Mollie Sneden born as Mary Dobbs was the operator of a ferry service at Palisades, New York, in the United States, before and after the American Revolution.
14 Facts About Mollie Sneden
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Mollie Sneden is listed as a Woman of Distinction by the New York Senate.
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Mollie Sneden grew up with two half-brothers by her father's first wife and four siblings by her mother, his second wife.
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The date of Robert Sneden's wedding with Mollie Dobbs is uncertain, but the birth of their first child is recorded as 1733.
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The surveyor's description measures the state line as 79 chains and 27 links south of the Mollie Sneden house, placing their property in New York.
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Whether or not she began as ferry mistress in 1745, Mollie Sneden was certainly acting in that capacity by 1753.
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Mollie Sneden would have known this, and she probably began her ferry with periaugers.
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Robert and Mollie Sneden purchased 120 acres in 1752, which included the ferry site and Corbett house.
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In that same year, the widow Mollie Sneden was granted a license to operate a tavern.
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Mollie Sneden had been licensed to operate a tavern in 1756, and in 1763 she received a license to operate a public house serving "strong Liquors" which she operated from "Stone House," her dwelling.
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Mollie Sneden is noted as living with her bachelor son, Dennis, but never with George Calhoun.
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Mollie Sneden resumed involvement with the ferry and continued to work in this connection until shortly before her death.
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Mollie Sneden died on January 31,1810, at the age of 101 years and 18 days, surviving her husband by 66 years.
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Mollie Sneden is buried in the Palisades Cemetery, known as the Sneden's Landing Cemetery, in Palisades, New York.