Fourth Generation

85. Lt. Thomas Skillman was born on 13 March 1736 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. He served in the military in 1776 in Revolutionary War. From SOA:
Thomas Skillman was Lieut. in the Militia on the patriot side in the Battle of Long Island. At Kip's Bay (34th Street, N.Y.), the latter was taken prisoner, 1776, and confined in New York, but his royalist father-in-law interceded, and both he and his brother John took advantage of Lord Howe's proclamation, and returned to their homes in Bushwick. Their uncle Abraham then also came back to Dutch Kills.

Lieutenant PS, N.Y. Capt. John Titus' company, Kings Co., N.Y. Militia. He took part in the battle of Long Island. He was taken prisoner Sept. 15, 1776, on York Island in a house near Kip's Bay, and put in Provost. His father-in-law Titus, being a Tory, interceded for him and got him out, and he was compelled to take the oath prescribed in Lord Howe's proclamations of July 14th and Sept. 19th, 1776. He died on 3 March 1814 at the age of 77 in Aquebogue, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. Thomas was buried on 6 March 1814 at Presby. Church in Aquebogue, NY. His SOA Number is 23. From SOA:
m. (1) Janitje, dau. of Francis Titus and wife Ida de Bevoise, granddaughter of Francis who first settled at Bushwick (m. Antje Fontÿn}, the ancestor being Capt. Titus Sÿræchs de Vries, part owner of the grist mill at N. Utrecht, 1660, whose sons were Sÿræch Titus (great grandfather of Janitje), and Teunis Titus, head of the New Jersey family of this name. Francis Titus was a Tory... Janitje d. previous to 1797, and with the sister and mother of Thomas was buried at Red Hook, L.I. The same year Thomas bought a 200-acre farm at Aquebogue and m. (2) Jemima Wells

Lt. Thomas Skillman and Janitje Titus were married on 11 April 1761 in Marysville, Onondaga, NY. New York Marriages: Record M.B., Vol iv, page 144. Janitje Titus, daughter of Francis Titus and Elizabeth Unknown, was born in 1735 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. She died in 1792 at the age of 57 in Red Hook, Vernon Valley, NY. She was buried in 1792 in Red Hook, Vernon Valley, NY.

Lt. Thomas Skillman-77 and Janitje Titus-78 had the following children:

Lt. Thomas Skillman and Jemima Overton were married. Jemima Overton, daughter of John Overton and Jemima Hulse, was born about 1747. She died on 29 November 1820 at the age of 73. She was buried in Aquebogue, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. She is buried next to her first husband, Isaac Wells.