Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Sara Patterson SNOWDEN
Sara Patterson Snowden, daughter of Hon. James Ross and Susan Engle (Patterson) Snowden, married John Stevenson Mitchell, now deceased, son of Dr. John Stevenson and Margaret (Kinsey) Mitchell, both of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
She is a member of Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America, historian of Pennsylvania Chapter, Daughters of Founders and Patriots, former historian of Philadelphia Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, president of Pennsylvania Society, United States Daughters of 1812, regent of General Robert Patterson Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, president of Plastic Club of Philadelphia, and vice-president of Fellowship of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Pennsylvania Founding Families, 1681-1911
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
Sara Patterson Snowden Mitchell
William Snowden, earliest ancestor of Mrs. Sara P. S. Mitchell, of whom we have any record, was a resident of Edwinston, county of Nottingham, England, when, on July 7, 1677, he purchased a tract of land in NewJersey.
John Snowden, "son and heir of William Snowden some time of Edwinston, county of Nottingham, England," born near Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, about 1632, came to Pennsylvania presumedly about the date of the purchase of the land in New Jersey by his father. He signed the "Concessions" as proprietor of West Jersey in 1676. He was a resident of Falls township, Bucks county, April 13, 1682, when he married at Burlington Meeting, Ann Barrett. He was, however, a resident and landowner in Mansfield township, Burlington county, August 28, 1682, when he made a deed of trust to Benjamin Scott and John Hooten for the benefit of his wife Ann as a marriage settlement. The record of the birth of their daughter Ann on March 17, 1682-83, at Burlington Meeting, gives the residence of the parents as Mansfield township. He was associate judge in Bucks county in 1704. John Snowden died in Philadelphia in 1736, aged one hundred and four years. His first wife, Ann (Barrett) Snowden, died in the same city in 1688. He married (second) in 1715, Elizabeth Swift.
John (2) Snowden, son of John (1) and Ann (Barrett) Snowden, was born 1685, and married, October 4, 1720, his second wife, Ruth (Fitz Randolph) Harrison, widow, a sister of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who gave land to Princeton University, of an old and prominent family of New Jersey. She was born at Piscataway, New Jersey, April 8, 1695, and died at Maidenhead, now Lawrenceville, New Jersey, September 5, 1780. They later located in Philadelphia where John Snowden died March 24, 1751. John Snowden was the first Presbyterian elder in America. He was ordained in First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1704.
Isaac Snowden, son of John (2) and Ruth (Fitz Randolph) (Harrison)Snowden, was born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1732, and died near Chester, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1809. His son, Rev . N. R. Snowden, was pastor at that time there, and Isaac Snowden is buried in the old Middletown graveyard. Isaac Snowden was prominently identified with the patriotic cause during the Revolution. At the first organization of the Associated Companies in the different counties of Pennsylvania in 1775, he became a member of one of the Associated Companies of Philadelphia and when these companies were reorganized into the Fourth Battalion under Colonel Thomas McKean , Isaac Snowden was commissioned quartermaster of the battalion and he continued to act in that capacity until the fall of 1777. He is mentioned in the Journal of Congress in 1777 as quartermaster of Pennsylvania militia. From 1777 to 1779 he was one of the commissioners appointed by congress to sign the continental currency, and several notes of this currency, signed by him , are on exhibition at Independence Hall, while others are in the Library of Harvard University and that of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was treasurer of Philadelphia county, 1780-82. During the Revolution he sent his family to Princeton, New Jersey, for safety. He was president of the board of trustees of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University , of which his five sons were graduates, and four of whom became Presbyterian ministers. He was also a charter member and an elder of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, where the family has since continuously worshipped. Isaac Snowden married, March 17, 1763, (second wife) Mary (Cox) McCall, widow of Samuel McCall. She was born in 1735, died at Cranberry, New Jersey,June 30, 1806.
Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, son of Isaac and Mary (McCall) Snowden, was born in Philadelphia , January 17, 1770. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1787, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1794, where he had formerly been tutor in Dickinson College. He then took charge of the Presbyterian churches at Harrisburg, Paxtang and Derry, where he labored for several years with zeal and success. Resigning these charges he went to Middletown Presbyterian Church near Chester, then to Williamsport, lived for a short time in Philadelphia, and finally located at Freeport, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, where he died November 3, 1851. He married, at Carlisle, May 24, 1792, Sarah Gustine, born in New York City,June 2, 1775, died at Freeport. Pennsylvania, April 28, 1856.
Dr. Lemuel Gustine, father of Sarah (Gustine) Snowden, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, 1749 , and died at Carlisle, Cumberland county,1807. He was a son of Lemuel Gustine, Sr., of Saybrook, and grandson of Samuel Gustine, of Stonington, Connecticut, and great-grandson of John Gustine, who served in King Philip's war.
Dr. Lemuel Gustine married Susanna Smith, of Rye, New York, a daughter of Dr. William Hooker Smith, and accompanied his father-in-law to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania and served with him as assistant surgeon of the Continental army. He is referred to in the Wyoming correspondence as active in the Patriot cause and also active in the cause of the Connecticut settlers at Wyoming in opposition to the "Pennanites" as the representatives of the proprietary government of Pennsylvania were called by the Connecticut settlers. Dr. Gustine was present at the surrender of Forty Fort, and signed the capitulations, and with his infant daughter, Sarah, escaped the massacre of July 3, 1778, by flight to Carlisle.
Dr. William Hooker Smith was born at Rye, New York, March 23, 1735, died at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1815. He removed to Wyoming, 1772, and there enlisted May 15, 1775, in the Third Company of the First Regiment of Connecticut raised in the Wyoming Valley at the first call for troops, and served with it at the siege of Boston. He marched with this regiment from Boston to New York in the latter part of June, where they were encamped until September at Harlem. About September 28, 1775, the regiment under General Schuyler marched to the Northern Department,New York, and took part in the campaign along lakes Champlain and George and assisted in the reduction of St. John in October. Dr. Smith left this regiment in December, 1775, and enlisted in the Tenth Continental Regiment of Connecticut under Colonel Parsons in 1776, and marched under General Washington to New York City and assisted in its fortification,taking part i n the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. In 1777 he was commissioned captain of the Twent y-fourth Regiment of Connecticut raised in the Wyoming valley and usually referred to as the Westmoreland Regiment. On May 27, 1778, he was commissioned surgeon of this regimentand served in this capacity during the remainder of the Revolutionary struggle. He assisted in the building of Forty Fort but was away with the army at the time of the massacre. The most authentic report of the garrison is in his handwriting, and was made to General Hand, June 14,and June 21, 1779. He returned with Colonel Zebulon Butler to Wyoming Valley after the massacre and was active in reorganizing the scattered militia of that section.
Dr. William Hooker Smith was a son of Rev. John Smith, who was born at Newport-Pagnall, county of Bucks, England, May 5, 1702, died at White Plains, New York, February 26, 1771. He married at Guilford, Connecticut, May 6, 1724, Mehitable Hooker, born at Guilford, May 1, 1704, died September 5, 1775. Rev. John Smith graduated at Yale, 1727, and was ordained a minister at Rye , New York, December 30, 1742. After some years he removed to White Plains but continued to preach at Rye on alternate Sabbaths until his death in 1771.
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