When John Skillman was born in 1742, in Rocky Hill, Somerset, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Jan Skillman, was 46 and his mother, Anne Hull, was 31. He married Catherine Beekman in 1763, in Somerset, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 10 February 1777, in Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Cameron Parish, Loudoun, Virginia, United States.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
English (Middlesex and Hertfordshire): nickname from Middle English skil(l) ‘reason, discernment’ (Old Norse skil) + man, a medieval Anglicized form of Old Norse skilamathur ‘trustworthy man’.
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