Documents

Notes on the Hutcheson/Skillman line

1. Annetje Aten's father-in-law, Thomas Skillman, was a soldier who was in the fleet of British ships that intimidated Peter Stuyvesant into surrendering the colony without a fight in 1664. Thomas Skillman then settled in what is now Queens and built an estate on a creek called Dutch Kill, which is now a short industrial channel very close to the Queensborough Bridge.
   
2. It is not widely known that the Dutch reconquered Manhattan with a force of 600 men during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. But they gave it up the following year effectively in exchange for the South American colony that came to be known Guiana, which is now the tiny country of Suriname. It seems that, at the time, the Dutch believed that the northeast coast of South America would become much more valuable than New York!
3. The chart doesn't include any Hutchesons. The heading for this section includes that name only because the people in this chart are ancestors of my great grandfather Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, the husband of Olive Irene Kuykendall, the last of my Kuykendall cousins.
4. The path to L.T. Hutcheson:
• Jan Skillman married Anna Hull, whose immigrant and Wikipedia-worthy great grandfather, Rev. Joseph Hulll, had a remarkable and contentious career that carried him back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean several times. 
• Jan and Anna's son Christopher married  Ruth FitzRandolph, the daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph who was the primary founder of what is now Princeton University and whose name is fundamental to Princeton traditions, as described in a Wikipedia article about Princeton's FitzRandolph Gate.
• Christopher's and Ruth's daughter married Charles Hutcheson. They are buried in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, where their great grandson, L.T. Hutcheson, grew up.

Notes on these charts

1. Several of these lines could be carried further back, but I have deliberately avoid researching European ancestors beyond immigrants and sometimes their parents, because I just have too many unresolved lines in America.
2. There is a good bit of spelling variation in source documentation for many non-British immigrants (and often at least a couple of their descendant generations. The names that I use are often a contrived combination of different representations.
3. Births and deaths before about 1665 were actually in New Netherland, before the British took over and named it New York. I identify them as "New York" so that all events in those specific places can be found with one search.
4. Fairly surprisingly, non of the events in these charts occurred in New Amsterdam (now New York City). Machackemeck was adjacent to the modern city of Port Jervis, in Orange County, New York, right where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. All other New York locations other than Brooklyn and Queens are up the Husdson River near what is now Albany.
5. For brevity, these charts list only birth and death years and, in many cases, approximate locations. My database has full dates for most of these events, more specific placenames for most places, and numerous other events such as marriage, immigration, and other places of residence. All of the names are hyperlinks to Person Profiles in my database.

@copy; 2022 by Robin Richmnond. All rights reserved. You may copy all of part of this article only with attribtion such as
From "Robin's Roots", www.robinrichmnond.com/family/showmedia.php?mediaID=37246, by Robin Richmond. Used with permission.
But since this is a living document, it is often much better to link directly to it.