Bathshua (Snow) King (1664 - bef. 1707)

Born 25 Jul 1664 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, New England

Ancestors

Wife of John King — married about 1695 (to before 1707) in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 7 Oct 1707 before age 43 in Harwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Bathshua Snow was the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins and the great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins.

Biography

Bathshua (or Bathshuah) Snow was the eldest daughter of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane. She was born 25 July 1664 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony (on Cape Cod).^[1][2]

Bathshua Snow married John King.^[2] The date and place of their marriage is unknown and is estimated at 1695 based on the documented 5 June 1698 birth date of their eldest son, Stephen King. The evidence that Bathshua married John King comes from a 1706 receipt from her father's estate, which was signed by John King.^[3]
They had the following children:

1. Stephen King, b. 5 June 1698 ^{[4] [5]} mar. Abigail Atwood 13 Oct 1715 at Eastham; son (also Stephen) named in his father's will.^[6]
2. Joanna King,^[5] married ____ Cole, her heirs were named in her father's will^[2]
3. Roger King, named in his father's will,^[2] was born about 1695 and died 23 May 1768 in Brewster^[5]
4. Samuel King, born 9 June 1698,^[5] married Abigail Linell, his heirs were named in his father's will^[2]
5. Ebenezer King, born 15 June 1700 in Harwich,^[5] married Mercy Merrick, named in his father's will^[2]
6. Nathaniel King, baptized 11 October 1702 in Brewster, died young^[5]
7. Nathaniel King, baptized 23 April 1704 in Harwich, died before 1752 (not named in father's will)^[5]
8. John King,^[5] his heirs were named in his father's will^[2]

Bathshua died between 21 May 1706 and 7 October 1707, when her husband remarried.^[5]

John King married three more times after Bathshua's death. His second wife was Mary (Benjamin) Clark, daughter of Joseph Benjamin and Jemima Lombard, they married 14 October 1707^[5] and had two children (Bathshua, born 20 December 1708 and was named in her father's will;^[5] married _____ Rider^[2] and Mercy, born 4 May 1713, not named in her father's will^[5]). He married his third wife, Hannah Hamblen, on 9 September 1714^[6] and his fourth wife, Rachel Maker, on 6 July 1737.^[6] John died between 18 November 1752 (date of his will) and 1 May 1753 (will proved in Barnstable County).^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Eastham and Orleans, Mass. Vital Records" in the Mayflower Descendant. Online at AmericanAncestors.org [$], vol. 8, page 15. PAID SUBSCRIPTION SITE.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Mrs. M.L.T Alden. "The Snow Genealogy" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston MA: NEHGS, Oct 1895.) Online at AmericanAncestors.org[$], vol. 49, pages 452-453. [$]
3. ↑ "Stephen Snow's Will" in the Mayflower Descendant. (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933). Online at AmericanAncestors.org[$], vol. 31, pages 37-41
4. ↑ See his WT profile for primary source reference.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12} Susan E. Roser. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 2 Vols. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992). Online at Ancestry.com vol 2, pages 44-45. Ancestry Record 3718 #2089.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition]), pages 16-17, 57-58.

• "The Deane Family" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston MA: NEHGS, Oct 1849.) Online at AmericanAncestors.org[$] vol. 3, page 379.