Hannah (Merrick) Snow (1700 - 1764)

Born 1700 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Snow — married 12 Aug 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 17 Feb 1764 at about age 64 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Chet Snow [send private message], Elizabeth Hyatt [send private message], Mayflower Project WikiTree [send private message], and JaAnna Nelson [send private message]

Hannah (Merrick) Snow was related to a passenger on the Mayflower. Join: Mayflower Project Discuss: mayflower

Biography

Last name is also found as Myrick. Hannah Merrick (aka Myrick) was born in 1700 in Eastham, Cape Cod (Barnstable Co.), in the British colony/province of Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Merrick and his wife, Alice (Freeman) Merrick.

Marriage: John Snow^[1]

On August 12, 1721, John Snow married Hannah Merrick in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. John and Hannah (Merrick) Snow had the following children together:^[2]

1. JOHN SNOW b: 9 Feb 1724 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
2. HANNAH SNOW b: 4 May 1727 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
3. ENOS SNOW b: 14 Jan 1728 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
4. PHEBE SNOW b: 6 Apr 1728 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
5. JONATHAN SNOW b: 25 Mar 1730 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
6. ABIGAIL SNOW b: 23 Nov 1731 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
7. MEHITABLE SNOW b: 16 Jan 1733 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
8. GIDEON SNOW b: 11 Dec 1736 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
9. WILLIAM SNOW b: 1 Nov 1738 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
10. ELI SNOW b: 7 Apr 1740 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
11. DAVID SNOW b: 24 Jan 1742 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

In 1743, the will of Nathaniel Merrick mentioned his daughter, Hannah (Merrick) Snow.^[3]

Unfortunately, Hannah (Merrick) Snow died on February 16, 1764, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, leaving John Snow, by this time a Deacon in the Harwich Congregational (Puritan) Church, a widower. All their children were grown by this time.

Sources

1. ↑ Nadeau, Bernard E. Myricks of Westminster, (St. Augustine, FL: 1976), 31.
2. ↑ 200,000+ Ancestors & Relatives of Thomas Knowlton Gibson, The Thomas Knowlton Gibson Genealogy Pages,  : accessed Nov 2016. (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
3. ↑ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, by John D. Austin; General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts: 1992, p. 272.

See also:

• Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com, Record for Hannah Snow.
• Roberts Publication, Mayflower Source Records, 1986.
• John D. Austin. Mayflower Families in Progress: Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and his descendants for four generations, General Society of Mayflower Descendants: Plymouth MA, 1988.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Merrick or Myrick-50 created through the import of Ancestors of Lynn E Nelson.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by JaAnna Nelson. See the or Myrick-50 Changes page for the details of edits by JaAnna and others.
• WikiTree profile Merrick-183 created through the import of EBENSTEIN-GRANGER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Merryann Palmer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Merryann and others.
• This profile was developed through the merging of Merrick or Myrick-50 and Merrick-183 merged by Tom Bredehoft, who edited the profile on 28/6/2013.
• This profile was merged with WikiTree profile Merrick-1390 on 16/10/2015 by Chet Snow who edited this biographical sketch adding children & a source.