Mary (Frost) Snow (1700 - 1778)

Born 28 Mar 1700 in Virginia

Wife of Henry Snow — married about 1720 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 1778 at about age 77 in Albemarle or Bedford County, Virginia

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Biography

UPDATE 30 June 2020: Please see "Research Notes" at end of this Profile - I now believe that this "alternate narrative" for Mary Frost Wilson Snow is more accurate - her last name at birth was WILSON not Frost. And she was born in England, not Virginia.

More research is required. Added by Chet Snow

Mary was born in 1700 in Virginia. Her name at birth was Mary Frost. Her parents are not known at present. She first married a Mr. Wilson in Virginia and, as his childless widow, she married Henry Snow, an English immigrant to Virginia in about 1725; they had at least one son, John Snow, born in 1728. Mary passed away in 1778 in Bedford County, Virginia at 78 years old. See below for more information and hypotheses about Mary (Frost, Wilson) and Henry Snow.^[1]

No contemporary emigration records have yet been found but the most-likely scenario is that Henry Snow and his father Thomas Snow, with Thomas' youngest children and their mother (??), left England in 1725 or 1726, bound for Virginia. There, Henry met and married a young widow: Mary (Frost) Wilson, b. March 28, 1700 in Virginia. They married in about 1727 and their eldest son John Snow was born in 1728 in western Goochland County, Virginia, near the present-day city of Charlottesville (not founded until 1762).

Some family genealogists have confused this "John Snow," b. ca. 1728, with "Trooper John Snow" who lived 90+ miles away in Lunenburg (later Bedford) County, was born at least 10 years earlier (i.e., ca. 1710-1715) and who may have been Henry Snow's brother or cousin. If he was born in 1710-15, he could not have been Mary (Frost, Wilson) Snow's son - it was too early for her to be married, widowed, remarried and a mother when she was only 10 to 15 years old.

Another son of Captain Henry & Mary (Frost, Wilson) Snow was Thomas Snow Sr., b. around 1730 - 1735, near Charlottesville and who died in August 1781, in Bedford County (became Campbell County in 1782), Virginia. He married Winifred Jordan and had 8 children, all near Leesville, in Bedford (Campbell) County, southwest of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Other's of Capt. Henry & Mary Snow's children include daughters:

1. Jane Snow, b: ca. 1729
2. Dorothy Snow, b: ca. 1734.
3. Icey Snow, b: 1745

Henry Snow died in March 1778, probably in Albemarle County, Virginia, the same year his wife Mary is also said to have passed away. Her commemorative grave-stone has been placed in the "Snowville" Cemetery, Pulaski County, Virginia.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Researched and added by Chet Snow, Monday, October 20, 2014; edited October 22, 2015.
2. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial #11253569 - Mary Wilson Snow

See also:

• Mary Frost record on Ancestry.com. Has birth year wrong; she was born in 1700 not 1715.

• Henry Snow on Stilesgen.com - see notes for mention of Mary Frost Wilson and her birth-date.

• Find A Grave Memorial #11253569 - Mary Wilson Snow

• Hurley-Ellis-Valeur Family Tree - Mary Frost Wilson. I include this "family genealogy" to give an example of how "facts" are blended with obvious "fiction" - it was impossible then for a "normal" middle-class family to go back and forth between England & Virginia like that; the journey was too arduous & expensive.

RESEARCH NOTES: I have just come across a very-different "theory" as to the ancestry of Mary Frost Wilson Snow. Here is one URL that states she was born as "Mary Frost" (dual 1st name) to Cyprian Wilson & wife Margaret (Frost) Wilson - and Born in Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire, England on 28 Mar 1700 to Cyprian Wilson and Margaret (Frost). And a 2nd reference to Cyprian Wilson of Lincolnshire. ^[3]

IF Mary was born in England and named Wilson at birth, then she possibly could have married Capt. Henry Snow in England ca. 1714 and had a son in Virginia in 1715 or even earlier if she was pregnant before a formal marriage (at age 12 ? = 1712 ?).... Could be why she & Henry left for Virginia.... More research is required.

• http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-wilson_42731633?geo_a=r&o_iid=41027&o_lid=41027&o_sch=Web+Property
• http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/cyprian-wilson_59987634?geo_a=r&o_iid=41027&o_lid=41027&o_sch=Web+Property
• http://www.geni.com/people/Cyprian-Wilson/6000000027343110786
• http://www.myheritage.com/names/cyprian_wilson
• http://www.geni.com/people/Cyprian-Wilson/6000000031665386554