Isaac
(Issac)
Snowden
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Son of John Snowden
and Ruth (Fitzrandolph) Snowden
Brother of
James Snowden [half], Rebekah (Snowden) Edgar [half], Mary (Snowden) Keen [half], Anne Snowden [half], John Snowden [half], Benjamin Snowden, Jedidiah Snowden and Rachel Snowden
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Finley Snowden and Nathaniel Randolph Snowden
Died
at age 77
in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Mar 2014
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Biography
ISAAC SNOWDEN
Isaac (1732-1809), a Revolutionary soldier, and Mary (Cox) Snowden
•Birth: 1732 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania •Death: 1809 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania •Note: A CENTURY OF PASTORS.
REV. NATHANIEL RANDOLPH SNOWDEN.
Pastor 1793-1805.
By Major General GEORGE R. SNOWDEN. (excerpt)
The Reverend Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, fourth son of Isaac and Mary Coxe Snowden, was born in Philadelphia on the 17th of January, 1770, and received his baptismal name in honor of his grand- uncle, Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, of the New Jersey and Massachusetts family of that name, who started the first subscription paper to found the College at Princeton, and gave the ground on which was built Nassau Hall. His father,(ISAAC SNOWDEN) besides being President of the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and member of committee to draft form of government of the Presbyterian Church, was Quartermaster in the Army of the Revolution, Commissioner for the Issue of Continental Currency, Treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia, etc., etc. He was born in that city in 1732, and died in 1809, and was buried in the grounds of Old Middletown Presbyterian church in Delaware county, while the son was Pastor. His grandfather, Isaac, first, was a ruling elder and member of the first Session of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, established in 1743. with which the family has been since continuously connected. His great-grandfather was John Snowden, elder of the First Presbyterian Church of that city, the first elder ordained in Pennsylvania and believed to be the first ordained in this country
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #156856956
- Find A Grave: Memorial #154935346 John Snowden.
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jacquelinesr&id=I28036
- Major General (Retired) George R. Snowden. A Century of Pastors. Reverend Nathaniel Randolph Snowden. Pastor 1793 - 1805.
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