"THOMAS SKIDMORE (SCUDAMORE), 1605-1684, OF WESTERLEIGH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT; his ancestors, and descendants to the ninth generation." WARREN SKIDMORE 2010 Children of DAVID HOWELL SKIDMORE (1801-1876) and Eliza Jane Jarvis (1800-1850): iv. David Howell, born September 1832. He married Susan Macomber Wickes (1823-1904) on 26 July 1865 at Jamaica. She was previously the widow of Needham Robins and Henry O. Snedeker. He enlisted at Yonkers in Company I, 40th New York Infantry for three years, and re-enlisted on 29 December 1863. He was a pensioner in 1883. He was living apart from his wife at West Islip in 1880 but they are together at Deerpark in 1900. He died 3 May 1908 aged 77; they are buried in the Babylon Rural Cemetery. John Skidmore (d 1637) .... He was buried on 2 February 1637 at Bath. His original will was lost in the German bombing of Exeter in World War II, but fortunately an excellent abstract of it was made before the war. It was dated 31 January 1637, and from it we find that this John Skidmore (Scudamore) was a blacksmith. (It would be interesting to know if Thomas Skidmore of New England might have learned this trade from his uncle.) He left his five children John, Joan, William, Alice and Robert £20 each. His wife was to have his house in Cheap Street in Bath (in the shadow of the great Abbey Church) and after her death it was to go to his son John who was then to pay further legacies of £13 6sh 8d to his brothers and sisters. If John should die before his mother, or refuse to pay the legacies, then it was to go to his son William who was to pay the survivors £20 each, and if William should also have died, then to his son Robert, and then to his daughters. His wife was named his executrix, and the overseers were his uncle William Robins, and his brother-in-law Richard Druce. The witnesses were William Bowes, William Robins, Richard Druce, and Robert Rendell. His brother-in-law Richard Druce was Lord Mayor of Bath in 1649, and had married Alice Bowes (born 1600) at Bathwick on 20 January 1622/3. Probability would suggest that his uncle William Robins of Bath was, in fact, his wife’s uncle but it is not beyond possibility that Robins’ wife was a daughter of the John Skidmore buried in the Abbey Church on 20 October 1570 if this man was the testator’s grandfather. The precise relationship of Robins to Skidmore awaits some further evidence. Children of BRYANT SKIDMORE (1800-1881) and Mary Smith (1803-1890): iv. Anna Morrison, born 19 July 1839. She married George A. Robbins (1846-1899) on 25 December 1867 at Northport. She died 20 February 1923 at Northport. 465. DE WITT CLINTON 8 SCIDMORE (SIDMORE) was born 20 September 1819 at Ballston, Saratoga County, New York, the son of James (no. 217) and Nancy (Halstead) Scidmore. He died 1 May 1893 at Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York, of pneumonia. He married (1) Hester Jane (Hetty) Robbins, who was born 12 October 1832 at Baltimore, Greene County, New York, and who died 11 September 1875. He married (2) Clara Harriet Robbins, born 4 May 1853 and died 25 January 1929 at 783 Third Street in the Seventeenth Ward of Troy. She is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery. His two wives were sisters and daughters of William Henry and Harriet A. (Salisbury) Robbins of Catskill, Greene County, New York. He is first noticed in 1847 in the Troy, Rensselaer County, city directory; he was then a brassfounder living at 66 State Street. In 1852 D. C. Scidmore, a machinist, was living at the corner of South and 11th Streets. He was enumerated in 1850 in Troy and in 1860 at Lansingburg. In 1876 D. C. Scidmore, boots and shoes, was at 42 Broad Street, Waterford, and in 1880 he was once again a machinist at 12 Nott Terrace in Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York. His widow was living at 783 Third Avenue, Lansingburg, in 1900. A notice in the Lansingburgh Times on 6 May 1893 says that the funeral of De Witt Skidmore was held from his residence on the New Turnpike on the previous Thursday afternoon. He was buried in the Waterford Cemetery, but no marker is found for him or his first wife there. Children: (First wife) i. Nancy, born 18 March 1849 at Newburgh, Orange County, New York. She married Edward Salisbury (1847-1905), a brick mason, on 11 October 1868 at Tomhannock, Rensselaer County, New York. He served a private in Company I, 27th Regiment of New York Cavalry, in the Civil War. She died 27 November 1932 at Troy, New York. ii. Alice, born 1851 at Troy. She was living at home in 1870, and was dead in 1898. iii. Mary, born 1854 at Catskill, Greene County, New York. She married (his second wife) David D. Armstrong (1838-____), a hotelkeeper on Fulton Street at Troy, on 17 July 1875. She was dead in 1898. iv. Levina, born 1857. She was dead in 1865. v. Albert Burton (Burt), born 1860. In 1880 he was living at Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County. In 1900 and 1920 he was a patient in the Hudson River State Hospital at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. vi. Anna, born 1864. She married ________ Rice and was living in 1898. vii. Hetty Belle, born 14 April 1870. She married Asahel Philo Button (1870-1937) on 20 March 1901 at Troy. She died there on 9 October 1962. viii. Catherine M., born January 1874. In 1920 she was living unmarried at 18 Harrison Avenue, Rensselaer, Rensselaer County. Children: (second wife) ix. Clinton Robbins, born 19 April 1877. He was a bookkeeper at 740 Second Avenue, Lansingburg in 1900. He married Lillian May Dockstader (1883-____) on 18 August 1905 at Troy and they were living there at 793 Second Avenue in 1920. He died in March 1963. x. Clara, born 18 August 1880. She was living unmarried with her mother in 1920 at 783 Third Avenue in Troy. She died there in January 1968. xi. Elsie, born 1883. She died on 12 October 1886 aged 3 at Lansingburg of diptheria. She was buried in the Waterford Rural Cemetery. xii. Charles R., born May 1890. He died at Lansingburg on 26 February 1898 aged 7 years, 9 months, of peritonitis. He was buried at Waterford. 248. WHEELER 7 SKIDMORE was born in 1786 at Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the son of Amos (no. 100) and Esther B. (Blackman) Skidmore, and died at Brookfield, Connecticut on 21 July 1863 aged 77. He married (1) ________ Lake, who was born in 1788 and died in December 1809, and (2) Lucy Lake, her sister, born in 1790 who died 17 June 1859 aged 69 of palsy. He and his wives were buried at the Land’s End Cemetery at Newtown. Wheeler Skidmore was a farmer at Obtuse in Brookfield. In 1808 his father deeded him a house and 14 acres of land there a few rods north of the home of Rufus Skidmore. His house faced west and was two stories high in the front with a long slanting roof which came within a few feet of the ground at the rear. A garden was between the front of the house and the Obtuse Highway. He held several town offices during a long life and served on the School Committee at Newtown. Children: (First wife) i. Burtis, born 1807. Children: (second wife) ii. Betsy A., born 21 September 1811. She married Isaac Banks Scudder (1809- 1842) on 28 October 1832. She was living with her parents, a widow, in 1850. She died 13 January 1878 at Rochester, Monroe County, New York, at the home of her eldest daughter. ii. Starr, born 1818. STARR 8 SKIDMORE was born in 1818 at Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the son of Wheeler (no. 248) and Lucy (Lake) Skidmore. He died at the same place on 12 February 1883 aged 65. He married Harriet, the daughter of Gideon Baldwin and Charlotte (Northrop) Ferris on 29 November 1837. She was born in 1815 and died 18 August 1885. They are buried in Land’s End Cemetery. He was a farmer at Newtown. Child: i. Mary, born 1845. She married Julius F. Bailey (1837-____), a mechanic of Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on 2 March 1864. 521. BURTIS 8 SKIDMORE was born in 1807 at Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the son of Wheeler (no. 248) and ________ (Lake) Skidmore. He died at the same place on 23 December 1889 aged 82 years, 10 months at death. He married Hannah Bradley, who was born in 1812 and died in 1884. They are both buried in Land’s End Cemetery. He was a lifelong farmer at Newtown. They had no children. Children of JAMES SKIDMORE (1822-1899) and Emsey Hosey (1829-1901): iii. Elizabeth, born April 1853. She married Christopher Columbus Lough (1850- ____) on 16 November 1872. (They had separated by 1880 when she was enumerated with her father as Elizabeth Lough. He married Arminda Cool as his second wife on 15 March 1883 as a divorced man, and she is called Elizabeth Skidmore thereafter.) She was living with her sister Phebe Ann Bright in 1900 in Holly District, and alone in 1910.