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Date:
Jun 1646
Description:
Sells his home in Cambridge Massachussets on June 1, and quickly thereafter joins Governor Winthrop (the younger) in what is now New London. Reverend Thomas Peters wrote to Withrop on June 29 that "we shall be about 50 souls at the arrival of Goodman Skidmore whereof 30 will be infants." The town was then called Pequot or Nameag. Not long after Thomas Skidmore's arrival, the local Indian chief and about 300 of his tribe descended on a hunting party and friendly Indians from the town, where the settlers were chased back to town and an Indian village was destroyed.
Location:
New London, Connecticut, USASources:
- Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut: his ancestors and his descendants to the ninth generation
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