Samuel Samuel Sneed - Birth

Terrible birth location for a father who lived at Bradwell in a Staffordshire.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p36709.htm#i367089

Not looking good as far as I’m concerned.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/explosnd.txt

"The first SNEAD to arrive in the colony, by reference to
the Land Grant Office, was Samuel, with his wife, son and ser
vant, in 1635. The patent of land was given them by King Charles
I. ... It declared that Samuel SNEAD and Alice, his wife, son Wil-
liam and servant, Henry Vincent, after arriving, received two
hundred acres of land, fifty each, in James City County, at head
of Keth's Creek for which the charge was one shilling, on each
St. Michael's day. The plantation adjoined Samuel Grige's, near
Thomas Smith's plantation; signed by Captain John West, Captain
and Governor of Virginia, in the reign of the Sovereign Lord,
King Charles of England, 1635. ...Governor John Harvey etc. did
give and grant to Samuel SNEAD two hundred acres in James City
County, for transportation at his own expense and charges, of
four persons into this colony, whose names are in the records men-
tioned under this patent, to hold the 28th day of March, 1639.
... This 'patton' renewed by Lt. Governor Wm Berkeley, 19th day
of March, 1643, in the name of Alice SNEAD." (_The Sneads of
Fluvanna_, by Hatcher, pp. 24-5.) [I also refer you to the end
of ALTNPII.asc for a discussion of Keth's Creek. LSS]

This book apparently tried for an English ancestry.

THE SNEADS OF JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. &RELATED FAMILIES by Florence Roberta Walker Butler.
8~xll. Soft cover. 328 pp. Order from author, 202 Battley Rd., Hamlet, N.C. 28345. $48.00.
Beginning with her earliest known ancestors, Mrs. Butler concisely traces the family from Alfred the Great of England to Richard de Aldithley, who first took the name of Snede and died in 1238. Sixteen generations later Samuel Snead brought his family from England to Virginia in 1636. This book emphasizes the John Snead who migrated from Virginia to Onslow County, N.C. It contains many photographs, marriage and death records, obituaries, census and Bible records, charts and maps. Chapter 2 is devoted to the Sneads of Tennessee and Chapter 8 to the Sneads of Florida. Related lines are: Ward, Dudley, Williams, Bryan, Needham and Smith.

His father was William Sneyd of Kelle, England, according to

The Sneads of Accomack County, Virginia, Craven Onslow and Johnston Counties, North Carolina and Allied Families, Volume 1

Front Cover
F.R.W. Butler, 2008 -

Page 25

https://books.google.com/books/content?id=OlkbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&...

I think that’s a different person.

Sorry - grandfather.

Here’s Burke’s on the Sneyd family of Keele

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great ..., Volume 2
By Bernard Burke. Page 1372 - 1373. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yEtNAQAAMAAJ&dq=William%20Sne... GoogleBooks]

The genealogist claim was “ William Sneyd of Kelle, through the son of his second son, name unknown, had a son named Samuel.”

That’s all I get from the snippet.

Samuel Snead was Not the son of William Sneyd, of Keele and Clara Wrottesley who had no children.

See https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000172669048941 which describes her will, and https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000172673044845, which notes he died sp (no children).

I do not see any other possible Snead parent on the latter document.