Snow Parker (1760 - 1843)

Born 16 May 1760 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Knowles) Parker — married 17 Jul 1780 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 18 Sep 1843 at age 83 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia Colony

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Biography

Snow Parker, mariner, businessman, politician, militia officer, judge, and jp; b. 16 May 1760 in Yarmouth, Mass., eldest child of Benjamin Parker and Mary Snow; m. 17 July 1780 Martha Knowles in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and they had ten children; d. there 18 Sept. 1843^[1][2][3]

Children included^[4]:

1. Experience, born July 4, 1783^[4], who was the third wife of Joseph Freeman^[5]
2. Samuel, born October 29, 1784^[4], who married Abigail Barss, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Barss^[6]
3. Mary, born July 26, 1787^[4]
4. Snow, Jr, born January 22, 1790, who was drowned June 14, 1794^[4]
5. Knowles, born September 23, 1792^[4], who died December 14, 1843^{[7] [6]}
6. Betsey, born January 1, 1795^[4]
7. Patty, born July 26, 1797, who died March 14, 1801^[4]
8. Desiah, born September 4, 1799^[4], who married David Grieve, son of Thomas and Mary Grieve of Glasgow, Scotland in 1821^[8], and then married Caleb Seeley in 1848 ^[6]
9. Patty, born February 5, 1802^[4], who died in 1865^[9]
10. Rhoda, born May 30, 1805^[4], who married John O Morse in 1832^[6]

Partner of Thomas Freeman, Joseph Freeman, Joseph Barss Sr, Joseph Barss Jr, Simeon Perkins, Hallet Collins, and Enos Collins.

Part owner of the privateers Charles Mary Wentworth, Retaliation, and Duke of Kent^{[10] [7]}.

Sources

1. ↑ J. B. Cahill, “PARKER, SNOW,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 18, 2016, [1]
2. ↑ "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909," database, FamilySearch [2]
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch [3]
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} Vital Records of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, page 77 found in Volume 126, page 283 of the Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
5. ↑ "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5D-8ZK : 5 December 2014), Joseph Freeman and Experience Parker, 14 Aug 1803; citing Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 837,883.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} T. Brenton Smith TB Smith Genealogies, accessed April 4, 2017; see person 1171 for Samuel, 4300 for Knowles, 1724 for Desiah; 1837 for Rhoda
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} The Diaries of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780 (volume I) The Publications of the Champlain Society, Volume 29; Author: Simeon Perkins; Editor: Harold A. Innis; Published: 2013
8. ↑ "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5L-S86 : 5 December 2014), David Grieve and Desiah Parker, 18 Dec 1821; citing Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 837,883.
9. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2PD-C83 : 28 November 2014), Patty Parker, 04 Jul 1865; citing Cemetery, Liverpool, Queens, reference p2 13; FHL microfilm 1,298,862.
10. ↑ The history of Queens County, N.S.; by More, James F. (James Fullerton), 1802-1878; Published in Halifax, 1873; Digitizing sponsor University of Alberta Libraries.