Person talk:Mary Skinner (30)

death date [28 April 2018]

I removed the unsourced death date 28 Mar 1716 in Boston. I cannot find a record of it, though it is in some less credible secondary sources (i.e., not the NEHGR article on this family in vol. 53) and I believe it is applied to the wrong person. A gravestone in Kings Chapel Burying Ground for the Mary (nee Skinner) who married Joseph Russell has the date 28 Mar 1715, which some people may incorrectly assume should be promoted to 1716 (it should not, 28 Mar is after the start of the new year on 25 March so should not be promoted). But the age at death matches a different Mary Skinner and is 4 years off from this Mary Skinner. The Mary Skinner that married Joseph Russell was a daughter of Thomas Skinner and Mary Gould of Boston, NOT the daughter of Thomas Skinner and Mary Pratt of Malden. Not that a marriage was posted to this page showing that was what was thought... --Jrich 21:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)