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Descendants of Nicholas Snow

Generation No. 3


3. NICHOLAS3 SNOW (NICHOLAS2, NICHOLAS1)16,17,18 was born January 25, 1598/99 in of Hoxton, MDX, Eng19,20, and died November 15, 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29. He married CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS30,31,32 May 22, 1627 in Plymouth, MA33,34,35,36, daughter of STEPHEN HOPKINS and MARY. She was born May 11, 1606 in Hursley, Hampshire, England37, and died October 1677 in Eastham, MA38,39,40.

Notes for NICHOLAS SNOW:
Occupation: Carpenter

Freeman: 1633 Plymouth List; 1658 and May 29, 1670 Eastham List

Education: Owned books

Offices: Deputy from Eastham 6/3/1652. 6/3/1657; Commissioner to lay out highways 7/23/1634; Surveyor and supervisor of highways March 3, 1639/40, 6/2/1640. 6/1/1647, 6/7/1653, 6/5/1671; Committee to lay out lands 5/5/1640; Plymouth Grand Jury 6/5/1638; coroner's jury 6/5/1638; jury 10/2/1637, 3/6/1637/38, 3/3/1639/40, 9/1/1640, 6/1/1641, 8/3/1641, 3/7/1642/43, 6/6/1643. Lot Layer 2/1/1640/41. Excise collector 6/7/1648. Committee Member 6/7/1648, 6/4/1650. Eastman Selectman 6/7/1670, 6/5/1671, 6/5/1672, 6/3/1674, 6/1/1675. Constable 6/3/1662. Able to bear arms 1643.

Nicholas was one of the first seven who settled Nausett and was a man of sterling worth and very prominent in the settlement. He was a large landowner and had land in Harwich, Eastham and Truro. His will is dated November 14, 1676 and he died
the next day.
*Obtained from http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/u/Richard-A-Waugh/GENE10-0002.html "Descendants of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins"WILL: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John Austin (1992) p9 : "The will of Nicholas Snow of Eastham, dated 14 Nov. 1676 and prove d 5 March 1676/7, left livestock and household goods to wife Constan t for life use and then to son Jabez, and devised various parcels o f land to sons Mark, Joseph, Steven, John and Jabez. The descriptio n of land near the testator's house mentioned "son Thomas Paine" <act ually son-in-law> as an abutting owner. Nicholas also gave, after th e death of wife, the sum of ten shillings "to the Church of Eastham f or the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other Neces saries." He named Deacon Samuel Freeman and John Mayo as executors. L etters of administration were granted to Constant, Mark and John Sno w on 6 March 1676/7. A lengthy inventory, including many cooper's an d carpenter's tools was sworn to by widow Constant on 22 March 1676/7 ."
RES: Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p450: "removed t o Eastham, 1644"
OCC: ibid.: "town clerk 1646-1662"
OCC: Austin (1992) p9: "Nicholas Snow...was made freeman at Plymout h in 1633. He was named in 1634 to lay out highways at Plymouth, an d he served there as
arbitrator, surveyor of highways and on juries. By 1645 he had settle d at
Eastham where he served as clerk, selectman, deputy, constable, highw ay
surveyor, excise collector, and on court committees."
EMIG: Willison p446: "Anne-of London (140 tons); William Pierce, mast er; and Little James (44 tons); John Bridges, master; arriving July-A ugust 1623, with `about 60 persons'"
EMIG: Austin (1992) p9: "came on the `Ann' in 1623"
HIST: Kathryn Graham 17 Jul 1996 (Snow 24 #3): more details

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ancestry.com database [Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.] states:
NICHOLAS SNOW
ORIGIN: Unknown
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen in close proximity to those admitted on 1 January
1632/3 [PCR 1:4]; in list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth
Colony list of freemen, then erased and moved to Eastham section of list [PCR 8:174, 177]. In
Eastham section of lists of freemen of 1658 and 29 May 1670 [PCR 5:278, 8:201].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "a parcel of old books" valued at 4s., "a psalm book" valued
at 1s., and "1 book" valued at 1s.
OFFICES: Deputy (from Eastham), 3 June 1652, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:9, 115]. Committee to lay out
highways, 23 July 1634 [PCR 1:31]; surveyor and supervisor of highways, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June
1640, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1653, 5 June 1671 [PCR 1:141, 155, 2:115, 3:33, 5:58]. Committee to lay
out lands, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151]. Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:87]; coroner's jury, 5
June 1638 [PCR 1:88]; jury, 2 October 1637, 6 March 1637/8, 3 March 1639/40, 1 September
1640, 1 June 1641, 3 August 1641, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 7:7, 8, 16, 17, 20, 23, 34,
35]. Lot layer, 1 February 1640/1 [PCR 2:7]. Excise collector, 7 June 1648 [PCR 2:125]. Committee
member, 7 June 1648, 4 June 1650 [PCR 2:123, 154].
Eastham selectman, 7 June 1670, 5 June 1671, 5 June 1672, 3 June 1674, 1 June 1675 [PCR 5:35,
57, 92, 143, 164]. Constable, 3 June 1662 [PCR 4:15].
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:189].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division granted an unknown number of acres (but almost
certainly one) at Hobes Hole near the Eel River as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:6]. In the 1627
Plymouth cattle division "Nickolas Snow" and Constance Snow were the sixth and seventh persons
in the seventh company (headed by Stephen Hopkins) [PCR 12:11].
Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634 [PCR
1:10, 27].
Assigned mowing ground, 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:57]; requested more hay ground, 2 July 1638
[PCR 1:90]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].
On 7 May 1638 Nicholas Snow was one of a group of men desiring "lands towards the Six Mile
Brooke" [PCR 1:83], and on 7 August 1638 he requested "5 or 6 acres of land lying on the north side
the lands granted lately to Mr. Atwood" [PCR 1:93]. On 6 July 1638 Nicholas Snow acknowledged
that he sold to Samuell Eddy his house and garden in Plymouth where he "now dwelleth" [PCR
12:31].
Granted ten acres meadow in the South Meadows, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:166]. About March
1645/6 Nicholas Snow sold his house and buildings and upland, with two acres of meadow at High
Pines and ten acres of upland meadow at Colebrook meadows, totalling fifty-two acres to Thomas
Morton [PCR 12:134]. On 10 March 1645[/6] Nicholas Snow sold one acre to Nathaniel Morton
[PCR 12:135]. In an account of liquors brought into Eastham, dated 28 November 1664, Nicholas
Snow was responsible for one and a half gallons of liquor [PCR 4:100].
In his will, dated 14 November 1676 and proved 5 March 1676/7, "Nicholas Snow of Eastham
being weak and infirm of body" bequeathed to "my son Marke Snow" all twenty acres of upland
lying at Namskekitt where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow and all that broken
marsh at Namscekett and two thirds of "my great lot at Satuckett"; to "my son Joseph Snow I give
that other third part of my great lot at Satuckett, and two acres and an half of meadow lying at
Namscekett near the head and an neck of upland"; to "my son Steven Snow I give twenty acres on
the southside of my great lot at Pochett, and ten acres of my little lot at Satuckett ... an acre and an
half of meadow at the boat meadow ... and that part of my meadow at the great meadow that lyeth
between Josiah Cooke and the Eel creek"; to "my son John Snow I give all that my land at Paomett
purchased or unpurchased ... and all my right and title or privilege there"; to "my son Jabez Snow I
give all this my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paine's, and seven acres at the
Bass pond ... and an half acre of marsh at the end of it and six acres of upland at the Herring pond,
and an acre and half of meadow at Silver spring ... and that part of my house he lives in as long as my
wife or I do live ... and two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow"; to "my son Jabez I give that my
four acres of meadow at Billinsgate due to me yet unlaid out"; "my meadow about my house I give to
my son Jabez"; to "my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine,
whatsoever, to be at her disposal for the comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable
goods I am possessed of and after her decease, stock and movables to be equally divided amongst
all my children ... the use and disposal of the part of my house she now dwells in during her lifetime,
and after her decease to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "my loving wife that ten acres of upland at
Pochett and twenty on Billinsgate Iland, for her disposal for the comfort of her life, but if she need it
now, and leave it undisposed, I give it then to my son Steven Snow"; "twenty acres of upland at
Billingsgate if my wife leave it undisposed, then to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "the church of
Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other necessaries, I say I do give
10s. out of my estate after my wife's decease" [MD 3:167-69, citing PCPR 3:2:71-72].
The undated inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of Eastham totalled £102 10s. 9d., with no
real estate included [MD 3:169-74, citing PCPR 3:2:73-77].
On 6 March 1676/7 letters of administration were granted to Constant Snow, Mark Snow and John
Snow, on the estate of Nicholas Snow, deceased [PCR 5:220].

COMMENTS: Bradford, in describing the family of STEPHEN HOPKINS in 1651, stated that "His
daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living and one of them
married" [Bradford 445]. (In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden suggested that two of the children who are
implied by Bradford's accounting but do not otherwise appear in the records were Hannah and
Rebecca "on the authority of Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth. Both married Rickards" [NEHGR
47:83]; she cites no evidence.)
In January 1634/5 the Plymouth court noted that "The servant of Nicolas Snow was willing to
serve out his time with John Cooper, according to the tenor of his indenture" [PCR 1:33]. This
servant was not the same as Twiford West who, after brief service with Nicholas Snow, agreed on 12
February 1635/6 to return to Edward Winslow, with whom he had originally made his indenture
[PCR 1:37].
Nicholas Snow and others were presented 1 December 1640 for failing to mend the highways
[PCR 2:5].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden published a substantial article on Nicholas
Snow and his children [NEHGR 47:81-84, 186-89, 48:71-73]. In 1948 Donald Lines Jacobus
prepared an account of Nicholas Snow and a line of descent through his son Stephen [Brainerd Anc
270-72].


More About NICHOLAS SNOW:
AFN: 46RG-XN41
Baptism (LDS): January 25, 1598/99, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, Eng42,43,44,45,46
Burial: Old Cove, Orleans, MA, USA47
Immigrated: July 1623, aboard Anne48,49
Occupation: Carpenter50
Residence: 1623, Plymouth, , Mass.51

Notes for CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
********* SEE SNOW FAMILY FOR CONTINUATION OF THIS LINE ***********


Art Cohan lists b:January 25, 1599/00 in London, England, d:Nov. 25, 1677 in Eastham, MAEMIG: `Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p437: "Mayflow er-of Harwich (180 tons); Christopher Jones, master; out of London, m id-July, 1620, dropping anchor off tip of Cape Cod, November 11th, Ol d Style, with 102 passengers"


More About CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
AFN: QDSN-9C52
Ancestry File No.: Gen'l Society of Mayflower Descendants #18429
Baptism: May 11, 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England53
Burial: Old Cove, Orleans, MA, USA54
     
Children of NICHOLAS SNOW and CONSTANCE HOPKINS are:
4. i.   MARK4 SNOW, b. May 9, 1628, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA, USA; d. January 9, 1694/95, Eastham, MA, USA.
  ii.   MARY SNOW55, b. Abt. 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA, USA56,57,58,59; d. April 28, 1704, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA60,61,62; m. THOMAS PAINE, Bef. April 165163,64,65,66,67,68,69; b. Abt. 1610, Eng70,71; d. August 16, 1706, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA71,72,73.
  iii.   SARAH SNOW74, b. Abt. 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA75,76,77,78; d. Aft. March 8, 1695/96, Eastham, Barnstable, MA79,80,81,82; m. WILLIAM WALKER, February 25, 1654/55, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA83,84,85,86,87; b. Abt. 1620, Eng; d. Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA.
  Notes for WILLIAM WALKER:
!BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p17
-"b. in England ca. 1620, his origins unk.", "m. Eastham 25 Fe b. 1654.5..
Their marriage date is given in an earlier volume of the Eas tham vital
vital records as "24 January <worn>.", "d. prob. Eastham bet . 8 March
1697 and 25 Oct 1703"
BMD: `Mayflower Increasings' by Susan Roser p77: d. "prob. Plymouth"

5. iv.   JOSEPH SNOW, b. Abt. 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. January 3, 1722/23, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
  v.   STEPHEN SNOW88, b. Abt. 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA89,90,91,92,93,94; d. December 17, 1705, Eastham, Barnstable, MA95,96,97,98; m. (1) SUSANNA DEANE, October 28, 1663, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA99,100,101,102,103,104,105; b. Bef. 1634, Plymouth, MA, USA106; d. Bef. April 1701, Eastham, MA, USA107; m. (2) MARY COTTLE, April 9, 1701, Eastham, MA, USA108,109,110,111,112; b. November 1, 1653, Salisbury, MA, USA113,114; d. Aft. May 21, 1706115,116.
  Notes for SUSANNA DEANE:
!BMD: `Stephen Hopkins MFIP' by John D Austin (1989) p12: no ch by 1s t husband
BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p19
-"b. Plymouth bef. 1634" "she had no issue by first husband."
-"The marriage of Stephen and Susannah was twice recorded at Ea stham, once
with date of 13 Dec. 1665, well after b. of their oldest chil d."
-"d. prob. Eastham bef. April of 1701" when Stephen remarried


  Notes for MARY COTTLE:
.BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p19 : "b. prob.
Plymouth ca. 1636... d. after 21 May 1706;" when signed receip t of heirs.


  Marriage Notes for STEPHEN SNOW and MARY COTTLE:
The Great Migration Begins database in Ancestry.com lists the second marriage for Stephen:
m. (2) Eastham 9 April 1701 Mary Bigford [MD 6:14].
where I already have substantial sources that his marriage was to Mary Cottle.

  vi.   JOHN SNOW117, b. Abt. 1638, Plymouth, MA, USA118,119,120,121; d. Bef. April 4, 1692, Eastham, MA, USA122,123,124; m. MARY SMALLEY, September 19, 1667, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA125,126,127,128,129,130; b. December 11, 1647, Plymouth, MA, USA131; d. Abt. 1703, Eastham, MA, USA132.
  Notes for MARY SMALLEY:
!BMD: `Stephen Hopkins MFIP' by John D Austin (1989) p13: twin
BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p20 : "twin"
-"d. after 7 Dec. 1699 (when mentioned in second husband's will ), prob.
Eastham ca. 1703"

  vii.   ELIZABETH SNOW133, b. Abt. 1640, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA134; d. June 16, 1678, Eastham, Barnstable, MA135,136,137,138,139; m. THOMAS ROGERS, December 13, 1665, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA140,141,142,143,144,145; b. March 29, 1638, Duxbury, MA, USA146,147,148; d. Eastham, MA, USA.
  Notes for THOMAS ROGERS:
BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p22
-"b. prob. Duxbury 29 March 1638...grandson of Pilgrim Thomas R ogers."
-"d. prob. Eastham bet. 5 March 1677/8 and 7 Aug. 1678"
REF: `Thomas Rogers Pilgrim and Some of His Descendants', The Thoma s Rogers
Society, 1980
REF: `Plymouth Colony Its History and People, 1620-1691', by Eugene A ubrey
Stratton, Ancestry Publishing, SLC, 1986


  More About THOMAS ROGERS:
Baptism (LDS): May 6, 1638149
6. viii.   JABEZ SNOW, b. 1642, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA; d. December 20, 1690, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA.
  ix.   RUTH SNOW150, b. Abt. 1644, Plymouth, MA, USA151,152,153,154; d. January 27, 1714/15, Eastham, MA, USA155,156,157; m. JOHN COLE, December 10, 1666, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA158,159,160,161,162; b. July 15, 1644, Eastham, MA, USA163,164,165; d. January 6, 1724/25, Eastham, MA, USA166,167,168.
  x.   CHILD SNOW, b. Abt. 1646169,170.
  xi.   CHILD SNOW, b. Abt. 1648171,172.
  xii.   CHILD SNOW, b. Abt. 1650173,174.
  xiii.   CONSTANCE SNOW, b. Bef. 1651, Eastham, MA, USA175,176,177; m. DANIEL DOANE, Bef. 1666178,179,180; b. Abt. 1636, Plymouth, MA, USA181,182,183; d. December 20, 1712, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA184.
  Notes for DANIEL DOANE:
!BMD: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p10
-"Josiah PAINE, town clerk and historian of Harwich, wrote tha t Nicholas
(SNOW) and Constance (HOPKINS) had a dau. named for her moth er who was
the first wife of Daniel DOANE of Eastham...Daniel's first w ife was
undoubtedly the mother of all his children except Hepzibah."
QUERY: Is this the same person as RIN 7192?


  More About DANIEL DOANE:
Burial: Old Towne Cove Burial Ground, Lori Steadman has photographs of g ravestone.Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA185
  xiv.   SNOW, b. Bef. 1651186,187.


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