Cadet — not the barony · The American spelling
Snead of Virginia
1635 – 1802
Carries. Samuel's crossing, Alice Boyd, Israel, Johanna Hendley, Keziah × William Watkins.
Breaks. Stafford County, Virginia is not Staffordshire. Cadet blood, not the 1313 writ.
Snead is how Sneyd is sounded when a clerk in Virginia writes it down. Samuel Snead arrived in 1635 with his wife and son William and took a grant in James City from Charles I.
Alice Boyd is the mother on the documented walk between that crossing and Israel Snead of Louisa. Israel, patriotic service 1780 and 1783, married Johanna Hendley. Their daughter Keziah married William Watkins about 1748.
The house is listed man and woman, parent and child. It is DNA-authenticated in the family files on Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andMe, and WikiTree.
Sister houses
Women of this house
Also named
- S
Samuel, Ann, Henley, Martha, William, Frances, Solomon, John, David
will of Israel · Brothers and sisters of Keziah.
Words used here
- Cadet
- A younger line of the same blood. Related. Not the heir.
- Writ
- A royal letter calling a man to sit in Parliament — and, in this family, the legal act that created the barony.