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Notes for Christopher Skillman and Henrietta Payne

1804 "IND 10/19/04 bet Richard Weightman & w Elizabeth and William Hepburn. Ld orig lsd by IND 1/1/1787 by Hepburn & w Agnes to John Lomax, who dd intestate leaving half bro's Josiah Payne & Jacob Payne who claimed ld. Josiah Payne also dd intestate, leaving ch John, Henrietta w/o Christopher Skillman, & Keziah w/o John Beverage. All of Josiah Payne's kin by IND 11/13/1799 & IND 9/28/00 tsf their share to Hepburn, by IND 9/24/1796 Jacob Payne & w Hannah tsf their share to Weightman, who tsf to Hepburn. Wit/James Kieth, J N Thomas, Aaron Hewes, Matthew Robinson, Nehemiah Carson, John Dundas. Rec 4/4/05." [1]

Research Notes:

Many facts reported for this family are from an article about the Skillman family [2]:

Christopher Skillman (John, Jan, Thomas, Thomas), b near Rocky Hill, N. J., Feb. 9, 1767; d. March 7, 1835; removed as a babe with parents to Loudoun Co., Va.; m. March 9, 1793, Henrietta Payne, dau. of Josiah Payne, soldier of the Revolution; ensign; captured at Battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; released from Jersey Prison Ship, Dec. 3, 1780; [Henrietta?] d. Feb. 15, 1848. [Christopher] With wife and brothers removed, circa 1806, to Bourbon Co., Ky.


Footnotes:

[1] Virginia Deeds, 1799-1816, Alexandria, Fairfax. (Title page not copied. Toledo Library), 78.

[2] William Jones Skillman, "The Skillmans of America and their kin," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 38 (1910) 29-34 at 29, person 31, names children, [HathiTrust].