I am doing research on David Snowden. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and fought with the 3rd Battn. Washington Co., PA Militia. Any information about him would be greatly appreaciated.

Hello Cousin,

I also descend from that David Snowden and there is an excellent book on the family including the generation just preceeding the one of David Snowden. The book is now out of print, but rumor was that demand had grown to the point that a descendant of the author was considering a reprint.

The book, which is in some libraries, is " The Descendants of Joseph Snowden 1725/1730 - 1799" by Virginia Whitman Snowden, Gateway Press, 1982, 283 pages.

David Snowden was a Rev War soldier, Indian Scout and Spy on the Western Frontier. His widow, Nancy Hazelrigg (her father also in the Rev War) received a pension awarded via Pension Papers W9308.

Several people, including me, have gotten into SAR or DAR under his name and both organizations could send you Record Copies of applications including lineage back to him.

More here;
http://www.genealogy.com/users/s/n/o/John-Snowden/?Welcome=1...

You and I are very distant cousins. Something like 10 generations ago. This David's Great-grandfather is my GGGGGGGreat-grandfather.
I can tell you all about Ft. Macintosh if you are interested.

Descendants of David Snowden


Generation No. 1

1. DAVID6 Snowden (JOSEPH5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1759 in "near" Perth Amboy, N. J., and died June 02, 1839 in Estill Co., Ky.. He married NANCY HAZELRIGG 1782 in Washington Co., Pa, daughter of JAMES HAZELRIGG and ELIZABETH. She was born 1762 in Virginia, and died May 05, 1850 in Owsley Co., Ky..

Notes for DAVID SNOWDEN:
From The Descendants of Joseph Snowden (1725/30-1799)
by Virginia Whitman Snowden

pp 11-14

GENERATION TWO - ALL BRANCHES


2 DAVID Snowden (Joseph 1)
b. 1759, near Amboy, N. J.; d. 2 Jun. 1839, Estill Co., Ky.; s/o Joseph and Sarah Snowden; m. Apr. 1782 at Wash. Co,, Pa. Nancy HAZELRIGG, William Woods, Bapt. Mins. offic., b. 1762, Va.; d. 5 May 1850, Owsley Co., Ky.; d/o James and Elizabeth (?) Hazelrigg.* Statistics from Rev. War Pension Papers. (W 9308 Nat'l Archs.)
David Snowden was a Rev. War soldier and Indian scout on the western Pa. frontier. His pension papers state: "he was born in New Jersey near Amboy in 1759 - when about 3 years his Father moved to the Western part of Pennsylvania and when the Revolutionary War commenced he resided with his Father in what is now the county of Washington, Pennsyl- vania." This places the family in western Pa. c 1762/3. I have not been able to document their presence here that early. We do know from court records that the family was in Yohogania Co., Va., and its successor, Washington Co., Pa., by the time of the Revolution.

* The HAZELRIGG family migrated from England to the Va. Colony prior to 1700. Richard K. Hazelrigg d. in Frederick Co. c 1762; his son, James, moved his fam. from Prince William Co., Va. to Red Stone Old Fort in 1761. (Present site of Brownsville, Pa.) From here they moved on to Wash. Co., Pa., where they were involved in the Wash. Co. Border Warfare of 1782. James and son Joshua were in Capt. William Leets'Co., 3rd Bat. Wash. Co. Militia (Pa. Archs. Ser. 6, Vol. 2, pp. 98 and 122), William in Capt. Abner Howell's Frontier Militia.(Pa. Archs. Ser. 2, Vol. 14, p. 741) In Dec. of 1782 James was listed as the owner of 3 slaves in Strabane Twp. A deposition signed in 1831 by Eli(jah) HAZELRIGG in Bath Co., Ky., and found in the David Snowden pension papers states that he (Eli) was the son of James
and brother of Nancy, who m. David Snowden, and that the Hazelrg. fam. moved from Pa. to Ky. in 1784, settling along the Kentucky River in Fayette Co. The Master Index of Va. Surveys and Grants 1774-91 compiled by Joan Brookes-Smith shows that James had surveyed and was granted 2 parcels of land, one for 300 acres, the other for 350, along the Ky. River in Fayette. (Surveyed 1783, Granted 1785) William Hazelrg. held 750 acres surveyed and granted same time ad- joining James' property. Much of these holdings proved to be in Clark Co. when it was cut from Fayette. On 13 Nov.1785 James and Eliz. Hazelrigg were listed in the Boone
Creek Baptist Church. Sometime after this Eliz. must have d., for James m. the widow, Lucy Fleming in 1793. In the tax lists for 1792 of Clark Co. 6 Hazelrg. men are noted: Charles, Graham, James, John, Joshua and William Jr. Mr. John R. C. Sanderson, onetime officer of the Richard K. Hazelrigg Family Assn., wrote me in 1968 that the children of James and Elizabeth were: Joshua, Eli, Nancy, Polly, Elizabeth and Rebecca. My inclination is to add to this group James Jr. and William Sr., although further research might prove otherwise. James Sr. made a last move to Bath Co. Ky., where he d. in 1818, with son Joshua settling his estate.






David's military service outlined in his govt. pension and corroborated in the Pa. Archs. indicates that he served 3 yrs.1 "Sometimes he would be out for a week, sometimes more. . . . spying and guarding the Frontier against the Indians." He marched under Brig. Gen. McIntosh when Forts McIntosh and Laurens were built, and was with Major Leet's Company under Cols. Crawford and Williamson in the Sandusky Campaign - considered one of the most sanguine of our border m battles.2 His last participation was Sept. 1782, when he marched with Col. Swearingen and a small band of Wash. Co. Militiamen to the defense of the Block House on Wheeling Creek. (Fort Henry) This is considered by some historians to represent the last battle of the war.3

No deeds Bearing David's name have been found in Wash. Co., Pa., but he is shown as a boundary land owner on "Sugartree Flat" tract in an early Wash. Co. Plat Book. (Survey for Payton Cook, 22 Apr. 1786) The land attributed to David on the Plat book was part of the Joseph Snowden, Sr. holdings, bought by him as late as 13 Dec. 1788, but on which Joseph Sr. and family had been living prior to the recorded purchase. Joeseph Snowden Sr. sold this tract on 23 Apr. 1795 and the land description reads in part: "A parcel of land lying and being near he town of Washington on the waters of Chartiers Creek whereon David Snowden, the younger, late lived, the same being part of a tract granted by the Commonwealth of Pa. to John Dodd. ...thence by deed pole conveyed to Joseph Snowden on 13 Dec. 1788." (D. Bk. 2 B, p. 495, Wash. Co., Pa.) He is also listed as a boundary owner on a second plot of ground bought 25 Dec. 1791 by his brother, Joseph Snowden Jr. (D. Bk. 1 L, P. 61, Wash. Co.)

David Snowden is listed on petitions for a new state sent to the Continental Congress from the Wash. Co. area from 1776- 80. Beginning in 1781 he is listed on tax and voters' lists first, in Strabane Twp., Wash. Co., and by 1793, in Canton Twp. He had not moved, but the corner of Strabane Twp. in which the Snowdens lived had been cut off to form Canton Twp. He is found in the 1790 U.S.C. for Wash. Co. with 3 males under 16 and 2 females.

David with his family left for Ky. in.the spring of 1793, for on 10 Sept. 1793 he is listed as a resident of Clark Co., Ky., when he purchased 100 acres on the Ky. River adjoining lands of his father-in-law, James HAZELRIGG. (D. Bk. 1, pp. 211-12, Clark Co.) On 30 Oct. 1793 he was the surety when his father-in-law married the widow Lucy Fleming. (M. Reg. 1793-1831, p. 2, Clark Co.) On 8 Feb. 1797 David and Nancy sold their 100 acres and purchased land in the extreme southeast corner of Clark Co. The Court Order Books of Clark Co. from c 1797 to 1808, when Estill was cut from Clark, have many references to the activities of David Snowden and his family. In 1804 and 1805 David received bounty money for wolf hides from the county and from 1805 through 1808 he was included in those men appointed to re- view possible roads leading from the Red River to Bradshaw's mill and the local ironworks. On 30 Sept. 1807 a road was surveyed which went through David's lands and for which he gave liberty to the Clark Co. Commissioners. (Order Bks. 1804-10; Jan. Court of 1808, p. 236, Clark) When the final boundaries were set for Estill Co., the David Snowden hold- ings were in Estill Co., and David and Nancy are found in the 1810 through 1830 U.S.C. enum. for Estill. By the time of the tax inventory dated 16 Nov. 1829, David had increased his land holdings in Estill until he was assessed on 320.0 acres of land, 1 slave and 2 horses.

The inventory on his estate was filed at the Dec. Court of 1840, his son, James HAZELRIGG Snowden, administrated; a bill of sale which includes purchasers and the items they bought from the estate is also given. (W. Bk. B, pp. 194-5, Estill) Nancy received a widow's pension after David's death and their son, David Jr., with whom she finally lived, served as administrator of her estate. It was settled in Owsley Co., Ky., because the part of Estill in which David Jr. had taken up residence was cut from Estill to form Owsley Co. in 1843. On 4 Oct. 1850 a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Wash. D. C., requested that the back pension due be paid to Nancy's administrator, "She having left 4 children surviving her who are residing in different places and with difficulty can all he found." Court records show that her sons, Rev. Charles, David Jr., Joseph, John and James HAZELRIGG were all alive at this time. However, Charles and Joseph had moved to Indiana many years before and may have lost touch. The same may be true of the daus., whom I have not been able to trace. The burial site of David and Nancy is not known: however, decendents of David Snowden Jr. told me that the tradition is that they were buried on their own land, which has long since passed out of the hands of the family. (birthdates from parents pension depositions)

Snowden, David & Nancy - Rev War (Abstract & Other Information)
Author: Jen Bawden Date: 21 Sep 1998 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: Snowden, GRAVIN, TIPTON, WALTERS, SWERINGER, CRAWFORD, CLINSON, LEST, SCOTT, KELLY, WHITE, WOODS, SWEARINGER, HAZELRIGG, HOGES, OWEN
Classification: Pension

David and Nancy Snowden
W 9308 Penn.

On the 20th of August 1832, before James W. Gravin, Samuel Tipton, and Sampson Walters, Justices of the Peace in said county, David Snowden, Sr., resident of said county, aged 73, made oath: That he was born in New Jersey in 1759. When about 3 years of age, that his father moved to the Western part of Pennsylvania and when the Revolutionary War commenced, he resided with his father in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania. That from 1775 or 1776, he served as an Indian spy from time to time, for a great portion of his time till the close of the War. That sometimes they would be out for a week and sometimes more and that after guarding the frontiers against the Indians, he was drafted and when on McIntosh's campaign against the Indians in what is now the state of Ohio. He went within two miles from where Washington Pennsylvania now stands. He was out 3 months. Andrew Sweringer was his Captain. Crawford and Sl Glinson (?) were Colonels in the Militia. AFter they got to what in now called Ohio, they halted and bult a fort called Ft. McIntosh. That they afterward built a fort on the waters of Tuscarawai (?) called Ft. Lawrence. That they afterward were marched back to Ft. McIntosh and then discharged. He continued to act as a spy and guard for the frontier. That he volunteered under Captain Lest (?) and went out as Colonels Crawford and Williamson ordered. He went to the Sandusky Pains and were there in an engagement with the Indians and British and were defeated. Crawford was taken prisoner and burnt. Before going out with Crawford, he had served 1 or 2 months on the frontier at Black Hawk on the Waters of Wheeling Creek. Captain Scott was his Captain. He was engaged as an Indian spy and guard for the frontier and was out on campaigns against the Indians during the Revolutionary War for almost 3 years.

Samuel Kelly, clergyman, and Thomas White, clergyman, both residents of Estill County, Kentucky, certify of their acquaintance with David Snowden and their belief in his statements.

In Owsley County, Kentucky, on the 13th of June 1884, before David Snowen, Justice of the Peace, Nancy Snowden, aged 82, appeared and made oath: That she is the widow of David Snowden, deceased, late a pensioned on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency. That she married to David Snowden, in April 1782, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, by a Baptist preacher named William Woods and that her husband aforesaid David Snowden died in June 2, 1839.

David Snowden of Estill County, Kentucky, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Swearinger of the Regiment commanded by Col. Crawford in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years, was inscribed on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency commence on March 4, 1831, certificate of the pension was issued March 29, 1833.

James Snowden, aged 45, resident of Estill County, Kentucky made oath that: He is the son of David Snowden, deceased and Nancy Snowden, applicate for a pension on this 13th day of June 1844. That he has for many years, the record of the ages of the children of his father and which record commences with the age of the oldest child. He thinks this handwriting is that of his father, David Snowden.

The record was made part of his deposition, and read as follows: Chas. Snowden born December 28th, 1783. Joshua Snowden born on June 26, 1785. David Snowden born December 6, 1786. Elizabeth Snowden, born October 26, 1788. Joseph Snowden born June 9, 1791. Sary Snowden, born November 19, 1793. John Snowden born January 3, 1796. James Snowden born April 30, 1798. Wm Snowden born August 27, 1800. Sancy Snowden born August 15, 1802.

Eli HAZELRIGG, resident of Bath County, Kentucky, made oath that he is 67 years of age, October next. That he is the brother of Nancy Snowden. That he was an inmate of his father's family at the date his sister, Nancy, intermarried with David Snowden. His father moved from Virginia to near Red Stone Old Fort in Pennsylvania in 1781. He had not lived there long before David Snowden married to his sister, Nancy, in April 1782. The deponent's father's family moved to Kentucky in 1784 and settled on Boone Creek, then to Fayette County and several years later said Snowden and family moved to Kentucky and lived 1 or 2 years in my father's family. Said Snowden there purchased a farm in this deponent's neighborhood where he lived several years and sold it and moved to Estill County, Kentucky where said Snowden died.

Rachel Hoges made oath in Clark County, Kentucky, that she is 72 years old. That she became acquainted with David Snowden at this site in the family of Mrs. Snowden's father, James HAZELRIGG and lived there for some short time. Then he purchased a piece of land adjoining Hazelrigg's and moved his family off of said land to the land above mentioned, where he lived for several years. The whole time he lived in the neighborhood, he lived within a short distance of this deponent. That said Nancy and David has 4 or 5 children when they first came into the neighborhood. That the record of their children says that Moses was born 28th December 1793 and the deponent knows that they lived in the neighborhood a year or 2 before the birth of the deponent's son Moses.

A letter written from Morris Owen, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on the 4th of October 1850, to the commissioner of pensions, stated that Mrs. Nancy Snowden to whom the enclosed pension certificate was issued died, as he was informed on the 5th of May 1850, prior to the date of her certificate, which was dated 25th June. He asked that her pension, not having been drawn that the commissioner of pension permit it to be paid to her administrator, she having 4 children residing in this and different places and the commissioner of pensions directs her claim to be paid at the Pittsburg Agency, by William H. Howard, Esquire.

Nancy Snowden, widow of David Snowden was inscribed on the pension Roll of Kentucky, to commence on June 2, 1839, certificate of the pension was issued October 14, 1845.


More About DAVID Snowden and NANCY HAZELRIGG:
Marriage: 1782, Washington Co., Pa

Children of DAVID Snowden and NANCY HAZELRIGG are:
i. REV. CHARLES7 Snowden, b. December 28, 1783, Washington Co., Pa; d. 1866, Clinton or Tipton Co., Ind.; m. HESTER GRAHAM, Abt. 1802; d. 1840, Hardensburg, Jennings Co., Ind..

Notes for REV. CHARLES SNOWDEN:
From The Descendants of Joseph Snowden (1725/30-1799)
by Virginia Whitman Snowden

pp 24-26


GENERATION THREE

Kentucky and Ohio Branches

7 REVEREND CHARLES Snowden [David 2, Joseph 1]
b. 28 Dec. 1783, Wash. Co., Pa.; d. 1866 (age 83), Clinton or Tipton Co., Ind.; s/o David and Nancy (HAZELRIGG) Snowden; 1/m. c 1801/3 Hester Graham; d. 1840, Hardensburg, Jennings Co., Ind.; 2/m. 9 Nov. 1842 Judah (Judia) Ann Jividen (Gividen) (M. Bk. 3,p. 234, Jenns. Co.), widow of Joseph Gividen,l b. c 1790, Va.; d. 1859/60 (Mortality Schedules for 1860, Ind.) Bur. unknown.

Charles was in his parents' household in the 1800 U.S.C. of Clark Co., Ky. He headed his own household in 1810 and 20 in Estill Co., Ky. When he migrated to Ind. is not certain. While an extant eulogy of his son, Joshua William,2 states that Joshua was born in Ind. 20 Apr. 1820, the family is not numerated there that early. The earliest Indiana records for Rev. Charles which I have found are on 11 Apr. 1822, when he offic. at an Orange Co. marriage, and in Jul. at the marriage of Margaret Newkirk to James McDonald.3 On 5 Aug. 1824 he offic. at the marriage of his daughter, Betsy Snowden, to Ison Gwinn. He signed their certificate as Minister of the Gospel.


The family was in Decatur Co. in 1830, and by 1834 he was preaching in Jenns. Co. He was ordained in the Coffee Creek Baptist Church Jan. 1838, where "He preached regularly at school houses and private dwellings for some years." (Recds Coffee Creek Baptist Assn.) From 1845 to 1850 he served as
a church messenger, an alternate preacher and as ordained minister in Geneva Twp., Jenns. Co., becoming by 1852 the regular minister of the Queensville Baptist Church of that county.

While public records list him as a Baptist elder and preacher, he considered himself a farmer, as noted on census recds. This may be accounted for by the statement in William T. Scott's Indiana Baptist History 1798-1908, p. 151: "There was a strong prejudice against salaries to ministers and (they) . . . . had to labor with their hands to support their families."

In 1860 U.S.C. for Tipton Co. Charles is enumerated in the household of his son James and wife Mary Ann (Hopkins) Snowden. Since son James's property straddled the two counties of Clinton and Tipton, Charles may have died in either.

Recds. of Joshua William Snowden indicate that his father and mother had 11 children, nine have been identified order uncertain.

Issue:

i David H(azelrigg), b. c 1804/5, Ky.; 1/m. 27 Nov. 1823 Polly Vannest (M. Bk. 1, Orange Co.); 2/m.
5 Jul. 1831 Eliza Stokely (M. Bk. 1830-7, #38, Jenns. Co.)
ii Elizabeth (Betsy), b. c 1806, Ky.; m. 5 Aug. 1824 Ison Gwinn (M. Recd. #60, Decatur Co.) He was
a Baptist mins. They were living in Schuyler Co., Ill. with 3 children in 1830 U.S.C. Another child, Charles, b. c 1836, Ill., was living in household of Rev. Charles in the 1850 U.S.C.
iii Nancy, b. c 1808, Ky.; m. 15 Mar. 1825 John New kirk (M. Bk. 1, p. 84, Orange Co.)
iv Sarah (Sallie), b. c 1810, Ky.; m. 23 Nov. 1830 George Fear (M. Bk. 60, Decatur Co.) Listed in 1840 U.S.C., Jeans. Co. with 3 children. May have moved about this time, for on 1 Jun. 1840 recds. of Coffee Creek Baptist Church state: "Whereas Geo. Fear and Sally Fear have connected with another denomination, they are considered no longer members with us."
25 v James (B.), b. c 1811/12, Ky.; I/m. 9 Nov. 1830 Elizabeth Fear; 2/m. 5 Nov. 1834 Mary Ann Hopkins
26 vi Rachel, b. c 1814, Ky.; d. c 1849; m. 12 Apr.1835 Thomas Newkirk
vii Margaret, b. c 1816, Ky.; m. 14 Jul. 1836 James Brown (M. Bk. 2, Orange Co.)
27 viii Joseph, b. c 1817/18, Ky.; I/m. 28 May 1835 Sarah Overby; 2/m. 24 Nov. 1852 Ginetta Permilla (Nancy) Dean
28 ix Joshua William, b. 20 Apr. 1820; d. 17 Jul. 1895
m. 1 Oct. 1846 Mary Robins

1 A deed of sale in Jenns. Co. from Joseph B. Gividen on 9 Feb. 1836 names wife, Judith. Correspondence with Joseph A. Gividen of Fresno, Ca., the family historian, does not clarify which Joseph B. Gividen was her husband or if she might have been a second wife. She was certainly related to the Md. Gividens, who migrated to Ky. before 1800 and to Jenns. Co., Ind . by the 1830's.

2 Copy of eulogy supplied by Herman Keith Williams of Pendleton, Ind., a grandson of Mary Nellie (Snowden) Williams-Simmerman (1886-1980), who descends from Rev. Charles through his son, Joshua William Snowden.

3. Margaret Newkirk, d/o Cornelius, was the younger sister of Nancy (Newkirk) Snowden, wife of Joseph Snowden. This Joseph Snowden and Rev. Charles were brothers. The Newkirks and the Snowdens pioneered Estill Co., Ky. together, and these younger members of the family migrated to Ind. together.



More About CHARLES Snowden and HESTER GRAHAM:
Marriage: Abt. 1802

ii. JOSHUA Snowden, b. June 26, 1785, Washington Co., Pa.; d. Abt. 1849, Clark Co., Ky.; m. MARY ANN (POLLY) DAWSON, April 11, 1811; b. Abt. 1786, Va.?; d. May 22, 1868, Clark Co., Ky..

Notes for JOSHUA SNOWDEN:
From The Descendants of Joseph Snowden (1725/30-1799)
by Virginia Whitman Snowden
page 26.

There has been some confusion of names both in family and courthouse records since Joshua had a younger brother, Joseph. Even the Will Book containing the Joshua Snowden estate settlement uses the two names interchangeably in the same document. However, it is Joshua who married Mary Ann Dawson. Joshua's land was divided on his death by survey, a plat of the division is included in the Clark records. He had previously sold a parcel to Lewis Figg, and had given Title Bonds to his sons, William N. for 7 acres and David Jefferson for 8 acres. The widow was awarded 27 acres of improved land, and the remaining 55 were made available for purchase to settle the estate. Descendants living in Clark Co. today tell me the family tradition is that Joshua and Mary Ann were buried on their own property.


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Snowden Land Deed
Submitted by Alvie L. Davidson

Commissioners deed to Snowden, W. N.
Clark County (Ky) Deed Book Volume 38, 1856-1858, Page 357-358

Whereas by virtue of a decree of the Clark Circuit Court rendered in the chancery suit of Joshua Snowdens’ Administrator against Joshua Snowdens heirs etc at the October term 1851 the undersigned was appointed a commissioner to execute to William N. Snowden, a deed for and on behalf of the defendants the children and heirs at law of Joshua Snowden deceased for the land sold by Thomas Hart as said courts com- missioner, under a former decree in the above case; now in obedience to said last mentioned decree, I W. C. Sympson commissioner for and on behalf of the children and heirs of Joshua Snowden decd. to wit Lucinda Stuart late Lucinda Snowden and Joseph Stuart her husband; John Snowden Charles C. Snowden, Sally Ann Duncan late Sally Ann Snowden and her husband Charles Duncan, David Snowden, Emily Ann Allen, late Emily Ann Snowden and Richard Allen her husband, Mary Ann Snowden and Andrew Snowden, do hereby bargain sell and convey to the said William N. Snowden all right, title, claim, and interest of said children and heirs in and to 71 acres and 16 poles of land subject however to the widows dower, and is bounded as follows to wit, beginning at D. a large hickory corner to D. J. Snowden's lot, thence S 77 ½° E. 4 poles to E. a station, thence at N. 70 E. 20 poles to F. thence S. 70° E. 24 poles to G. thence N. 82 ½° E. 16 poles to H, thence S. 56 3/4° E.16 poles to J. thence S. 37 3/4° E. 24 poles to K. thence N 46 ½° E. 3 poles to L a station at the junction of a branch with the Long branch, thence up the Long branch with its meanders N. 69° E. 6 poles to M, thence N. 9° E. 42 poles to O. thence N 44 ½° W.16 poles to P. thence N. 25° W. 90 6/10 poles to Q a stake Lewis Pigg's corner between two hickories near the junction of another branch with the Long branch, thence up the small branch with said Pigg's line S. 66° W. 6 poles to R., thence N.75 ½° W24 poles to S. thence N. 51° W. 11 2/10 poles to T. and elm in said branch, thence departing from said branch and running up a ravine N 33°° E 32 poles to U. a stake on a ridge at the head of said ravine, thence N. 43° E 8 2/10 poles to V a stake L. Pigg's corner near a red oak, thence with another of said Pigg's line N. 18 ½ °W. 25 4/10 poles to W a stake, thence N. 54 3/4° W. 36 4/10 poles to X. a stake in the side of a hill with two white oaks and two hickories pointers, thence with a newly marked line S. 53° W. 49 poles to b. a planted rock at the junction of the bridge and spring branches, thence S. 89 1/4 °W. 40 8/10 poles to a stake on the side of a hill with a chestnut oak, black oak, and a red oak pointer, thence S. 3° 10' W. 27 1/4 poles to C a corner of D. J. Snowden's lot, thence S. 84° E. 47 ½ poles to d. a set stone in the Spring branch and thence S 3° 10° [ 10'] W. 27 1/4 poles to d. another of D. J. Snowden's lines corners the beginning. To have and to hold the said 71 acres and 16 poles of land with all its rights, privileges, and appurtenances to the said William N. Snowden and his heirs forever. For a more particular description of said land reference is made to a survey now on file in the above suit in the office of the Clark Circuit Court. This conveyance subject to the widows dower. In testimony whereof the said W C Sympson as commissioner aforesaid has hereunto set his hand and seal this 21st day of December 1853.

W. C. Sympson commissioner( seal)

State of Kentucky Clark Circuit Court December 21st 1854

I Aylett H. Buckner clerk of said court do certify that this deed from William C. Sympson as com- missioner to William N. Snowden was this day produced in court, and acknowledged by said commissioner to be his act and deed, approved by the court, and ordered to be certified to the clerk of the Clark County Court for record which is done.

A.H. Buckner clk

State of Kentucky

I, Willis Collins, clerk of the Clark County Court certify that the forgoing deed from com- missioner to William N. Snowden with the certificate annexed was this day produced to me for record, and the same with this [and heretofore] certificate has been duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand the 14th day of October 1857. Willis Collins, clerk


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More About JOSHUA Snowden and MARY DAWSON:
Marriage: April 11, 1811

iii. DAVID JR. SNOWDEN, b. December 06, 1786, Washington Co., Pa.; d. Aft. 1852, St. Helens Ky.; m. MARGARET (PEGGY) MCGUIRE, July 01, 1812, Estill Co. Ky.; b. May 05, 1795, Ky.; d. Bef. 1860, St. Helens Ky..

Notes for DAVID JR. SNOWDEN:
From The Descendants of Joseph Snowden (1725/30-1799)
by Virginia Whitman Snowden

pp 27-29

9 DAVID Snowden JR. [David 2, Joseph 1]
b. 6 Dec. 1786, Wash. Co., Pa.; d. after 1852, St. Helens, Ky.; s/o David Sr. and Nancy (HAZELRIGG) Snowden; m. I Jul. 1812 Margaret (Peggy) MCGUIRE (M. Bds. Bk. A-B, #42, Estill Co.) David Snowden and James MCGUIRE signed as sureties. She was b. 5 May 1795/7, Ky.; d. prior 1860, St. Helens; d/o James and Diadema (Mann) McGuire*
David, who is remembered as a man of great energy, was a farmer and logger. About 1826 he struck out across what is today called the Daniel Boone National Forest and moved his family to the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River on the present site of St. Helens. Local historians credit him with being an original settler and helping to establish the town of St. Helens.1 In 1836 he purchased 1200 acres of additional forested land along the North Fork. By 1852 he held between 1350 and 1400 acres along this fork.

*James MCGUIRE Sr. and wife, Elizabeth Black, came from Greenbrier River, Va. in Oct. 1779 and made a home in the area of David McGee's Station, two or three miles from Boonesborough. James was a capt. in the Indian War and had a son Cornelius scalped by Indians. At the Battle of Blue Licks 19 Aug. 1792, he and his son Jesse were killed along with several others. Israel Boone, son of Daniel, was wounded. Those killed were buried
in a mass grave. The MCGUIRE family moved to Howard's Creek and James's widow lived for awhile with the Valentine Crawford family. She later married, dying at an advanced age. She was one of the first persons to be buried in the old Beattyville Cem. about 1805. Among
her children was James Jr., b. 1773, Va.; d. after 1850 U.S. Census; m. Diamiah (sic) Mann. In 1832 James MCGUIRE Jr. filed a petition for a grist mill.in what is present- day Lee Co. He served some years as paymaster to the 80th Ky. Vol. Militia, Estill Co. Here he was bonded,
and David Snowden was a co-signer of his bond. (Court- house Records, Estill and Lee Cos.; A Brief History of Some McGuires by Demina Spates, a 90-page typewritten ms. in Ky. State Libr.

Owsley County was cut from Estill in 1843, and the courthouse records show that David served one, if not two, terms as Sheriff of the newly-formed Owsley. By 1870 Lee County
had been formed and took in the areas of St. Helens and Beattyville. A lovely old home remains standing in the area of St. Helens, which descendants say is on the site of the original house of David Jr. It has gone through several generations of refurbishing and rebuilding and now is owned and occupied by David's grandson, Dudley Bishop Snowden
and his wife (1981). David Jr. d. between 1852 and 1860. There are Court records of him to 1852, but he does not show in the 1860 U.S. Census. No gravesites have been located. Margaret d. later, but prior to the 1860 census also. A study of the U.S. Census records of David Jr.'s household reveals that in 1820 (Estill Co.) it included I male and 3 females under 10. By 1830 it included 1 male and 1 female under 5, and 1 male and 2 females under 10, which, if correct, would indicate an increase from the last census of 5 children. In the 1840 census no increase is indicated and in 1850 (family now in Owsley Co.) only one child is at home.2
I spoke with several older members of the family including grandsons, Dudley Bishop and Frank Beatty Snowden, about these children found in the census records. Did they belong to David and Margaret? Could they identify any of them beyond the aunts and uncles? Their response was the same: David and Margaret were known to have lived an "open- door" way of life, always taking in both family and neighborhood orphans, but that their own immediate family consisted of not more than 6 children. There was even some question in their minds as to whether Ladonia was their child. If their child, she died early and left no issue, for in a series of courthouse documents in Lee Co. covering the final settlement of the MCGUIRE estate, distributions were made to only five children of Margaret (MCGUIRE)Snowden
- although it was a 6/20 share. (D. Bk. 1, p. 405; D. Bk. 2, pp. 28, 33 Lee Co.)


More About DAVID Snowden and MARGARET MCGUIRE:
Marriage: July 01, 1812, Estill Co. Ky.

iv. ELIZABETH Snowden, b. October 26, 1788; d. Aft. June 15, 1833, Clinton Co., Mo.; m. MOSES MCMAHON, January 16, 1816, Estill Co. Ky.; b. August 12, 1790, Estill Co., Ky.; d. 1872, Mo..

Notes for Moses MCMAHON:
Subj: Re: Snowden/McMahan
Date: 9/4/01 10:53:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: marianne_daggett@yahoo.com (Marianne Daggett)
To: Jonsnowden@aol.com

Hi again Jon,
I thought I would send you some the info I have on David and Nancy
Hazelrigg's daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband Moses McMahan. Here is
a portion of my work in progress--oh, by the way, I am a descendent of
Moses and Betsy through their daughter, Nancy HAZELRIGG McMahan:


Moses W. McMahan was born on August 12, 1790, presumably in Estill Co.
KY, the 7th and youngest child of James McMahan and Margaret Reid/Reed,
of Rowan Co. North Carolina. He married Elizabeth "Betsy" Snowden, on
January 15, 1815, in Estill County, Kentucky. At the time of the 1820
Estill Co. census, Moses and Betsy had living with them 2 daughters
(Margaret and Nancy), a young son, and an elderly gentleman who was
probably Moses's father, James. On Christmas Day, 1818, James McMahan
wrote out his will, while "still of sound mind", but it wasn't for 8
years, on August 20, 1826, that he passed away. Moses McMahan was the
executor of the will, probated in August 1826. Moses, Betsy, and family
apparently migrated soon after this date to Clay County, MO, where
Moses's sister, Sarah and her husband, Elisha Todd were already living.
By 1828, the McMahans are listed among the first settlers in the area
that is to become Clinton County, Missouri.

In 1829, Moses patented land from the government (the SW 1/4 of Section
11, township 55, range 33), located about two miles southeast of
present day Gower, on a tributary of Castile Creek. In 1833, this area
became Atchison Township, Clinton County, Missouri.

Between the time of the 1820 Ky census and the 1830 MO census, Moses
and Betsy had 4 more children. We know their 2nd son, Moses Snowden,
was born in Ky, but birthdates and places are not clear for the other
three. In 1833, their 8th child, and youngest son, David McMahan, was
born. Sadly, soon after his birth, Betsy Snowden McMahan passed away,
and it is possible that she died in childbirth. On February 4, 1836,
Moses McMahan remarried to the widow Sally Holtzclaw Adams Groom, and
Abraham Enyart, Minister of the Gospel, performed the ceremony.

***
Children of Betsy (Snowden) and Moses McMahan:

MARGARET R. (REID/REED? named for paternal grandmother?) b. KY
(1816-18) m. Solomon Groom in Missouri: Aug 04, 1835, by 1860 they
were living in Leavenworth Co., KS

*NANCY HAZELRIGG- (named for maternal grandmother) Born: Kentucky
(Estill Co?), July 5, 1818; Married Feathergill Adams on January 28,
1836, Clinton Co, Missouri. Died: January 18, 1853

MOSES SNO(W)DEN- (2nd son, named for father) b. KY ; m. 1) Katherine
Puckett ; 2) Ann Pierce 1860. Census showed him living in Gentry Co.,
MO, Yolo P.O. in 1860

JOSEPH- (Named for? B. KY or MO)

W.C.- or W.P. (Named for? William?– B. KY or MO)

JOHN ADAMS- (Named for? B. KY or MO)

ELIZABETH-(named for mother) b. MO, married Benjamin Bishop Feb 14,
1841, Clinton Co.

DAVID- (named for maternal grandfather) b: June 15, 1833 in Clinton
Co., Mo., fought in the Civil War ; d: August 13, 1882 Burial: Mt.
Carmel Cem., Gower, Mo.; m. Susan Matilda Means (b.August 03, 1836 in
MO), m. April 20, 1856–Clinton Co., Mo.

If I can add any more for you, let me know. Also, I may contact you
again after I have more of a chance to compare my Snowden info with
yours. Thanks again!
Marianne


More About Moses MCMAHON and ELIZABETH SNOWDEN:
Marriage: January 16, 1816, Estill Co. Ky.

v. JOSEPH Snowden, b. June 09, 1791.
vi. SARAH Snowden, b. November 19, 1793.
vii. JOHN Snowden, b. January 03, 1796; d. Aft. 1870, Ky.; m. ELIZABETH (BETSY) SHARPE; b. Abt. 1806, Ky.; d. Bef. 1870.

Notes for JOHN SNOWDEN:
From The Descendants of Joseph Snowden (1725/30-1799)
by Virginia Whitman Snowden

pp30, 31

An oft-repeated family story is that Betsy and John had a whirlwind courtship, which her father, Col. Aaron Sharpe, opposed because of her age. Betsy, likely under 14 and some 10 to 12 years younger than John, eloped in storybook fashion, letting herself out an upstairs window into the arms of her lover. Riding double on John's horse, they made off to Paris, Ky., where the record of their marriage is still preserved. John bought 3 sheep from the estate inventory of John H. Holoway in late May, and by the time of the Dec. Court (1821) Col. Sharpe had died and John and Betsy purchased livestock, farming equipment and household furnishings from his estate. (W. Bk. 1, pp. 140; 149-51, Estill Co.)

All indications are that the Sharpe and Snowden pioneers had been closely associated prior to this marriage. Early Order Bks. show that when the Court appointed Sharpe head of the Estill Co. Vol. Militia, David Snowden Sr. signed as one of his sureties, and the Sharpe estate papers include the settlement of two notes owed to him by John and David Snowden Jr. On Sept. 17, 1824 John Snowden bought from John Culver a if quantity of land on Federal Creek along the road that leads from the Iron Works to Drowning Creek." (D. Bk. D, p. 12, Estill Co.) However, he and Betsy settled on another purchase on Hardwicke's Creek and were among the first families to open up permanent, passable roads in the area. So accessible was their home to the road that in the Sept. Court (1839) "John Snoden (sic) was granted a license to keep a tavern at his home in Estill Co." (Ct. Order Bk. 1834-41, Estill Co.)

Their grave sites are in dispute. Elizabeth (Curtis) Crowe, a great granddaughter of John and Betsy, wrote on 19 Jul. 1970: "The John and Betsy Snowden family is buried in the Sharpe Cemetery, which is on the Sam Carr place on Hardwicke's Creek. Aaron Sharpe is also buried there." I have not located this cemetery, but I was shown in the Salem- Burgher Cemetery on Hwy. 82 two graves at the base of two tree trunks with the names of John and Betsy Snowden on them. Dates have recently been painted on these stones. They are not correct, if they represent the original John and Betsy Snowden (1974).


On 8 Jun. 1839 John and Betsy sold to Matthew McKinney their 1/3 share of a tract which Betsy had received as a distribution from her father's lands. (D. Bk. F, p. 500, Estill Co.) On 26 Apr. 1848 a further sale of property from the Sharpe estate clearly documents the children of John and Betsy as shown below. (D. Bk. H, p. 429, Estill Go.)


viii. JAMES HAZELRIGG Snowden, b. March 30, 1798, Clark Co., Ky.; d. Aft. 1860; m. MATILDA S. COMBS.
ix. WILLIAM Snowden, b. August 27, 1800.
x. NANCY Snowden, b. August 15, 1802.

Hi Jon,
It has been a few years since I emailed the above letter to you, and there were quite a few errors regarding the children of Betsy Snowden and Moses McMahan. Here is the correct info:
Children of Betsy (Snowden) and Moses McMahan:
1) MARGARET REED/Reid McMahan- b. KY (1816-17) ; married in probably Clinton Co., Missouri on Aug 4, 1835 to Solomon Groom(s), (born 16 Jul 1807, Clark Co KY; d. 3 March or May 1863 Kickapoo, Leavenworth Co. KS, parents: Richard Grooms and Nancy Watts). Margaret died between 1856 and 1860, in either Missouri or Kansas.

2) NANCY HAZELRIGG McMahan- Born Estill Co, Kentucky, on July 5, 1818. She married Feathergill Adams on January 28, 1836, in Clinton Co, Missouri. Died: January 18, 1853 in Clinton Co, Mo.

3) JAMES McMahan –b. August 7, 1820 [22?] in Ravenna, Estill Co., Kentucky. Changed his surname to Mahan. On 8 October 1840, in Gower, Buchanan Coo. Mo., James married Lydia Witt (b: Dec. 23, 1823 in Lenore, Clinton Co., MO, Parents: Nelson Witt and Catherine McCorkle) . James died 14 March, 1853, at age 33. Lydia Witt McMahan married a 2nd time to Morgan Clark in 1854. She died March 16, 1909 and was buried in Witt Cemetery, Edgerton, Buchanan Co., MO).

4) ELIZABETH MCMAHAN– b. abt 1820-25 in Kentucky; married Benjamin Bishop February 14, 1841, Clinton Co. Missouri. I have been unable to find a trace of Elizabeth or her husband after the marriage record.

5) Name unknown MCMAHAN: daughter, born between 1820 and 1825, not in the 1840 census.

6) MATILDA McMahan – born about 1826 in Estill Co, KY; married in about 1843/1844, presumably in Clinton County, Missouri, to Anderson Crawford (b: 18 DEC 1816 in Lawrence Co., IN, son of Mary Woody and James Crawford of NC).
Anderson Crawford apparently died between 1850 and 1853. Matilda married a second time, on 10 July 1853, to John Puckett (son of Joseph Puckett and Winifred “Winny” Huffman) , and brother of Catherine Puckett who married Matilda’s brother, Moses Sno[w]den McMahan).

7) MOSES SNO(W)DEN McMahan- born 1830, in Clinton Co., MO. Moses married first, on 24 March 1853, to Catherine Puckett (b: Sept. 03, 1832, dau of Winifred “Winny” (Huffman) and Joseph Puckett). Catherine died February 8 or 9, 1854. They had no known children.
Moses S. McMahan married second to Ann Pierce (b. abt 1834 in Missouri), on March 02, 1856, in Clinton Co., Missouri. Moses S. McMahan fought for the Union in the Civil War, in the Missouri Militia Cavalry. He died in about 1865, cause unknown, probably in (or as a result of) the war. Ann (Pierce) McMahan apparently died before 1870.

8) DAVID J. MCMAHAN- b: June 15, 1833 in Clinton Co., Mo., fought in Civil War for the Confederacy; 10th Cavalry Missouri Confederate Militia .David McMahan married Susan Matilda Means (b: August 03, 1836 in MO d: August 14, 1899; dau of Wm Means) on 20 April 1856. David McMahan died August 13, 1882, and was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Gower, Clinton Co., Mo.