John Skinner (1590 - 1650)

John Skinner (1590 - 1650) was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. ["Names Inscribed on the Founders Monument of Hartford". http://kinnexions.com/album/hartford/. Accessed 10 July 2007.] ["The Founders of Hartford". "Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford". http://www.foundersofhartford.org. [http://www.foundersofhartford.org/draft/founders/skinner_john.htm] . Accessed 10 July 2007.] Skinner was a member of Thomas Hooker's party and probably came to New England from Braintree, Essex, England. [cite book |last=Whittemore |first=Henry |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900 |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1900 |month= |publisher=New England Ancestral Pub. Co. |location=New York |language=English |isbn= |oclc=30406320 |doi= |id= |pages=45 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] He married Mary Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis. She later married Owen Tudor. [cite book |last=Cutter |first=William Richard |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1908 |month= |publisher=Lewis historical Pub. Co. |location=New York |language=English |isbn= |oclc=1455834 |doi= |id= |pages=442 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=...in [Skinner's] family there is a tradition that after the Revolution in England three Skinner brothers, one of whom had been high sheriff, fled to America, one of whom settled in Connecticut, another in Vermont and a third in Maryland. ]

Skinner's homesite in Hartford was originally (in 1639) "on the west side of Main St., a little below the present [at 1886] corner of Pearl St." However, Skinner traded this lot with Richard Olmsted for a lot on the highway (later Trumbull St.). [cite book |last=Trumbull|first=J. Hammond |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1886|month= |publisher=E.L. Osgood |location=Boston|language=English |isbn= |oclc=1187853 |doi= |id= |pages=258-259 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]

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