Fourth Generation

80. Thomas Skillman was born in 1739 in Newtown (Maspeth Kills), Queens, NY. He served in the military from March 1778 to 1 July 1778 in Revolutionary War. He enlisted as a Corporal in Capt. James Moore's company, N.J., Col. Seeley's Regiment, Somerset County, N.J. militia. He was on duty at Princeton, N.J. guarding prisoners from May 24 to June 4, 1778. He reenlisted as a Private in Capt. Moore's Company, Col. Van Dike's regiment Somerset Co. militia on June 19, 1778. He guarded prisoners while en route to Philadelphia and Morristown, N.J. He was discharged July 1, 1778. He died on 9 July 1795 at the age of 56 in Kingston, Somerset, NJ. His SOA Number is 22. From SOA:
...with Jacob (brother-in-law) was executor of the will of Anne Skillman, his wife's mother (1772). Himself d. before Sally, she being granted at Somerville, July 9, 1795, letters of administration. Their home was at Kingston on the Somerset side of the "Great Road,"

Thomas Skillman and Sarah "Sally, Sallie" Skillman were married in 1762. Sarah "Sally, Sallie" Skillman, daughter of John/Jan Skillman and Anna Hull, was born in 1738 in New York. She died before 1838 at the age of 100 in New York. Her SOA Number is 4 v. From SOA:
"My loving daughter," her mother calls her, "wife of Thomas Skillman, of Kingstowne" She was b. 1738, and m. 1762 her cousin, Thomas, 2nd son of Benj. Skillman and wife, Margaret Coe, then of Dutch Kills. She herself gets her mother's "moveable estate" at death; and to her dau., Anne, the grandmother by will, as name-gift, bequeaths "one chintz gown." Later on, on becoming a widow, the name of Sarah appears in property transfers signed "Sallie Skillman" (Middlesex Co. Records, N. Brunswick), i.e., "two lots or parcels of land at Kingston" sold for $8oo, Capt. William Jones (great-grandfather of the writer) being witness to the deed. (See Thomas4 Skillman, post.)

Thomas Skillman-994 and Sarah "Sally, Sallie" Skillman-914 had the following children: