| Name |
Storrs, Sarah [1] |
- Lieut. Prence Snow
Posted 15 jul 2014 by pnicoll1
Title:The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 51;
Authors:Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society;
Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1897;
Original from:the University of Virginia; Digitized:Sep 5, 2007;
Snow.-In the Register for July, 1894, page 347, was a query, " Who was Hannah, wife of Prence3 Snow (Mark,3 Nicholas1) ? " Being a descendant of Prence Snow.
Lieut. Prence Snow died at Harwich 1742, leaving, by will, to his wife Hannah " the land in Mansfield, Conn., her father gave her." Mansfield, Conn. land records. In book 5, page 174, is recorded an agreement dividing a large tract of land, ami signed March 23, 1740-7 by " Thos. Storrs, Esq. atty. for Mrs. Hannah Snow and Mr. David Burgoss who had 2-5, Theophilus Hall, Esq., who had purchased 2-5, and Mr. Joseph Eldridge who had purchased 1-5." The record states the land belonged " originally to Samuel Storrs, one of the first settlers."
Samuel Storrs's will is copied in the " Storrs Family." It was dated May 22, 1717, and recorded July 7, 1719, at Mansfield. In it he gives "to my five daughters, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia, Esther" 160 acres of land, "equally among them."
Samuel Storrs lived in Barnstable from 1663 to about 1700. His daughter Sarah married Thomas Burgess, 2d, and their son David Burgess evidently inherited his mother's fifth. Hannah Storrs must have married Prence Snow about 1698. She was living a number of years after the date of the foregoing agreement, her will being dated Oct. 19, 1751. Her brother, Thomas Storrs, Esq., who signed as attorney for her and for her nephew David Burgess,named a son Prince after her husband Prence Snow, who was a grandson of Gov. Thomas Prence.
Hannah Storrs was born March 28, 1672, at Barnstable, her mother being Mary, daughter of Thomas Huckins, whose name appears sixth on the original muster roll of the Artillery Co. 1637, and who was Com'y Gen. of the Plymouth Colony forces in King Philip's War. Alvin Page Johnson.
61 Monmouth Street, Boston.
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| Birth |
26 Jun 1670 |
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| inheritance |
7 Jul 1719 |
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA |
| Samuel Storrs divided his land, 160 acres each to his 5 daughters: Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia, & Esther. |
- Lieut. Prence Snow
Posted 15 jul 2014 by pnicoll1
Title:The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 51;
Authors:Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society;
Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1897;
Original from:the University of Virginia; Digitized:Sep 5, 2007;
Snow.-In the Register for July, 1894, page 347, was a query, " Who was Hannah, wife of Prence3 Snow (Mark,3 Nicholas1) ? " Being a descendant of Prence Snow.
Lieut. Prence Snow died at Harwich 1742, leaving, by will, to his wife Hannah " the land in Mansfield, Conn., her father gave her." Mansfield, Conn. land records. In book 5, page 174, is recorded an agreement dividing a large tract of land, ami signed March 23, 1740-7 by " Thos. Storrs, Esq. atty. for Mrs. Hannah Snow and Mr. David Burgoss who had 2-5, Theophilus Hall, Esq., who had purchased 2-5, and Mr. Joseph Eldridge who had purchased 1-5." The record states the land belonged " originally to Samuel Storrs, one of the first settlers."
Samuel Storrs's will is copied in the " Storrs Family." It was dated May 22, 1717, and recorded July 7, 1719, at Mansfield. In it he gives "to my five daughters, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia, Esther" 160 acres of land, "equally among them."
Samuel Storrs lived in Barnstable from 1663 to about 1700. His daughter Sarah married Thomas Burgess, 2d, and their son David Burgess evidently inherited his mother's fifth. Hannah Storrs must have married Prence Snow about 1698. She was living a number of years after the date of the foregoing agreement, her will being dated Oct. 19, 1751. Her brother, Thomas Storrs, Esq., who signed as attorney for her and for her nephew David Burgess,named a son Prince after her husband Prence Snow, who was a grandson of Gov. Thomas Prence.
Hannah Storrs was born March 28, 1672, at Barnstable, her mother being Mary, daughter of Thomas Huckins, whose name appears sixth on the original muster roll of the Artillery Co. 1637, and who was Com'y Gen. of the Plymouth Colony forces in King Philip's War. Alvin Page Johnson.
61 Monmouth Street, Boston.
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| Death |
5 Jan 1734 |
Mansfield City, Tolland, Connecticut, USA [1] |
| Burial |
Mansfield City, Tolland, Connecticut, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I4384 |
WETZEL-SPRING |
1670 - 1734 (63 years)
