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From: Harlow Chandler <>
Subject: Re: [PLY/MA] William Snow, Rebecca Brown and their desendants
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:18:46 -0500
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wrote:

>Greetings Listers, I am new to the Plymouth List and eager to make
>connections.
>I have been researching Willam Snow and his connection to Richard Derby
>hoping
>to find clues to William's English origins. I am currently interested in a
>statement
>made by Cutter referring to some Plymouth records which indicated that
>William
>may have been only 11. Does anyone have any information as to what records?
>Elizabeth Snow
>
>
>
>
HI Elizabeth,

I checked the index of each of the twelve volumes of Plymouth Colony
Records and I didn't find anything in that collection that would to me
indicate William's age. There is a reference which you surely have seen
to the transfer of his indenture from Derby to Doty that mentions a
number of years of service. Perhaps Cutter was making some assumptions
from that, although I don't know why he should and how he'd arrive at
age 11 I have no idea. In fact Stratton's biographical sketch in
_Plymouth Colony_ says Doty was looking for "one able man servant."
Whether that would describe an eleven year old I don't know. In 1651
he was presented at court with a bunch of others for "vaine, light, and
lacivious carriage at an unseasonable time of the night." (PCR
2:170)--which sounds like something a young man would be doing, but who
knows? I may well have missed something, but I didn't noticeanything
in any of the mentions of William that I found that would give a precise
idea of his age.

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