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- Timothy Skinner is the fifth of 14 children of Martha Kinne & Joseph Skinner.
. 1786 April 14, Claims for Losses
To Colonel Thomas Dundas & Jeremy Pemberton Esquire, Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for enquiring into the losses of those Persons who have suffer'd in their Rights & Propertys during the late unhappy dissensions in America
The memorial of Timothy Skinner late of Sussex County, in the Province of New Jersey, but now at Niagara in the Province of Quebec.
Humbly sheweth that your Memorialist in the time of the late unhappy disturbances in America, was settled in Sussex County in the Province of New Jersey but being thought inimical to the laws of the United States, was imprisoned for the space of fourteen months, & fined in the sum of one hundred & £68 New Jersey currency.
That understanding His Most Gracious Sovereign, by & with the advice of the Lords Spiritual & Temporal & Commons in Parliament Assembled, had taken into consideration the distressed state of his Loyal American subjects purpose granting them such relief as may appear just & reasonable in proportion to their losses.
Your memorialist in behalf of himself & family, humbly begs that you will be pleased to take this case into your serious consideration & that you will be pleased to grant him such relief as may appear reasonable, & your memorialist will ever pray.
I do hereby humbly swear that I have by the above fines suffered to the full amount of £168 NJ currency, so help me God. Signed, Timothy Skinner.
Sworn before me at Niagara this 14th day of April 1786, A. Campbell, J.P.
. Letter of testimony:
August 29th 1787
Evidence in the claim of Timothy Skinner, late of New Jersey
Claimant Sworn,
Says he left the Jerseys September 1783, arrived at St. John's 24th October - wintered at Sorell - came to Niagara the next Summer.
Is a native of America, lived in Sussex County, never came into the British lines during the War.
Says he was always a friend to the British Government, he had declared his sentiments, was taken up in April 1777 &committed to gaol, he was kept 6 months in close confinement - this was part of his sentence.
Produces certificate under the hand of William Livingston Governor dated July 1777 reciting that Claimant had been fined £150 & sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, & that part of his imprisonment was pardoned.
Says he laid in gaol some time not being able to pay his fine, the whole time of his imprisonment was 14 months.
Says he could not make his escape afterwards, he continued at home till Sept, 1783.
Saved good part of his estate.
Claim is for his fine & imprisonment. Produced receipts to prove payment of his fine.
Nathaniel Petit Esq. I know claimant, looked upon him as a friend to the British Government during the Rebellion. Remember his being imprisoned on account of his Loyalty. He was kept close prisoner 6 months & fined. He had been tried by a [NJ] court of Oyer & Terminer.
Ref: Audit Office Vol 12, Bundle 16, p421-424. Film B1158
. UCLPetition 150. To John Graves Simcoe, Esq, Lieut. Governor of the Province of Upper Canada,
The Petition of Timothy Skinner, Humbly Sheweth
To Your Excellency in Council that Your Petitioner suffered very much by Fines Imprisonment & other Oppression from the Americans during the Late War & that he came & put himself under the British Government soon after the War was over & has lived ever since in this District.
Begs to inform your Excellency that there is a small creek a little below Point Ebeno running thro a piece of waste land from a swamp capable of erecting a small Mill for the benefit of the neighbourhood which is much wanted there.
Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly Requests that your Excellency will Please to permit him to build a Mill thereon & grant him one hundred acres of Land adjoining therto on the same terms as is granted to the rest of the Province. Your petitioner will be ever bound to pray. Signed, Timothy Skinner.
Envelope: Rec'd from Major Littlehale, 2nd July 1793.
Skinner Petition, to erect a Grist Mill with a Grant
of 100 acres adjoining. Rec'd this Petition of Mr. P. Terry 2 July 1793. Read in Council July 10. Granted.
. Petition signed, with 42 names.
Envelope: U. C. Land Petitions,S Misc.; Reel C-2832, Archives of Ontario.
. UCLPetition 151, 1794 July 5th, Newark [now Nigara-on-the-Lake.]
To Governor John Graves Simcoe, In Council
The Petition of the subscriber,
Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner lived in the Colony of New Jersey when the late rebellion in America took place. That he was unaffected with the madness of the times & still preserved his loyalty, in the most critical & darkest moments. For which he experienced a variety of sufferings both in his person & property. He has suffered 15 months imprisonment & was at the time under the necessity of supporting himself or perishing with hunger. He has been fined one hundred & fifty pounds beside being obliged to pay a heavy bill of costs. He & his family have received abuse & insults without number. As soon as he had settled his affairs after the peace he removed with his family into this Province & has experienced his Majesty's usual Bounty to all that settle in the province without discrimination of characters.
Encouraged by the disposition His excellency & Your Honors have ever manifested to encourage & reward such as have been distinguished by their suffering in the cause of Loyalty & righteousness your Petitioner begs leave to throw himself on the benevolence of your Honors on the present occasion & most humbly prays that your Honors would indulge him a further location of Lands as much as your Honors in your wisdom shall see fit & as in duty bound he will ever pray. Signed, Timothy Skinner.
. York June 30th 1800
A plan for Building a grist & saw mill on a piece of land as per petition that is to say that the said Timothy Skinner will build a saw mill 36 feet by twelve do. & a grist mill 28 feet square; that he will give security to build the said mills within 3 years from the date of said grant, or the said grant & forfeit all the improvements that may be made on the said land. Timothy Skinner.
1800 Aug 19 - These proposals cannot be accepted.*
Ref: UCLP S Misc, film C2832.
. 1815 Sept 25, WILL of Timothy Skinner, Sr. of Stamford Twp., Lincoln co., Ontario
This 11 Day of 1807
. First, unto my beloved wife Patience Skinner, one third real estate profits tenements during her widowhood, one third moveable property
. to my oldest Son Isaiah Skinner £20.1 shilling;
. second son Henry Skinner £20.1 shilling;
. to my third son Aaron Skinner £20.1 shilling; I also give - to my fourth Son Timothy Skinner Junior £20.1 shilling;
. to my 5th Son Job Skinner the whole of the farm in wherein I now dwell, which said 9 a. I purchased from son Timothy Skinner Junior. Likewise to Job Skinner all the remaining & tow thirds of my moveable property or personal Estate.
. I also give & bequesth unto my two oldest daughters, Mary Quivey & Rhoda Terry 200 acres, Lot 18, Con 12 Blenheim. Share & Share alike to them the said Mary Quivey & Rhoda Terry & the male heirs of their & each of their bodies for ever.
. to my third daughter Sarah Haun 100 acres of the northernmost 50 acres of Lot 11, Con 6 Blenheim & 50 a. L 3, Con 14, Pelham Township;
. to my 4th & 5th daughters, Lois & Patience Skinner 200 a. Lot 19, Con 12, Blenheim Township. Share & Share alike.
. to my Grandson Collin Skinner 100 a. East Lot 14, Con 2, York Twp.
As I have bequeathed my estate in Blenheim Township without mentioning the County I declare that I have forgot what county it is in.
Executors: My Brother Haggai Skinner Senior, Noah Cook & my 5th Son Job Skinner.
Signed Sealed Published, Timothy Skinner Senior. to be his last will & Testament.
Witnesses: Hamilton Graham, Timothy Skinner Senior, Stephen Peer & John Misener. - - - [1]
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1737 - 1814 (76 years)