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Benjamin Snow

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Zach Snyder — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 86 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Snow 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Baker   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Dec 1779 
  • Birth Location:
  • Thomaston, Knox, Maine 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Jan 1859 
  • Death Location:
  • Brewer, Penobscot, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Hill Cemetery, Brewer, Penobscot, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Burrell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 04 or 05 MAR 1807 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brewer, Penobscot, Maine 
  • Child:

  Melinda Snow (Ahnentafel No:43 )

  • Notes: 

  • War of 1812 veteran

    Benjamin Snow fought in the Battle of Hampden in Hampden, Maine, on 03 SEP 1814.

• Sources for Benjamin Snow

  • ¹ Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Bangor, Maine), 24 JAN 1859, p. 2, Death notice for Benjamin Snow.
  • ² Bangor Historical Magazine: A Monthly, 1890, Vol. 6, p. 89.
  • ³ Federal Census, ME, Penobscot County, 1850, Brewer, Image 14 of 63.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/08/2024).
  • ⁵ Maine, U.S., Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918, Cemetery record for Benjamin Snow.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, 286, Will of father Benjamin Snow, dated 25 DEC 1807, proved 07 DEC 1818.
  • ⁷ NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900, Vol. 1872, pp. 9:1-8, Membership application for Randal Gardner Burrell.
  • ⁸ Holyoke, John Gibbs, Holyoke: A North American Family, 1637-1992, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1993), 51.
  • ⁹ Thayer, Mildred N. and Mrs. Edward W. Ames, Brewer, Orrington, Holden, Eddington: History and Families, Brewer, Maine: Brewer 150th Anniversary Committee (1962), cxii.
  • ¹⁰ Treat, John Harvey, The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years . . ., Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1893), 288.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Battle of Hampden", (accessed 05/09/2024).

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