Person talk:Samuel Snow (2)

wrong parents? [21 January 2010]

I am detaching Samuel from Family:Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins (1) because no sources are given, and the birth date of 28 May 1647 matches exactly the birth date of Samuel Snow born to Richard Snow of Woburn. This seems like too much of a coincidence to have two Samuels born the same day.

Having investigated the family of Nicholas Snow pretty thoroughly, I am aware that Bradford credits him with three children that have not yet been identified. So there is room for a Samuel to be in that family, though I am unaware of any evidence that there was such a child. Given that no sources were cited, I am left to conclude that somebody was just filling in a name for one of the unidentified children based solely on a surname match, a poor practice. If somebody could cite documents conclusively giving the names of one or more of Nicholas's unidentified children, it would be a great service to the genealogy community, but since plenty of people have tried and can't, a page without sources must be presumed to be guesswork, not fact.

I assume the death date of 1654 is based on trying to fit Samuel into Nicholas's family, i.e., there is no basis for it, but because Nicholas couldn't have had a son named Samuel in 1654, Samuel was assumed to have died by then. I assume any actual record of the death of a Samuel Snow would take the form of a more precise date. Again, no source is given, so I am forced to guess and assume... The Samuel Snow of Woburn did not die in 1654, so I am removing this death date as well.

Since this page appeared to be a real Samuel Snow masquerading as a presumably fictitious Samuel Snow, it has been unambiguously converted to represent the real one, namely, Samuel Snow of Woburn. If quality evidence can be cited to also support a Samuel Snow of Eastham, son of Nicholas, a new page will now need to be created. --Jrich 12:31, 21 January 2010 (EST)