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- His family, like the Dyes and others, was one of several which moved from New Jersey to Northern Virginia during the later 18th century. The name is also "Skilman," as in S160.
According to S298, he was "b. 1742, and, grown up, purchased or inherited the home-farm (253 acres or 1/2 the tract bought by his grandfather Thomas for his father Jan and his uncle Isaac. This he sold April 30, 1768 (deed witnessed by Thomas4 Skillman, cousin, and Edw'd Van Harlingen), to Roelif Van Dyck for "£300 current money of the Province," and then with family removed to Loudoun Co., Va. (near present Leesburg).
"In 1763, John Skillman m. Catharine, dau. of Christopher Beekman and Sarah Cox, his wife. This Christopher Beekman was 3d son of Christoffel Beekman (son of Gerardus of Flatbush) and Maria de la Noy (b. Jan. 4, 1681; m. Jan. 28, 1704). Catharine's father d. at his home, near Griggstown, of smallpox, and Sarah, her mother, being made a widow, in 1766 became the 3d wife of William Allen, with her five Beekman children besides Catharine. All these Beekmans and Allens with other families, under the lead of John Skillman, after the sale of his farm, removed to Virginia, as said, the next year, 1769. William Allen d. and John Skillman was the executor of his estate, and a few years later, near the outbreak of the Rev. War, he himself died, his will being proved Feb. 10, 1777. The property was left to his wife "for the benefit of our Child'n." In the course of time the widow m. Jesse Edwards and by him had five other boys and girls."
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