Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1871, Old Barns, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1881, Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1891, Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia

Esther married Josiah HAMILTON on 16 Jul 1859 in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia. Josiah was born in 1839 in Nova Scotia; died on 7 Apr 1890 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cordelia HAMILTON was born in 1860 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died in 1860; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia.
2. Henry D. HAMILTON was born about 1862; died on 16 Apr 1888 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia.
3. Lilian Annie HAMILTON was born about 1864; died in 1892; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia.
4. Robert Wilson HAMILTON was born on 3 Jul 1865 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died on 21 Nov 1932 in Saint Louis, Missouri; was buried in Valhalla Cemetery, Bel-Nor, Saint Louis, Missouri.
5. Charles Edwin HAMILTON was born on 28 Aug 1868 in Nova Scotia; died on 20 Nov 1959 in Vero Beach, Indian River, Florida; was buried on 20 Nov 1959 in Crestlawn Cemetery, Vero Beach, Indian River, Florida.
6. Susan Edith HAMILTON was born on 6 Sep 1871 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died in 1880; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia.
7. Mary Winnifred HAMILTON was born on 18 May 1873 in Old Barns, Colchester, Nova Scotia; and died.
8. Florence Maud HAMILTON was born on 30 Dec 1875 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died on 27 Sep 1887 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Colchester, Nova Scotia.
9. Muriel HAMILTON was born in 1876; and died.
10. Frances Mabel HAMILTON was born on 12 Jan 1882 in Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died in 1970.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1871, Upper Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1881, Upper Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia

Notes:

Charles and Susan lived in Debert Masstown, N.S. and had 14 children, including twins they named Charles and Sarah.

Charles married Susan MOORE on 10 Jan 1832 in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia. Susan was born on 24 Sep 1810 in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia; died on 9 Feb 1878 in Londonderry Twp., Colchester, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Elizabeth McCULLY on 25 Dec 1800. Elizabeth (daughter of William McCULLY and Isabella WILSON) and died. [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.”

William married Isabella WILSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]