Christopher Mitchell

  Events

• Christopher had a house at Brave Boat Harbor in Kittery by 1665 as on 22 Apr. 1665 Francis Morgan and his wife Sarah, widow and administratrix of Capt. John Mitchell, sold to John Cutt of Portsmouth: "one Prcell of Marsh ground, scituate & being neare to Christopher Michells house at Bray boate Harbour...which land was formerly bought of one John Lander." The boundary was a point of dispute between Christopher and his sister-in-law as Philip Atwell, Christopher Mitchell and John Billings were summoned to court: "at the Poynt to answere their tumultuous carages about the laying out & bounding a pcell of Marsh given unto Fran: Morgan by execution." On 10 Sept. 1672 Philip Atwell was fined "16s...for his contempt in Cutting of the lyne...& Christopher Michell and John Billine 5s a peece and with an admonition are discharged." 

• Christopher had a grant from the town of Kittery of 30 acres in Aug. 1674 adjoining his house at Brave Boat Harbor. He signed the petition to the General Court to allow Isaac Wells to preach. He was on the grand jury in 1678.

Christopher married Sarah Andrews, daughter of John Andrews and Joanna, in 1660 in Kittery, York, Maine. (Sarah Andrews was born about 1641 in Braveboat Harbor, Kittery, York, Maine and died in Nov 1732 in Kittery, York, Maine.)