Martin Snider UE (1748 - 1828)

Born 1748 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Armstrong) Snider — married 1789 in Sussex, Kings, New Brunswick

Descendants

Died 26 Jun 1828 at about age 80 in York, York, Upper Canada

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Biography

Martin Snider was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Martin was born in 1753. He was the son of Jacob Schneider and Maria Lang. He passed away in 1828.

When the Loyalists joined the British Forces at the time of the American Revolutionary War, the rebels confiscated their land and other property.

Peter and Elias Snyder, brothers of Martin, gave evidence that their father owned 175 acres of land in Northampton County, Philadelphia , which he had to sell to pay their jail fees while they were imprisoned by the American rebels.

The Story of Sussex and Vicinity, New Brunswick, by Grace Aiton, and The Loyalists of New Brunswick, by Esther Clark Wright, provide excellent information on the Loyalist refugees who settled in Nova Scotia, later to become New Brunswick. Both books mention the Snider families.

Martin was first granted three Town lots in the Saint John area in 1785, but later moved to Sussex Parish in Kings County. He and four of his brothers and six others, settled on Trout Creek, finally receiving grants in 1794.

Martin decided to leave New Brunswick around 1811 and move his growing family to York in Upper Canada.

Sources

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=s&line=623
• http://www.martinsnider.org/family_history/who_were_these_schneiders.shtml
• "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZXZB-G93Z : 9 December 2020), Morton V in entry for John Lews Snider, 1875.
• "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HFYL-L8W2 : 28 January 2020), Morton in entry for John Snider, . "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMV5-RG2 : 1 January 2021), Martin Snider in entry for Elias Snider and Ellen Metcalfe, 13 May 1891; citing registration , Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,870,470.
• "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F85N-CM4 : 28 January 2020), Morton Snider in entry for John Snider Senr., 1875.

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