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Platt Skidmore

Platt Skidmore[1]

Male Abt 1780 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Platt Skidmore 
    Birth Abt 1780  Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I65156  Scudder
    Last Modified 18 Mar 2019 

    Father Peter Skidmore,   b. Abt 1750, Fresh Pond, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Unknown 
    Family ID F23605  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Unknown   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. William B. Skidmore   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Platt Skidmore   d. lost at Sea
    Family ID F23615  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Emily Carrie Hawley, A Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Pioneer Thomas Skidmore of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Colonies in New England and of Huntington, Long Island, and of his descendants through the branches herein set forth..., (1911), 51–52.
      "Platt (6) Skidmore [son of Peter (5)], born about 1780, lived at Commack and Huntington, L. I. He married and had three sons and one daughter as follows:
      1. William B. Skidmore [son of Platt], who took the first steamship to China and was with the 'Pacific Mail Steamship Company.' He married and had the following children:
      (1) William B. Skidmore, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
      (2) Joseph Skidmore, lawyer in Brooklyn, N.Y.
      (3) Josephine Skidmore.
      2. Platt Skidmore [son of Platt], who was lost at sea.
      3. Brewster Skidmore [son of Platt], who was born May, 1813, married Abigail Skidmore. They resided at Huntington, L. I. Their two sons are:
      (1) Woodhull Skidmore [son of Brewster and Abigail Skidmore], who was
      born December 12, 1834. He married first Martha E. Williams, second
      S. Louise Hard. He resides at Patchogue, N. Y.
      (2) Charles B. Skidmore [son of Brewster and Abigail Skidmore] was born
      March 16, 1845. Married and resides at Hempstead, L. I. No children.
      4. Almira Skidmore [daughter of Platt], who married Henry Ketcham.
      https://archive.org/details/genealogicalbiog00hawl/page/50

  • Sources 
    1. [S1530] Joseph and Hannah unknown Skidmore in a Gen Rec of Thomas Skidmore.