- Volume 3 Number 1
- Winter 1986
- American Ethnicity
- Ancient Skinner Lines
- Myrtle S. Bohme Lineage
- Clan MacGregor
- Cook Co., IL Census
- Cook Co., IL Wills
- Thelma C. (Browning) Dalberg Lineage
- Dead Briton - KGB
- Debrett Update
- Elephant two-step
- Guild of One Name Studies
- History of Eugene, Oregon (Chapter 1)
- Letter From the Editor
- Medical Quirks
- miscSKlNNERlaneous
- New Jersey Settlers
- New Jersey Update
- Off Broadway
- Passages
- Queries
- Resources
- Skinner-Hope Family Record
- Jane Skinner Obituary
- John Skinner of Hoodbridge
- Josiah Skinner Will
- Robert Skinner Line
- William Skinner Lineage
- Skinner Places
- Skinner Variants
- Skinner's a hit
- Vision Quest
- Worshipful Company of Skinners
- Winter 1986
Thanks to William Weiler for transcription of this article.
As far as I know, no one researching the New Jersey Skinners has ever looked for/found the later deeds. I have almost tracked them down
I next called the State Library and Archives in Trenton, and finally found a lady who said yes, the deeds that the Board of Proprietors had in their possession had been microfilmed and they had a copy there in Trenton and the Board of Proprietors had a copy. I was figuring out what it would cost me to pay someone to research there - I had already looked for Middlesex County deeds in the LDS SLC and didn't find anything - but I asked her anyway, if the LDS Church had copies of the film, and she said, "0h, yes, that's who had done the microfilming, and who had given them the copies." So I told her I hadn't found any deeds listed for Middlesex County, and she said, "Oh, they aren't listed by county. They're called Colonial Conveyances."
So that is as far as I've gotten. They are not in the copy of the GLC that we have here, which for some reason is the 1983 version (they have the 1985 version in SLC), and they may be in the card file instead of on the microfiche. I have great hopes for finally proving one way or another whether Deacon Richard Skinner is the father of Nathaniel Skinner, because Deacon Richard died in 1727, intestate but owning property (apparently - at least he did in 1700, and either sold it, gave it to his children, or died possessing it.) I may even find something that shows the maiden names of Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Skinner, and Sarah, wife of Reuben Skinner, who knows? The possibilities stagger the imagination, when one realizes that no one to my knowledge has ever looked at the deeds beyond 1703.
Charlou Dolan