Generation 201.5 · georgian · 48 of 60 · American descent — cadet blood, not the 1313 writ

Israel Snead

Virginia colonist

Son · husband · father of this house

Documented Snead trunk. Not the 1313 writ.

Israel Snead, full figure, Royal / court, front

Helm or circlet of rank

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Chronicle of this board

Patriotic service 1780 and 1783

Israel Snead, son of William Snead and Alice Boyd, was a Virginia colonist of Louisa County. He married Johanna Hendley. Their children, named in his will, are Keziah, Samuel, Ann, Henley, Martha, William, Frances, Solomon, John, and David.

Patriotic service is recorded in 1780 and 1783. He dies before 1788. The homestead passes, after Keziah’s care, toward his son David. Keziah is already a Watkins by marriage.

Documented Snead trunk. Not the 1313 writ.

Wardrobe

Mid-eighteenth-century bottle-green coat, buff waistcoat, linen stock, riding boots. A planter’s cloth, not a coronet.

Weapons · animals · lands

A will. Patriotic service in the Revolution.

Virginia horses.

  • Louisa County, Virginia