_Thomas SKINNER _
_Thomas SKINNER _|_Mary __
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| _William RAWSON _|_Rachel PERNE ___
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!.....Skinner, Charles B descendant chart (8/97) skinners@@compuserve.com US Mission USNATO, PSC 81 Box 11, APOAE, 09724
!.....SKU 16(4)112 Skinner, Charles (9/96) 104410.273@@compuserve.com Got your SKU packet and have spent my free time over the past twenty-four hours devouring it. I believe I have a contribution to Glenna P. Merrill's work on Dorcas Margaret Skinner (SKU 12(4):93), although my contribution will need further substantiation. I have a photocopy of an old manuscript that is in the possession of my aunt that is entitled "The Skinner family in America." It may have been written in the 1860s, since some events which happened in the 1870s were later added to the text. It states that Dorcas was born on April 28, 1769 and indicates that she was the third child of Gideon Skinner. (The manuscript gives birthdates for all of Gideon's children, except the last.) The manuscript also says that Gideon was born on February 5, 1738. It notes that Gideon's first wife was named Sarah (leaving a blank for Sarah's last name) and that his second wife was Abigail Rawson. In a subsequent contribution, "Rawson Ancestry Correction" (SKU 14(1):9), Glenna cited some Rawson genealogical sources that she had consulted in the Family History Center in Salt Lake City, but she apparently has not yet consulted Gilbert Warren Chapin's "The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data..." (Hartford, CT, 1924), vol. I, p. 611, which states that Abigail was born on March 6, 1743 in Mendon, MA, that she married Silas Partridge (b July 22, 1737) on December 9, 1762, and that Silas died on April 23, 1774. Gilbert Warren Chapin gives only 1778 as the year for Abigail Rawson Partridge's marriage to Gideon Skinner, but the important point is that she was married to Silas Partridge at the time Dorcas was born. Thus, Dorcas' mother was Sarah. Last Memorial Day I was given a copy of a 1974 letter from Helen T. Anderson, Wing-Family Genealogist, who was descended from Dorcas' sister Rhoda. She gave Dorcas and Rhoda's mother's surname as Barber, and I note that in the information you sent me you also listed Sarah Barber as Gideon's spouse and gave their date and place of marriage as November 1, 1764 in Amenia, NY. (I would appreciate learning the source of this information.) Incidentally, my old manuscript also states that Dorcas "first married Daniel Harmon who died & she afterwards married Reuben Perkins." It also lists one daughter, Polly. (This matches Zenobia Lapeyre's contribution in SKU 12(3):62-63.) Notably, Dorcas' sister Sarah (b November 1, 1773) is supposed to have married a Jonathan Harman or Harmon, who, the manuscript states, "was a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church in Vernon, NY for many years & till his death...." Jonathan apparently followed Daniel Harmon and his Skinner father-in-law and brothers-in-law (Gideon b September 23, 1775 and Levi b January 19, 1779) to the vicinity of the village of Vernon Center in the town (or township) of Vernon in Oneida County in the first decade of the nineteenth century, for he shows up there in the 1810 and 1820 federal censuses. According to an old ledger book, he was a regular customer at Norton's store in Vernon Center in the 1820's--see H. Eugene Butler's Pioneers of Vernon Center (1994)--and, according to local church records, he, his wife, and his children joined the Vernon Center Presbyterian Church (not the Vernon Presbyterian Church): Jonathan and Sally (Sarah) in 1811, Almira in 1818, Lucretia in 1825 (perhaps in the wake of Charles Grandison Finney's first revival meeting in Oneida County), Sarah Ann and Aurilla in 1831. What, I wonder, is the connection between Jonathan and Daniel? I've studied Zenobia Lapeyre's "Skinner Connection" without reaching any definite conclusion. Daniel seems to have been the real pioneer for the family, since he was the first--to my knowledge--to migrate to what later became Oneida County. I, for one, would appreciate further information on this Skinner-Harmon connection.