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SKINNER, Cortlandt, soldier, born in New Jersey in 1728: died in Bristol, England, in 1799. He received a good education, became a successful lawyer, and was attorney-general of New Jersey in 1775, in which capacity he evinced great ability and integrity. At the opening of the Revolution he accepted service under the crown and was authorized to raise a corps of loyalists, of which he was allowed to nominate the officers. Three battalions were organized, and called the New Jersey volunteers. Skinner continued in command of the corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and at the peace went to England, where he received compensation for his losses as a loyalist, and also the half-pay of a brigadier-general during his life. One of his daughters married Sir William Robinson, commissary-general in the British army, and another Sir George Nugent, a field-marshal.--His son, Philip Kearny, soldier, born in Amboy, New Jersey ; died in London, 9 April, 1826, entered the service as an ensign in the New Jersey loyalist volunteers, was made a prisoner in the expedition to Ostend, served in Ireland, the East and West Indies, and Spain, and became a lieutenant-general in 1825.
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