Fourth Generation

74. Thomas Skillman was born about 1743 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. He died before 1843 at the age of 100. His SOA Number is 8 vii. From SOA:
In "names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued" prior to 1790 (Penn. Archives, Vol. II, p. 267), a "permit" was issued for Thomas Skillman and Mary Finney, Nov. 7, 1767; and in 1769, presumably the same person, classed "shopkeeper" and "rated £5 on 40 acres of land, 1 horse and 1 cow in Oxford Township, County of Philadelphia, Thomas Shallcross," assessor, is named, (Penn. Archs., Vol. XIV, p. 39.)

Mary Finney (private).