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 children. The history of these and their descendants form the matter of the book. The bare facts and...