Josiah Snow

Descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren

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Category: Snow Name Study

Biography ==Reports of when Josiah Snow was born vary from 1639 (when his parents married) to 1655 (when they had a "son, Snow"), as apparently no official birth record for him has been found. Many family genealogies state he was born March 25, 1655, but this is 10 years too late for his 1670 marriage as men did not marry at 15 years old in the Puritan-led colony of Plymouth, New England, in the 17th Century. Further, it's clear that Anthony and Abigail (Warren) Snow's second son, who was born on March 25, 1655, died shortly after birth and no Christian name has ever been found for him. The March 1655 birth year has been copied in error by many genealogists.

The most-likely solution is that Josiah Snow was born in 1649 as he had sisters born in 1645, 1647, and 1651... This would have made him 21 in early 1670, an age when many young men of that time and place were wed. It is known that Josiah was the first-born son of Anthony Snow and Abigail Warren and from his maternal grandfather Richard Warren, he is a Mayflower descendant. <ref> Footprints In Time Genealogy on RootsWeb - Anthony Snow. Cites "Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691". </ref> In early 1670 (many marriages were held shortly before spring-planting), when he would have been 21, Josiah Snow married Plymouth colony neighbor, Rebecca Barker, who was about 18 years old (girls were considered adults at 18). She was the daughter of Robert Barker, who had arrived in Plymouth in 1628 from Kent, England and his wife, Lucy (Williams) Barker, of Scituate. Josiah and Rebecca (Barker) Snow's first child: daughter, Abigail Snow, was born on December 6, 1670, in Marshfield, Plymouth colony (Massachusetts), New England. The couple had a total of 9 daughters:<ref> JOHN AND HELEN LEHMAN MASTER FILE DECEMBER 18, 2008 .GED - Rebecca Barker </ref># Abigail SNOW b: 6 Dec 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth colony, New England (British North America)

1. Lydia SNOW b: 5 Jul 1672 in Marshfield, Plymouth colony, N.E.
2. Mercy SNOW b: 29 Aug 1675 in Marshfield, Plymouth colony, N.E.
3. Deborah SNOW b: 21 Dec 1677 in Marshfield, Plymouth colony, N.E.
4. Sarah SNOW b: 8 Nov 1680 in Marshfield, Plymouth, colony, N.E.
5. Bethiah SNOW b: Dec 1681 in Marshfield, Plymouth, colony, N.E.
6. Lusanna SNOW b: 7 Mar 1683 in Marshfield, Plymouth, colony, N.E.
7. Rebecca SNOW b: 16 Jun 1685 in Marshfield, Plymouth colony, N.E.# Abiah SNOW b: 1692 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England (British North America) Josiah Snow was a carpenter in Marshfield, Plymouth colony (Massachusetts), New England. He died there in August 1692. His widow filed an inventory of his estate on January 3, 1693. The settlement of the estate of Josiah Snow of Marshfield on November 3, 1693 mentions that there were then 8 living children, all daughters, and their mother.<ref> "Richard Warren of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations," published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, pg. 21. </ref> Some genealogies state that Rebecca (Barker) Snow remarried to widowerJohn Sawyer on November 23, 1694, in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay province. They had no children as Rebecca would have been about 55 years old by then.

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• Published research of Pardon and Harriet Russell Head.* "Richard Warren of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations," published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.* Clarence Almon Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior To 1700" (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985).* Mary Isabella Preston, "Bassett-Preston Ancestors; a History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Wasson, and Helen BassettHauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston)," (New Haven, CT:The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930).* Source: S-776811469 Repository: #R-1197866539 "Mayflower Births and Deaths," Vol. 1 and 2. Ancestry.com;Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,3718::0 - Repository: R-1197866539 Ancestry.com* Many Degrees of Separation on RootsWeb - Josiah Snow

Acknowledgements ==* Thank you to Becky Syphers, for creating WikiTree profile Snow-1262 from firsthand knowledge on January 19, 2012.. Click theChanges tab for the details of edits by Becky and others.

• Thank you to Rebecca Head for creating WikiTree profile Snow-3754 on January 18, 2016.
• WikiTree profile Snow-2539 was created by Hannah Rushthrough the import of Rush Family Tree (1).ged on Jun 11, 2014.
• Thank you to Chet Snow for merging these 3 duplicateprofiles, researching Josiah's life, writing this biographical sketchand adding sources, on January 23, 2016 and August 13, 2016.