Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Skidmore was born in 1735, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lieut Thomas Skidmore, was 42 and her mother, Martha Sherman, was 40. She married Heth Peck II on 27 March 1760, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 6 October 1810, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Newtown Village Cemetery, Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mary Peck, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Mary Peck, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
- Mary Schidmore, "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955"
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World Events (4)
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1788
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): of Norman origin, a variant of Scudamore, which most probably arises from a Norman French nickname for a knight who used a particular type of leather shield, from the unrecorded Norman French phrase, escu de more ‘Moor's shield’, a reference to a type of Moorish leather shield called an adarga, which was in widespread use not only in medieval Iberia and north Africa but also in Brittany.
History: The manor of Upton Scudamore in Wiltshire was held by Peter de Skydemore in 1216. The same manor was held by Godfrey Escudamore shortly after 1150. The Scudamore family claim descent from Ralph, recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as holder of Opeton (Upton), whose son was known as Reginald Escudemor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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