Fourth Generation

60. Ann Skillman was born about 1734 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. She was buried. No grave has been located. Her body was possibly lost or destroyed.

Ann Skillman and John Skillman were married on 15 June 1753 at Presby. Church in Newtown, Queens, NY. John E. Skillman gives place of marriage as the Newtown Dutch Reformed Church. John Skillman, son of Jacob Skillman and Jannetje Van Alst, was born on 15 February 1733 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. He served in the military in 1776 in Revolutionary War. PS, New Jersey He died about 1817 at the age of 84 in New Jersey. His SOA Number is 17. John was buried. No grave has been found. His body possibly lost or destroyed. From SOA:
"... m. June 15 1753, Nancy Paynter (second cousin), dau. of Wm. and Hester (Skillman) Paynter. He removed from Newtown L. I. to Kingston, N.J., preceding his father, and was both farmer and tanner, his home being in later years known as the Storey Place, then the Rutherford Place. Had ten children:
(list of 10 children)
This John Skillman and his wife Nancy, had a strong attachment to the old church of their fathers; for though they lived near the Kingston Presbyterian Church, they travelled all the long and tedious road over Little Rocky Hill to Six Mile Run (now Franklin Park), and further, even to Three Mile Run where the church originally stood, to have their babes baptized among people of their lineage and language. Domine Johannes Leydt was pastor of the Dutch Ref. Church there at that period."

Research by John E. Skillman has revealed that this John married Anne Skillman, daughter of Abraham Skillman and Margaret Fine.
Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 139, No. 4, Oct. 2008, pp 261-265, "The Wife of John Skillman of Newtown - Not Nancy Paynter." John Earle Skillman III.

The will of John Skillman of West Windsor Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, gives all real and personal estate to his wife Anne during widowhood, and at her death or marriage to son John; it names no other children.

Ann Skillman-30710 and John Skillman-794 had the following children:

+171	i.	Jacob Skillman-1031.
+172	ii.	Margaret "Margrita" Skillman-1030.
173	iii.	Abraham Skillman was born on 13 March 1757. He died before 1857 at the age of 100.
+174	iv.	Abraham Skillman-1033.
175	v.	John Skillman was born on 26 April 1762. He was baptized on 25 September 1763 in Six Mile Run, Franklin, Somerset, NJ. He died before 1862 at the age of 100. His SOA Number is 17 v. From SOA: never m.; inherited the homestead, which, at his death went to Dick, his nephew, eldest son of his own younger brother, Isaac. John W. Morrel of Green Point (Brooklyn), said (1875): "John Skillman, of N.J., from a place near a Theological Seminary (Princeton), a cousin of father, paid us visit of a week once, and with him was his nephew, Dick, who was to be his heir, he said. This John was the son of the John Skillman who m. his cousin Nancy." John W. Morrel was a grandson of Abm.3 Skillman, b. 1704. Among claims for damages in Rev. War. was one "to 6 tons of hay, to beds, tools, and 14 sides of leather taken from tan vats, belonging to John Skillman," was sworn to by John Skillman, Jr., before Joseph Olden, Esquire, Oct. 19, 1782.
+176	vi.	Thomas Skillman-1035.
177	vii.	Jane Skillman was born on 14 October 1768. She died before 1868 at the age of 100. Her SOA Number is 17 vii. From SOA: ...unm. and never moved from her birthplace; was housekeeper for her brother John and nephew Dick.
+178	viii.	Isaac Skillman-1037.
+179	ix.	Samuel Skillman-1038.
180	x.	Elizabeth Skillman was born on 31 August 1776. She died before 1876 at the age of 100.