Jan (John) Skillman: Robin's Roots

1696 - 1765 (69 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Jan (John) Skillman was born in 1696 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA (son of Thomas Skillman, Jr and Annetje Aten); died in 1765 in Rocky Hill, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 24 Jun 1696, Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; Collegiate Church
Residence: 1753, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; As a freeholder

Jan married Anna HullNew Jersey, USA. Anna (daughter of Benjamin Hull, Jr and Sarah Drake) was born in 1711; died in 1775 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
His brother Issac married her sister Magdalena

Children:

Ocie or Agatha Skillman was born in 1730 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; died in 1757 in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Christopher Skillman was born in 1732 in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA; died in 1782 in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
Isaac Skillman was born about 1734 in New Jersey, USA.
Sarah Skillman was born in 1738 in New Jersey, USA.
Benjamin Skillman was born about 1740 in New Jersey, USA.
John Skillman was born in 1742 in New Jersey, USA; died before 1777 in Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA.
Jacob Skillman was born in 1743 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 16 Nov 1821 in Hamilton County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Skillman Family Cemetery, Woodlawn, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA.
Abraham Skillman was born in 1759 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Generation: 2

Thomas Skillman, Jr was born in 1671 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA (son of Thomas Skillman and Sarah Petit); died in 1740 in Hellsgate Neck, Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; was buried in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Will: 29 Feb 1739-40, Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA
Probate: 4 Jul 1740, Queens County, New York, USA

Thomas married Annetje Aten in 1693 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA. Annetje (daughter of Adrian Aten and Elizabeth (Lysbet) Thomas) was born about 1667 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA; died after 1741 in Long Island, New York, USA; was buried in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annetje Aten was born about 1667 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA (daughter of Adrian Aten and Elizabeth (Lysbet) Thomas); died after 1741 in Long Island, New York, USA; was buried in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.

Children:

Peter Skillman was born in 1694 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died about 1694 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA.
Elizabeth Skillman was born in 1694 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died in 1718 in New York, New York County, New York, USA.
1. Jan (John) Skillman was born in 1696 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died in 1765 in Rocky Hill, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Mary Skillman was born in 1698.
Mercy Skillman was born in 1701 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA.
Annetje Skillman was born in 1703 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA.
Abraham Skillman was born in 1704 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA.
Isaac Skillman was born in 1706 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1799 in Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Jacob Skillman was born in 1708 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died on 8 Feb 1790 in Kingston, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Kingston, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Benjamin Skillman was born in 1710 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died in 1783 in Kingston, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
Joseph (Joost) Skillman was born in 1712 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died on 18 Apr 1772 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; was buried in Bushwick Dutch Reformed Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA.

Generation: 3

Thomas Skillman was born in 1637 in Suffolk, England; died about 1698 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 27 Aug 1664, New Amsterdam, New Netherland

Notes:

Arrival:
He was a soldier on the British frigate Guinea that was part of the fleet that arrived in New Amsterdam on 27 Aug 1664 and demanded the surrender of New Amsterdam to the British. There is no record of his discharg from the British Army, but he was a resident of Newtown, now in Queens, NY by 1656

Thomas married Sarah Petit in 1669 in New York, USA. Sarah was born in 1644 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1704 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah Petit was born in 1644 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1704 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA.

Children:

2. Thomas Skillman, Jr was born in 1671 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1740 in Hellsgate Neck, Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; was buried in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.
Elsje Skillman was born in 1673 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA.
Sara Skillman was born in 1675 in New York, USA.
Lijsbet (Elizabeth) Skillman was born in 1677 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA.

Adrian Aten was born in 1630 in Netherlands; died in Sep 1700 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1665, New Netherland
Residence: 1690, Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA
Residence: 1695, New York, New York County, New York, USA

Adrian married Elizabeth (Lysbet) Thomas in 1677 in New York, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1640 in England; died in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth (Lysbet) Thomas was born about 1640 in England; died in 1697.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1651, Maryland, USA

Children:

3. Annetje Aten was born about 1667 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA; died after 1741 in Long Island, New York, USA; was buried in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.
Thomas Aten was born in 1670 in New York, USA; died in 1757.
Jan Aten was born in 1672 in Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA; died in 1743 in New Jersey, USA.


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