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Head of household on a tax list in Muhlhausen in both 1727 & 1730.

See "Genealogies of American Families", by Tyler Otlay.

Garner, Grace K, "Earliest Settlers"

"List of Foreigners imported in the ship SAMUEL of London, Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam but last from Deal. Qualified August 13, 1733. Some of our ancestors disembarking were: ... Johannes Snapp 37, wife Barbara 34 with children Johannes 12, Lawrence 10, and Barbara 3, and Lawrence Snapp age 21, no doubt a younger brother to Johannes Snapp." p.172.

"Most of them disembarking were of the Dutch Reformed Faith (the Schnepp/Snapp family was German Lutheran however), the families clung together, built their church and intermarried for the next 30-40 years ... Aboard the "Samuel" were these with ages given as of August 1733, and the two spellings of their names if they differed for they were evidentially listed as they stepped off the ship, and then later to move through a line of another recorder. (See: Pennsylvania Archives) .... Schnepp, Johannes age 37, Lawrence Schnepp 21, John Snapp 12, Lawrence Snapp 10, and Barbara 3 ... p.215.

See: "German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrival in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Edited by William John Hinkle, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvanian German Society, 1934. Reprint Volumes 1 & 3 only. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1964, Johannes Schnepp (age 37), later John Snapp arrived in America on the Ship Samuel on the 17th day of August 1733, coming from the port of Rotterdam, Holland to Pennsylvania, along with his wife, Barbara (34), two sons, John (12) and Lawrence (10), and a brother Lawrence (21), and daughter Barbara (3).

Johannes Schnepp (John Snapp, Sr.) was one of the earliest settlers in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, settling near the Jost Hite group that had settled on the Opequon Creek in 1732. When Rev. Johann Casper Stoever visited the fledgling community of Virginians in the Spring of 1735, Johannes Schnepp and Barbara were among those who had a child baptized. Hans Schnepp was also one of the signers of a road petition by Shenandoah Valley settlers to the Orange County Court in July 1737. "Orange County, VA Deed Books 3 & 4, pp. 112-3.

John Snapp, Sr., John Jr. and Lawrence Snapp were naturalized in Frederick County, Virginia on May 21, 1746.

John Snapp, Sr. received a warrant for 400 acres of land 27 Feb 1749 where he lived on little North Mountain near the branches of Cedar Creek. (house on the plat). This land was adjacent John Snapp, Jr and was surveyed by John Baylis. Chain carriers were John Fewcatt & Andrew Longacre. Patent was granted for this land on 14 July 1750 from Lord Fairfax. (Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol II, Book G)

The Snapp family lived in that part of Frederick County, Virginia that became the Shenandoah County in 1772. In the early days of voting in this country, each person voting was required to sign a list of names following the candidate. The names of John Snap, John Snap, Jr., and Law Snap are found in the 1758 vote of Frederick County for the House of Burgesses, as having voted for then Col. George Washington. This was George Washington's first successful election to public office. He was but 26 years old at the time. Most of his support came from soldiers or militiamen or from farmers who knew of his work as a surveyor. These Snapps were among the 309 citizens who voiced their vote for George Washington in this election.

For more on the Snapp family see Cartmell's History, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, A History of Frederick County, Virginia 1738-1908.

INFO: Pg 509 HOTTEL BOOK

INFO: Ruby BURNS SCHAFFER wrote that he died Mt. Olive.

MILITARY: Ruby has Rev. SAR pension record and will plus abstracted wills from Shenandoah Co., VA 1772-1850. Philip Baker enlisted in Shenandoah Co., VA in the fall of 1777, as a private in Captain Rouse's Virginia Company, marched to MD, where the Company was divided and he with a part of the company placed under the command of Lieuternant: Abraham BIRD in Colonel Bowman's VA Regiment, the Company then marched to HQs at White Marsh in PA, where he remained until a short time before Christmas when he was discharged having served as a provost in Captain Darthing's VA Co. and was discharged January 22, 1782. Discharge signed by James MARNEY, Lieutenant. He was allowed pension on his application executed June 11, 1836, while residing in Shenandoah County. He died 2 May 1837, place not shown. The soldier married 28 December 1784, Elizabeth Dorothy VOLKNER. Place of marriage & names of her parents not shown. Elizabeth, widow of Philip Peter Baker, was allowed pension on her application executed 4 JAN 1839, while residing in Shenandoah County.