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Charles SKINNER

Male 1748 - Bef 1837  (< 88 years)


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  • Name Charles SKINNER 
    Birth 3 Jan 1747/1748  Colchester, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 1837  Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6473  bmds
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2014 

    Family Sarah OSBORN,   b. 22 Jul 1760, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jul 1848, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 24 Nov 1774  Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage Charles : 26 years old | Sarah : 14 years old. 
    Children 7 sons and 8 daughters 
    +1Male. Charles SKINNER,   b. 9 Oct 1775, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1803 (Age 27 years)
    +2Male. Alfred SKINNER,   b. 20 Jun 1778, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1858, Coldbrook, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +3Female. Eunice SKINNER,   b. 31 Jan 1780, Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1839, Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
    +4Female. Rebecca SKINNER,   b. 22 Dec 1781, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Apr 1857, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    +5Female. Lavinia SKINNER,   b. 27 Jan 1784, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 May 1874, Antigonish, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
    +6Female. Ann SKINNER,   b. 9 Mar 1786, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1815, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)
    +7Female. Mary SKINNER,   b. 29 Dec 1787, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8Female. Elizabeth SKINNER,   b. 11 Nov 1789, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Mar 1860, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +9Male. William SKINNER,   b. 13 Dec 1791, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1870, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     10Female. Sarah SKINNER,   b. 30 Dec 1793, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1855 (Age 61 years)
    +11Female. Abigail SKINNER,   b. 15 Apr 1796, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1868, Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    +12Male. David SKINNER,   b. 6 Feb 1798, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1868, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +13Male. Rev. Joseph Churchill SKINNER,   b. 16 Feb 1800, Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1860, Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    +14Male. Samuel SKINNER,   b. 16 Mar 1802, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jan 1888, Saint John, New Brunswick Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     15Male. Benjamin SKINNER,   b. 22 Dec 1803, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     
    Family ID F2402  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 3 Jan 1747/1748 - Colchester, New London, Connecticut
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Nov 1774 - Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 1837 - Nova Scotia
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • 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).