Rev Nathaniel Randolph Snowden DD

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    Born in Philadelphia, on the 17th January, 1770,
    Nathaniel Randolph Snowden was a very young man
    when he came to this congregation in 1792, and minis-
    tered to the spiritual wants of your hardy and pious
    ancestors. He was one of the five sons of Isaac Snow-
    den 2, all of whom graduated — Nathaniel R. in 1787 —
    
    
    
    122 Paxtang Presbyterian Church.
    
    at the college of New Jersey, at Princeton, and four of
    whom became ministers of the Presbyterian church,
    one of them, Gilbert Tennant, who settled at Cranbury,
    N. J., being most distinguished as a pulpit orator. They
    were all fine scholars; and of Nathanie
    
    
       * MARRIAGE: 24 May 1792, Pennsylvania
    
       1. +Isaac Wayne SNOWDEN
       2.  Charles Gastine SNOWDEN
       3.  Lemuel SNOWDEN
       4.  Samuel Gastine SNOWDEN
       5.  Mary Parker SNOWDEN
       6.  Nathaniel Duffield SNOWDEN
       7. +James Ross SNOWDEN
    
    The North American, Philadelphia, Sunday, July 14, 1912
    Old Philadelphia Families
    by Frank Willing Leach
    
    This is part 11 (information on Nathaniel Randolph Snowden b. 1770)
    
    Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, fourth of the sons of Isaac and Mary (nee Cox) Snowden, was, like his brothers born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1770, and, like at least four of them, was graduated from the College of New Jersey, in 1787. Being licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle, Pa., In 1794, he became pastor of the congregations of Harrisburg, Paxton and Derry, which combined charge he resigned after three years. Then, for some years, he supplied the Monaghan and Petersburg congregations. In 1818 he organized the Millerstown Presbyterian Church, and shortly afterward was installed pastor of the united congregations of Millerstown, Liverpool and Buffalo.
    
    In 1790 he received the degree of D. D. from Dickinson College.
    
    Dr. Snowden's death occurred November 2, 1851, at the home of a son, Charles Gustine Snowden, M.D., Freeport, Armstrong County.
    
    He married, May 21, 1792, Sarah Gustine, daughter of Lemuel and Susannah (nee Smith) Gustine, the alliance proving a notable one, by reason of the distinguished ancestry of Mrs. Snowden.
    
    Her father, Dr. Lemuel Gustine, a physician of wide experience, passed through the horrors of the "Wyoming Massacre," in northeast Pennsylvania, he having been an aide to Colonel Dennison. Mrs. Snowden, then a miss of three years, was at Forty Fort at the time of the surrender, and escaped with her father, down the Susquehanna river, during the night.
    
    Mrs. Snowden's maternal grandfather, Dr. William Hooker Smith, was a surgeon in the Revolution, and was, later, a Judge in Luzerne County.
    
    Among others in Mrs. Snowden's ancestors may be mentioned the following: Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647, "the Great Puritan Preacher." friend and associate of John Cotten, John Eliot, ect., and one of the founders of Connecticut; John Browne, 1584-1662, one of the founders of Plymouth Colony; Thomas Willett, 1605-74, one of the early Plymouth colonists, but later, the first English Mayor of New York City; Thomas Makepeace, 1592-1667, who arrived in America in 1636, settled in Dorchester, and became, in 1638, a member of the historic military command now known as the Ancient and Honourable Company of Artillery of Boston: William Leete, 1603-83, a founder of Gullford, Connecticut. In 1639, and Governor of that Colony for many years, etc., etc.
    
    Mrs. Snowden-Sarah Gustine- was born June 2, 1775, and died April 2, 1856, having survived her husband four and a half years.
    
    Seven children were born to them, as follows; Isaac Wayne, Charles Gustine, Lemuel Gustine, Mary Parker, Nathaniel Duffield, Samuel and James Ross, of whom all but one, Samuel, reached maturity.