William B. Snow (1763 - 1826)

Born 6 Sep 1763 in Granville Ferry, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, British Maritime Provinces (Canada)

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Quigley) Snow — married 1787 (to 1826) in Westport, Smith Cove, Digby County, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 1826 at about age 62 in Westport, Smith Cove, Digby County, Nova Scotia (Canada)

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Biography

William B. Snow was born on September 6, 1763 in Granville Ferry, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, British Maritime Provinces. He was the son of Jabez Snow and Elizabeth Doane who had emigrated north in 1762 from Cape Cod (Eastham, Barnstable County), Massachusetts Bay Province, New England, to Nova Scotia after the British forced French-speaking Acadian settlers to leave.^[1]

William B. Snow married Margaret Quigley, b. April 14 1770 in Nova Scotia, in 1787 in Westport, Digby County, Nova Scotia. The couple lived in Westport and had the following 10 children, all born in Westport, Smith Cove, Digby County, Nova Scotia, British Maritime Provinces: ^[2]

1. Elizabeth Doane Snow b: 27 OCT 1788 in Westport, Nova Scotia
2. William Quigley Snow b: 27 OCT 1790 in Westport, Nova Scotia
3. Hannah Snow b: 8 DEC 1792 in Westport, Nova Scotia
4. Ann Snow b: 15 JAN 1795 in Westport, Nova Scotia
5. Jabez Snow b: 25 MAY 1797 in Westport, Nova Scotia
6. Pamela Andrews Snow b: 4 OCT 1799 in Westport, Nova Scotia
7. Wentworth Quigley Snow b: 12 JAN 1802 in Westport, NS
8. Margaret Quigley Snow b: 26 DEC 1804 Westport, Nova Scotia
9. Deborah Snow b: ABT. 1 JAN 1806 in Westport, Nova Scotia
10. Mary Emeline Snow b: 12 OCT 1811 in Westport, Nova Scotia; d: 2 DEC 1898 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, unmarried.^[3]

Note: Many family genealogies say that William Snow married a "Margaret Winchester" but this is not proven. It may be that Margaret Quigley re-married after William's death and became "Margaret Winchester;" there were Winchesters living in Digby County, Nova Scotia. In any case, no children have ever been found for a "Margaret (Winchester) Snow".

William B. Snow died in 1826 and is buried at Westport Cemetery, Smith's Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.^[4] No Find A Grave Memorial has been found for either William B. Snow or Margaret (Quigley) Snow.

Some Snow Genealogy Notes:

Source: Message Boards Ancestry.com: Re: Quigley's in Nova Scotia by Bernie Quigley - Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:25AM .

Horatia ("Rachel") E. Snow was the daughter of William Quigley Snow, b: Oct. 27, 1790 and Rachel Halliday Winchester, bapt: 17 Oct. 1807, both of Nova Scotia.

William Quigley Snow, b Oct 27, 1790 in Nova Scotia, was the son of Margaret Quigley, b. April 14 1770 in Nova Scotia; who had married William Snow, b. Sept 1763 in NS or Mass Bay, New England.

William & Margaret (Quigley) Snow's 10 children were:

1. Deborah Snow
2. Elizabeth Doane Snow b. Oct 27 1788 in NS; d: Westport, NS.
3. William Quigley Snow . b Oct 27, 1790 NS, m. Rachael Halliday Winchester
4. Hannah Snow b. Dec 8 1792, NS
5. Anne Eve Snow b. Jan 15 1795
6. Jabez Snow b. May 24 1797, NS
7. Pamela Snow b. Oct 4 1799
8. Winkworth [Wentworth] Quigley Snow b Jan 12 1802 d. single
9. Margaret Quigley Snow b. Dec 26 1804, married Thomas MacDormand
10. Emeline Snow b. Oct 12 1811. d. unmarried

By these given names, William Snow's parents can be found. He was the son of Jabez Snow IV and Elizabeth (Doane) Snow, both of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Province, New England. Jabez Snow descended from Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins who married Pilgrim Nicholas Snow in Plymouth Colony ca. 1625. This is a Mayflower descendants family. See: French Family and Relations on RootsWeb: William Snow and Jabez Snow IV on WikiTree for more on this family of New England mariners.

Sources

1. ↑ Nauset & Vicinity on RootsWeb: William B. Snow
2. ↑ Keene and related Maine & New Brunswick families on RootsWeb: William B. Snow
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW8M-GFS : 10 March 2018), Margaret Quigley in entry for Mary E. Snow, 02 Dec 1898; citing Boston, Massachusetts, v 483 p 527, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 961,526.
4. ↑ Compendium of Amer. Genealogy, by Virkus, 1987 Edition; Genealogical Publishing Co., Vol. I, pp. 835-837. Cited on My 2015 Extended Tree With Sources by Barbara on RootsWeb: William B. Snow

• French Family and Relations on RootsWeb: William Snow