General Notes

The Hawley book was the first credible account of the
Thomas Scudamore/Scudamore family. The latest and best
account is contained in Warren Skidmore's "Thomas
Scudamore/Skidmore, 1605-1684,of Westerleigh,
Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut; his
ancestors and his descendants to the ninth
generation." Warren can be reached at 171 Goodhue
Drive, Akron, OH 44313 or by telephone at
330-864-2787.

Thanks for the information on the Skidmores. I may
have an earlier generation. My information was
"Descendents of Francis Muncy I" which referenced
"Descendents of Thomas Skidmore" by Emily Hawley.
It's consistent with "The Muncy Family of Kent
County, DE" in MD & DC Geneal. Vol 19, No.2, Apr
1978. They give the following line:

Thomas Skidmore b. ca 1605 Westerleigh,ENG m.
1) Ellen 2)Joanna Westcott, 3) Sarah Treadwell,
immigrated to MA in 1639 d. 1684 Fairfield, CT

John Skidmore (son of Thomas and Ellen Skidmore)
b. 11 Apr 1643 Cambridge, MA m. Susanna Smith , d.
1680 Jamaica NY

Abigail Skidmore (dau of John Skidmore and Susanna
Smith) b. ca 1682 LI, NY m. Francis Muncy d. aft
1744 Kent Co. DE

Abigail Skidmore married Francis Muncy of Brookhaven by 1707. They were
living in adjoining Smithtown in 1717, but went before August 1732 to Kent
County, Delaware, where her two brothers had settled much earlier. They
settled there on a plantation called Great Neck, and Muncy had a warrant for
it on 4 May 1737. He died there in 1738 (before the survey was made) and
the tract, now renamed Muncy’s Mount, became a part of his estate. It was
located about one mile west of the present town of Willow Grove and was
owned in 1888 by Dr. John M. Wilkinson. Abigail was living his widow as late
as 27 June 1744 in Kent County. They had a large family of sons who went
mostly to southwest Virginia (where Skidmore was frequently a given name
among the Muncy descendants for several generations) and a daughter with
the distinctive name Belliharen.

Abigail's father, John Skidmore (born 11 April 1643 at Cambridge, Suffolk Co. MA)
was the son of Thomas Skidmore, the immigrant ancestor of this Skidmore
family line. John died at Queens County, Long Island, New Yorkl before
5 June 1680. We have considerable information on the origins of ths Skidmore
family line.