Person:William Scadlock (1)

Banks gives his origin as Sutton in the Forest, Yorkshire, but gave his only source as Banks Mss.

One of the earliest settlers in Maine, William is found at Saco in 1636. Saco is perhaps the oldest settlement in the state of Maine. While William Scadlock was a 'planter', this settlement consisted largely of fishermen and trappers or traders of pelts with the Indians. It was a rough place evidently, and he was before the court for drunkeness also in 1636. There were no more adverse appearances before the court, however, and he became somewhat of a town father, becoming the Clerk of Writs, or the Town Clerk in 1653. When he died his personal property was valued at approximately 100 pounds, and the real estate, which was considered of considerable value, was left to his wife Elinor. By 1830, when a history of Saco was written, the name Scadlock was extinct in that region, although a small falls on the Little River was still called Scadlock Falls.

In his will, dated 7 January 1661/2 and proved 3 July 1662, “William Scadlocke of Cape Porpus” bequeathed to “my good and dear wife, Ellner Scadlocke,” “the house, land, marsh & cattle, with the appurtenances thereunto appertaining & belonging, both within doors & without …, so long as she keeps herself a widow, but if she happen to marry after my decease, then she to have” her thirds; “but if so be she die as my widow, then all my estate to be equally divided … amongst our children, by them I mean William, Susanna, John, Rebecha, Sam[u]ell, & Sarah Scadlocke” (followed by specific bequests of moveables to each of the children); “my loving wife Ellner [to be] my executrix, & my son William my executor” [MPCR 2:120-21; Maine Wills 1-2]. [{Category:Great Migration Study Project|Scadlock, William]]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 William Scadlock , in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

   BIRTH: By about 1611 (based on estimated date of marriage).
   DEATH: Between 7 January 1661/2 (date of will) and 17 March 1661/2 (date of inventory).
   MARRIAGE: By about 1636 Eleanor _____. (Noyes, Libby and Davis suggest that she was “not impossibly … the Ellen Lougie … who came with the Andrews family in 1635, aged 20” [GDMNH 612].) She married (2) at Haverhill on 29 May 1663 STEPHEN KENT {1638, Newbury} [NEHGR 163:60].