Margaret Snelling

Children of Thomas Scott (d 1657) & Margaret Hubbard:

• 1. Margaret; m. (1) William Rogers, merchant, of Boston; m. (2) by Jan. 30, 1676/7, William Snelling of Boston.

William Snelling born 24 June, 1649 ... adopted his father's profession, and became a physician. He married Margaret, widow of William Rogers, by whom he had one child, a daughter. He died, together with his wife and child, in the terrible visitation of small pox in the winter of 1677-78.

• Ancestors of Malu Del & Tahlia Elphia McDonald
  • Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985). ROGERS, William (-1676) & Margaret [SCOTT], m/2 William SNELLING; ca 1672; Boston {Suffolk Co. Prob.; EIHC 12:301; Davis: Anc. of Phoebe Tilton 120}.
  • Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985). SNELLING, William & Margaret (SCOTT)? [ROGERS] (-1678?), w William; aft 22 Apr 1676, bef 31 Jan 1676/7, prob in 1676; Boston {Suffolk Co. Prob. 5:345, 351; EIHC 4:26, 12:301; Davis: Anc. of Phoebe Tilton 120}

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from "The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachusetts" page 270:

Administration on the estate of Thomas Scott was granted to his wife Margaret on Sept. 29, 1657. It was small, containing no real estate, and was insolvent. Thomas Patch and Abigail Bosworth on Sept. 25, 1683, petitioned for the administration on the estate of their brother Thomas Scott, deceased.

Margaret Rogers made her will in Boston on June 22, 1678. Her estate in Ipswich was was bound to make good £200 to her children and, when it cleared of that obligation, £40 from it was to be given to her son and daughter Snelling's two children. The estate of her son Thomas Scott of which she was executrix she left to her own executrix to be disposed of in accordance with Thomas's will. .... etc.

On January 9, 1694, William Rogers addressed a petition to the Probate Court saying: "Thomas Scott my Grandfather dyed in Ipswich about thirty and eight yers agoe . . . he left my Grandmother with onely two Children viz margerett Scott my mother and thomas Scott . . . my sd uncle thomas Scott went unto old England and dyed ther . . . when I was about four yers old my mother dyed and in a short time after my Grandmother about sixten yers agoe . . . my sd Grandfather dyed sezed of agood Considerable estat in land in Ipswich . . . I am the onely surviving person descended from my sd Grandfather and now I am come to the age of twenty one yers doe humly Crave that your Honnour will Grant administration to me of the estat of my sd Grandfather that hath not bien leagally disposed of."

• page 36 of The Boston Harbor Islands: A History of an Urban Wilderness. By David Kales. "The Speckled Monster of Boston.". Another epidemic of smallpox struck the colonists in 1677, killing over 1,000 people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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• Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via William Snelling by SmartCopy: Dec 14 2015, 0:08:12 UTC