Thomas Skidmore, or Scudamore, the pioneer was a descendant of Thomas Scudamore of Holme Lacy, Herefordshire, England.
He was born about 1600, and was married and living when thirty-five years of age at Westerly, Co.
of Gloucester.
About 1635 he sailed with Governor Winthrop and his company for the new world.
He settled in Cambridge, Mass.
, in 1630-1, later removing to New London, and afterwards to Fairfield, Conn.
Later he joined a colony that settled Huntington, Long Island.
He had six c.