Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, Alma, Albert, New Brunswick
• Census: 1910, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Arthur married Amanda Louise BERRY on 2 Aug 1906 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Amanda (daughter of James W. BERRY and Emma A. SHERWOOD) was born on 22 Aug 1881 in New Hampshire; died on 21 Apr 1964 in New Hampshire; was buried in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Arthur SKINNER was born on 13 May 1907 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Jun 1982 in Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, North Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
2. Sherwood Freeman SKINNER was born on 18 May 1910 in New Hampshire; died on 8 Jun 1947 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1871, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1881, Alma, Albert, New Brunswick

Notes:

From History of the Baptists, p. 501:
SKINNER, B.A., Rev. I. J., died March, 1896; aged 72 years; born in Kings, N.S.; graduated from Acadia, 1855; ordained at Port Medway, 1855; was pastor at Bridge water, Chester, N.S.; Alma and Havelock, N.B.; Tryon, Bedeque and Montague, P.E.I., for about thirthy-five years. He was a good man, full of faith and the Holy Ghost; gently beloved by all who knew him. He was an earnest temperance worker.
History of the Baptists, p. 756:
Rev. I. J. SKINNER reports ministerial labour and pastoral work performed by him at Port Medway, Bridgewater, New Cornwall, Chelsear, Corkum Settlement, St. Margaret’s Bay, Little River, Chester, and Lunenburg. The reviving power of the Spirit was experienced more or less in most of these places so that during the twenty-five years of his ministry he has baptized in all three hundred and sixty-five persons.
From The Diary of Adolphus Gaetz, p. 113:
Rev. Isaac Judson Skinner (1825-1896) was born at Conrwallis, N.S. and died at Liverpool, N.S. He was graduated at Acadia University in 1855. He was a Baptist minister and had pastorates at Port Medway and Chester, N.S., Alma and Hopewell, N.B., and Bedeque and Tryon, P.E.I. He married (1) a daughter of William Troop of Nictaux, N.S. and (2) Mary, daughter of Saumel Freeman, of Milton N.S.

Isaac married Mary A. FREEMAN on 16 Dec 1863 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia. Mary was born on 5 Jun 1836 in Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia; died on 13 Dec 1913 in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1871, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1881, Alma, Albert, New Brunswick
• Census: 1891, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1901, Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia

William married Lois WHITE on 28 Apr 1812 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. Lois (daughter of Timothy WHITE and Weighty PORTER) was born on 29 Sep 1794 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in Nov 1863 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Sarah and Charles Skinner went to Maugerville, N.B. just before the Loyalists, and it is assumed they might have gotten a good price for their land and moved to Bass River, N.S., where Charles was a school teacher. They stayed there about five years before moving to Kings County. The school records in Bass River were burned in a fire.” (Source: Isabel Palmeter) This would suggest that the family came to Cornwallis Township just prior to the influx of Loyalists.

Charles Skinner was a grantee at Cornwallis township, that he was born 3 Jan 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Aaron Skinner. He married 24 Nov 1774 at Passamaquoddy, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, perhaps from Martha’s Vinyard. She lists 15 children, including my Ann Skinner, who married 1802 Thomas Lyons. (Source: Esther Clark Wright in “Planters and Pioneers”)

The Skinners first came to Passamaquoddy, Campobello or Indian Island (all in Passamaquoddy Bay in Charlotte, New Brunswick), where Charles might have taught school from 1774 to 1778. They moved to St. John and Maugerville in 1778 where he taught school until 1780. The arrival of the Loyalists may have provided financial incentive to sell their lands profitably. They moved to Five Islands, Cumberland, N.S. (but I think then all part of Cornwallis Township) where the family lived for the first five years, before they settled in 1785 at Little Pereau, near Blomidon, in the Cornwallis area of present day Kings County. (Source: Rev. Davison in his book “Alice of Grand-Pré”)

Charles Skinner was a school teacher by profession, and one reference said he was a “refined gentleman”.

The father of Samuel Skinner (i.e., Charles Skinner) came from New England to the Maritimes just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. (Source: The book “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick” published in Boston in 1900 page 97)

“Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.” (Source: The Christian Messenger an early Baptist magazine).

Charles married Sarah OSBORN on 24 Nov 1774 in Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:

From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”

Timothy married Weighty PORTER. Weighty was born in 1773; died in 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]