Third Generation

13. Isaac Skillman was born in 1706 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. He died in 1799 at the age of 93 in Harlingen, Montgomery Twp., Somerset, NJ. Date from L of C author listing. His SOA Number is 7. Moved to Harlingen, New Jersey in 1729.

From SOA:
First public account of him is found in deed given at sale of his farm (Dutch Kills) of 24 acres to Samuel Alburtis, Nov. 25. 1729, for £140. Thomas, his father, was witness to this deed, and Isaac is described as Cordwainer. He is mentioned third in his father's will, Feb. 23, 1739, and the following therefore specially concerns him and his elder brother: "Whereas I have a conveyance of John Van Horne and Catharine his wife for a certain tract of land lying at Raritan, New Jersey, and my sons, John Skillman and Isaac Skillman, have paid part of the consideration money, my will and order is that if they shall pay the remaining part thereof, so as I and mine are fully discharged therefrom and acquitted thereof, that then my other sons, by name Abraham, Jacob, Benjamin, and Joseph Skillman, shall release the same unto the s'd John Skillman and Isaac Skillman." This "tract" (see Ante) on the Millstone below Rocky Hill, N. J., stretched upward toward Sourland Mountain, and contained 500 and odd acres. Isaac Skillman built his home, very much in the wilderness then, on the upper or western portion, near the present village of Harlingen. Just who Isaac's wife was we do not know. By one tradition she was "a Hull from Black River (small stream, near Peapack, N. J.) and was an Englishwoman." "The children were laughed at in Harlingen because they did not speak Dutch." There were Hulls in the Black River or Peapack locality, members of the family at Piscataway. By others it is thought that Isaac's wife was a Beekman. Neither tradition is yet established. He was certainly married before leaving Long Island, circa 1726, and with Jan, his brother (John), removed to New Jersey in 1730.

The property he and John inherited is also known as the Vanderveer Place.

Isaac Skillman and Magdelena Beekman were married in 1726 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. It is not clear if his wife was Annie Hull, or possibly she was a first wife, followed by M. Beekman. Magdelena Beekman, daughter of Christoffel Beekman and Maria De Lanoy, was born about 11 November 1711 in Albany, Albany, NY. She was baptized on 14 November 1711. She died after 1742 at the age of 31.

Isaac Skillman-14 and Magdelena Beekman-15 had the following children:

+64	i.	Thomas Skillman-12.
+65	ii.	Benjamin Skillman-55.
66	iii.	Rev. Isaac Skillman was born in 1740 in Somerset Co., NJ. He was educated B.S. in 1766 at Princeton Univ. in Princeton, Mercer, NJ. From 1773 to 1787 he was a pastor at Second Baptist Church in Boston, Suffolk, MA. Isaac received a A.M. degree in 1774 at Rhode Island College in Rhode Island. From 18 September 1790 to 7 June 1799 he was a pastor at Salem Bap. Church in Salem, NJ. He received a D.D. degree in 1798 at Rhode Island College in Rhode Island. Isaac died on 7 June 1799 at the age of 59. He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted, 9/18/1799 to Abraham and Cornelius Skillman. He was buried at Salem Bap. Church in Salem, NJ. His SOA Number is 7 iii. Listed in Biography Index, Vol. 11: Sept. 1976-Aug., 1979. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1980. From SOA: First gospel minister of the name; b. 1740. Prepared under care of the First Baptist Church of N.Y. City, at Rev. Isaac Eaton's School at Hopewell, Hunterdon Co., N.J., and was graduated at Princeton (a few miles distant) in 1766. He declined a call to the Hopewell Church (Bap.), tendered him July 26 1773; but same year became pastor of the second Baptist Church of Boston, Mass., where he remained 14 years. In 1787 he returned to New Jersey, becoming, Sept.18, 1790, pastor of the Salem Baptist Church in that State, dying suddenly June 8, 1799 "in his 59th year," and is buried in Salem Baptist Churchyard. He received the doctorate (D.D.) from Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in 1774, and never married.
67	iv.	Jacob Skillman was born about 1742 in Montgomery Twp., Somerset, NJ. Mormon Archive Record has b. abt 1733. He died after 1817 at the age of 75. His SOA Number is 7 iv. From SOA: Jacob, settled as a pioneer in Ohio, near Cincinnati probably, where he was visited by relatives (three grandchildren of his brother Thomas) on their way to Lexington, Ky., in 1817. They reported him "a well-to-do farmer with servants, and his wife a pleasant woman; but they had no children."