Those who do not treasure the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity

Eunice Skinner m. Rev George Dimock

Rebecca Skinner m. Rev. Edward Manning.

Through Ann Skinner's mother, Sarah Osborn, the line can be traced back to two original Mayflower emigrants to Plymouth, Mass.

(Sarah Osborn Skinner - Samuel Osborn- Keziah Butler Osborn- Elizabeth Daggett Butler- Elizabeth Hawes Daggett- Desire Gorham Hawes- Desire Howland Gorham- John and Elizabeth (Tilly) Howland)

See Carney Genealogy 1955 at P.A.N.S.

N.S. Birth Records (1864-1877) says that of 49 Skinners born, 18 were in Kings County, 8 in Halifax County.

Eaton says the Skinner family were prominent in St John N.B.

There was also a Skinner family who settled in Pictou county, but I do not know if there was any connection.

(Susan Shaw Bowles 4, Sarah Lyons Shaw 3, Anne Skinner Lyons 2, Charles Skinner 1)

There is an Osborne family buried at St Andrews, Waterville, who came from Ayrshire, Scotland.

. Osborne, Samuel (Sergt) -See Marks, Nehemiah (Capt) and Others, 1784, card 3. Includes the names of Benjamin Burgess and William Nesbitt, and the area was River St Croix (Scoodic), Passamaquoddy Bay. (note: was this Sarah Osborn's father?)

. Osburne, Samuel- See Dunbar, John and Others, 1784 Card 3. Includes the names of William Nesbitt and Benjamin Burgess. Same area as above. Could this be Benjamin Burgess Jr., brother to Thankful Burgess Newcomb? Was this the William Nesbit that married Mary Jane Bols?

. John Skinner, Reduced Captain, H.M. Land Forces, Township of Wilmot. Grant made 1783.

. John Skinner. See Allen, Isaac (Lt Col.) and others 1784. New Jersey Volunteers, 2nd Batt. Township Sunbury, south side of River St John. Micro RG 20 "A" Vol 2 Reel 1.

. Stephen Skinner (Major), 1796 -Requests 500 of his 5000 acres he laid out in the rear of land granted John Inglis in the Township of Aylesford. (note: the Christian Messenger 1840, says that Miss Catherine Skinner of Shelburne, the last of the family of the late Col Stephen Skinner, of the same place, died at the age of 75.)

. Rockwell, Daniel and Others.1786. Cumberland Road, leading from Chignecto River towards Cumberland. County of Kings. Rockwell got 1000 acres. (note: Daniel was a son of Jonathan Rockwell).

The previous information highlights the close ties between st John, N.B. and Cumberland county with the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.

It is easy when writing the history of one family, to digress into another related line. Since I have already done this, I want to add a bit from "History of the 2nd Cornwallis Baptist Church at Pleasant Valley, 1828-1876." You can see that Susan Shaw's family were well tied into this faith.

This church was formed at Pleasant Valley on 9 March 1828. It's history is closely related to that of the Grafton Baptist Church. Before the church was formed, it was not unusual for persons to travel from the Pleasant Valley district and eastward to worship at Canard, 1st Cornwallis Baptist Church. Often they would leave their homes on Saturday A.M. attend conference meeting at Canard on the afternoon of the same day, listen to the preaching of the gospel on Sunday, then return as they went on foot. Going on horseback was in that day a luxury reserved for women and those enfebled by age. Some travelled barefoot, carrying their shoes made of rawhide and their best dresses under their arms until in sight of the meeting house, then putting them on.

...a negro preacher, a Mr Richard Preston visited Pleasant Valley Community before 2nd Cornwallis was established. He preached at the home of David Shaw, (later home of Henry Shaw), though Mrs Shaw was first reluctant to have a negro man in the house. This visit from a negro was a sensation. He preached for a week from house to house and made many converts who were baptised by Father Manning, pastor of the 1st Cornwallis Church, while they joined later to be members of Pleasant Valley. The first pastor was William Chipman. The ordination service was held at the home of Alfred Skinner.

...previous to this time, William Chipman, although living and doing business then in Eastern Cornwallis, frequently came to Pleasant Valley and journeyed across the North Mountain, holding services in homes and schoolhouses. He is said to have wept and groaned aloud all across the mountain as he returned from one such meeting. "He had a deep passion for souls". Because he also had a private income form his farm and other sources, the church gave him but a limited salary. His second wife was Eliza Chipman (his cousin), and one son was professor Isaac Chipman.

...Elms were planted around the meeting house by Isaac Chipman, Sydney Shaw, Abel Parker, Isaiah and James Shaw.

The meeting house was similar to the old Covenanter meeting house in Grand Pre.

...The pastor, although small, was a great expounder of the scriptures, strong in the doctrine of regeneration, predestination, and election, and a mighty destroyer and downpuller of the strongholds of sin and Satan. When he preached on such themes as dancing, card playing, and the final destruction, the wicked sinners grew pale and the back seat trembled in its shoes.

...a shrewd businessman, he drew up their wills, and wrote the deeds to their farms, managing their temporal as well as their spiritual affairs for them.

...part singing at the service was a custom. The people were strongly opposed to instrumental music for it was a reminder of the broad road to destruction.

1829- Isaiah Shaw, Abel Parker, and Ebenezer Huntington, were sent to Wolfville as delegates to help found Horton Academy.

1858 - Large congregations so a new church was built at Berwick in 1863- Black Rock got it's own meeting house.

1860- Waterville added to the 2nd Cornwallis district.

1876-old church bought, torn down, moved in parts and the materials used to erect a new church building on a plot of land donated by Mr George Bowles. No church records of this church are available until 1918. Parsonage built across the road. In 1903, new parsonage built at Waterville. Rev. E.O.Reed was pastor from 1892-1901.

Kenneth Parker, a "joined Presbyterian" was baptized 13 April 1903. In 1908, Mr and Mrs Henry Bowles were received from Billtown.

"One of the few families in Kings County, if not the only one, bearing a Huguenot Family is the Pineo family...James Pineo, in a deed spelled Pennau came to Bristol, Rhode Island...In 1717 he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, and in Bristol and five children, in Lebanon, four....Of these children, James m. Priscilla Newcomb, and Submit m. Silas Newcomb. Peter Pinneo or Pineo b. Lebanon, Conn. 4 May 1773, m. Elizabeth Sampson came to Cornwallis with his family. (One of his children, Rev. John Pineo, became a minister of the New Light Congregationalist Church in Cornwallis not long after Mr. Manning withdrew in 1807). He also had a son William, who married in 1776 Phebe Bentley.

Perhaps this was the William Pineo who had land next to that which Graham Bowles bought.

"Londonderry Heirs" mentions that after the edict of Nantes, Huguenot refugees came to Ireland and established the linen trade in the North. Perhaps then, this is from where the Pineos came.

"The Woodworth grantees in Cornwallis were: Amasa, Benjamin, Silas, Thomas and William Woodworth...

Silas Woodworth was born in Lebanon, Conn. 22 Mar 1725 m. 22 Sept. 1746 Sarah English. He came to Cornwallis in the ship "Wolf" in May of 1760 and d. there 26 Sept 1790. His wife d. 1808. Their second child (one of ten), John Woodworth, b. 17 Feb 1749 d. 29 May 1816 m. 9 Feb 1769 Submit Newcomb, dau. of Benjamin and Hannah Newcomb. Submit died 18 May 1821 in her 70th year. They had six (note: according to Chute Genealogies, there were 14! Perhaps some died young?) children, the youngest of whom was John Woodworth, b. 8th April 1779 d. 1 Nov 1827 m. 14 Nov 1809 Margaret, (see II) dau. of Alexander and Elizabeth (Candlish) Bowles. Their children are listed on page 878 of Eaton's HISTORY OF KINGS COUNTY.

More information on the Newcomb family will be found under VIII.

Index of Births for N.S. (1864-1877) says that there were 85 Woodworth births registered in N.S. during this time, 39 of them in Kings County, and 15 in Lunenburg County.

The Chute Genealogy says the following about the Woodworth family:

Walter Woodworth said to have come from Kent, England with Gov. John Winthrop in 1630. He was a resident of Scituate MA. in 1633. The court granted Walter Woodward of Scituate 60 acres near Weymouth. 9 chldren, including Walter, b. 1645 who moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island about 1676. His son, Benjamin b. 1674 bought a large tract of land in Lebanon, Connecticutt in 1703. Benjamin's son, Ichabod Woodworth b. 1696 at Little Compton, R.I., had 4 children in Lebanon, including Silas b. 1725 who went to N.S. in the ship "Wolfe" in May 1760, and settled in Lower Cornwallis.

John Woodworth Sr was son of Silas, and was born in Lebanon, Connecticutt. Submit Newcomb Woodworth (1761-1831) was the daughter of Benjamin Newcomb. John and Submit Woodworth had 14 children, the sixth being John Woodworth Jr. (8 Aug 1779-1 Nov 1827) who married Margaret Bowles. The third of their 14 children, Abner Woodworth (1773-1859) m. Hannah Loveless and had 11 children, the second being Alice Woodworth (1800-1825), who was the first wife of Isaiah Shaw (1798-1874). See VIII.I. Ref. Chute Genealogy, Allied lines.

The will of John Woodworth (s/o Silas) is at PANS and appears dated 10 Feb 1817, which puts in question his date of death being 1816.
Rockwell Family (Eaton - p. 802)

"The founder of the Rockwell family of Kings County was Jonathan Rockwell, who received his grant in Cornwallis in 1761. He had 7 children, one of whom was Joseph Rockwell, b. 1751, who m. 1775 Lydia, d/o Stephen and Desiah Barnaby. They had twelve children, the third being Prudence b. 4 Apr 1779, m. William Bowles (aforsaid).

Jonathan Rockwell was one of the first members of the New Light Congregational Church (Jawbone corner).

The Webster Family (Eaton - p. 857)

John Bowles, son of Alexander, m. Margaret, dau. of Abraham and Elizabeth Webster.

"The Webster families of Kings County have as their first New England ancestor John Webster, and early governor of the colony of Connecticut, who was said to have come from Warwickshire. Abraham was b. in Lebanon, Connecticut, 1 Jan 1736 or 37 (Noah, George, Thomas, Governor John) m. in Lebanon 12 Sept 1758 Margaret White of Coventry, Connecticut. He removed from Lebanon to Cornwallis in 1760 and had a grant of land 'where the Isaac Reid place was', near where the old Campbellite meeting-house stood, on the Upper Dyke Road". There was a Margaret Webster b. 28 Nov 1786, dau. of Abraham Webster Jr.(b. 1759) & Polly Jeffers (an adopted daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Harrington and her second husband, Christopher Knight). Eaton does not say who she married, but she seems the most logical connection, being close in age to John Bowles.
The Bishop family, are descendants of New England Planters, who came to Horton Township in 1760 from New London Connecticut. Their history and descendants are well documented by the Bishop Family Association in 4 volumes called "Tangled Roots". Susan Bowles' father-in-law, James Lovett Bishop, was the son of Gurdon and Louisa (Oakes) Bishop, who lived at New Minas, and are buried in "The Oaks" cemetery, Kentville, along with many of the Neary family. Gurdon is a descendant of Capt. William Bishop (b. 1732) of New London, CT., who married Jemima Calkin of Lebanon, CT.

Capt. William's father was John Bishop b. 1709 and his second wife,Hannah Comstock, of Montville, Ct.

Hannah Amelia Neary, d/o Henry (b. 1804) and Mary Ann (Forsyth) Neary (d/o Enoch and Hannah Forsyth), died 6 Sept 1876, at the age of 40, after giving birth to twins - my grandfather, George Lovett Watson Bishop, who survived, and his twin sister, Winnifred, who died 12 Sept 1876, at age of 7 days.

(Kings Death Records). After Amelia died, J.L. Bishop remarried Eliza Forsyth.

The 1861 Census for Kentville lists a James Neary with 7 in the family (2 males, 1 married; 5 females, 1 married). If he were born in 1764, he would be 97 years old in 1861! Perhaps this is a son. There is also a William Neary (4 in family) and a John L. Neary with just 1 in family.

Jerusha Cleveland was the daughter of Deacon Benjamin Cleveland Jr.(s/o Benjamin and Ann Church Cleveland), and his first wife, Mary Alderkin, who came to N.S. from Windham, Connecticut. Jerusha was born 28 March 1773 and m. 25 dec. 1794 to James Neary, who was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1764. They had nine children including Henry.

Benjamin Cleveland was the first cousin of Rev. Aaron Cleveland, who graduated from Harvard in 1735, and was in Halifax from 1750-1754 (note: just after the founding of Halifax) as the first minister of the Congregational church there, but in England took orders of the English church, then returned to America. Rev Aaron Cleveland, who was an ancestor of the late President Grover Cleveland, died at the house of his friend, Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, Aug. 11, 1757. (Ref. Eaton's History of Kings pg. 607).

Fortunately, the details of the Bishop family, who came as Planters from New London, Connecticut, may be found in "Tangled Roots", so I will refer readers to this four volume set prepared by the Bishop Family Association, and published 1990.

LOOSE ENDS:

Janet Bowles m. 1863 A. Rockwell. Ch: Etta May b. 2 May 1865
Naomi P. Bowles d/o W. & E. (or C.) Bowles, b. Waterville ca. 1873 m. 5 Sept 1894 ( Anna. Presbyterian) James A. Langille s/o George and Margaret Langille b. ca 1863. He was a jeweller. She res. at Annapolis at the time of her marriage.

( her marriage, at Annapolis, by Rev. Whidden, is also in the Presbyterian Witness, 29 Sept. 1894)

Graham Bowles m. Mary Kerr - which of the 3 Graham Bowles is this??

KMR #77 BOWLES, LILA L. 181 1885

88 189 1872 Bowles, George M. - age 59, s/o Graham Bowles and Mary Kerr, North Mountain, Liver disease.

other counties:

606 750 1876 Bowles Joseph D. (Halifax)

614 928 1876 Bowles, John David (Halifax)

The 1901 census:

1. for Brooklyn Street:

John Bowles b. 2 Sept 1839, N.S., Scotch, Presbyterian. He had a wife, Jane b. 1841, N.S., Eng. Presbyterian, and a son Bronson b. 1873, as well as a domestic called Polina Bowles age 35.

Elizabeth Bowles, w, born 1874 (age 56), emig. England

2. Cambridge:

Eliza A. Bowles, w, b. 1833, N.S., Scotch, Bapt. and her son, Harmon b. 1868

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