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About Pvt. Andrew Skidmore, Sr., Revolutionary War veteran
Andrew Skidmore BIRTH 8 Nov 1750 Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 15 Nov 1827 (aged 77) Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Skidmore Cemetery Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia
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In 1774, at age 24, Andrew was a private in his brother Capt. John Skidmore's company, the Greenbrier Militia. He was a daring and reckless soldier and Indian fighter. His hostility to the Indians did not cease after peace had been declared. Stories related to historians have been written about Andrew...as follows:
He and two others were imprisoned in Pendleton County for killing Indians but, the sympathy of the citizens caused their release without the form of laws. A man named Stroud, had been killed in what is known as the Strouds Glade by the Indians in 1792. William Hacker, a Mr. Kittle, Bill White and others, had murdered Captain Bull and his little tribe of the Cherokee Nation, said to compose of five or six famiies, a remnant of friendly Indians who had sought shelter from their Northern enemies and built a small fort on the banks of the Little Kanawha River. Andrew Skidmore, said after they killed the Indians all of them, they stepped in a trough of bear's oil to grease their moccasins, and went on. Whether he had participated in that unjustified slaughter or had the account given to him by lips of the other parties, is not known, but, the inference is he was along. His grand-daugter, Nellie Rodgers, lived in Roane County, West Virginia, was suppose to have told this story when she was ninety-eight.
This sturdy old soldier and pioneer with stading the hardships for independence and a long fight with the Indians, helped blaze the way for civilization in the western world.
Andrew Skidmore, married Margaret Johnson of Randolph County (western) Virginia. They settled on the Tygarts Valley River near the town of Elkins. Andrew, owned four hundred acres of valuable land. The date, November 24th, 1777, is entered on the deed.
Joseph, an elder brother entered on the same date, three hundred ad fifty acres adjoining.
Andrew undertook the task to dig a ditch to carry water across a botoom at a long horseshoe bend, to securewater power to run a grist mill. He never completed this enterprise. Although the ditch remained to be seen for many years. The old soldier had spirit to undertake this project; to try and harness the water of the Tygart Valley River ad make it usefu; to man.
He served as a private in the Virginia Militia and participated in the Battle of Point Pleasant
October 1774 under the command of his brother, Captain John Skidmore. Taking refuge in a hollow log with his nephew, Andrew Friend, the log become very crowded. Andrew pointed out another log nearby and in doing so, an Indian shot off his right fore finger, his brother John was wounded in the hip in the same battle. It is reported that Andrew participated in several savage incidents with the Indians.
Andrew served in
the VA Militia in Lord Dunmore's war and had a finger shot off at the
Battle of Point Pleasant. He also served the Colonies in the American
Revolution.
n 1774, Andrew Skidmore fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant as a Private in a Company led by his brother, Captain John Skidmore. He was a "daring and reckless" soldier and indian fighter. He was married to Margaret Johnson in 1783. Note: Andrew's county of birth and county of death is correct, but the reader is reminded that West Virginia didn't become a separate state from Virginia until 20 June 1863.
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Pvt. Andrew Skidmore, Sr., Revolutionary War veteran's Timeline
| 1750 |
November 11, 1750
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Ruddle, Pendleton, Virginia
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| 1784 |
August 16, 1784
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Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
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| 1786 |
March 20, 1786
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Randolph, Charlotte County, VA, United States
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| 1787 |
December 25, 1787
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Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia, United States of America
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| 1789 |
February 14, 1789
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Elkins, Randolph, Virginia, United States
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| 1792 |
1792
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Randolph County, VA, USA
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1794
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Virginia, United States of America
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| 1796 |
April 16, 1796
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Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA
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| 1798 |
March 15, 1798
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Pendleton County, Virginia (West Virginia since 1863), United States
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