JOHN Skidmore 
JOHN was born on April 11th, 1643 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. JOHN's father was THOMAS Skidmore and his mother is ELLEN WHITEHEAD. His paternal grandparents are RICHARD Skidmore and AGNES Lawrence. He had a brother and three sisters, named Thomas, Dorothy, Grace and Jedidah. He died at the age of 37 in 1680 in Long Island, New York.General Notes
Will: 15 FEB 1677/1678
Probate: 9 JUL 1680
Note:
4. John Skidmore, son of Thomas & Ellen Skidmore, b. 11 Apr 1643, Cambridge, Massachusetts; d. ca. 168, Jamaica, Long
Island; m. 1662 to Susannah Davis, daughter of Fulk Davis, d. aft 22 Jul 1675.
John Skidmore was a well educated man and a proficient blacksmith. He was serving as Town Clerk as early as 1668 and in 1770,
he was voted Towne Clerk. This also made him the clerk of the church, the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica (said to be the
oldest Presbyterian Church in the United States) He was the first Clerk of Christ's Church, Jamaica, Long Island, New York. He also
practiced the blacksmith trade.
John & Susannah (Davis) Skidmore had (5) five children:
A. John, b. 1662; d. 22 Jan 1740, Stratford, age 78.
B. Joseph, d. will date 1708, Dover, Delaware
C. Thomas, d. aft 1744.
D. Samuel, m.1st- Susanna; m.2nd- Hannah
E. Abigail, b. ca. 1670; m. Francis Muncy, II. SEE MUNCY
New York City Wills, 1665-1707
Page 402.--JOHN SKIDMORE, Jamaica. "The last will and Testament of John Skidmore, who
through God's mercy having my sences perfectly about me, yet not knowing how it may please God
to deal with me, I commit my soul to God, and for preventing of future danger do dispose of my
estate as followeth." Leaves to his 5 children all his estate both in the town of Jamaica, and ?50
given by my father Thomas Skidmore of Fairfield in New England, and gives his eldest son John full
power to recover the same. Mentions "my two youngest children Joseph and Abigail." "The black
horse given by my wife to the 4 boys, to be equally divided between them" (wife deceased, name not
given). Makes Joseph Smith, Sr., and Daniel Whitehead, overseers.
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JOHN and SUSANNAH were married in a religious ceremony in 1662 in Long Island, New York. They had four sons and a daughter, named John, Joseph, Samuel, Thomas and ABIGAIL M..
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Children
ABIGAIL M. Skidmore
ABIGAIL M. was born about 1676 in Jamaica, Nassua County, New York.1 She died after June 7th, 1744 in Kent Co, Delaware.1