It one Chayne Spitt & one Auger .......... 00 : 18 : 00
It One Sheare & Coultiron 2 ................. 00 : 05 : 00
It one Beetle and Two Wedges a parcell of hows
& Old Iron 2 .......................................... 00 : 05 : 00
It: 1 Muskett 2 ....................................... 01 : 00 : 00
It: One Old Barrell of a Muskett ........... 00 : 02 : 00
It: One ffrying pan one old Pott- One Kettle and one
Skillett one pair of tongs 1 Tramel and a pair of Pot
Hooks ........................................................... 00 : 17 : 00
It Milk pans and other houshold stuffe .. 02 : 00 : 00
Suma Total 40 : 06 : 0
Humphrey Spencer
X his Marke
Ephraim Crockett
X his Mark"[7][8]
"Pursuant to a vote of the Town of Kittery... Impowering us the Subscribers a Comittee to estimate the yearly income of the reall Estates of the Severall Freeholders... Accordingly we met... untill Monday ye first of Sept. 1712 and then concluded as followeth, vizt...
The Estate of Christr Mitchell Senr Decd £5"[9]
On 20 Jan. 1723/4 Sarah gave to her son William Mitchell of Scarborough, all her estate in Kittery.[10]
Children
- • 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
- • V. 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
Sources
- ↑ Early Records of Maine- Daughters of the American Colonists, 1934- Vol.2, p. 324
- ↑ Early Records of Maine- Daughters of the American Colonists, 1934- Vol.2, p. 332
- ↑ York Deeds- Vol.2, p.9
- ↑ Early Records of Maine- Daughters of the American Colonists, 1934- Vol.2, pp. 37-8
- ↑ Kittery Town Records- Vol.1, p.33
- ↑ Coll. of MHS- 2nd series, Vol.4, pp.339-42; Early Records of Maine- Vol.3, pp.359-60
- ↑ York Probate- Vol. I, p.11
- ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9ZS-M : 5 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 22-23.
- ↑ Old Kittery and Her Families- Everett Stackpole, Lewiston Journal Press, 1903- pp.148-9
- ↑ York Co. Deeds- Vol.11, p.123
- The Descendants of Edward Small of New England- Lora Underhill, Houghton Mifflin Co., NY, 1934- Vol. III, pp. 1389-98