Father: David OR Daniel HARMON
Mother: Dorcas Margaret SKINNER
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_David OR Daniel HARMON __|
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|--Polly HARMON
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| _Thomas SKINNER _
| _Ebenezer SKINNER _____|_Mary PRATT _____
| _Gideon SKINNER _|
| | | _William LORD ___
| | |_Sarah \ Abigail LORD _|_Sarah BROOKS ___
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| | |_Dorcas STRONG __|
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|_Dorcas Margaret SKINNER _|
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Notes
!.....SKU 16(4)112 Skinner, Charles (9/96)
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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.
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