The Rights of Man to Property! Being a Proposition to Make it Equal among the Adults of the Present Generation: and to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at Maturity (1829)

Thomas Skidmore was born on 13 August 1790 in Newtown, Connecticut. At the age of 13 he became a teacher, being employed at different schools in Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina. In June 1819 Skidmore settled in New York City where he played a prominent role in its turbulent labour politics. He continued to live there until his early death on 7 August 1832 as a victim of the cholera epidemic.