When John Snedeker was born in 1776, in Virginia, United States, his father, Garret Snedeker, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Wycoff, was 27. He married Mary Coulter on 30 October 1804. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Brown, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died in August 1857, in Brown, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81.
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Altered form, under American Dutch influence in New Netherland, of North German Schnitker or Schnittker ‘joiner, woodcarver’, or perhaps of its Danish cognate Snedker ‘carpenter’.
History: Jan Gerritsz Snedeker, born in Oldenburg, Germany, arrived in New Netherland from Sloten, Amsterdam, around 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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