Mary Polly (Sinclair) Snelling (1777 - 1856)

Born 12 Sep 1777 in South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Snelling — married [date unknown] in Fayette Co., IL

Descendants

Died 1 Dec 1856 at age 79 in Montgomery, Bath, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Life Sketch The following sketch was written in Descendants of John Power and Mary Holloway by Garda M. Hodgson, appearing on page 399, and some subsequent pages.:

Mary Sinclair...was born September 12, 1777 in South Carolina. Her birth place was given on her death record. Her parents, Amos and Mary Sinclair, were living in Rowan County, North Carolina then moved to South Carolina for a short time during the Revolutionary War, where Mary was born. She Married Benjamin Snelling, son of Benjamin Snelling and Elizabeth Page, shortly after her parents moved to Fayette County, Kentucky in about 1791. Benjamin Snelling was born in Fauquier County, Virginia about 1767; he was age 83 when the 1850 census of Bath County, Kentucky was taken. He was a Methodist Episcopal Minister, and traveled in the Lexington Circuit in 1788, then spent a year in the Fairfax County, Virginia Circuit. The following year, he returned to Kentucky where he was assigned to the Madison Circuit for a year then left the ministry to marry and pursue farming. Benjamin and Mary Snelling moved from Fayette County, Kentucky to Montgomery County, Kentucky before 1801. His name was included in the Montgomery County Tax list that year next to John and Thomas Sinclair and Alexander Brown. Mary’s parents had moved to Montgomery County two years earlier. On March 22, 1802, Benjamin Snelling purchased 411 acres of land on Flat Creek in Montgomery County from the executors of George Nicholas, deceased, of Fayette County, Kentucky. [Ref. Fayette County Deed Book 6]. He also purchased an additional 73 1/2 acres on Flat Creak December 6, 1805. Mary [Sinclair] Snelling died January 23, 1856. Her husband, Benjamin Snelling, followed her in death September 25, 1856 at age 90 years. They both died in Bath county, Kentucky. They were buried in the Snelling Cemetery near Reynoldsville on East Fork Road near the site of the Snelling farm in Bath County, Kentucky. Benjamin and Mary were the parents of at least ten children. The first three were born in Fayette County, the others were born in that part of Montgomery County which became Bath County after 1811.

Now follows a basic list of children as given in the subsequent pages of the aforementioned book. I am listing names, years of birth and death (which may be approximate), spouse and year of marriage, etc.

1- Benjamin Snelling, Jr., 1793-1838 md. Rachel Fethergill 1822, md Polly Doggett 1838, no children 2- Lucinda Snelling, 1795 md William Mathis, II, 1815 3- Thornton Snelling, 1798 4- Hannah Snelling, 1801 md Benjamin Jones 1819 5- Elizabeth Snelling, 1803 md Absalom Perry 1824 6- Mr. Snelling, 1805 md 7- Jilson P Snelling, 1808 md Minerva Atchison 1833 8- Franklin Snelling 1810-1890 md Martha Jane Cline 1851 9- Polly Snelling, 1813 md Benjamin Perry 1834, moved to Owen Co, Ky after 1840 10- Tallifarro “Toliver” Snelling, 1815-1867 md Elizabeth D. Newland 1844

Citation In possession of Fern R. Law frlaw12@gmail.com 628 W 175 N Layton, UT 84041 801 678-2898 Notes There is a Preface, General Outline Index, an unnumbered ten pages of history and basic background material with a list of the children of John Power, Sr. and Mary Holloway on page 10, Parts I through VIII (one for each of the eight children), Part IX Descendants of Related Families, and Part X The Boone Bible - Text and Commentary. This includes 453 pages in the main body of the book. More specific information of interest will be included for each person to whom this source is attached. Page 324 gives Mary "Polly" Sinclair, as the 4th child in this family, b 12 Sep 1777; m Benjamin Snelling. more information follows on page 399.

Burial at Snelling Cemetery, Reynoldsville, Bath County, Kentucky Find A Grave Memorial

Sources

Citation "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M65R-5FW : accessed 29 November 2015), Mary Snelling in household of Benjamin Snelling, Bath county, part of, Bath, Kentucky, United States; citing family 310, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Acknowledgments

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