SNELL

1. GEORGE-

m.1. HANNAH (2) ALCOCK (b.c.1640)
    2. Agnes Cowell
    3. after 1681 Richord Hunking. She evidently left and lived in Boston
    4. by June 1698 Hannah Hull
will 9 May 1706- Mar. 1707/8

George was a marriner of York and Portsmouth. In 1663 he sold 1/3 of a stage at the Shoals and on 24 July 1663 he received a York grant. He was in Portsmouth by 1678 where he was taxed in 1690 and a selectman from 1692 until 1694. George admitted to having no children at the church at York 16 March 1693/4.(1)

He was the administrator of Mr. Shubael Dummer's estate which was granted to him 19 Mar. 1691/2 and then to Mr. Jeremiah Dummer 28 Nov. 1693.(2)

"Whereas at a Generall Towne meeting held in Portsmouth the 3d of April, 1693 there was a vote passed impowering the Selectmen... to be a comitte to regulate and order the seating of the people in the meeting house... and the severall persons herein named desiring Pewes and engaging to build them at their own charge and also to remove and compleat all the mens and womens seates below and build all the pews of one hith and uniforme. Also to make a door by the womens stairs to be done with all convenient speed... Mr. George Snell... signed by Geo. Snell Townesman."(3)

George was on jury duty in 1694 and 1696, on grand jury duty in 1695 and a foreman in 1698 and 1699.(4)

"I will that my oblygation wc I gave my wife in maridge: to give Each child one hundred pound: fier and Enimis only Excepted It is well known what I have Lost sinc by Enemis butt God gives and God takes away blessed by ye name of God: I have cept acot of what Debts I have Disbusted one ye children as p therare Accots in my book now if my wif ples to aquit me and to betake hear selfe to hear own Estate it is well: if not ye hole is at my disposeall if my wife dorth take up with hear owne: then I doe Apoynt then my sone John Snell to be my Sole Executor," and to Abiah, John was to pay: "what may be wanting to make up one hundred pond." He also wrote: "I doe give my Dafter Abiell hill my bead and dworsted ruge and my barbadus Coverlett and my Great Ieron pote and brase kettell and bras collender: and six silver spounes: and ye Cobberd and 6 Lether cheres in my hous, but if She should not Live to come home out of captivity then to remaine betwext you and your sister hannah, but if hear child doe Live and reteren home, my will is to make hear fifty pond with what I have given hear mother before: if she retoren Lett hear have toungs: shovel and other Ieron."(5) Perhaps his wife did not "take up with hear owne" and Abiah may not have received "ye Cobberd" because a few years later John Alcock gave her his "great bras Kettell: and Cubard: a feather bed and Coverled."

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