Fourth Generation

77. Samuel Skillman was born in 1732 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. He died before 1832 at the age of 100. His SOA Number is 21. He was a farmer. From SOA:
"First of this surname among the Skillmans, named for his mother's father, Sam'l Coe. Early m. his 2d cousin, "Magritta," dau. of John, and his wife, Nancy Paynter, and was the farmer in the household, coming with it from the ancestral home at Dutch Kills, in 1764, to Kingston. The father's will (1777, proved 1784), witnessed by Lemuel Scudder and others, gives "my son Samuel, all my Mansion House and Plantation near Kingstowne," etc., etc. This farm on the "Great Road" (also near Princeton or Queenston, now long a part of Princeton) Samuel sold after his father's death in 1784 when it became the home of the writer's great grandfather, Capt. William Jones who d. there in 1824. After this Samuel is lost track of; probably removed with other Skillmans to Pennsylvania (near Allentown), then westward, later on becoming a pioneer in the Miami Valley in Ohio."
John Earle Skillman III has researched this line and strongly believes that WJS confused this Samuel with his son, Samuel. Thus, his son, Samuel is believed to be the one who married Magritta and the wife of this Samuel is unknown.

Samuel Skillman was married about 1751.

Samuel Skillman-992 had the following children: