Nicholas Snow (1742 - 1821)

Born 6 May 1742 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Huldah (Watkins) Snow — married 7 Nov 1765 in Truro, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 18 Jul 1821 at age 79 in Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Nicholas Snow was a pioneer settler of Brooksville.

Nicholas Snow was born on 6 May 1742^[1]in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, son of Joshua Snow Sr. (1701 - 1751) and Hannah (Paine) Snow (1713 - 1768).

Nicholas married Huldah Watkins (1742 - 1821) on 7 Nov 1765^[2] in Truro.

In about 1773, just before the American Revolution began, the Snow family left Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and moved north and settled in Plantation No4 which became Sedgwick in 1789 a portion of which became Brooksville in 1817 Maine became an independent state in 1820. Nicholas and Huldah's first three children were born in Truro, Cape Cod, Mass.; the rest were born in (what became) Brooksville, Hancock Co., Maine.

Nicholas Snow and Huldah (Watkins) Snow had 7 children:

Note: Some children's birth dates indicated may actually be baptism dates.

1. Elizabeth (Snow) Gray (1766 - ~1825)
2. Captain Isaac Snow (1768 - 1848)
3. Thomas Watkins Snow (~1772 - 1847)
4. Huldah (Snow) Dorr (~1773 - 1858)
5. Polly (Snow) Limeburner (~1779 - 1854)
6. Hannah (Snow) Gray (1783 - 1841)
7. Thankful (Snow) Black (~1785 - >1860).

Nicholas died on 18 Jul 1821^[3] in Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States aged 79.

Brooksville was formed from parts of Castine, Penobscot and Sedgwick, having been set off and incorporated June 13 1817 . It took from Sedgwick an eighth, and from Castine and Penobscot each a fifth of their taxable property.

Sources

1. ↑ Truro (Mass. : Town), and George Ernest Bowman. 1933. Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Birth:

   "Nicholas Snow the son of Johshua and Hannah Snow as Born in Truro May ye 16 1742 Recorded pr me Thos Paine Town Clerk"

2. ↑ FamilySearch: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC3-K74Y : 19 April 2021), Nickolas Snow and Huldah Watkins, 7 Nov 1765; citing Marriage, Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009744. Marriage:

   Name:	Nickolas Snow
   Spouse's Name:	Huldah Watkins
   Marriage Date:	7 Nov 1765
   Marriage Place:	Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

3. ↑ FamilySearch: "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-MJ14 : 8 March 2022), Nicholas Snow, 1821; citing Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm. Death:

   Name:	Nicholas Snow
   Death Date:	18 July 1821
   Death Place:	Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States
   Death Place -Original-:	Brooksville

4. ↑ 1790 United States Federal Census: Year: 1790; Census Place: Sedgewick, Hancock, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 101; Image: 70; Family History Library Film: 0568142 Ancestry Record 5058 #141861
5. ↑ 1800 United States Federal Census: Year: 1800; Census Place: Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 7; Page: 193; Image: 104; Family History Library Film: 218677 Ancestry Record 7590 #72512
6. ↑ 1810 United States Federal Census: Year: 1810; Census Place: Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 469; Image: 00462; Family History Library Film: 0218682 Ancestry Record 7613 #31180
7. ↑ 1820 United States Federal Census: 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Brooksville, Hancock, Maine; Page: 589; NARA Roll: M33_34; Image: 10 Ancestry Record 7734 #132222

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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Snow-2339 was created from first-hand information as remembered by Robert Bailey, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Robert Bailey added the Rowles Family Tree source on April 14, 2014.