- 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.
This material was extracted by Charlou Dolan and Marjorie Mason, and typed by Charlou Mason. Editorial comments are enclosed in [brackets]. Please note that although Monette was reasonably accurate with his transcriptions of the vital records of Woodbridge, he made many, many mistakes with the conclusions he drew from the source material, and thus is not generally accepted as a reliable source unless the material is verifiable by some other source.
Excerpts from FIRST SETTLERS OF YE PLANTATIONS OF PISCATAWAY AND WOODBRIDGE OLDE EAST NEW JERSEY 1664
page 59: "Some Early New Jersey Patentees paying Quit-Rents" -- Middlesex County: Richard Skinner, 86 acres.
page 93: List of heads of families in early Piscataway and Woodbridge, compiled from various sources, with dates of the records -- John Skinner, 1694; Richard Skinner, 1693.
page 99: Another list of the first settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, New Jersey -Ann Skinner, 1708; Francis Skinner, 1708; John Skinner, 1708; Richard Skinner, 1696. page 103: Additional first settlers of Elizabethtown -- Susannah Poulain, 1665; Richard Skinner, 1665. [Mentioned in connection with Gov. Philip Carteret.]
page 111: Church members at Woodbridge under pastorate of Rev. Nathaniel Wade, 1707-1710
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page 112: Members at Woodbridge Church, Aug. 20, 1708 include Ann Skinner & John Skinner.
page 115: A list of the militia regiment under the command of Coll Tho: FFarmar in the year 1715 -- Rich'd Skiner Jun'r, Wright Skiner, Jno Skiner Jun'r.
page 207: Patents,- land grants, etc. -- Page 36, from Executors of Baltazer DHaert to Rich. Skinner, in Elizabethtowne on July 5, 1672, House and Plantation. Full lot of the first.
page 209: Patents, land grants, etc. -- Page 63, from Wm. Legger to Rich. Skinner, Pawsaick River 25 [acres], on March 28, 1673, East Side of.
page 248: Vital records of Piscataway and Woodbridge (marriages) -- John Skinner to Elizabeth Cutter, Mar. or Nov. 26, 1736.
page 251: Woodbridge Town Records, marriages 1668-1781 -- John Skinner married Elizabeth Cutter, Mar. or Nov. 26, 1736.
page 259: Woodbridge Town Records, births 1668
Skinner: Ann, b. 26 Dec 1736; Hannah, b. 2 Feb 1742/3; Esther, b. 1 Apr 1744; Elizabeth, b. 29 Apr 1746.
page 276: Record of marriages, births, and deaths, transcribed literally from Liber A, Woodbridge --
"John Skiner was married to Elizabeth Cutter Marcy ye 26th 1736.
Ann Daughter of John and Elizabeth Skiner was born Decr ye 26th 1736.
Hannah Daughter of the above said John and Elizabeth Skiner was born February ye 2nd 1742.
Easter Daughter of ye above said John and Elizabeth Skiner was born April ye 1st 1744.
Elizabeth Daughter of ye above Said John and Elizabeth Skiner was born April ye 29th 1746."
page 339: Citizen of Perth Amboy, 1st Rector of St. Peters Church -- William Skinner.
page 357 & 358: List of Freeholders of about the Year 1748 --
Woodbridge -- John Skinner
Perth Amboy -- William Skinner
page 377: Monumental inscriptions, Woodbridge Cemeteries --
Deacon Richard Skinner, d. May 12, 1727, age 63.
page 380: List of Freeholders of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1750 -- Perth Amboy -- William Skinner, Thomas Skinner. [No Skinners listed in Woodbridge, Piscataway, New Brunswick, or New Windsor.]
page 390: New Proprietor 1697, Province of New Jersey -- Thomas Skinner. page 406: Rev. William Skinner baptized Sarah Antill at Piscataqua, 14 Sep 1740
page 430: (under heading Parker Family) James Parker, b. 1725, married Gertrude Skinner. [note: Monette got the Parker family all mixed up, but this reference is closest to being accurate.]
page 447: Colonial War Service in early East and West New Jersey --
Cortlandt Skinner: A 1761.....35
Stephen Skinner: C 1769.......18
[A = Member of Assembly; C = Member of Council; 35 = Proceedings, N. J. Historical Society, Vol. V.; 18 = Vol. 18, N. J. Archives.]
page 473: [couldn't find the Skinners supposed to be on this page, re the index.]
page 532 & 533: List of early settlers of Woodbridge & Piscataway, along with the date they are first mentioned in the records --
Richard Skinner, 1687
John Skinner, 1691
John Skinner, 1692
page 540: Court Records, Middlesex County, 1683-1712 --
1717, John Parker, Executor of Elisha Parker, dec'd. versus Richard Skinner.
page 541: Court Records, Middlesex County, 1683-1712 --
1719, Henry Freeman versus John Skinner.
page 544: Civil and Military Commissions -- Constables in Woodbridge -- John Skinner, 1729
Richard Skinner, 1696
page 550: List of Freeholders in Amboy, Dec 14th, 1752 (see NJ Hist. Soc 3rd series, vol. I, page 103-109) includes Thomas Skinner, Jr.
page 553: A list of the Freeholders in the county of Essex, Sept. 1, 1755, Elizabeth Town
-- Ricd. Skinner.
page 557: Settlement of the estate of John Muirheid of Hopewell, Hunterdon County, list of people named -- Wm. Skinner.
page 577: "In Vol. XXII (of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register) are given vital records, Births , Marriages, and Deaths, in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, nearly all of which are after 1700, and would make needless repetition to be recited here. This is given as a reference and the family names covered are...[list includes Skinner]...easily recognizable among the First Settlers." [I have checked this reference, and it is merely a repeat of Skinner vital records already given previously in Monette.]
page 614: Ann Skinner?
page 618: Matthew Moores, Jr. b. ca. 1667 at Woodbridge (?), (mentioned in will of 1689), d. 1732-3; will, dated Feb. 24, proved, Apr 5, 1723, (ARCHIVES, Vol. XXX, p. 343), of Woodbridge, no wife named, and four children, Nehemiah, Elizabeth, Matthew, and Sarah Skinner, he having married at Woodbridge, Nov. 25, 1696, Sarah Parker, with record of Nehemiah, b. Jan. 9, 1698/9 and Meletiah, b. Dec. 21, 1697, the latter dead at time of will. [This is evidently the Sarah Skinner that Monette gives to Deacon Richard Skinner as wife, however she was only 2 to 4 years old when Nathaniel was born. I have been unable to find any information in any of the references, as to who her husband was.]
page 630: Richard Skinner, Sr. First Settler of Woodbridge. He came in 1665, as a servant to Gov. Phillip Carteret, (vide, ante, Part One, p. 103), said to belong jointly in the service of Sir George Carteret, (Hatfield, p. 58). (Archives, Vol. XXI, pp. 46-59) He was a "joiner" by trade, and became a citizen of Elizabethtown, where he acquired a house-lot (originally from Richard Painter) 1672, from Baithazar De Hart, whom he had served. (Idem, p. 88) ["Idem" means from the immediately preceeding reference.]. In 1673, he took the oath of allegiance as a citizen of Elizabethtown, (ditto, p. 159). Removed to Woodbridge 1672-3. (ditto, pp. 168 & 256), where biog. sketch.
He m. May 1, 1666, Susannah Poulain, one of the French maidens, who came over with Carteret, and they had several children at Woodbridge, among whom, John Skinner, Richard Skinner, Jr., Francis Skinner, et al.
There was an interrelation with the Force family of Woodbridge, of Which Benjamin and Matthew were representatives. Richard Skinner, Jr., and John Skinner were recorded at Woodbridge, as early as 1696, when the father was probably dead. These two sons, with an Ann Skinner, and brother Francis, were members of the Woodbridge Church 1707-8, (vide, ante, Part One, pp. 111-112). Richard Skinner, Jr., was called "son-in-law" by Robert Wright, and as "Deacon Richard Skinner, d. May 12, 1727, age 63," i.e., b.1664, showing...
to be continued in next issue