*References* -- The Mayflower Families, Vol. 6, "Stephen Hopkins", p. 9-10, 23-24, 83-84. The following is from Gene Zubrinsky( 47226970 ), who is also a published contributor to NEHGS:
In a notebook on Eastham families, the historian Josiah Paine (1836–1917), for half a century town clerk of Harwich (formerly adjacent to Eastham), asserted that Daniel Doane’s first wife was a daughter of Nicholas and Constant/Constance (Hopkins) Snow who had been named after her mother; Paine failed, however, to cite a source (Elizabeth Pearson White, “The Godfreys of Chatham, Mass.,” _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ [NEHGR] 127[1973]:102). Her parentage, husband, and very existence are otherwise inferred from the rarity of the name Constant (particularly for a woman) and this Doane family’s bestowing it on a daughter in 1669/70 (Jonathan A. Shaw, “John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder,” NEHGR 151[1997]:427). Of the Snows’ twelve children, a daughter Constant would have been one of three living in 1651 whose names are not recorded (Robert Charles Anderson, _The Pilgrim Migration_ [Boston, 2004], 428–32). In 1973 (and presumably to this day), however, the Mayflower Society did not accept lines of descent through Daniel Doane’s first wife (White, “The Godfreys,” NEHGR 127:102). The Women of the Mayflower Project conducted a series of MtDNA tests leading to the conclusion that Doane’s first wife was not the daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow, but “the research of the lines was admittedly sketchy” (Muriel Curtis Cushing, “The Question of Constance Snow as the Daughter of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow,” _Mayflower Quarterly_ 86[Fall 2019]:40). In sum, the identity of Daniel Doane's first wife is uncertain.
Lacking certainty that such a person as Constance Snow existed or married Daniel Doane, it would be highly speculative and logically inappropriate to attribute any vital-event data to her; all such information has therefore been removed above. While careful attempts at estimating vital-event dates for Daniel Doane's first wife (if she were listed only as such) are legitimate (see below), doing so for so-called Constance (Snow) Doane, whose very existence is uncertain, are not.
Daniel Doane's ninth child, generally accepted as born to his first wife (whoever she might have been), appears to have been Ruth, who married Nathaniel Mayo in 1710. The average age of a young woman in colonial New England marrying for the first time was about 20 and for a young man, 25. Based strictly on Ruth's marriage date, we would therefore estimate her birth year as "say 1690." But since Mayo was born in 1681, we might instead estimate Ruth's birth year as "say 1686" (about five years younger than her husband)—and her currently unidentified mother’s approximate date of death as “after say 1685."
In a notebook on Eastham families, the historian Josiah Paine (1836–1917), for half a century town clerk of Harwich (formerly adjacent to Eastham), asserted that Daniel Doane’s first wife was a daughter of Nicholas and Constant/Constance (Hopkins) Snow who had been named after her mother; Paine failed, however, to cite a source (Elizabeth Pearson White, “The Godfreys of Chatham, Mass.,” _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ [NEHGR] 127[1973]:102). Her parentage, husband, and very existence are otherwise inferred from the rarity of the name Constant (particularly for a woman) and this Doane family’s bestowing it on a daughter in 1669/70 (Jonathan A. Shaw, “John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder,” NEHGR 151[1997]:427). Of the Snows’ twelve children, a daughter Constant would have been one of three living in 1651 whose names are not recorded (Robert Charles Anderson, _The Pilgrim Migration_ [Boston, 2004], 428–32). In 1973 (and presumably to this day), however, the Mayflower Society did not accept lines of descent through Daniel Doane’s first wife (White, “The Godfreys,” NEHGR 127:102). The Women of the Mayflower Project conducted a series of MtDNA tests leading to the conclusion that Doane’s first wife was not the daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow, but “the research of the lines was admittedly sketchy” (Muriel Curtis Cushing, “The Question of Constance Snow as the Daughter of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow,” _Mayflower Quarterly_ 86[Fall 2019]:40). In sum, the identity of Daniel Doane's first wife is uncertain.
Lacking certainty that such a person as Constance Snow existed or married Daniel Doane, it would be highly speculative and logically inappropriate to attribute any vital-event data to her; all such information has therefore been removed above. While careful attempts at estimating vital-event dates for Daniel Doane's first wife (if she were listed only as such) are legitimate (see below), doing so for so-called Constance (Snow) Doane, whose very existence is uncertain, are not.
Daniel Doane's ninth child, generally accepted as born to his first wife (whoever she might have been), appears to have been Ruth, who married Nathaniel Mayo in 1710. The average age of a young woman in colonial New England marrying for the first time was about 20 and for a young man, 25. Based strictly on Ruth's marriage date, we would therefore estimate her birth year as "say 1690." But since Mayo was born in 1681, we might instead estimate Ruth's birth year as "say 1686" (about five years younger than her husband)—and her currently unidentified mother’s approximate date of death as “after say 1685."
*References* -- The Mayflower Families, Vol. 6, "Stephen Hopkins", p. 9-10, 23-24, 83-84. The following is from Gene Zubrinsky( 47226970 ), who is also a published contributor to NEHGS:
In a notebook on Eastham families, the historian Josiah Paine (1836–1917), for half a century town clerk of Harwich (formerly adjacent to Eastham), asserted that Daniel Doane’s first wife was a daughter of Nicholas and Constant/Constance (Hopkins) Snow who had been named after her mother; Paine failed, however, to cite a source (Elizabeth Pearson White, “The Godfreys of Chatham, Mass.,” _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ [NEHGR] 127[1973]:102). Her parentage, husband, and very existence are otherwise inferred from the rarity of the name Constant (particularly for a woman) and this Doane family’s bestowing it on a daughter in 1669/70 (Jonathan A. Shaw, “John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder,” NEHGR 151[1997]:427). Of the Snows’ twelve children, a daughter Constant would have been one of three living in 1651 whose names are not recorded (Robert Charles Anderson, _The Pilgrim Migration_ [Boston, 2004], 428–32). In 1973 (and presumably to this day), however, the Mayflower Society did not accept lines of descent through Daniel Doane’s first wife (White, “The Godfreys,” NEHGR 127:102). The Women of the Mayflower Project conducted a series of MtDNA tests leading to the conclusion that Doane’s first wife was not the daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow, but “the research of the lines was admittedly sketchy” (Muriel Curtis Cushing, “The Question of Constance Snow as the Daughter of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow,” _Mayflower Quarterly_ 86[Fall 2019]:40). In sum, the identity of Daniel Doane's first wife is uncertain.
Lacking certainty that such a person as Constance Snow existed or married Daniel Doane, it would be highly speculative and logically inappropriate to attribute any vital-event data to her; all such information has therefore been removed above. While careful attempts at estimating vital-event dates for Daniel Doane's first wife (if she were listed only as such) are legitimate (see below), doing so for so-called Constance (Snow) Doane, whose very existence is uncertain, are not.
Daniel Doane's ninth child, generally accepted as born to his first wife (whoever she might have been), appears to have been Ruth, who married Nathaniel Mayo in 1710. The average age of a young woman in colonial New England marrying for the first time was about 20 and for a young man, 25. Based strictly on Ruth's marriage date, we would therefore estimate her birth year as "say 1690." But since Mayo was born in 1681, we might instead estimate Ruth's birth year as "say 1686" (about five years younger than her husband)—and her currently unidentified mother’s approximate date of death as “after say 1685."
In a notebook on Eastham families, the historian Josiah Paine (1836–1917), for half a century town clerk of Harwich (formerly adjacent to Eastham), asserted that Daniel Doane’s first wife was a daughter of Nicholas and Constant/Constance (Hopkins) Snow who had been named after her mother; Paine failed, however, to cite a source (Elizabeth Pearson White, “The Godfreys of Chatham, Mass.,” _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ [NEHGR] 127[1973]:102). Her parentage, husband, and very existence are otherwise inferred from the rarity of the name Constant (particularly for a woman) and this Doane family’s bestowing it on a daughter in 1669/70 (Jonathan A. Shaw, “John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder,” NEHGR 151[1997]:427). Of the Snows’ twelve children, a daughter Constant would have been one of three living in 1651 whose names are not recorded (Robert Charles Anderson, _The Pilgrim Migration_ [Boston, 2004], 428–32). In 1973 (and presumably to this day), however, the Mayflower Society did not accept lines of descent through Daniel Doane’s first wife (White, “The Godfreys,” NEHGR 127:102). The Women of the Mayflower Project conducted a series of MtDNA tests leading to the conclusion that Doane’s first wife was not the daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow, but “the research of the lines was admittedly sketchy” (Muriel Curtis Cushing, “The Question of Constance Snow as the Daughter of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow,” _Mayflower Quarterly_ 86[Fall 2019]:40). In sum, the identity of Daniel Doane's first wife is uncertain.
Lacking certainty that such a person as Constance Snow existed or married Daniel Doane, it would be highly speculative and logically inappropriate to attribute any vital-event data to her; all such information has therefore been removed above. While careful attempts at estimating vital-event dates for Daniel Doane's first wife (if she were listed only as such) are legitimate (see below), doing so for so-called Constance (Snow) Doane, whose very existence is uncertain, are not.
Daniel Doane's ninth child, generally accepted as born to his first wife (whoever she might have been), appears to have been Ruth, who married Nathaniel Mayo in 1710. The average age of a young woman in colonial New England marrying for the first time was about 20 and for a young man, 25. Based strictly on Ruth's marriage date, we would therefore estimate her birth year as "say 1690." But since Mayo was born in 1681, we might instead estimate Ruth's birth year as "say 1686" (about five years younger than her husband)—and her currently unidentified mother’s approximate date of death as “after say 1685."
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