Nicholas Snow III1,2,3,4

M, b. circa 25 January 1599/0, d. 15 November 1676
     Nicholas was born circa 25 January 1599/0 in Hoxton [Greater London], County Middlesex, England. Hoxton is in the London borough of Hackney. Both Hoxton & Shoreditch were originally of the same manor. Hoxton was a rural part of Shoreditch. On 25 January 1599/0, he was christened in London, County Middlesex, England, at St. Leonard's Church on Shoreditch High Street within the parish of Shoreditch.5 He was the son of Nicholas Snow II and Elizabeth Rowlles. In 1623, Nicholas left from Hoxton, county Middlesex, England aboard the ship, "Anne", mastered by William Peirce, enroute for New England. They arrived in the Plymouth Colony in late June. He settled there and lived where a highway from Plymouth to the Eele River would be built. This was near the home of Edward Bangs..6,7 Nicholas married Constance Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Mary, on 1 June 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.8 In 1627 Plymouth division of cattle “Nickolas Snow” & “Constance Snow” were the 6th & 7th persons in the seventh company, which was headed by Stephen Hopkins. In 1644, Nicholas & his family were among the first seven settlers of Eastham. He made his will 14 November 1676.

"Nicholas Snow of Eastham being weak and infirm of body" bequeathed to "my son Marke Snow" all twenty acres of upland lying at Namskekitt where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow and all that broken marsh at Namscekett and two thirds of "my great lot at Satuckett"; to "my son Joseph Snow I give that other third part of my great lot at Satuckett, and two acres and an half of meadow lying at Namscekett near the head and an neck of upland"; to "my son Steven Snow I give twenty acres on the southside of my great lot at Pochett, and ten acres of my little lot at Satuckett ... an acre and an half of meadow at the boat meadow ... and that part of my meadow at the great meadow that lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eel creek"; to "my son John Snow I give all that my land at Paomett purchased or unpurchased ... and all my right and title or privilege there"; to "my son Jabez Snow I give all this my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paine's, and seven acres at the Bass pond ... and an half acre of marsh at the end of it and six acres of upland at the Herring pond, and an acre and half of meadow at Silver spring ... and that part of my house he lives in as long as my wife or I do live ... and two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow"; to "my son Jabez I give that my four acres of meadow at Billinsgate due to me yet unlaid out"; "my meadow about my house I give to my son Jabez"; to "my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine, whatsoever, to be at her disposal for the comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable goods I am possessed of and after her decease, stock and movables to be equally divided amongst all my children ... the use and disposal of the part of my house she now dwells in during her lifetime, and after her decease to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "my loving wife that ten acres of upland at Pochett and twenty on Billinsgate Iland, for her disposal for the comfort of her life, but if she need it now, and leave it undisposed, I give it then to my son Steven Snow"; "twenty acres of upland at Billingsgate if my wife leave it undisposed, then to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "the church of Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other necessaries, I say I do give 10s. out of my estate after my wife's decease."9

Nicholas departed this life on Sunday, 15 November 1676 in Eastham. He was buried there in the Cove Burying Ground. On 6 March 1676/7 letters of administration were granted to Constance Snow, Mark Snow and John Snow, on the estate of Nicholas Snow, deceased. The undated inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of Eastham totalled £102 10s. 9d., with no real estate included.

Children of Nicholas Snow III and Constance Hopkins

Citations

  1. [S297] Leon Clark Hills, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Commers to Ye Olde Colonie - Cape Cod Series, Volume I - History of Eastham: page 110 - The first seven settlers of Eastham in 1644 were Thomas Prence [no. 11], John Doane [no. 61], Nicholas Snow [no. 2], Josiah Cooke [no. 25], Richard Higgins [no. 63], John Smalley [no. 16], & Edward Bangs [no. 127]. page 129 - lists children.
  2. [S457] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, NICHOLAS SNOW
    ORIGIN: Unknown
    MIGRATION: 1623 in Anne
    FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
    REMOVES: Eastham
    OCCUPATION: Carpenter (inventory begins with list of cooper's and carpenter's tools).
    FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen in close proximity to those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]; in list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen, then erased and moved to Eastham section of list [PCR 8:174, 177]. In Eastham section of lists of freemen of 1658 and 29 May 1670 [PCR 5:278, 8:201].
    EDUCATION: His inventory included "a parcel of old books" valued at 4s., "a psalm book" valued at 1s., and "1 book" valued at 1s.
    OFFICES: Deputy (from Eastham), 3 June 1652, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:9, 115]. Committee to lay out highways, 23 July 1634 [PCR 1:31]; surveyor and supervisor of highways, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June 1640, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1653, 5 June 1671 [PCR 1:141, 155, 2:115, 3:33, 5:58]. Committee to lay out lands, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151]. Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:87]; coroner's jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:88]; jury, 2 October 1637, 6 March 1637/8, 3 March 1639/40, 1 September 1640, 1 June 1641, 3 August 1641, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 7:7, 8, 16, 17, 20, 23, 34, 35]. Lot layer, 1 February 1640/1 [PCR 2:7]. Excise collector, 7 June 1648 [PCR 2:125]. Committee member, 7 June 1648, 4 June 1650 [PCR 2:123, 154].
    Eastham selectman, 7 June 1670, 5 June 1671, 5 June 1672, 3 June 1674, 1 June 1675 [PCR 5:35, 57, 92, 143, 164]. Constable, 3 June 1662 [PCR 4:15].
    In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:189].
    ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division granted an unknown number of acres (but almost certainly one) at Hobes Hole near the Eel River as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:6]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Nickolas Snow" and Constance Snow were the sixth and seventh persons in the seventh company (headed by Stephen Hopkins) [PCR 12:11].
    Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27].
    Assigned mowing ground, 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:57]; requested more hay ground, 2 July 1638 [PCR 1:90]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].
    On 7 May 1638 Nicholas Snow was one of a group of men desiring "lands towards the Six Mile Brooke" [PCR 1:83], and on 7 August 1638 he requested "5 or 6 acres of land lying on the north side the lands granted lately to Mr. Atwood" [PCR 1:93]. On 6 July 1638 Nicholas Snow acknowledged that he sold to Samuell Eddy his house and garden in Plymouth where he "now dwelleth" [PCR 12:31].
    Granted ten acres meadow in the South Meadows, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:166]. About March 1645/6 Nicholas Snow sold his house and buildings and upland, with two acres of meadow at High Pines and ten acres of upland meadow at Colebrook meadows, totalling fifty-two acres to Thomas Morton [PCR 12:134]. On 10 March 1645[/6] Nicholas Snow sold one acre to Nathaniel Morton [PCR 12:135]. In an account of liquors brought into Eastham, dated 28 November 1664, Nicholas Snow was responsible for one and a half gallons of liquor [PCR 4:100].
    In his will, dated 14 November 1676 and proved 5 March 1676/7, "Nicholas Snow of Eastham being weak and infirm of body" bequeathed to "my son Marke Snow" all twenty acres of upland lying at Namskekitt where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow and all that broken marsh at Namscekett and two thirds of "my great lot at Satuckett"; to "my son Joseph Snow I give that other third part of my great lot at Satuckett, and two acres and an half of meadow lying at Namscekett near the head and an neck of upland"; to "my son Steven Snow I give twenty acres on the southside of my great lot at Pochett, and ten acres of my little lot at Satuckett ... an acre and an half of meadow at the boat meadow ... and that part of my meadow at the great meadow that lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eel creek"; to "my son John Snow I give all that my land at Paomett purchased or unpurchased ... and all my right and title or privilege there"; to "my son Jabez Snow I give all this my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paine's, and seven acres at the Bass pond ... and an half acre of marsh at the end of it and six acres of upland at the Herring pond, and an acre and half of meadow at Silver spring ... and that part of my house he lives in as long as my wife or I do live ... and two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow"; to "my son Jabez I give that my four acres of meadow at Billinsgate due to me yet unlaid out"; "my meadow about my house I give to my son Jabez"; to "my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine, whatsoever, to be at her disposal for the comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable goods I am possessed of and after her decease, stock and movables to be equally divided amongst all my children ... the use and disposal of the part of my house she now dwells in during her lifetime, and after her decease to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "my loving wife that ten acres of upland at Pochett and twenty on Billinsgate Iland, for her disposal for the comfort of her life, but if she need it now, and leave it undisposed, I give it then to my son Steven Snow"; "twenty acres of upland at Billingsgate if my wife leave it undisposed, then to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "the church of Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other necessaries, I say I do give 10s. out of my estate after my wife's decease" [MD 3:167-69, citing PCPR 3:2:71-72].
    The undated inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of Eastham totalled £102 10s. 9d., with no real estate included [MD 3:169-74, citing PCPR 3:2:73-77].
    On 6 March 1676/7 letters of administration were granted to Constant Snow, Mark Snow and John Snow, on the estate of Nicholas Snow, deceased [PCR 5:220].
    BIRTH: Possibly the Nicholas Snow, son of Nicholas Snow, baptized St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London, 25 January 1599/1600 [TAG 14:229].
    DEATH: Eastham 15 November 1676 [MD 6:203].
    MARRIAGE: By 1627 Constance Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins [MF 6:9-10]. She died at Eastham in the middle of October 1677 [MD 6:203].
    CHILDREN:
    iMARK, b. Plymouth 9 May 1628 [MD 7:14]; m. (1) Eastham 18 January 1654[/5] Anna Cooke [MD 7:14], daughter of JOSIAH COOKE; m. (2) Eastham 9 January 1660[/1] Jane Prence [MD 7:14], daughter of THOMAS PRENCE [MF 6:14-15].


    iiMARY, b. say 1630; m. say 1650 Thomas Paine (called "my son" in Nicholas Snow's will; she was probably the "one married" in 1651 as described by Bradford).


    iiiSARAH, b. say 1632; m. Eastham 25 February 1654 William Walker [PCR 8:15].


    ivJOSEPH, b. say 1634; m. say 1670 Mary _____ [NEHGR 47:83].


    vSTEPHEN, b. say 1636; m. (1) Eastham 28 October 1663 Susanna (Deane) Rogers, widow of Joseph Rogers and daughter of STEPHEN DEANE [MD 8:15, 31:37-41 (as George Bowman notes, the alternate marriage date for this couple must be in error); TAG 42:200]; m. (2) Eastham 9 April 1701 Mary Bigford [MD 6:14].


    viJOHN, b. say 1638; m. Eastham 19 September 1667 Mary Smalley [MD 7:17], daughter of JOHN SMALLEY.


    viiELIZABETH, b. say 1640; m. Eastham 13 December 1665 Thomas Rogers [MD 6:14], son of Joseph Rogers and grandson of Thomas Rogers [MF 2:160].


    viiiJABEZ, b. say 1642; m. say 1670 as her first husband Elizabeth _____ [NEHGR 47:83].


    ixRUTH, b. say 1644; m. Eastham 10 December 1666 John Cole [PCR 8:57].


    xChild, b. say 1646; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.


    xiChild, b. say 1648; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.


    xiiChild, b. say 1650; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.
    COMMENTS: Bradford, in describing the family of Stephen Hopkins in 1651, stated that "His daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living and one of them rried" [Bradford 445]. (In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden suggested that two of the children who are implied by Bradford's accounting but do not otherwise appear in the records were Hannah and Rebecca "on the authority of Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth. Both married Rickards" [NEHGR 47:83]; she cites no evidence.)
    In January 1634/5 the Plymouth court noted that "The servant of Nicolas Snow was willing to serve out his time with John Cooper, according to the tenor of his indenture" [PCR 1:33]. This servant was not the same as Twiford West who, after brief service with Nicholas Snow, agreed on 12 February 1635/6 to return to Edward Winslow, with whom he had originally made his indenture [PCR 1:37].
     Nicholas Snow and others were presented 1 December 1640 for failing to mend the highways [PCR 2:5].
    BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden published a substantial article on Nicholas Snow and his children [New England Historical & Genealogical Register 47:81-84, 186-89, 48:71-73]. In 1948 Donald Lines Jacobus prepared an account of Nicholas Snow and a line of descent through his son Stephen [Brainerd Anc 270-72].
  3. [S479] Russell Snow, A family history : recording the ancestors of Russell Snow Hitchcock : this includes the ancestral lines of Hitchcock, Andrews, Snow, Russell, Bardwell, Warriner, Pepper, and their allied lines, page 127 - Nicholas Snow no. 531 was born in England and came to America from Hoxton, Middlesex County in the ship Anne in 1623. About 1626 he married Constance Hopkins no. 541, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, a Mayflower passenger. See #540 for her descent from this Stephen Hopkins. Nicholas Snow was an original settler of Eastham, Massachusetts in 1644 and served as Town Clerk for 16 years.He was also a selectman and a Deputy to the General Court for three years. He died in Eastham,Massachusetts on 15 November 1676. Constance Snow died the middle of October 1677.
    It has not been possible to trace definitely Nicholas Snow in England. However, there is a record in the marriage register of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex of the marriage on 9 May 1599 of Nicholas Snow of Bowe and Elizabeth Rowlles of Ratclif and the parish records of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London contain the baptism on 25 January 1599-1600 of Nicholas Snow son of Nicholas Snow at Hoxton._ This might refer to our Nicholas Snow and his father.     _
    Nicholas and Constance Snow had 12 children of whom three were JABEZ #532, MARY #533, and SARAH #534. Mary Snow was born at Plymouth about 1630, died at Eastham on 28 April 1704, and married THOMAS PAINE #673 about 1650. Sarah Snow was born at Plymouth about 1632, died at Eastham and married WILLIAM WALKER #676 on 25 January 1654.

    Sources: The Waters-Withington-Lea Collection in the Essex Institute at Salem, Mass.
    American Genealogist, volume14, page 229.
    Eastham records in the Mayflower Descendant, volume 4,page 32. William Hobart, His Ancestors and Descendants by L.Smith Hobart, 1886.
    Mayflower Descendant,volume 6, page 203; volume 22, page 165.
    English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers by Col. Banks, 1929.
  4. [S1524] M. L. T. Alden, The Snow Genealogy, page 81-86.
  5. [S479] Russell Snow, A family history : recording the ancestors of Russell Snow Hitchcock : this includes the ancestral lines of Hitchcock, Andrews, Snow, Russell, Bardwell, Warriner, Pepper, and their allied lines, page 127 - the parish records of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London contain the baptism on 25 January 1599-1600 of Nicholas Snow son of Nicholas Snow at Hoxton.
  6. [S609] John Camden Hotten, Immigrants Who Went To America 1600-1700, pages 29-30 - List of those who came over in the "Anne" & "Little James" - the vessels parted company at sea; the "Anne" arrived the latter part of June, and the "Little James" some week or 10 days latter [1623]: part of the number were wives & children of persons already in the colony. ... Nicholas Snow settled in Eastham.
  7. [S904] John A Goodwin, , Chapter xxiii: 1623 - pages 242-243 - Late in July arrived the ship "Anne". 140 tons, William Peirce. master; and 10 days later came - in the pinnace "Little James", 44 tons, Bridges, master. These vessels brought a hundred new persons, including those who had formerly sailed in John Peirce's "Paragon". Many were from the Leyden flock, and several were wives, children, and kindred of the earlier settlers. Lists Nicholas Snow.
  8. [S2083] New England Marriages Prior to 1700: Volume 2, Page 1412.
  9. [S457] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633.