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PILGRIMS AND PURITANS:
BIOS OF OUR EARLY ANCESTORS
TO AMERICA
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PILGRIM AND PURITAN GRANDFATHERS
IN OUR FAMILY
TREE:
BIOS
18) (SERGEANT) ABRAHAM STAPLES
SR.
1633-1703 WEYMOUTH,
MA (10GGF)
18a) Occumpation: Weaver. 2) Lived in Dorchester,
married at Weymouth,
and died in Mendon, MA.
18b) Was a Sergeant
in King Phillip's War. His grave
is so marked at Mendon.
Do you have
anything to add?
19) ABRAHAM
SR. STAPLES
b:1663 WEYMOUTH,
MA (9GGF)
20) JOHN
JR. STAPLES
b: abt 1610 of MA
(11GGF)
Still searching for data.
21) JOHN STAPLES
b: 1636 MA (12 GGF)
Does anyone have anything to share
for this one?
22) SAMUEL
HAYWARD
1643-1713
BRAINTREE, MA (10GGF)
I'm hoping someone who has this line
will send me something to put
in this section.
23) NICOLAS
SNEDEN
b: ABT 1640
d: 1677
FLUSHING, NY (10GGF)
Thank you to Pat Wardell for the following:
23a) "Although
there is no proof as yet of the family's
precise European
ancestry, it seems likely that the
Sneden family
once thought to have been of Dutch
descent, probably
originated in England, perhaps Wales,
and found it's
way to the American colonies via Amsterdam.
It has been suggested
that the name might be derived from
Mt. Snowden,
in Wales, or from the vicinity of Schelten,
or Skelton, in
Cumberland, England.
23b) Claes Sneden along with
his brother, Jan Sneden,
and Jan's wife; Crietje and their
two children. (their
only son, Carsten, apparently
left no children), was the
first American Sneden settler,
sailing from Amsterdam
in December of 1657 to New Amstel
on the Delaware.
Claes (Nicholas), and later his
children, are found in New
Amsterdam, Flushing, and Hempstead,
Queens County,
New York, from about 1662 (and
perhaps as early as Jan
1658), until 1698 or later.
Snedens began to settle around 1690-
1710, in Westchester County,
on Western Long Island (Oyster
Bay and vicinity), and in Southern
New Jersey in Salem
(and later Cymberland) county.
23c) Snedens (or Snethens),
as this branch seems to have
spelled the name, from southern
New Jersey, began to remove to
Pennsylvania and further
west and south before the Revolution.
These Snethens pioneered
the settlement of Kentucky,
Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa,
and points furtherNorth, South,
and West.
23d) During and after the Revolution,
several
of the New York Snedens, being Loyalists, settled
in Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick. Someof these families
or their descendants
later moved back to the United States,
settling in,
among other places, New York, northern
New Jersey,
North Carolina, and Massachusetts.
By 1850 those
of the name were widely dispersed, and
few with
the surname remained in Westchester County,
NY, and Cumberland
and Salem Counties, NJ.
23d) On December 23, 1657,
Claes Sudeich (Snedich), his
brother Jan,
and Jan's wife and children, set sail from
Amsterdam on
teh "De St. Jan Baptiste", under Captain
Symon Classen,
(Claeson), bound for the Dutch settlement
of New Amstel
(later called New Castle) on the Delaware
River. Jan and
his probably younger brother, Claes, are the
founders of the
Sneden family in America. They were
thought
to be descended from a family who were said to
have lived
for many years in Amsterdam. The only clue to
this assumption
seems to have been that Jan, Claes,
sailed
from Amsterdam. It now seems likely however
that the
family may have originated in England and
specifically
perhaps in Wales.
24) JOSEPH
SNETHEN
(changed
spelling of surname from Sneden to Snethen)
b: 1677 FLUSHING, NY (9GGF)
(At this point I still don't have anything for Joseph Snethen.)
25) NICHOLAS COOKE
b: 1687 MA (8GGF)
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