Joseph SKIDMORE (20.Joseph3, 5.John2, 1.Thomas1) resided: Bef 1776, Pendleton Co, or Bath Co, VA
Buried: Skidmore Mill Run, (Now Hammer Run), Pendleton Co., (W) Virginia
Joseph Skidmore settled in Pendleton Co., VA (WV) in or soon after 1749. He married Agnes Caldwell (by 1730) the daughter of Andrew & Margaret ( Train) Caldwell, who survived him by many years and was living in Pendleton Co. as late as 1792. Joseph Skidmore sold Fisher's Delight a plantation he inherited from his father in Delaware, in 1736 and moved his family to what is now Washington County, Maryland. In 1749 he moved from there through the gap at Harpers Ferry to what is now Rockingham County where the family camped for a time on Skidmore Fork while Joseph and his sons went over the mountains looking for a promising site for their new home. He decided on a fine tract at Ruddle, (now Pendleton Co., WV), where he built a log house and mill soon after. In 1753 he and his wife made a trip back to Maryland to sell, Monican, their plantation there, having decided to stay in Virginia. There is good evidence that Joseph and his family stayed in Pendleton Co. during the bloody years of the French and Indian War. When new settlers flooded into the county after the war he had accumulated a fine selection of the very best land in the county to sell them. He never acquired any large tracts of several thousand acres, but instead patented the very best of small parcels of river bottom land that could be easily cleared and developed. His mill ground grain for the troops in the French and Indian war, Lord dunmores War and the American Revolution as the accounts paid by the House of Delegates sitting in Williamsburg show. In 1775 Mrs Agnes Skidmore was paid for "diets" (meals) served to the militia as they passed up the South Branch Valley on their way to Point Pleasant. He and his partner Daniel Harrison were devout members of the established church and Harrison built a chapel of ease on his plantation near Dayton, Va. Joseph and his family worshipped there whenever a traveling anglican clergyman stopped on his rounds of the Virginia frontier. Joseph Skidmores bible (printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1756) and his book of Common Prayer are included in the inventory of his estate made on 19 june 1778. Also included were his "specttales" a number of slaves, household goods, and plantation tools.

resided: Bef 1776, Norfolk & Pendleton Co, VA,
Buried, after 1792: Skidmore Mill Run, (Now Hammer Run), Pendleton
Co., (W) Virginia
chidren:
i.   Andrew9 Skidmore, born November 11, 1750 in Pendleton Co., VA (WV); died November 15, 1827 in Braxton Co., VA. (WV).
ii.   Joseph Skidmore, born Abt. 1730; died Bef. February 06, 1810. He married Elizabeth Everman.
iii.   Rebecca Skidmore, born Abt. 1731; died Aft. September 02, 1806 in Jasper Township, Fayette Co., OH.. She married Gabriel Kile or Coil.
iv.   James Skidmore, born Abt. 1732; died Bef. December 1807. He married Sarah McDonald.
v.   Thomas Skidmore, born Abt. 1733; died Bef. September 28, 1807 in Randolph Co., VA (WV). He married Eleanor Collett.
  Notes for Thomas Skidmore:
There is conflicting information on Thomas's wife. one record shows him Married to...Eleanor Hamilton and another to ...Eleanor Collett?
vi.   Elizabeth Skidmore, born Abt. 1734; died Aft. December 10, 1817. She married Jacob Friend.
vii.   John A. Skidmore, born June 10, 1736 in Kent Co., Delaware; died October 12, 1809 in Pendleton Co., VA. (WV).
viii.   Samuel Skidmore, born Abt. 1737; died Bef. March 27, 1780. He married Ruth Harrison.
  Notes for Samuel Skidmore:
There is a conflict about the name of Samuels wife...one record shows a ...Ruth
Harrison as his wife and another shows...Ruth Marsdon?
ix.   Margaret Skidmore, born Abt. 1739; died Aft. June 04, 1811 in Clark Co., KY. She married Lt. Col. Gavin Hamilton November 01, 1773.
x.   Sarah Skidmore, born Abt. 1740; died 1808 in Friend's Fort in Randolph Co., VA. (WV). She married Jonas Friend.
xi.   Edward Skidmore. He married Deborah Dawson.