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Status summary

Completed as of October 1, 2020:

• Recruiting additional direct male-line Nicholas Snow descendants for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
• Y-SNP predicted to fall under I1-M253>DF29>Z58>Z59>CTS8647>Z61>Z60

Still to do as of October 1, 2020

• NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of Nicholas Snow to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines

Biography

First Generation

Nicholas Snow was likely the son of Nicholas Snow baptized at St. Leonard's Snowditch, London on 25 Jan 1599/1600.^[1] He died at Eastham on 15 Nov 1676. ^[2] He emigrated to New Plimouth Colony in 1623 aboard the Anne. He married sometime shortly before the 1627 Cattle Division to Constance Hopkins (daughter of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins).

Nicholas and Constance had a total of 12 children^[3], the identity of only nine of them are currently known; four daughters and five sons (Mark, Joseph, Stephen, John and Jabez)

Second Generation

Mark Snow was born Plymouth 9 May 1628 and died Eastham 23 Nov 1694. He married twice, first Eastham 18 Jan 1654 Anne Cooke^[4] (d 15 Jul 1656) and had one daughter, Annah (1656). Mark married second, Eastham 2 Jan 1660 Jane Prence^[5] and they had eight children (born Eastham): Mary (1661), Nicholas (1663), Elizabeth (1666-1675), Thomas (1668), Sarah (1671), Prence (1674), Elizabeth (1676-1677/8) and Hannah (1679)

Joseph Snow was born Plymouth 1634 and died Eastham 3 Jan 1722/3. He married Mary poss. Higgins and they had eleven children (born Eastham): Joseph (1671 m Sarah SMITH Snow), Benjamin (1673 m Thankful Bowerman), Mary (1674), Sarah (1677), Ruth (1679), Stephen (1681 m Margaret Elkins), Lydia (1684), Rebecca (1686), James (1689-b1721 unm.), Jane (1692) and Josiah (1694 m Elizabeth Snow).

Stephen Snow was born Plymouth 1636 and died Eastham 17 Dec 1705. He married twice, first Eastham 28 Oct 1663 Susanna Deane and second aft 1701 Mary COTTLE Bickford. He only had children by his first wife (born Eastham): Bathshua (1664), Hannah (1666/7), Micajah (1669 m Mercy Young), Bethiah (1672), Mehitable (d 1706) and Ebenezer (m Hopestill Horton).

John Snow was born prob. Plymouth abt 1638 and died Eastham 4 Apr 1692. He married Eastham 19 Sep 1667 Mary Smalley and they had nine children (born Eastham): Hannah (1670), Mary (1671/2), Abigail (1673), Rebecca (1676), John (1678 m Elizabeth Ridley & Hannah ___), Isaac (1683 m Alice ___), Lydia (1685), Elisha (1686/7 m _____ & Elizabeth Redman) and Phebe (1689).

Jabez Snow was born prob. Eastham abt 1642 and died there 27 Dec 1690. He married Eastham 6 Sep 1670 Elizabeth SMITH Snow and they had nine children (born Eastham): Jabez (1670 m Elizabeth Treat), Edward (1672 m Sarah Freeman), Sarah (1673), Grace (1674/5), Thomas (d 1697), Elizabeth, Deborah, Rachel and Mercy.

Third Generation

Nicholas Snow was born Eastham 6 Dec 1663 and died Rochester about 1753. He married (either Eastham or Harwich) 4 Apr 1689 Lydia Shaw and they had eight children (born Harwich): Jonathan (1691/2 m Thankful Freeman), Mark (1695 poss. dsp), Nathaniel (1697 m Elizabeth Eldridge & poss. Abigail Dexter), Joshua (1700 m Bashua ____), Thankful (1701/2), Sarah (1703/4), Phebe (1705) and Prence (1707 m. Mary Sturtevant).

Thomas Snow was born Eastham 6 Aug 1668 and died prob. Eastham aft 1 May 1737. He married twice, first Eastham 8 Feb 1692/3 Hannah Sears and second Harwich 30 Sep 1706 Lydia SEARS Hamlin. By his first wife he had five children (born Harwich): Elizabeth (1693), Mary (1696), Josiah (1699 m Sarah Bellows), Ebenezer (1700/01-1758 m Lydia SMITH no ch.) and Hannah (1702/3). By his second wife Thomas had four more children (born Harwich): Lydia (1707), Thomas (1709 m Rachel Nickerson), Aaron (1710/1 m Hannah Gage) and Ruth (1712/3-1717).

Prence Snow was born Eastham 22 May 1674 and died Harwich 7 Jul 1742. He married abt 1698 Hannah Storrs and they had eight children (born Harwich): Jabez (1699 m Elizabeth Lewis), Hannah (1701), Samuel (1703 m Mary Hopkins), Mercy (1705), Prence (1707 m Jane Collins), Jonathan (twin 1709 m Sarah Bangs), David (twin 1709-b1740 unm.) and Mary (1712).

1. ↑ TAG 14:229
2. ↑ MD 6:203
3. ↑ As reported by Gov. William Bradford's accounting of "Increasings & Decreasings" in the colony about 1651
4. ↑ Daughter of Josiah Cooke (II) and NOT a descendant of Francis Cooke.
5. ↑ Daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and his second wife, Jane Collier, so NOT a descendant of William Brewster.

DNA results I-Z60

Previous Y-DNA testing

As of 1 Oct 2020, the DNA Project Subgroup: "Lineage 1" lists 21 individuals whose STR match each other.^[1] None of these individuals have done any Y-SNP testing, but three have tested 111 Y-STRs. FTDNA has predicted the family would fall under the I-M253 clade. Plugging in one of the 111 STR results into the Nevgen Haplogroup Prediction Tool gives a result that the haplogroup is not supported by the tool, but six of the top ten haplogroups listed fall somewhere under I1-M253>DF29>Z58>Z59>CTS8647>Z61>Z60.

Further needed testing

We need additional direct male-line descendants of Nicholas Snow to WGS/NGS test to both confirm this prediction as well as to refine the haplogroup further and delineate descendant clades.

References & External Links

• Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 6 Hopkins General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 3rd edition 2001
• Snow, Corinne A. and Frank B. Snow, Snow genealogy : decendants of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins n.p, nd, at Indiana State Library
• Snow, William James, Snow family : descendants of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins, n.p., 1984
• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 vol. III (P-W), New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. 1995
• Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History.com profile for Constance Hopkins
• Pilgrim Hall biography for Nicholas Snow & Constance Hopkins (including links to his probate)
• Documents related to Nicholas & Constance
• wikipedia article on Constance (no article for her husband, Nicholas)
• Mass and More Genealogy blog article on Nicholas & Constance