Re: Hulda Skidmore, d/o John Skidmore/Mary Prindle, CT
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Hulda Skidmore, d/o John Skidmore/Mary Prindle, CT
Judy Rankin 11/14/02
Below is an extract from the book "Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut, his ancestors and descendants to the ninth generation,” by Warren Skidmore, (3rd edition, 1997), 788 p.
This book traces this family line back to the Domesday Book (1086) in England. Some of this family line have been verified by DNA.
The book is included on our Skidmore/Scudamore Genealogy CD. For a description of the CD see www.skidmoregenealogy.com
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The extract:
35.JOHN5 SKIDMORE, the son of Lieutenant Thomas (no. 15) and Martha (?Sherman) Skidmore, was born 16 January 1725/6 at Newtown, Fairfield County, and died at the same place just previous to 10 October 1790.He married Mary, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Kimberly) Prindle.She was born 14 October 1727 and died on 24 April 1807 as his widow.No tombstones have been found for them at Newtown, Connecticut.
He took the Freeman’s Oath at Newtown in 1751, and was taxed on £63 18sh 6d in the Grand Levy of 1767.He and his son Abel are the only Skidmores who took the Oath of Fidelity in 1777; the rest of the family in Connecticut are presumed to have been Tories in sentiment.
The will of John Skidmur was dated 22 September 1790 and recorded at Danbury on October 10th.To his wife Mary he left half his house, his furniture, his livestock, and the use of one third of his land during her natural life.He left legacies to his grandchildren Annis [Turner] Barnum and Daniel and Jeremiah Turner.To the heirs of his daughter Annis Brown he left £12.To his eldest son Elias he left his land on Baldwin’s Hill.To his son Amon he left the other half of his house, two acres of meadow east of his house, and all his farming tools.There were also legacies to his daughters Ruby Allen, Mary Taylor, and Hulda Skidmur.The residue was to be divided between his sons Abel and Amon who were to serve as executors.The witnesses were John Smith, Amos Skidmur, and Daniel Terrell.
Children:
i. Alathea, born 9 February 1848.She married Miller Turner (1741-1809) of Arlington, Bennington County, Vermont, on 23 May 1769.He was a Loyalist and served in the Royal Garrison Battalion in the Revolution, and went briefly after the war to New Brunswick.She died at Arlington on 25 September 1781 aged 32 years, 7 months, 16 days.They are both buried in the West Arlington Cemetery.He married Lucy Terrell (1757-____) as his second wife on 14 February 1790.
91. ii. Elias.
92. iii. Abel.
93. iv. Amon.
v. Annis.She married Lieutenant Zachariah Bernard Brown (1739-1817), a Loyalist, on 27 July 1770 at Newtown.He served as a Lieutenant in the 2nd (DeLancey’s) Brigade, and went after the war to Burton, New Brunswick (where his brother-in-law Elias Skidmore also had a grant of land at the same time).He died in Sunbury County, New Brunswick.Annis Brown had died in or before 1790.
vi. Ruby.She married William Allen.
vii. Mary.She married Jabez Taylor, Junior, on 12 November 1778 at Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
viii. Hulda, born 23 February 1762.She married James Thomas (1758-1824) who died at Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.Her only son, Wanzer Thomas (1796-1852), had moved by 1830 to Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, and Hulda Thomas died there in 1856.
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