Ancestry of
William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

Ebenezer Snell

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• • Grandfather of William Cullen Bryant — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Zachariah Snell 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Hayward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Oct 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 7 Jan 1739 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Bryant Cemetery, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Packard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1764 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sarah Snell (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Ebenezer Snell

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A106408.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/06/2015).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cummington, Vol. 2, p. 15, Death record for Ebenezer Snell.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 344, Marriage record for Ebenezer Snell and Sarah Packard.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20, 181.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 171.
  • ⁷ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 434.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 3, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 294-296.
  • ⁹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 290.