Walter Skinner (abt. 1760 - aft. 1833)

Born about 1760 in Carroll, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland

Descendants

Died after 1833 after about age 73 in Harrison, Virginia, United States

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Walter Skinner was born in Carroll County, MD in 1760. He served in the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War. He moved to Prince William County VA in 1784 and married Salina Ann Davis about 1788. In 1807 they moved to Hacker’s Creek in Harrison County, VA. Walter was still living on Hacker’s Creek in 1833 when he gave a deposition about his Revolutionary War Service. The following is excerpted from data in Walter's pension record. "Walter Skinner, age seventy-three and living in Hacker’s Creek, applied for a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War on the Second Day of November 1833. He personally appeared before Justice of the Peace Samuel Y. Jones in Lewis County and after being sworn according to law under oath made the following declaration: “I was born in 1760 in Carroll County. Maryland. In May 1776, I volunteered to serve in the Maryland Militia for six months. served under Captain David Luckette. We marched from Carroll County to Havre de Grace, there we found that the British were in Pennsylvania. We marched back down to a place called Brandywine, where we had a battle. George Washington was assigned there. While at Brandywine I was in a regiment commanded by Colonel Ward, under General Smallwood. During the battle, Colonel Ward’s horse was shot under him and in the accident he was taken out of the battle by General Smallwood riding on the same horse. We marched back to Havre de Grace, where I was discharged in November 1776, for a full six months as a Private." "I returned home to Carroll County, in May 1777. I again volunteered in the Maryland Militia under Captain Harrison, in a Battalion under Major McPherson. We marched to Port Tobacco near the Potomac River and kept there watching the British. We saw them fighting the Virginia Militia and burning a home. We tried to cross the river on barges, with a few small cannons we wanted to take their vessels, but we had to return to our side of the river." "We stayed on the Maryland side of the Potomac observing the enemy until November 1777. Was then discharged by Captain Harrison because I had served six months." In March 1778 I again volunteered in the Militia under Captain S. Bentley. I was marched from Carroll County to the Chesapeake Bay, to a place called Cove Point where we joined a regiment. We marched to several places along the bay, particularly to the mouth of the Patuxent. I continued in this service until September 1778 when I was discharged for my six months of duty." "In March 1780 I was called out as a Minute Man. I was marched down to Baltimore, from there to the Patapsco River to the Bay, then to Annapolis and on to the Severn River. I continued in this service until December 1780 when I was discharged." "In July 1781, I was ordered out as a Minute Man from Carroll County and again placed in Colonel Campbell’s Regiment. We marched down the Potomac, crossed over to Westmoreland County, Virginia. Thence into Richmond County on to the Rappahannock, into Essex, through King and Queen County into Gloucester County. We remained in the upper end of the county, stationed near the York River until sometime in October where Lord Cornwallis surrendered himself and his army’s Prisoners of War to Generals Washington, Lafayette and Wayne." "We were then sent back to Winchester to guard the prisoners taken at York. I was discharged in November 1781 I served in all during the War of the Revolution two years and eight months at least.”^[1]

Children of Walter and Salina Ann (Davis) Skinner.

1. William (1789-????)
2. Francis (1794-????) married Nancy Dennison (daughter of James Lewis Dennison on May 28 1928
3. Jane (1798-????) married Robert Carter on Sep 25 1811
4. Eleanor “Ellen/Nelly” (Mar 11 1799) married Anderson Dennison on Mar 12 1818
5. John (1802-1862) married Mary Davis on 25 Dec 1823
6. Sarah "Sally” (1806-1877) married John Ross Dennison on Nov 25 1827

Sources

1. ↑ https://hackerscreek.com/norman/SKINNER/WALTER.htm

See also:

• "West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8H-3Q6 : 4 December 2014), Robert Carter and Jane Skinner, 02 Sep 1811; citing Harrison, West Virginia, United States, reference ; FHL microfilm 163,841.

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