Bathurst Skelton^[1]

1744 - 1768  (~ 24 years)

• Name	Bathurst Skelton
  Born	Jun 1744	Williamsburg, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Sep 1768	Charles Co., Maryland
  Person ID	I547451368	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2015

  
  

  Family	Martha Wayles,   b. 19 Oct 1748, The Forest Plantation, Charles City, Virginia ,   d. 6 Sep 1782, Monticello, Albermarle, Virginia  (Age 33 years)
  Married	20 Nov 1766
  Children	1. John Skelton,   b. 7 Nov 1767,   d. 10 Jun 1771  (Age 3 years)
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2013
  Family ID	F518495476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Marker

  
  

  Documents

  1922 Newspaper Article Regarding the Francis Eppes Lineage EppesFrancis TheAtlanta Constitution Jan29,1922.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  Virginia Heraldica - A Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor with Genealogical Notes of the Families Edited by William Armstrong Crozier, F.R.S., F.G.S.A. Virginia County Record Series Volume V. 1908 virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf

  
  

• Notes

  MARTHA WAYLES SKELTON JEFFERSON First husband: 18 years old, to Bathurst Skelton (June 1744 - 30 September 1768) planter, on 20, November 1766 likely at "The Forest" plantation; they lived at his Charles City County plantation for one year and ten months, the endurance of their marriage as Bathurst died in 1768. Born: 1748, October 19 "The Forest" plantation, Charles City County, Virginia Father: John Wayles, barrister and landowner, born 31 January, 1715 in Lancaster, England; died 23 May, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia Mother: Martha Eppes Wayles, born 10 April, 1712 in Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield County, Virginia; married John Wayles on 3 May, 1746; died 5 November, 1748 When Martha Eppes married John Wayles, she brought with her, as part of her dowry, an African slave woman and the woman's half-black, half-white daughter. The woman, enslaved in Africa, sailed to Virginia on a slave ship commanded by an English sea captain with the last name Hemings. Captain Hemings impregnated the slave who gave birth to a daughter she named Betty. The slave and her daughter were sold to Francis and Frances Eppes, and they gave the young enslaved "Betty Hemings" to their daughter Martha Eppes family. When Captain Hemings learned that the newly married Wayles had inherited his concubine and their daughter Betty, he offered to buy the pair. Wayles refused to sell them. He would eventually have six children by her. Martha Wayles Jefferson never knew her mother Martha Eppes Wayles since she had died two weeks and three days after giving birth to her. After the death of his first wife, Martha Eppes (the mother of Mrs. Jefferson), John Wayles married two more times; he married secondly to Mary Cocke by whom he had one [name unknown] daughter who died young; John Wayles married a third time, on 3, January 1760 to Elizabeth Lomax, with whom he had three daughters. After the death of Elizabeth Lomax (28 May 1763), Wayles took the half-black half-white slave Betty Hemings as his concubine and had six children by her. Betty Hemings was mentioned in the will of John Wayles, thus providing evidence that she really was his mistress and not merely his slave. The first husband of Elizabeth Lomax was Reuben Skelton - he was the brother of Martha Jefferson's first husband, Bathurst Skelton; thus Martha Wayles Skelton's brother-in-law was her stepmother's first husband: http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biog raphy=3 Miscellaneous Marriage Records: http://nyvagenealogy.homestead.com/virginia1750.html JUL 9 1751 Reuben skelton + Elizabeth Lomax Middlesex County dad lunsford lomax

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston. Martha Epps, d/o Francis Epps and Mrs. Francis Epps, married John Wayles; their daughter Martha Wayles married Thomas Jefferson, after her first husband, Bathhurst Skelton died.