Bathurst Skelton
BIRTH
Jun 1744
DEATH
September 30, 1768
FAMILY
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Skelton, Bathurst
(1744-1768)
Bathurst Skelton (1744-1768) was a lawyer and the spouse of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Bathurst Skelton to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Although this life ended before the fighting for independence began, the marriage and family connections formed part of the colonial society inherited by the Revolutionary generation. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Bathurst Skelton in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
(1748-1782)
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DIED:
Sep 30, 1768
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.