Jabez Snow (1733 - 1812)

Born 19 Jun 1733 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Doane) Snow — married 22 May 1755 in Eastham, Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 8 Feb 1812 at age 78 in Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Maritime Provinces

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Biography

Captain Jabez Snow was born in February 1733 at his parents' home in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay, New England. His father was Jabez Snow, and his mother was Elizabeth (Paine) Snow. Both descended from early Pilgrim settlers to the original Plymouth Colony in New England. His ancestors had been among the first English settlers on Cape Cod, surrounded on three sides by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Fishing and sailing were a natural way of life to them. Jabez was the oldest boy of a family of 7 children.^[1]

On May 22, 1755, in Eastham, Jabez married Elizabeth Doane, b: March 7, 1733, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England. The Doane and Snow families had been neighbors and had inter-married for 100 years by the mid-18th Century. Jabez and Elizabeth were the 4th consecutive Snow generation to include a son Jabez who married a woman named Elizabeth. Captain Jabez & Elizabeth Snow had five children together (but none were named Jabez!):

1. Josiah SNOW b: 17 Oct 1757 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Bay
2. Hannah SNOW b: 10 Sep 1759 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. B.
3. William B. SNOW b: 15 Sep 1763 in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
4. Sylvanus SNOW b: 24 Feb 1765 in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
5. Edward SNOW b: 1771 in Granville Ferry, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia

A sixth child, Anna Snow, b: 19 Aug 1782, was in fact their oldest son Josiah's child, not Jabez & Elizabeth's daughter as some family genealogies have mistakenly reported.^[2]

Captain Jabez Snow was a British Naval officer and merchant seaman, engaged in trade along the Atlantic seaboard between Massachusetts and Britain's maritime provinces such as Maine and those that eventually became part of Canada. He fought against the French in the 7 Years War (1756-63) along the Eastern Seaboard. In 1762, he decided to move his family out of Cape Cod, taking advantage of English policy of generous land patents to British settlers willing to homestead lands in the former French province of Acadia, newly-renamed "Nova Scotia". They settled in Granville Ferry, Annapolis County, between the births of their daughter Hannah Snow, born in 1759 in Eastham, and son William, born in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, in September 1763. Sylvanus was born in Nova Scotia in 1765. Edward was born in Nova Scotia in 1771.^[3]

Thus, during the American Revolutionary War, Jabez Snow and his family remained British loyalists, opposing their pro-American cousins in Maine and Massachusetts. He even raised a company to fight the fledgling United States in favor of Great Britain for the War of 1812. Captain Jabez Snow IV died in Nova Scotia on February 8, 1812. His wife had died just one month earlier at their Granville, Nova Scotia home, a British territory that would become part of Canada in 1867.

Notes

As mentioned below by Crowell there were two separate Snow family branches who settled in the Barrington area. The families of Nathan Snow and Joshua Snow who were second cousins - once removed (common ancestor Jabez Snow).

THE SNOW FAMILIES. The Snow name takes us back to the Pilgrim days. Nicholas Snow married Constance a daughter of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and founded the family, two branches of which were represented among the Barrington proprietors.^[4]

Something overlooked by Crowell and other genealogists is that at this time there was also the family of Prence Snow in the South Shore area. Prence would be second cousin to Joshua and third cousin once removed to Nathan (common ancestor Nicholas Snow mentioned by Crowell). Another connection to note is the Annapolis County family of Jabez Snow the 4th who was Joshua's brother living across the province.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #74038994 Capt. Jabez Snow. Tombstone reads he died in 1812 in his 79th year. This indicates he was born in 1733, not 1723 as some other sources state. The tombstone was contemporary to his 1812 death. Birth date corrected by Chet Snow Oct 10, 2015.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #111373856 Anna Snow Shaw
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #74038994 Capt. Jabez Snow The compiler states that:

   "The land petition of Josiah, Sylvanus and Edward in 1814 for land in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County, New Brunswick, (from New Brunswick Provincial Archives) says that Josiah Snow was born in Eastham and came with his parents to Granville Ferry in 1762..."

4. ↑ A history of Barrington township and vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, 1604-1870; with a biographical and genealogical appendix by Crowell, Edwin; Publication date 1923. See page 517 for Joshua Snow

• Clark Lambert Tree - Jabez Snow

• Expulsion of the Acadians on Wikipedia

• Nova Scotia on Wikipedia

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Snow-692 was created on 19 March 2011 through the import of Davidson.GED.