The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-10-31

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daughter Of Joseph and Sarah kim
berley) Prindle, and therefore, cousin
to Amos Skidmore above (both being
grandsons of Lieutenant Thomas Skid
more, aud great-grandsons of Abraham
Kimberley, married Bethia Glover,
Their daughter, Eunice Ann Skid
more, married Samuel <Blackman, and
her brother, Zerah Skidmore, married
Bernice Hurd, son and granddaughter
respectively of James and Hester
(Hitchcock) Blackman. Hence our
Brakeman DEPRESSION, quod sequitur.
James Blackman, born at Newtown,
Conn.,, June l, 1870, (Newtown Land
Records, Volume ,, Page $40, in vol
ume of collected births, marriages and
deaths), youngest of six children of
John and Abigail (Beers) Blackman, as
the name is spelled in the record of
birth referred to above, married first,
Huldah Griffin, who died in giving
birth to her only child, also deceased;
and he married second December %,
1856, Hester Tor Esther) Hitchcock, as
Commemorative Biographical Record
of Fairfield county has it on Page FOG,
and not "Sylvia" as printed on Page
231 of the same work, daughter of
Samuel Hitchcock, Jr., by his wife,
Rebecca Brownson, of New Milford,
Conn. :
Postscript No. 2: James and Hester
(Hitchcock) Blackman had 10 children,
viz, Huldah Blackman, baptized at
Newtown, Conn.,, (Judson Record, Page
39), January l, 1853; married Daniel
Mills of Butternuts, now Morris, N.
Y. 2. Truman Blackman, baptized
September Is, 1859, married Phebe
HaWley. 3. Hester Blackman, mar
ried Amos Skidmore. 4. Polly Black
man, baptized August 7, 1868, married
Levi Camp. 5. Eunice Blackman,
married John Lacy. 6: James Black.
man, Jr., twin to Eunice, baptized
with her at Newtown, Conn.,, July IA
1865, married Name Summers, daugh
ter of Captain Benjamin and Philens
(Shepard) Summers. I. Martha Black
man, born at Newuown, December 10
It'll, baptized there the 7th of April
following, married on her birthday
1892, at New Milford, Ct, Luthe
, Mitchell Skidmore, born at Jamaica
!, l.. l., February II, 1772, son of Captain
John Skidmore of Jamaica, L: l., wht
. rendered distinguished service in tn,
t. Revolutionary War, by his first wife
:, Mary Denton. Heliche, the secont
u wife of Captain John Skidmore, being
of Dutch descent, and Luther person;
= non grata to his stepmother, he sough
- a home amongst his Newtown relatives
L where he formed an attachment TO
the squire's fair daughter, and paren
tibus non volentibus, they drove up t.
New Milford and were married on he
21st birthday, the groom not yet bein
of age. They removed to Butternuts
now Morris, Otsego county, n. Y
= where he died March 5, 1913, and hi
- wife, Martha Blackman, March q
1866. 8. Hester Blackman, named fo
her mother, married Jabez Hurd, an
- had among others son, Philo Hurd
l. and daughter, Bernice Hurd, wife c
. Zerah Skidmore, as above stated,
:. grandson, Philo H. Skidmore, ST., and
~ great-grandson, Philo H. Skidmore
= Jr., well known to Newtown. Othe
- great-grandchildre of Lucy (B]acl
~ mani Hurd of Skidmore or Scudamort
10 lineage are: Julius W. Skidmore, Al
- igail, wife of Henry IT. Nichols, bot
~ deceased, and Amelia Stella MRS &c
% ward L. Beard), of Cambridge, Mass
- The younger sons of James and Heste
- (Hitchcock) Blackman were: 9. Beer
- = Blackman of Danbury, married Ursul
:. g Bull, and 10, Samuel Blackman mai
>. ried Eunice Ann, daughter of Abe
- Skidmore, as stated. (Connecticu
- Record OF Fairfield county, 231.) IF
, - N. Sheppard, New Haven.)