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Note: Joseph Snell was a private in Capt. Samuel Bant's company, Maj. Archibald mcIntyr's Battalion of Light Infantry during the War of 1812, entering the service at Little Falls 7 September 1814 and discharged at Sackets harbor 7 November 1814. On 7 February 1854 Joseph J. his (X) mark Snell of the Town of Oppenheim, Fulton County, aged 80, applied to the State of new York for contingent expenses for his service (Claim #9252). There is no federal pension for him. 18 July 1817 Joseph I. Snell and his wife Elizabeth of the Town of Manheim deeded to Jost Spaker of Palatine part of lot 64 in the 4th allotment of the Royal Grant in Manheim for $800 (Herkimer County Deeds 11:148). The obituary for thier sone Charles mentions that he was born in Manheim in 1804, but moved a few years later to the town of Oppenheim; it is possible Joseph J. and his family lived in the area of Lotville, a logging community in the northwest part of Oppenheim. The 1820 census lists at Oppenheim: Joseph J. Snell with one male under 10; 1 male 10-16; 1 male 16-18; 1 male 16-26 and 1 male 26-45. 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-16; 1 female 16-26; 1 female 26-45. About 1970 Emma Baybook Luther, aka Mrs. Grover Luther born 1893, sent her lineage to the Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman Reunion, stating her great-great-grandparents were Jacob Bidleman and Betsey Snell of Lotville who was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Timmerman) Snell and grandaughter of Jacob and Gertrude (Mathews) Snell.
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