The Ohio Gaskins are my family.They came to Ohio around 1800 and lived in the Clermont district. John Gaskins and his wife Sarah Fee. They had a large family and the Mc Fee or Fee name was from Colonial days when her family settled in Maryland.The name came from Scotland by way of Ireland George Fee and Parnell Lakin McFee(Somewhere the name Snowden is connected to Parnell.She may have been married to a Snowden
and was a widow when she married again to George Fee.Or maybe not)Fee was spelled different ways in Scotland, initially McVie and McFie,. Those Connected with the ones who moved to Ireland pronounced it Mc Faye.They belonged to the Duff,Duffy or Duffin Clan of Scotland.The Lakin or Larkin name was intermarried with the Mc Fee name through several generations in Md and Sarah Fee's motherSarah Lakin, was married to Robert Leith. Her maiden name was Lakin..The Gaskins name goes back to John Gaskins who may have come directly from England. He was born in 1761,Sept. first.And Married Sarah Fee in Greene County Pennsylvania 1786. Her family moved just before the American Revolution from Md. To Pa. John and Sarah Gaskins then moved to Bourbon County Kentucky and later moved to Ohio. Some of their family stayed in Indiana and some moved to Arkansas.Also some to Texas.Gaskins goes back to Gascoigne in England. the first Gaskins came from the North in Yorkshire and Hull. Wm Gascoigne in Yorkshire was a famous Barrister for the Kings during the Edward the Third and Richard II and Henry IV reigns( and maybe later) They intermarried with the King's grand daughters..But Gaskins also was a commoner name. The first one to come to America was Thomas Gaskins(Gascoignes) in 1619 he came to Va.Then went back to England and brought his wife Alice Gamblyn and her father Joseph ,and their young children, to Va. by 1636. They became prominent in Va, In the Northern Neck, and intermarried with the famous Lee family of Va.( And the Ball and Conway names) Where and how and if, our John Gaskins is related, is still a mystery to me. He may have considered himself English if he belonged to the Virgina Colony, and gave that Statistic when he married. Sometimes I think his parents died young(there is a record of that happening to a nephew of Colonel Gaskins) and he was temporarily adopted by Colonel Thomas Gaskins who fought in the Revolution. He would have enlisted to fight in the Revolution when he was about fifteen. There is a John Gaskins listed from Pa. in that 1776 war and also one Gaskins from Virginia is listed. He may be one and the same person.His mother could have been Ann Eustace who married a John Gaskins in Richmond Va. in 1758 and also there was a Mary Conway who married a John Gaskins around the same time. She came from Lancaster County,Va.Then there is the record of two Gaskins bros. moving to Md. from England. Maybe the Mc Fee family knewThe Gaskins in Maryland and met again in Pa. when he was a young soldier and that perhaps,is how the marriage took place in Greene Co, Pa. in 1786.Soldiers inherited land in Ohio and Kentucky for their service in the war.