Bathurst Skelton
(1744-1768)
BIRTH
June 1744
PLACE
DEATH
September 30, 1768
PLACE
FAMILY
WIFE
Martha Jefferson
(1748-1782)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Bathurst Skelton was Martha Wayles’s first husband, marrying her in Virginia on 1766. Their son John was born in November 1767, but Bathurst died on September 30, 1768, leaving Martha a young widow. John also died in 1771, before she married Thomas Jefferson. Silver from the Skelton estate, engraved with Bathurst and Martha’s initials, entered the Jefferson household and survives as a material record of this brief marriage and its connections.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Bathurst Skelton’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Bathurst Skelton with work or public activity as a lawyer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Bathurst Skelton died on Sep 30, 1768. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Bathurst Skelton died on Sep 30, 1768. Bathurst Skelton was Martha Wayles’s first husband, marrying her in Virginia on 1766. Their son John was born in November 1767, but Bathurst died on September 30, 1768, leaving Martha a young widow. John also died in 1771, before she married Thomas Jefferson. Silver from the Skelton estate, engraved with Bathurst and Martha’s initials, entered the Jefferson household and survives as a material record of this brief marriage and its connections. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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