"Ancestrees"

Abigail (Skillern) SCHELLENGER ¹

   Other names for Abigail were Abigail SKILLERN and Abigail SKILLERN.

  General Notes:

She moved to Green Co., Tenn. after her husband's death with their son, Samuel sometime around 1805. According to a descendant, Almedia Lappin, Abigail is a descendant of Jacobus Schelinx who moved to New Amsterdam in 1643. He married Cornelia Melyns. She was the daughter of a politician, Cornelis Melyn, who owned half of Stanton Island (NY, NY). Jacobus had Cornelius about 1658. Cornelius married Lydia called Abigail who lived to age 92 (d. 1748). They had son Abraham (b. 1710). Abraham married Jane Taylor and lived in Katemay Co., NJ. They were the supposed parents of Abigail, though no first hand proof has yet been found. (C-1258, 1303, 1305-1316)

Abigail married John COPPOCK, son of John COPPOCK and Margaret COULSON, in 1761. (John COPPOCK was born on 9/18/1736 in Little Brittain M.M., Lancaster, PA, USA ⁴ and died in 7/1801 in Bush River, Newberry, SC ⁵.)