Charity (Snell) Blossom (1719 - abt. 1779)

Born 20 Nov 1719 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Sylvanus Blossom — married 16 Nov 1738 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Charity (or, Charitie) Snell was born on 20 Nov 1719, in Bridgewater, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. She was the daughter of Amos Snell and Mary Packard.^[1]

Charity married Sylvanus Blossom on 16 Nov 1738, in Bridgewater.^[2]

Charity and Sylvanus had several children die in Bridgewater, none of them named in the Bridgewater records: multiple children died on 27 Apr 1744; a single child, a son, died on 11 Oct 1747;^[3] and another, single child died on 20 Jul 1749. ^[4] The only child whose birth they registered in Bridgewater was their son, Sylvanus, who was born on 13 Mar 1746.^[5] It is known that Sylvanus, by then living in Freetown in Bristol County, survived childhood to marry Martha Alden in 1744.^[6]

No record for Charity's death has yet been found. The date of death provided for this profile (1779) is an estimate, based on the assumption that Charity might have lived to be 60 years old.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Births, p. 295 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Marriages, p. 343 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).
3. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Deaths, p. 438 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Deaths, p. 439 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).
5. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Births, p. 51 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).
6. ↑ Intent: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Bridgewater - Marriages, p. 55 (accessed 26 Apr 2017).