Aged 112 years, 2 mos, 18 days.
A Rev. soldier 1776 - 1783
Wed., Nov. 12, 1845 Lancaster Examiner & Herald, Deaths, p. 3:
SNYDER.-Died at the residence of his daughter, in the village of Intercourse, Leacock township, Lan. Co. on the morning of the 4th day of November, inst., Andrew SNYDER, born in Germany on the 17th day of August 1733, and aged at the time of his death 112 years, 2 months and 18 days. On the following day his remains were interred at the Union Meeting house, near Roland's Mill, followed by a large concourse of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances.Some years previous to the American Revolution he emigrated to this country, and during that struggle with Great Britain, he enlisted in the United States Army, and was present at and participated in the battles of Monmouth, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and others. At Brandywine he was one of the Cavalry under the command of Count Pulaski, and was wounded in the arm.--For the last 25 years he has resided in Leacock township. He received and annual State pension of 40 dollars for the last 16 or 17 years, but had never received a pension from the United States. During his long and eventful life he had been afflicted with no sickness of any consequence, except that which ended his days, and was blessed with a robust constitution and a goodly vigor, so much so, that within the last eighteen months he traveled on foot to Shippensburg, a distance of about 90 miles to some of his relatives. He died having a firm faith in the atoning blood of his redeemer, and bore his last illness with Christian fortitude and resignation to Divine will.
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Aged 112 years, 2 mos, 18 days.
A Rev. soldier 1776 - 1783
Wed., Nov. 12, 1845 Lancaster Examiner & Herald, Deaths, p. 3:
SNYDER.-Died at the residence of his daughter, in the village of Intercourse, Leacock township, Lan. Co. on the morning of the 4th day of November, inst., Andrew SNYDER, born in Germany on the 17th day of August 1733, and aged at the time of his death 112 years, 2 months and 18 days. On the following day his remains were interred at the Union Meeting house, near Roland's Mill, followed by a large concourse of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances.Some years previous to the American Revolution he emigrated to this country, and during that struggle with Great Britain, he enlisted in the United States Army, and was present at and participated in the battles of Monmouth, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and others. At Brandywine he was one of the Cavalry under the command of Count Pulaski, and was wounded in the arm.--For the last 25 years he has resided in Leacock township. He received and annual State pension of 40 dollars for the last 16 or 17 years, but had never received a pension from the United States. During his long and eventful life he had been afflicted with no sickness of any consequence, except that which ended his days, and was blessed with a robust constitution and a goodly vigor, so much so, that within the last eighteen months he traveled on foot to Shippensburg, a distance of about 90 miles to some of his relatives. He died having a firm faith in the atoning blood of his redeemer, and bore his last illness with Christian fortitude and resignation to Divine will.
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Information obtained from Miabeth
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