Individual Details
John Scammon
(28 Jun 1598 - )
Richard Scammon in 1682 willed £20 to each of his brothers John and Richard Scammon and his sister Anne Waldron, £40 to John's daughter Elizabeth Atkins, £60 to Richard's daughter Jean, and £5 to Hannah Gerrish.
There was evidently another John Scamon living in Rhode Island at the time as on 10 Feb. 1683/4 "John Rodman late of Christ Church parish in Barbados, Chyurgion, now of the Colony of Road Island, and Mary his wife, lately called Mary Scamon, only daughter and heiress of John Scamon some time of said Island [would that be Rhode Island or Barbados?], planter, sell to James Ayeford of St. Thomas, planter, for 200 pounds a plantation of 33 acres in St. Thomas". Acknowledged at Rhode Island 6 June 1684 before William Coddington, Governour, at his new lodge near Newport.(3)
So it appears that the connection with Barbados that has been batted around concerns another John Scammon and not the one who lived in Kittery.
John was a legatee with his daughter Elizabeth under the will of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Saffin 26 Oct. 1687. In her will Elizabeth Saffin, widow of Mr. Peter Lidgett, gave legacies to her two children, Charles Lidgett and Elizabeth, wife of John Usher, to her grandchild Elizabeth Usher, to her present husband John Saffin, merchant, to her brother John Scammond, to her brother Richard Scammond, to her sister Anni Waldron, to her cousin Elizabeth Atkins, brother John Scammond's daughter, to cousin Jean Scammond, daughter to her brother Richard Scammond, and to cousin Hannah Gerrish.(1)
"Thomas Dean, of Boston, taylor & Shopkeeper and Jane, his wife, late Jane Scammond, daughter to Richard Scammond lat of Exeter, in ye Province of New Hampshire in New England, brother to Elizabeth Saffin, Pllfs.
The Estate of said Elizabeth Saffin decd, late wife of John Saffin of Boston, merchant, now Esqr, and late ye widow and Executrix of Mr. Peter Lidget, of said Boston in New England, deceased, In ye hands & Possession & under ye administration of Mary Lidget, now in Boston aforesaid, widow, Relict & Executrix of the late will & testament of Charles Lidget, formerly of Boston aforesaid, Esq., and late of London in ye Kingdom of England, decd, (which said Charles Lidget was Execr of the last will & Testament of said Elizabeth Saffin with a codicil to said will annexed)"(2)
(1) Mass. Archives- Vol.16, pp.403-7
(2) Suffolk County Court Records-
(3) Records from the Dover Library, Dover, NH from the registers of Christ Church Parish quoted by Susan Fischer at: http://genforum.genealogy.com/scammon/messages/83.html
There was evidently another John Scamon living in Rhode Island at the time as on 10 Feb. 1683/4 "John Rodman late of Christ Church parish in Barbados, Chyurgion, now of the Colony of Road Island, and Mary his wife, lately called Mary Scamon, only daughter and heiress of John Scamon some time of said Island [would that be Rhode Island or Barbados?], planter, sell to James Ayeford of St. Thomas, planter, for 200 pounds a plantation of 33 acres in St. Thomas". Acknowledged at Rhode Island 6 June 1684 before William Coddington, Governour, at his new lodge near Newport.(3)
So it appears that the connection with Barbados that has been batted around concerns another John Scammon and not the one who lived in Kittery.
John was a legatee with his daughter Elizabeth under the will of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Saffin 26 Oct. 1687. In her will Elizabeth Saffin, widow of Mr. Peter Lidgett, gave legacies to her two children, Charles Lidgett and Elizabeth, wife of John Usher, to her grandchild Elizabeth Usher, to her present husband John Saffin, merchant, to her brother John Scammond, to her brother Richard Scammond, to her sister Anni Waldron, to her cousin Elizabeth Atkins, brother John Scammond's daughter, to cousin Jean Scammond, daughter to her brother Richard Scammond, and to cousin Hannah Gerrish.(1)
"Thomas Dean, of Boston, taylor & Shopkeeper and Jane, his wife, late Jane Scammond, daughter to Richard Scammond lat of Exeter, in ye Province of New Hampshire in New England, brother to Elizabeth Saffin, Pllfs.
The Estate of said Elizabeth Saffin decd, late wife of John Saffin of Boston, merchant, now Esqr, and late ye widow and Executrix of Mr. Peter Lidget, of said Boston in New England, deceased, In ye hands & Possession & under ye administration of Mary Lidget, now in Boston aforesaid, widow, Relict & Executrix of the late will & testament of Charles Lidget, formerly of Boston aforesaid, Esq., and late of London in ye Kingdom of England, decd, (which said Charles Lidget was Execr of the last will & Testament of said Elizabeth Saffin with a codicil to said will annexed)"(2)
(1) Mass. Archives- Vol.16, pp.403-7
(2) Suffolk County Court Records-
(3) Records from the Dover Library, Dover, NH from the registers of Christ Church Parish quoted by Susan Fischer at: http://genforum.genealogy.com/scammon/messages/83.html
Events
| Birth | 28 Jun 1598 | Nettleton, Lincolnshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 6 Nov 1623 | Nettleton, Lincolnshire, England - Elizabeth Tailor | |||
| Immigration | Abt 1630 | Boston, Massachusetts Bay |  | ||
| Death | Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Tailor (1602 - 1680) |
| Child | Elizabeth Scammon (1625 - 1687) |
| Child | Humphrey Scammon (1640 - ) |