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  1. Edward Gaskill, b. ca. 1603, m. Sarah Parker, ca. 1637, d. ca. 1690
    1. Daniel Gaskill, b. ca. 1639
      1. Preserved Gaskill, b. ca. 1639
      2. Samuel Gaskill (2), b. 7 June 1639, m. Provided Southwick-read about her below, 30 October 1662, d. aft. 6 October 1720
        1. Edward Gaskill (3), b. 23 October 1667
        2. Hannah Gaskill (2), b. 2 January 1669
        3. Provided Gaskill, b. 22 April 1672
        4. Mary Gaskill, b. 6 September 1674
        5. Sarath Gaskill, b. 1 August 1675
        6. Josiah Gaskill (1), b. 7 November 1678, m. Rebecca Lippincott, 5 April 1704, d. 1761
          1. Mary Gaskill (2), b. 1706
          2. Jacob Gaskill, b. 1708
          3. Jonathan Gaskill, b. 1710
          4. Josiah Gaskill (2), b. 1711, m. Amy Shreve, 7 September 1737, d. aft. 1761
            1. Samuel Gaskill (4), b. 1742
            2. Caleb Gaskill, Sr., b. 1744, m. Hope Rossell, 15 July 1765
              1. Caleb Gaskill, Jr., b. 1767, m. Phoebe Budd, ca. 1798, d. 1837
                1. Josiah Caleb Gaskill, b. 1802
                2. Catherine Gaskill, b. 1804
                3. Samuel Gaskill, b. 19 April 1805, m. Eleanor Abernathy, 20 March 1828, m. Nancy Powell, 1877, d. 17 December 1885
                  1. John Gaskill, b. 1828
                  2. James H. Gaskill, b. 1831
                  3. Samuel Gaskill, Jr., b. 1832
                  4. David Gaskill, b. 1834
                  5. Josiah Gaskill, b. 5 May 1837, m. Louisa Bradney, January 1865, m. E. O. Crane, 1 November 1902, d. 27 July 1932
                    1. Olla Gaskill, b. 1866, d. bef. 1880
                    2. Alpha Bradney Gaskill, b. 30 July 1868, m. Rose Ellen Kerwin (Kirwin) , 17 February 1897, d. 12 March 1935
                      1. Faye Catherine Gaskill, b. 26 June 1898, m. Gerald Allen Maib, 19 June 1918, d. January 1972
                        1. Clarence Edwin Gaskill, b. 24 January 1900, m. Margaret Shetovitz, 19 June 1922, d. 19 February 1964
                          1. Georgia Iola Gaskill, b. 6 September 1901, m. William McKinley Sevier, 11 August 1922
                            1. Richard Sevier
                            2. John Everett Sevier, b. January 1931, d. 1975
                            3. Victor Kerwin Gaskill, b. 19 January 1903, m. Mildred Wilson, 28 July 1928
                              1. Gertrude Ellen Gaskill, b. 7 October 1905, m. Waymen Henry Beckner, 3 December 1923, d. 5 February 2001
                                1. Yvonne Joy Beckner,
                                2. Carole Arline Beckner,
                                3. Meghan Clare Shanahan, b. 29 July 1983, d. 21 January 1999 SEE MEGHAN'S STORY
                              2. Alberta Rose Gaskill, b. 10 December 1907, m. Elmer Francis Tannehill, 21 April 1927, d. 30 July 1991
                                1. Jeannine Yvonne Tannehill,
                                2. James Tannehill, b.
                                3. Infant Daughter Gaskill, b. 15 August 1917, d. 15 August 1917
                                  1. Virgil Allen Gaskill, b. 8 March 1921, m. Electia, June 1949, d. November 1996
                                    1. Michael Gaskill, b. 7 March 1941
                                    2. Susan Gaskill, b. 8 June 1953
                                    3. Matthew Gaskill, b. 24 March 1964
                                4. Effie Gaskill, b. 11 February 1872, d. 25 March 1960
                                5. Elizabeth Gaskill (2), b. 1838
                              3. Freedom H. Gaskill, b. 1809
                              4. Noah Gaskill, b. 1811
                              5. Rebecca Gaskill (3), b. 1812
                              6. Budd Gaskill, b. 13 October 1813
                              7. Harriet Gaskill, b. 1815
                              8. Phoebe Gaskill, b. 1817
                            4. Elizabeth Gaskill, b. 16 February 1769
                            5. Lettice Gaskill, b. 1771
                            6. Jemima Gaskill, b. 1773
                            7. Keziah Gaskill (2), b. 1773
                            8. Hope Gaskill, b. 1775
                            9. Lydia Gaskill, b. 1777
                            10. Rebecca Gaskill (2), b. 1781
                            11. Mary Gaskill (3), b. 1783
                          2. Rebecca Gaskill, b. 1745
                          3. Keziah Gaskill, b. 2 April 1749
                        2. Anna Gaskill, b. 1718
                        3. Hannah Gaskill (3), b. 1720
                        4. Tamar Gaskill, b. 1722
                    3. Sarah Gaskill, b. ca. 1643
                    4. Hannah Gaskill, b. ca. 1646
                    5. Edward Gaskill (2), b. 1648


                    About Provided Southwick Gaskill

                    In 1658, Provided Southwick was arrested for being a Quaker and imprisoned in Salem, Massachusetts. She was only 18 years old. Her parents had already been jailed, impoverished through repeated fines and run out of town for being Quakers and not following the Puritan ways. She was sentenced to be sold into slavery to the English in the Barbados or Virginia because she had no money to pay her fine. Much later, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about Provided, but changed her first name to her mother's name, Cassandra, because he felt that Provided was not poetic enough. This is the poem written for Provided Southwick Gaskill, a Quaker Heroine.

                    --source-- The History of Salem, Massachusetts by, Sidney Perley (1924)

                    CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK

                    Last night I saw the sunset melt through my prison bars,
                    Last night across my damp earth floor fell the pale gleam of stars:
                    In the coldness and the darkness all through the long night-time,
                    My grated casement whited with autumn's early rime....

                    All night I sat unsleeping, for I knew that on the morrow
                    The ruler and the cruel priest would mock me in my sorrow.
                    Dragged to their place of market, and bargained for and sold,
                    Like a lamb before the shambles, like a heifer from the fold!

                    Oh, the weakness of the flesh was there,- - the shrinking and the shame;
                    And the low voice of the Tempter like whispers to me came:
                    "Why sit'st thou thus forlornly," the wicked murmur said,
                    "Damp walls thy bower of beauty, cold earth thy maiden bed?

                    "...And what a fate awaits thee!--A sadly toiling slave,
                    Dragging the slowly lengthening chain of bondage to the grave."
                    ...I wrestled down the evil thoughts, and strove in silent prayer,
                    To feel, O Helper of the weak! That thou indeed were there...

                    At length the heavy bolts fell back, my door was open cast,
                    And slowly at the sheriff's side, up the long street I passed.
                    I heard the murmur round me, and felt, but dared not see,
                    How, from every door and window, the people gazed on me.

                    ..We paused at length, where at my feet the sunlit waters broke
                    On glaring reach of shining beach, and shining wall or rock;
                    The merchant ships lay idly there, in hard clear lines on high,
                    Tracing with rope and sender spar their network on the sky....

                    Then to the stout sea-captains, the sheriff, turning, said,
                    "Which of ye, worthy seamen, will take this Quaker maid?
                    In the isle of fair Barbados, or on Virginia's shore,
                    You may sell her at a higher price than Indian girl or Moor."
                    
                    Grim and silent stood the captains; and when again he cried,
                     "Speak out, my worthy seamen!"--no voice, no sign replied;
                    But I felt a hard hand press my own, and kind words met my ear,--
                    "God bless thee, and preserve thee, my gentle girl and dear!"

                    A weight seemed lifted from my heart, a pitying friend was nigh,--
                    I felt it in his hard, rough hand, and saw i in his eye;
                    And when again the sheriff spoke, that voice so kind to me
                    , Growled back its stormy answer like the roaring of the sea,--

                    "Pile my ship with bars of silver, pack with coins of Spanish gold,
                    From keel-piece up to deck plank, the roomage of her hold,
                    By the living God who made me!--I would sooner in your bay
                    Sink ship and crew and cargo, than bear this child away!"

                    "Well answered, worthy captain, shame on their cruel laws!"
                    Ran through the crowd in murmurs loud the people's just applause.
                    "Like the herdsman of Tekoa, in Israel of old,
                    Shall we see the poor and righteous again for silver sold?"

                    I looked on Governor Endicott, with weapon half-way drawn,
                    Swept round the throng his lion glare of bitter hate and scorn;
                    Fiercely he drew his bridle rein, and turned in silence back,
                    And sneering priest and baffled clerk rode murmuring in his track.

                    Hard after them the sheriff looked, in bitterness of soul;
                    Thrice smote his staff upon the ground, and crushed his parchment roll.
                    "Good friends," he said, "since both have fled, the ruler and the priest,
                    Judge ye, if from their further work I be not well released."

                    Loud was the cheer which, full and clear, swept round the silent bay,
                    As with kind words and kinder looks he bade me go my way;
                    For God who turns the courses of the streamlet of the glen,
                    And the river of great waters, had turned the hearts of men.

                    Thanksgiving to the Lord of Life! To God all praises be,
                    Who from the hands of evil men hath set his handmaid free.
                    All praise to God before whose power the mighty are afraid,
                    Who takes the crafty in the snare which for the poor is laid!

                    ------John Greenleaf Whittier

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