Fourth Generation

69. John Skillman 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.

John Skillman and Ann 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. Ann Skillman, daughter of Abraham Skillman and Margaret Fine, 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.

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