Mary (Snow) Paine

Mary (Snow) Paine:

Children included:

v. Elisha Paine m. Rebecca Doane

My Kinswoman Mary Snow

Source (Westminster...Parish Church Of St. Margaret)

From the NEHGS register:

Henry F. Waters, in his Genealogical Gleanings in England...states that Joseph Walker of St. Margaret's, city of Westminster, gentleman, in his will dated 13 Feb. 1666, proved Feb. 27, 1666, bequeaths "to my kinswoman Mary Snow, wife of Nicholas Snow, citizen & armourer of London, whome I nominate executrix."

Deacon Paine's Journal

From The Mayflower descendant, Volume 8...

"...an old journal [1695 - 1718] kept by their ancestor, Deacon John Paine of Eastham, Mass."

Deacon John Paine was the son of Thomas Paine, of Eastham, by his wife Mary Snow, the daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow.

My ancestor, Elisha Paine, was John Paine's brother.

Let It Snow (Genealogy)

An excerpt from the NEHGS:

Source

Benjamin (3) Snow (Joseph, 2, Nicholas, 1), born in Eastham June 9, 1673; died 1748.  He married June 16, 1700, Thankful Bowerman [daughter of Thomas Bowerman].

Mayflower Descendant Mary (Snow) Paine

Paine family records: a journal of genealogical and biographical ..., Volume 2, contained information about my ancestress, Mary (Snow) Paine.

Nicholas Snow' And His Possible Ancestry

The Snow Genealogy in the NEHGS:

Nicholas Snow came in the Ann in 1623, and had share in the division of land in Plymouth, 1624; settled in Eastham in 1645; a man of much note. We find where he lived, and his neighbors, from Plymouth Colony Records.

He was freeman 1633. He with six others — Mr. Thomas Prence, John Doane, Nicholas Snow, Josias Cook, Richard Higgins, John Smally, and Edward Bangs — seven families, in all forty-nine souls, began the settlement of Eastham — at first called Nauset, early in 1645.

He died at Eastham, Nov. 15, 1676. He married in Plymouth, Constance Hopkins, daughter of Mr. Stephen Hopkins, and a former wife. They came in the Mayflower.

Constance (Hopkins) Snow died Oct. 1677. 

Possible ancestry:

Henry F. Waters, in his Genealogical Gleanings in England (Register, vol. 39, page 166), states that Joseph Walker of St. Margaret's, city of Westminster, gentleman, in his will dated 13 Feb. 1666, proved Feb. 27,
1666, bequeaths "to my kinswoman Mary Snow, wife of Nicholas Snow, citizen & armourer of London, whome I nominate executrix." Also the will of George Upham Wiveliscombe, Somerset, dated 1653, mentions testator's brother-in-law Nicholas Snow. This Nicholas Snow and Mary his wife may have been the parents of our Nicholas. He names his oldest daughter Mary.

More Information:

Did Mary Snow, daughter of Nicholas Snow, Sr., and Elizabeth Rowlles, marry George Upham?  This site indicated it was so. 

Nicholas Snow's (father-in-law of Constance Hopkins) memorial at FindAGrave.

A post on the Massachusetts And More blog featured Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins.

Nicholas Snow's Will

An ancestor's will from the Snow Genealogy in the NEHGS:

I, Nicholas Snow of Eastham being old and infirm of body but of perfect memory and understanding, not knowing the day of my departure but yet daily expecting my last change I think it meet to leave this behind mee as my last will and testament.

Impt. I commend my sole into the arms of God's Mercy through Christ Jesus in whom I hope to sleep, and my body to a decent burial ; and as concerning my temporal estate that God of his Goodness has given me, it is my last will and testament that after this manner it should be disposed of.

Impt. To my son Mark I give and bequeath all that twenty acres of upland lying at Namskaket where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow, and all that broken marsh thereof mine at Namskakett. Item, two thirds of my great lott at Satuckett lying next the Indian Ground, and that side of my lott west of
the Indian land I give to him, and his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever; and what he can purchase more of upland and meadow of the Indians thereatt Satuckett, I give to him all this abovesaid lands or meadow or marsh purchased or unpurchased, I give to him and to his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.

Imp. To my son Joseph Snow I give the other third part of my great lott at Satuckett aud two acres and a half of meadow lying at Namskekett near the head, and an neck of upland between it on the west side of William Twinnings all his abovesaid land and meadow I give to my son Joseph Snow, and to his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.

Imp. To my son Stephen Snow I give twenty acres on the south side of my great lott at Porchett, and ten acres of my little lott at Satuckett, lying between Daniel Cole and Edward Bangs by the side of a little pond an acre and a half of meadow at the Boat Meadow lying between Thomas Williams and Samuel Freemans and that part of my meadow at the Great Meadow, that lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eel Creek; all this abovesaid land and meadow, I give to my son Steven, and the heirs lawfully begotten of his body, forever.

Item. To my son John Snow, I give all that my land at Paomet, purchased or unpurchased whether upland or meadow; and all my right, title or privilege at Paomett. I give to my son John Snow and to the heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.

It. To my son Jabez Snow I give all my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paines, and seven acres att the Bass Pond lying between Daniel Coles and William Browns and a half an acre of marsh at the end of it ; and six acres of upland at the Herring Pond, and an acre and a half of meadow att Silver Springs lying on the north side of William Walkers, and the Cliff of upland adjacent to the abovesaid meadow and all the sedge ground about it to Ephriam Doanes and that part of my house he lives in as long as my wife or I do live.

Item. I give him two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow lying between the Eel Creek and Joseph Hardings.

Item. To my son Jabez I give that my four acres of meadow at Billingsgate due to me unlayed out, all this aforesaid upland and meadow I give to my son Jabez Snow, and the heirs of his body lawfully begotton forever.

Item. This my meadow about my house I give to my son Jabez.

Item. I give to my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine whatsoever to be at her disposall for her comfort and support of her life with all the moveable goods I am possessed of ; and after her decease stock and moveables to be equally divided amongst all my children.

Item. To my wife I give the pte. and disposal of that part of my house shee now dwells in during her life time, and after her death to be my sons, Jabez Snow.

Item. I give to my loving wife that ten acres of upland att Porchett and 20 on Billingsgate Island, for her disposall for the comfort of her life ; but if shee need it not, and leaves it undisposed of I give it then to my son Steven Snow; that 20 acres of upland att Billingsgate if my wife leaves it undisposed of, then to be my sons Jabez Snow.

I do give to the Church at Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord with pewter, or other. I do say I do give ten shillings out of my estate after my wife's decease.

That this is my last Will and^Testament I have sett my hand and seal, this fourteenth day of November, one thousand six hundred and seventy and six. 

Witnessed, signed and sealed, Nicholas Snow.

in the presence of us :

Samuel Treat
Thomas Paine, Sen.

It is my desire that Dea. Samuel Freeman and John Mayo would oversee the same and faithful performance of this my last will and testament ; and be helpful in any case of need concerning the same.

Nicholas does not mention his daughters [including Mary] in his will, and we suppose they received their portions when they married.

Some Descendants Of Thomas & Mary (Snow) Paine

The Paine family is an interest of mine because of my Paine ancestors.  My line starting with Elisha Paine, son of Thomas and Mary (Snow) Paine through my grandfather, Ralph N. Powers here.

Some published accounts of descendants of Thomas & Mary (Snow) Paine include:

The Paynes of Hamilton included Thomas Paine and Mary Snow:

Genealogy of the Waldo family.....

Brackett genealogy....

Paine ancestry, The family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration...

From Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine...

Early Massachusetts Settler Thomas Paine

The Paynes of Hamilton: a genealogical and biographical record  included information about Thomas Paine and Mary Snow (Mayflower descendant), who were also my ancestors.

Credible...accounts...that he [Thomas Paine] came over from England with his father who bore the same name when a lad of about ten years of age having lost the sight of one of his eyes by an arrow married Mary Snow and settled in Eastham Mass.  As to the date of...arrival and the name of the place whence they came traditional accounts differ.

...he (Thomas Paine) and Experience Mitchell, Henry Sampson, and Thomas Little were given leave to buy land from the Indians at Namskaket, now Middleborough, Massachusetts.  ...purchased a tract of land for ten pounds sterling from Tuscaquin the Black Sachem and his son William. This land adjoins the tract which belonged to John Alden at the famous Assowamsett Pond.


Paine family records: a journal of genealogical and biographical ..., Volume 2,  edited by Henry D. Paine, contained duplicate information.

A copy of Thomas Paine's will:

A copy of the inventory of the estate of Thomas Paine can be found on Page 17 of the Paine Family Records.