Mary (Snow) Paine (abt. 1630 - 1704)

Born about 1630 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Paine — married before Apr 1651 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1704 at about age 74 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mary Snow was born probably about 1630 at Plymouth Colony, the daughter of Nicholas Snow and his wife, Constance (Hopkins) Snow.^[1] She married Thomas Paine sometime before April 1651.^[1]

The nine children of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow Paine were:

1. Mary Paine, (eldest child)^[1][2] married first James Rogers;^[2][3] married second 24 April 1679 Israel Cole;^[2][3] died before 21 January 1723/4^[4]
2. Samuel Paine, born about 1652;^[1] married 31 January 1682 Patience Freeman^[2][3] (see research notes); died 13 October 1712^[2]
3. Thomas Paine, born about 1656/7;^[1] married first 5 August 1678 Hannah Shaw;^[5][6] married second 8 March 1714/5 Elizabeth Tolman;^[7][8] died 23 June 1721^[9]
4. Elisha Paine, aka Eleazer, born 10 March 1658;^[1][10] married 20 January 1685 Rebecca Doane;^[2] died 7 February 1736^[2]
5. John Paine, born 14 March 1660/1;^[1] married first Bennett Freeman;^[3][11] married second Alice Mayo;^[3][11] died 26 October 1731^[11]
6. Nicholas Paine, married about 1699 Hannah Higgins;^[3][12] died before 16 January 1733^[12]
7. James Paine, born 6 July 1665;^[1] married 9 April 1691 Bethiah Thacher;^[3][13] died 12 November 1728^[14]
8. Joseph Paine, born after April 1666;^[1] married 27 May 1691 Patience Sparrow;^[15][16] died 1 October 1712^[17][18]
9. Dorcas Abigail Paine, married about 1689 Benjamin Vickery;^[3][19] d. 30 Oct 1707^[19]

There is little other record of Mary Snow Paine, but she was said to have been a "faithful wife, a careful mother, a good and quiet neighbor, and a diligent reader of God's Holy Word." Her son, Deacon John Paine , wrote of her last hours and death in his diary, as follows: "On the 28th day of April, 1704, my honoured mother, Mary Paine, departed this life, being suddenly taken and struck with death, she having been in reasonable health all day, was taken ill about sunset so she never after spoke reasonable but decaying gradually gave up the Ghost about the dawning of the day..."^[20] Mary (Snow) Paine predeceased her husband Thomas by several years.^[1]

Research Notes

Massachusetts Marriage Records have as the recorded date of Samuel Paine and Patience Freeman's marriage 31 January 1689.^[21] The original record for their marriage can be seen in the Eastham VRs, and the marriage year is 1682.^[22]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, pp. 13-14.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Paine, Henry D. Paine Family Records: A Journal of Genealogical and Biographical Information Respecting he American Families of Payne, Paine, Payn & c. Albany: J. Munsell (1883), vol. 2, pp. 44-48.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} White, Augusta. The Paynes of Hamilton. NY: Tobias Wright, Pub. (1912), pp. 13-21.
4. ↑ Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, p. 37.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 113 of 157; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Eastham Town Records, Vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 17. "Thomas paine junior and hannah Shaw wear married the 5 of august 1678"
6. ↑ George Ernest Bowman, "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records" in The Mayflower Descendant. Online at Archive.org, Vol. 4:31: "Thomas paine junior and hannah shaw wear maried the: 5: of august: 1678"
7. ↑ Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751. Vol. 28, (Boston: Municipal Printing office, 1898). Online at Archive.org, p. 54: "Thomas Payn Esqr. & Eliza. Aires, [Married by] Rev. Mr. Eben'r Pemberton Presbt. [Date of Marriage] Mar. 8, 1714/5"
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Truro > Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1709-1771 vol 1 > image 37 of 163; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Truro Records of town meetings, votes, births, marriages, deaths; Vol. 1709-1783, p. 23. "Capt Thomas Paine and Mrs Elizebeth Eairs ware Married the Eighth day of March in ye year 1714/15."
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Truro > Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1709-1771 vol 1 > image 37 of 163; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Truro Records of town meetings, votes, births, marriages, deaths; Vol. 1709-1783, p. 23. "Capt Thomas Paine Esqr dyed the 23rd day of June in the year 1721."
10. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (ed.) Plymouth Colony Records. NY: AMS Press (1857), vol. 8, p. 27.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, p. 41.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, p. 43.
13. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (13 July 2016), James Pain and Bethiah Thacher, 09 Apr 1691; citing Marriage, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 947,061.
14. ↑ Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, p. 44.
15. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 31 October 2019), Joseph Paine and Patience Sparrow, 27 May 1691; citing Marriage, Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010725.
16. ↑ "George Ernest Bowman, "Eastham & Orleans, MA, Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 4, p. 209, citing Eastham VRs Vol. 1, p. 49
17. ↑ Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988, published by Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT 2011. [Joseph] Paine. Death date: 1 Oct 1712; Death place: Boston, MA; Father: Thomas Paine available online by subscription.
18. ↑ George Ernest Bowman, "Eastham & Orleans, MA, Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 7, p. 236
19. ↑ ^{19.0 19.1} Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins, p. 46.
20. ↑ The Journal of Deacon John Paine. Mayflower Descendant Quarterly Magazine. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1906), vol. 8, p. 230.
21. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, (FamilySearch: 24 January 2020), Samuel Paine, 1689.
22. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 120 of 157; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Eastham Town Records, Volume marked "Land Grants 1659-1710; Births, Marriages & Deaths 1649 - 1760", p. 31 (from back of book). Original record: "Samuel paine and patience ffreeman wear maried the : 31th of Jenuarie : 1682"

See also:

• Alden, M.L.T. Snow Genealogy. NEGHR (Jan 1893), reprinted in Sarah C. Paine's Paine (Robert Treat) Family, pp. 7-10 available through Ancestry.com by subscription.
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995).
• Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Pages 7, 13-14.
• Josiah Paine, Early Settlers of Eastham : Containing Sketches of All Early Settlers of Eastham, (Yarmouthport, Mass. : C. W. Swift, 1916), p. 21, "Thomas Paine".
• Dana, Harold Ward. John Billings of Deer Isle, Maine. NEHGR, vo. 97 (Oct 1943), p. 347.
• Johnson, Caleb H. The Mayflower and Her Passengers. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp. (2006).
• Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births & Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman, at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Genealogical Publishing Co. (1992), vol. 2.
• Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Marriages. Genealogical Publishing Co. (1990).
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 15 November 2020), memorial page for Mary Snow Paine (14 Dec 1630–28 Apr 1704), Find A Grave: Memorial #34166370, citing Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703).