Greetings Listers, I am new to the Plymouth List and eager to make connections. I have been researching Willam Snow and his connection to Richard Derby hoping to find clues to William's English origins. I am currently interested in a statement made by Cutter referring to some Plymouth records which indicated that William may have been only 11. Does anyone have any information as to what records? Elizabeth Snow

Rea7669@aol.com wrote: >Greetings Listers, I am new to the Plymouth List and eager to make >connections. >I have been researching Willam Snow and his connection to Richard Derby >hoping >to find clues to William's English origins. I am currently interested in a >statement >made by Cutter referring to some Plymouth records which indicated that >William >may have been only 11. Does anyone have any information as to what records? >Elizabeth Snow > > > > HI Elizabeth, I checked the index of each of the twelve volumes of Plymouth Colony Records and I didn't find anything in that collection that would to me indicate William's age. There is a reference which you surely have seen to the transfer of his indenture from Derby to Doty that mentions a number of years of service. Perhaps Cutter was making some assumptions from that, although I don't know why he should and how he'd arrive at age 11 I have no idea. In fact Stratton's biographical sketch in _Plymouth Colony_ says Doty was looking for "one able man servant." Whether that would describe an eleven year old I don't know. In 1651 he was presented at court with a bunch of others for "vaine, light, and lacivious carriage at an unseasonable time of the night." (PCR 2:170)--which sounds like something a young man would be doing, but who knows? I may well have missed something, but I didn't noticeanything in any of the mentions of William that I found that would give a precise idea of his age.