Nicholas Snow

Of Eastham, Massachusetts, husband of Constance Hopkins and, as the compilers have it, father of Ruth (Snow) Cole. About 1651 Bradford counted twelve children of the marriage, all living. He died at Eastham in November 1676, the day after making his will, which left his lands to his five sons and his stock to Constance for her life.

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Life

  1. 1676
    Died
    15 Nov 1676, Eastham, Massachusetts

    "Nicholas Snow senior decesed the fiftenth day of November in the year one thousand six hundred sevetie six" (Eastham records).

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Family

Parents
Not known
Spouse
Constance Hopkins d. c. 1677

"Constant Snow which was the Wife of Nicholas Snow" (Eastham records); his will names "my Loveing wife Constant Snow."

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Pedigree

documentedcompiledinferred
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Notes

Of Eastham, husband of Constance Hopkins and, as the compilers have it, father of Ruth (Snow) Cole. He made his will on 14 Nov 1676, “being weake and Infeirme of body but of prfect Memory and understanding, not knowing the Day of my Departure but yett Dayly expecting my last Change,” and died the next day. He left his lands at Namskeket, Satucket, Pochet, Paomet and Billingsgate to his sons Mark, Joseph, Stephen, John and Jabez; to “my Loveing wife Constant Snow all my stocke of Cattle sheep horses swine whatsoever … for the Comfort and support of her life,” and after her death to be “equally Devided amongst all my Children”; and ten shillings to the church of Eastham “for the furniture of the Table of the Lord” (record). Constance and their sons Mark and John administered. Bradford counted twelve children of the marriage, all living, about 1651.

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Connections

Famous kin
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    Signer of the Declaration of Independence for Massachusetts and the state's first Attorney General
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