Courtlandt Skinner was a lawyer born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey 1728. He was a loyalist to the British Crown and raised the New Jersey Volunteers. In 1752, he married Elizabeth Kearney. Daughter of Philip Kearney of Amboy, also a lawyer. Family Tree. 

Courtlandt & Elizabeth had twelve children:

• Catherine: married William Henry Robinson or New York, a Commissioner General in the British Army; she died at Marlow, aged 75 in 1843 
• Cortlandt: Controller of Customs in Ireland; died in Belfast
• Downs: Collector of Customs at Jamaica; died there December 1802; married one daughter
• Elizabeth: married William Terrill of New York
• Euphemia: married Oliver Barberie
• Gertrude: married 1780 Captain Meredith of 7th Regiment of Foot, who died before 1800
• Isabel: married Fraser, a physician on Long Island and moved to England
• John: lieutenant on Phoenix; lost an arm having previously lost an eye; commanded the Holyhead packet; drowned 1830, unmarried
• Maria: wife of Sir George Nugent and diarist
• Philip Kearney: army, served in France and Bombay; died 1826, unmarried
• Susan: married major Jaspar Farmar of British Army; and after his death his brother, Thomas Farmar
• William: joined English Navy and died young.

In 1782, the family left for England and settled at Bristol. Courtlandt died on 15 March 1799 and is buried in St Augustine's Bristol. Elizabeth died on 4 January 1810. 

Sources

Cundall (including illustrations).