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JOHN SNELL, son of John Mary Elizabeth Watts Snell was born in 1766 in Orange County, Virginai. He married first to POLLY BURTON and a second time to Barbara Roth of Indiana. Between the two wives he had 26 children but only 13 lived to adulthood. He settled in Calloway County in 1825. He was elected sheriff of this county in 1828. Barbara Roth Snell died in Calloway County in April of 1850 at the age of 60. He died between 1841 1850 in Calloway Co. This information was taken from a book titled THE SNELL FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI. Compiled by Larry A. James Eleanor Coulter, 1980. Hope this helps answer your question.
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We are talking about two different John Snells here. The original message from Anne Blocker was about the John Snell of St. Thomas' Parish Virginia who married Philadelphia Foster , daughter of John Foster and Isabella Golding. He died in Orange County Virginia on 5 June 1786. My sources of his ancestry came from Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, The Snell Family of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri compiled by Larry A. James and Eleanor Coulter, 1980; and Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, April 1930, Vol. XI, No. 4, pp. 265-266 "Snell
Families of Virginia" by Hallock P. Long.
According to the James and Coulter book, the above John Snell was probably the third generation of John Snells in Virginia. John Snell I came from England in 1656 (Cavaliers and Pioneers). John Snell II "went from King and Queen County Virginia after 1704 to Spotsylvania Co. Va. He had 150 acres in the 1704 Quit Rent of Virginia. He was a witness to deeds in Spotsylvania Co. in 1714 and 1728. He evidently died in 1733. His widow, Elizabeth Snell leased lands in Orange Co. Va. in 1739. " Their son was John Snell III born about 1720, who was a planter in St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania Co. Va. and from there he went to St. Thomas' Parish, Orange County, Virginia where he had a plantation. He died in Orange Co. Virginia on 5 June 1786. He married Philadelphia Foster, daughter of John Foster and Isabella Golding. See Will of John Snell, Orange Co. VA. dated 20 May 1785, filed 28 Sept. 1786, Will Book 3, page 114.
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