From Skillmans of New York, He was lame from stiffness of the muscles of one of his heels, and kept in by his mother and learned to do work in the house. He was an expert in spinning flax, and it is said of him that, becoming dissatisfied with the amount of work done by his servants, he, one day spun twenty six skeins of thread to show them how it could be done. He lived and died on the farm at Bushwick.
From SOA:
Joost, as he was called, was lame in one of his feet from childhood, and much kept within doors at home in his youth, and yet had spent apparently a rather robust out-of-door life for sixty years. He was "a farmer" in Bushwÿck (heart of Brooklyn today), Skillman Street getting its name from this family, and the farm on which he spent his life he gave at death to his 4th son, John, by will of Oct. 1, 1767, probated April 18, 177 2. The witnesses to this will were William Craambos, Peter Vandewater and Jno. Roosevelt, the executors being Sarah, his wife, Jacob Messerole, his brother-in-law, and his friend Theodorus Polhemus. By this will other small lots of land in Bushwick were bequeathed to his son Joseph, and varying sums of money to each of the remaining members of the family. To his wife (who survived him), the testator devised "also the use of my negro Tom to wait on her during her life." All the heads of families of this generation of Skillmans were probably owners of slaves, though they never called them such; Abraham and Benjamin as well as Joost or Joseph were, and quite certainly the others. Thomas, their father, in his will of 1739, gave his executors full power "to sell my negro man Sam and my negro woman Dorcas, as soon as convenient after my decease." In 1735 Joseph m. Sara dau. of Jan Messerole and Elizabeth his wife, of Bushwick. Sara was sister of Isaac Messerole who m. Catharine Skillman, the dau. of Abraham, Joseph's elder brother. Isaac and Sara here were grandchildren of Jan or Jean Messerole, Jr., the "sucking child" (and only son) of Jean Messerole and Jonica, his wife, brought with them in 1663 from Picardy. Their grandmother was Maritje Coevert.
Children of Joost and Sara:
Thomas Skillman
Joseph Skillman
John Skillman
Elizabeth Skillman
Sarah Skillman
Mercy Skillman
Anna Maria Skillman b: Abt. 22 Oct 1752
From SOA:
Joost, as he was called, was lame in one of his feet from childhood, and much kept within doors at home in his youth, and yet had spent apparently a rather robust out-of-door life for sixty years. He was "a farmer" in Bushwÿck (heart of Brooklyn today), Skillman Street getting its name from this family, and the farm on which he spent his life he gave at death to his 4th son, John, by will of Oct. 1, 1767, probated April 18, 177 2. The witnesses to this will were William Craambos, Peter Vandewater and Jno. Roosevelt, the executors being Sarah, his wife, Jacob Messerole, his brother-in-law, and his friend Theodorus Polhemus. By this will other small lots of land in Bushwick were bequeathed to his son Joseph, and varying sums of money to each of the remaining members of the family. To his wife (who survived him), the testator devised "also the use of my negro Tom to wait on her during her life." All the heads of families of this generation of Skillmans were probably owners of slaves, though they never called them such; Abraham and Benjamin as well as Joost or Joseph were, and quite certainly the others. Thomas, their father, in his will of 1739, gave his executors full power "to sell my negro man Sam and my negro woman Dorcas, as soon as convenient after my decease." In 1735 Joseph m. Sara dau. of Jan Messerole and Elizabeth his wife, of Bushwick. Sara was sister of Isaac Messerole who m. Catharine Skillman, the dau. of Abraham, Joseph's elder brother. Isaac and Sara here were grandchildren of Jan or Jean Messerole, Jr., the "sucking child" (and only son) of Jean Messerole and Jonica, his wife, brought with them in 1663 from Picardy. Their grandmother was Maritje Coevert.
Children of Joost and Sara:
Thomas Skillman
Joseph Skillman
John Skillman
Elizabeth Skillman
Sarah Skillman
Mercy Skillman
Anna Maria Skillman b: Abt. 22 Oct 1752
From Skillmans of New York, He was lame from stiffness of the muscles of one of his heels, and kept in by his mother and learned to do work in the house. He was an expert in spinning flax, and it is said of him that, becoming dissatisfied with the amount of work done by his servants, he, one day spun twenty six skeins of thread to show them how it could be done. He lived and died on the farm at Bushwick.
From SOA:
Joost, as he was called, was lame in one of his feet from childhood, and much kept within doors at home in his youth, and yet had spent apparently a rather robust out-of-door life for sixty years. He was "a farmer" in Bushwÿck (heart of Brooklyn today), Skillman Street getting its name from this family, and the farm on which he spent his life he gave at death to his 4th son, John, by will of Oct. 1, 1767, probated April 18, 177 2. The witnesses to this will were William Craambos, Peter Vandewater and Jno. Roosevelt, the executors being Sarah, his wife, Jacob Messerole, his brother-in-law, and his friend Theodorus Polhemus. By this will other small lots of land in Bushwick were bequeathed to his son Joseph, and varying sums of money to each of the remaining members of the family. To his wife (who survived him), the testator devised "also the use of my negro Tom to wait on her during her life." All the heads of families of this generation of Skillmans were probably owners of slaves, though they never called them such; Abraham and Benjamin as well as Joost or Joseph were, and quite certainly the others. Thomas, their father, in his will of 1739, gave his executors full power "to sell my negro man Sam and my negro woman Dorcas, as soon as convenient after my decease." In 1735 Joseph m. Sara dau. of Jan Messerole and Elizabeth his wife, of Bushwick. Sara was sister of Isaac Messerole who m. Catharine Skillman, the dau. of Abraham, Joseph's elder brother. Isaac and Sara here were grandchildren of Jan or Jean Messerole, Jr., the "sucking child" (and only son) of Jean Messerole and Jonica, his wife, brought with them in 1663 from Picardy. Their grandmother was Maritje Coevert.
Children of Joost and Sara:
Thomas Skillman
Joseph Skillman
John Skillman
Elizabeth Skillman
Sarah Skillman
Mercy Skillman
Anna Maria Skillman b: Abt. 22 Oct 1752
From SOA:
Joost, as he was called, was lame in one of his feet from childhood, and much kept within doors at home in his youth, and yet had spent apparently a rather robust out-of-door life for sixty years. He was "a farmer" in Bushwÿck (heart of Brooklyn today), Skillman Street getting its name from this family, and the farm on which he spent his life he gave at death to his 4th son, John, by will of Oct. 1, 1767, probated April 18, 177 2. The witnesses to this will were William Craambos, Peter Vandewater and Jno. Roosevelt, the executors being Sarah, his wife, Jacob Messerole, his brother-in-law, and his friend Theodorus Polhemus. By this will other small lots of land in Bushwick were bequeathed to his son Joseph, and varying sums of money to each of the remaining members of the family. To his wife (who survived him), the testator devised "also the use of my negro Tom to wait on her during her life." All the heads of families of this generation of Skillmans were probably owners of slaves, though they never called them such; Abraham and Benjamin as well as Joost or Joseph were, and quite certainly the others. Thomas, their father, in his will of 1739, gave his executors full power "to sell my negro man Sam and my negro woman Dorcas, as soon as convenient after my decease." In 1735 Joseph m. Sara dau. of Jan Messerole and Elizabeth his wife, of Bushwick. Sara was sister of Isaac Messerole who m. Catharine Skillman, the dau. of Abraham, Joseph's elder brother. Isaac and Sara here were grandchildren of Jan or Jean Messerole, Jr., the "sucking child" (and only son) of Jean Messerole and Jonica, his wife, brought with them in 1663 from Picardy. Their grandmother was Maritje Coevert.
Children of Joost and Sara:
Thomas Skillman
Joseph Skillman
John Skillman
Elizabeth Skillman
Sarah Skillman
Mercy Skillman
Anna Maria Skillman b: Abt. 22 Oct 1752
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