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]
1815 Daughter Violinda Skillman and Janes Fleming were married on December 28 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. [2]
1817 Daughter Kitty Skillman and William Rogers were married on July 15 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. [3]
1820 Christopher Skillman lived in Stoner, Bourbon County, Kentucky in a household with free white males: 3 (Under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and free white females: 1 (Under 10), 2 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and 7 enslaved persons. [4]
1829 Daughter Elizabeth Skillman and Augustine W Branham were married on September 1 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. [5]
1830 Christopher Skillman lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky in a household with free white males: 1 (10 thru 14), 1 (15 thru 19), and 2 (20 thru 29); and free white females: 1 (10 thru 14) and 1 (50 thru 59); and 17 enslaved persons. [6]
1835 Christopher Skillman died in March in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Christopher Skillman was buried at Rogers-Skillman Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. He was born on February 9, 1767 in Rocky Hill, Somerset County, New Jersey. [7]
1848 Henretta Skillman died on February 15 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Henretta Skillman was buried at Rogers-Skillman Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. She was born on December 10, 1771 in Loudoun County, Virginia. [8]
1852 Daughter Kate Rogers died on July 6. Kate Rogers was buried at Cane Ridge Meeting House Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. She was born on April 20, 1798. [9]
1856 Son C C Skillman and Mollie Wilson were married on April 27 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. [10]
Research Notes:
Many facts reported for this family are from an article about the Skillman family [11] [12]:
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.
[1] Virginia Deeds, 1799-1816, Alexandria, Fairfax. (Title page not copied. Toledo Library), 78.
[2] Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, [AncestryRecord].
[11] 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].
[12] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 38 (1907), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].