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| Name |
Elizabeth Tooker |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Jul 1834 |
New London, Connecticut  [1] |
| Person ID |
I6796 |
Anderson Painter |
| Last Modified |
14 Jan 2022 |
| Family 2 |
Joseph Skidmore |
| Married |
Bef 1726 |
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An article in the "Petersburg Observer" in April 1922, quotes from the records of Clary's Grove Church, and says that the church was organized on August 23, 1834, with the following charter members: S, amuel Combs, Thomas Hash, George Spears Sr., Levi Summers, Robert Conover, Robert Nance, George Miller, David Clayton, Abraham S. Bergen, William Clark,... |
| Last Modified |
14 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F3139 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
From research done by Warren Skidmore, copies of galleys sent to me byFrancis Doutt Smith, noted 17 May 2001. He published previously ThomasSkidmore (Scudamore) 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, andFairfield, Connecticut, 1985, 2nd edition.
"Elizabeth Tooker, the wife of Joseph Scidmore, was a member of the FirstChurch at Huntington in 1726. Sometime after this date she deserted herhusband and went across the Long Island Sound to New London,Connecticut. Joshua Hempstead (1678-1758) of New London mostfortuitously recorded the gossip about her in an entry in his diary onSunday, 7 [sic] July 1734: 'Joseph (widow) Skidmore died yesterday inchildbed with her 3rd child by Ralph Fergo. She was the wife of oneSkidmore of Naharagansett and had Eloped from him and Ralph Fergo havingno wife took her in." Hempstead's facts are basically correct, butElizabeth was not a widow and her Skidmore husband did not live in RhodeIsland. She had issue by Ralph Fergo (born 1693),
1. A child, perhaps born about 1730. No further record.
2. Benjamin, 'son of Elizabeth Skidmore' (no father is mentioned), wasbaptized on 25 June 1732 at Groton, New London County. Nothing more isknown of him.
3. RALPH, presumably the child born at New London, New London County, on16 July 1734, of whom further.
The 3rd son,
RALPH SKIDMORE, presumably born 16 July 1734. No probate has been foundfor Ralph Fargo and his sone Ralph seems to have been sent to Long Islandperhaps to live with the Tooker family. His grandfather, Joseph Tooker,Sr., settled late in life at Elizabeth, Essex County, New Jersey, wherehe left a will dated 32 December 1753. It provides for the unnamedchildren of his deceased daughter Elizabeth. Ralph Skidmore is firstmentioned in a private list of marriages kept by William Salmon ofpersons who married in and around Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island.From this we learn that he married 1stly Hannah Owin on 31 September 1755on Long Island. He married 2ndly Mary ______ who was living as his widowin Hampshire County, (West) Virginia, in 1784 she appears on a tax listtaken by Michael Cresap."
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- [S2393] Diary of Joshua Hempstead (1678-1758), Transcription of Warren Skidmore.
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