When Charity Snell was born on 20 November 1719, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Amos Snell, was 41 and her mother, Mary Packard, was 38. She married Sylvanus Blossom on 16 November 1738, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died after 1795, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 8280.
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English: nickname for a quick, lively, or courageous person, from Middle English snel(l) ‘swift, vivacious, brisk, bold’ (Old English snel(l), Old Norse snjallr). See also Sneller , Snelling .
English: from the Middle English personal name Snel(l) (Old English Snell, Old Norse Snjallr, with the same origins as the nickname above).
Americanized form of German Schnell ‘quick’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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