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Family members included Maria Lowther Skinner (1786-1824), her husband, Joseph Blount Skinner (1781-1851), and their children--Tristrim Lowther Skinner (1820-1862) and Penelope Skinner Warren (1824-1841). Joseph Blount Skinner of Edenton, N.C., owned several plantations in Bertie, Perquimans, and Chowan counties and served in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1807 and 1814. After 1840, Tristrim Lowther Skinner managed his father's plantations; served in the N.C. general assembly, 1846-1848; was a captain, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. He married Eliza Fisk Harwood Skinner (1827-1888) of Williamsburg, Va., in 1849.

From the description of Skinner family papers, 1705-1900. WorldCat record id: 23438216

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Norfolk (Va.)
Edenton (N.C.)
Perquimans County (N.C.)
Williamsburg (Va.)
Southern States
Bertie County (N.C.)
Chowan County (N.C.)
Confederate States of America
United States
North Carolina
Hillsborough (N.C.)
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