The items featured in this video were owned by Captain Hubbard Skidmore of New York (1767-1842). As a teenager, Skidmore served as a shipmate under his father, Zophar, in the Revolutionary War. By 1805, he was the owner and commander of the ship, Mississippi. His first wife was a cousin of the Townsend family, Hannah McCoun, whose brother, William Townsend McCoun, was vice-chancellor of the state of New York. Skidmore is buried in the McCoun cemetery in Oyster Bay.