Later Life
Skipwith was elected to serve in the Louisiana State Senate. In December 1814, during the War of 1812, Magloire Guichard and Skipwith sponsored a legislative resolution to grant amnesty to "the privateers lately resorting to Barataria, who might be deterred from offering their services for fear of persecution." This led to the pirate Jean Lafitte and his men joining in the defense of New Orleans during the Battle of New Orleans, when the city was attacked by British forces in January 1815.
In 1827, Skipwith, Armand Duplantier, Antoine Blanc, Thomas B. Robertson and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the Louisiana state legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge. The purpose of the society was as follows, "The sole and special objects of the said society shall be the improvement of agriculture the amelioration of the breed of horses of horned cattle and others and in of all the several branches relative to agriculture in a country." The organization, like most in the state at that time, was racially segregated to exclude non-white people.
Skipwith died at his Monte Sano Plantation on the bluffs above Baton Rouge on January 7, 1839 at age 73.
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