Jeremiah Snow III (1735 - 1803)

Born 20 Apr 1735 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Brewer) Snow — married 29 Nov 1759 in Springfield, Hampden Co., Mass., New England

Descendants

Died 24 Feb 1803 at age 67 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Chet Snow [send private message]

Biography

Jeremiah (Jeremy) Snow, III. was born April 20, 1735 in Boston (Suffolk Co.), British province of Massachusetts Bay, New England. His father Jeremiah Snow, Jr., b. ca. 1705 - after 1788. His grandfather was Jeremiah Snow, Sr. His mother was Mary Byles, b: November 3, 1707 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. ^[1]

"There were three generations of silversmiths named Jeremiah Snow (Jeremiah Snow, Jr.; Jeremiah Snow III; and Jeremiah Snow IV). Jeremiah Snow, Jr. was the son of Jeremiah Snow, Sr. (d. before 1724), a mariner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His son, Jeremiah III, was born in 1735 in Boston, Massachusetts. Jeremiah III then had a son, Jeremiah IV, also a silversmith. Jeremiah Snow III lived in Springfield, Massachusetts most of his life and was consistently identified as a silversmith from 1759-1786."^[2]

Jeremy (Jeremiah III) Snow was a jeweler and also a clock and sword-maker. He moved from Boston to Springfield, Hampden Co. Mass., as a young man. ^[3] There, on November 29, 1759, in Springfield, Hampden Co., province of Massachusetts Bay, New England, he married Mary Brewer, b: 1737 in Wilbraham MA.^[4]

Jeremy Snow III and his wife Mary (Brewer) Snow had 5 children:^[5]

1. Mary Snow, b. February 8, 1761; died on March 9, 1761 ("infant child, J. Snow")
2. Mary Snow, b. March 7, 1762. Married Zebina STEBBINS of Springfield MA in October 1784.
3. Jeremy Snow (IV): b. July 17, 1764; became a gold and silversmith. He married his cousin Elizabeth BREWER (dgr Isaac Brewer of Ludlow MA). He died at Williamsburg, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, on December 24,1821; he had a daughter: Clarissa Snow, b. August 27, 1796 and a son: Jeremiah (Jeremy) Isaac Snow, b. 7 May 1813. Moved to Illinois.^[6]
4. Clarissa Snow, b. June 4, 1767; she married her cousin Daniel STEBBINS (son of Joseph & Eunice Stebbins of Northampton MA) on May 27, 1791.
5. Ralph Snow, b. October 3, 1769; not married - lived in Northampton MA; d. Dec. 7, 1839 in Troy, NY.

Jeremy Snow III was an American patriot and a noted maker of brass sword hilts and scabbards in the 1770s, during the American Revolution. He also served a brief engagement as a private in Captain Walton's Company of the Massachusetts militia in September 1778; his wagon was used to help transport British prisoners taken at Saratoga to Cambridge MA. His teenage sons, Jeremiah IV and Ralph, helped him in his workshop.^[7]

Sailor Jeremiah Snow III served with Massachusetts Navy during the American Revolution.

Jeremiah Snow III is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A106693.

Jeremiah also served as a Sailor, part of the crew of the Volunteer ship, "The Franklin."^[8][9]

Jeremiah (Jeremy) Snow III died on February 24, 1803 in Springfield MA. He was 68 years old; cause of death was listed as "mortifica in the leg" which means gangrene. This death record confirms his birth year as 1735. ^[10] The Vital Records of Springfield MA state that his widow ("relict"), Mary (Brewer) Snow, survived him. She died on May 17, 1809. They are buried at the Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, USA, in the "Willow Avenue" section.^[11]

The Hitchcock Genealogy on RootsWeb.com states: ^[12]

•ID: I76730

•Name: Jeremiah SNOW

•Surname: Snow

•Given Name: Jeremiah

•Sex: M

•Birth: ABT 1730 [sic=1735]

•Death: Unknown

Marriage Mary BREWER b: ABT 1730 [sic=1737]

Children:

Mary SNOW b: 7 Mar 1762 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ Dowling Family Genealogy - Jeremiah Snow "Jr."
2. ↑ Archivegrid Photographs of Silverwork - Jeremiah Snow III 1735-1803 Silver and clocks by Jeremiah Snow Jr. and Jeremiah Snow III are on display at the Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
3. ↑ "The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass.,", Volume 2, 1871, page 1283.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Springfield MA - Marriages: Snow and "The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America ..., by Ebenezer Mack Treman, Volume 2, pg. 1702.
5. ↑ "Snow, J" on Sortedbyname.com. Refers to Vital Records of Springfield MA to 1849 (primary sources).
6. ↑ Note by Chet Snow: See: boards.ancestry.com source listed here for ALL Snow entries in this MA locality in 18-19th Centuries, thanks to a kind researcher.
7. ↑ "In Search of Jeremiah Snow - Revolutionary Sword Cutler," by E. Andrew Mobray. Reprint of a Mar/Apr 1979 article in "Man At Arms" magazine.
8. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 23 January 2024), "Record of Jeremiah Snow", Ancestor # A106693.
9. ↑ MA Soldiers & Sailors, Vol. 14, P 612
10. ↑ Vital Records of Springfield MA - Deaths: Snow
11. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 36605981 - Jeremiah Snow
12. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 36605981 - Jeremiah Snow; includes mention of first daughter Mary who died in 1761 at one month old. See also: Find A Grave Memorial# 36605982 - Mary Brewer Snow

See also:

• Details for Jeremiah Snow on FamilySearch; cites 30 sources

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hitchcock2009&id=I76730

• "The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass.,", Volume 2, 1871, page 1283.

• Find A Grave Memorial# 36605981 - Jeremiah Snow
• http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.hampden/3993.1.1.1/mb.ashx

• Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, Yale University Art Gallery: 2010, pp. 905-908., article on Jeremiah Snow III. Not available online.

• "In Search of Jeremiah Snow - Revolutionary Sword Cutler," by E. Andrew Mobray. Reprint of a Mar/Apr 1979 article in "Man At Arms" magazine.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Snow-2218 was created by Greg Rose, Tuesday, February 11, 2014 from first-hand information.

• Thanks to Chet Snow for researching this profile, and writing the biographical sketch, adding sources, on March 4, 2016.