George Snider (1744 - 1829)

Born 24 Oct 1744 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Died Feb 1829 at age 84 in Monongalia, West Virginia, USA

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Biography

When George was one, the Michael Snider family settled in Cumberland County, PA (five years before that county was organized) and lived there until the Spring of 1748. They then went to a tract of land in Baltimore Colony, near the plantation of Col. Thomas Cresap at Long Meadows, in now Washington County, Maryland - seven miles North East of Hagertown. Here the Michael Snider family lived the lives of the pioneers, surrounded by other pioneer families of old Frederic County, of which Washington County was set off of.

The Michael Snider family lived in this homestead in 1755 when the father, Michael Snider, joined the Maryland Militia, and joined General Edward Braddock's Army as a "gunner", then on his way to demolish the French Post of Fort DuQuesne. In 1772, George Snider raised the first wheat ever grown in Monongalia County. The Snider burial ground is located at the foot of Indian Ridge, overlooking Dunkard Creek and the Mason Dixon Line.

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• www.angelfire.com/journal2/skylark1/page6.html