Freeman married Martha Elizabeth DALRYMPLE on 18 Apr 1855 in Billtown, Kings, Nova Scotia. Martha was born on 11 Oct 1838 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 17 Mar 1914 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Burke MARCHANT was born about 1856 in Nova Scotia; and died.
2. Adelia MARCHANT was born in 1858 in Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 26 Dec 1936 in Waterville, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Waterville Cemetery, Waterville, Kings, Nova Scotia.
3. Howard Benjamin MARCHANT was born in May 1859 in Nova Scotia; died on 8 Feb 1941 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts.
4. Samuel K. MARCHANT was born in 1863 in Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 29 May 1942 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts.
5. Lavinia MARCHANT was born about 1865 in Nova Scotia; and died.
6. Charles Everett MARCHANT was born on 11 Dec 1868 in Nova Scotia; died on 29 Jan 1943 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Ponoma Cemetery, Ponoma, Los Angeles, California.
7. Owen Rupert MARCHANT was born on 15 May 1871 in North Mountain, Nova Scotia; died on 2 Sep 1962 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts.
8. Otis E. MARCHANT was born in Jun 1874 in Nova Scotia; died on 1 Nov 1902 in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Henry married Abigail SKINNER on 2 Dec 1812 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. Abigail (daughter of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN) was born on 15 Apr 1796 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 18 Feb 1868 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Chipman Corner Cemetery, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth WILLIAMSON on 13 Nov 1788. Elizabeth was born on 6 Nov 1770 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died about 1798. [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.”