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Leslie,
Below is an excerpt from Warren Skidmore's Thomas Skidmore book described at www.skidmoregenealogy.com
Wm Frank Skidmore
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76. CORPORAL SOLOMON6 SCIDMORE was born about 1742 at Smithtown, Suffolk County, Long Island, the son of John (no. 28) and Elizabeth (Brush) Scidmore. He was living 20 May 1789 in what is now Malta Township, Saratoga County, New York (then Stillwater, Albany County), and was presumably dead before the 1790 census of that place was taken. He married (no doubt in Dutchess County) Mary, a daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Butts) Mosher. She was born at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and may be the Marcy Mosher whose birth on 24 April 1743 is entered there in the vital records. The Moshers had moved by 1747 to Beekman Precinct, Dutchess County, New York. She is said to have followed Solomon Scidmore soon after in death.
The earmark of Solomon Skidmore was recorded on 1 April 1774 in the Nine Partners Patent in Dutchess County, New York.
Solomon Scidmore served as a Corporal in the 4th Company (commanded by Captain Ephraim Woodworth) of the 13th Regiment of the Albany County Militia (Saratoga District) in the American Revolution. In 1778 he leased a farm for £12 from the Commissioners of Sequestration for the Northern District of Albany County; it had belonged to Peter Laing, a Tory, who had doubtless fled the county. On the tax list of Stillwater Township dated 20 May 1789 Solomon Scidmore was taxed 2sh 6d on £10 in real property and £4 in personal property.
He is not found listed in the 1790 census. Possibly some part of his children was living in the household of Mordecai Sayles who had five young males and five young females at home in addition to a wife and himself in 1790. Sayles and his wife Deborah were given the administration of the estate of Solomon Scidmore, deceased, on 28 September 1791; John Schidmore, Junior, and Lettis Weston were their bondsmen in the sum of £250. Since Deborah Sayles, a female, is specifically named in the administration it seems certain that she was nearly related to Solomon. She may have been his widow, although his wife Mary is said to have survived her husband. On balance it seems most likely (but unproven) that Deborah was an sister of the widow, born a Mosher, who had agreed to look after the family of Solomon Scidmore. This was an arrangement that the court usually looked on with favor when both parents were dead. Alas, the court record and family hearsay are completely quiet about Deborah Sayles’ role in the lives of the Scidmore children.
Solomon Scidmore is said to have died of unspecified “wounds,” presumably accidental. The inventory of his estate was taken 15 November 1791 and included a Bible, a tea pot, and the usual household goods and livestock.
The administration papers do not list his heirs and the following account of his children is from oral tradition which can be, happily, verified in part from record evidence. Perhaps his family Bible may someday surface with a better account of his posterity.
Children:
i. Sarah Mosher, born 3 June 1765. She married about 1783 Reverend Isaiah Keeler (1761-1852), a Revolutionary soldier. They moved after the birth of their third child from Stillwater Township, Saratoga County, to Elizabethtown (now Brockville), Leeds County, Ontario, where he had a grant of Crown Lands in 1804. When the War of 1812 broke out they returned to the United States settling at Mexico, Oswego County, New York. Isaiah Keeler served as a circuit minister for the Methodist Churches in that area until his death in 1852. She died there on 25 January 1853.
ii. John, born perhaps about 1767-9. He is said to have died young.
iii. Elizabeth. She is said to have married _______ Ketcham.
186. iv. Samuel, born 1777.
187. v. James, born 1779.
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