Isaac Snowden

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Husband Isaac Snowden ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1732 or 1740 - Philadelphia, PA 1 2
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         Father: Isaac Snowden (1710-      ) 2
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1 M Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, D.D. ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1770 - Philadelphia, PA 2
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         Spouse: Sarah Gustine (Abt 1774-      ) 4 5 6
           Marr: 1792 6

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Snowden

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He was an Elder in the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a Commissioner appointed by Congress to issue Continental money.

He attained to prominence in local affairs, sat in the City Councils, was a County Commissioner during the Revolutionary War, in which he warmly espoused the cause of the colonists and rendered valuable service as a commissary for supplying the Continental Army. His public duties after the war were no less conspicuous, as he was Treasurer for many years of the City and County of Philadelphia and also a member of the Select Council. He was likewise a Trustee of the College of New Jersey ("Princeton"), an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church, a member of the Committee,\emdash presided over by the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon\emdash that prepared "The Form of Government of the Presbyterian Church in the United States," and the incumbent of various other positions in the church.

He had five sons, all educated at Princeton College, and all became Presbyterian ministers.

1 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. II (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 62.

2 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 239.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 191.

4 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 182.

5 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 192.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 586.