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Accomack County, Edward K. Snead listed himself as 32 years old and a lawyer, and lived with his wife and young daughter, as well as his 60 year old widowed mother and 29 year old brother, physician John D. Snead. Edward Snead owned four slaves according to the associated federal slave schedules (a 60 year old woman and 25, 33 and 45 year old males), and his brother Dr. John D. Snead owned 11 enslaved people (including 2 boys and an infant girl).
233:. The convention was necessary because Virginia's Constitution adopted in 1850 explicitly allowed slavery, and few Virginians considered the convention held during the Union occupation in the Civil War valid. Although certain provisions restricting civil rights of former Confederates were controversial and not adopted in 1869, the constitution drafted by Snead, Toy and their fellow delegates was ratified by Virginia voters and the Commonwealth soon allowed to rejoin the Union.
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Northampton and 197 men from Accomack County would serve in the Confederate Army. However, Edward K. Snead was not among those choosing to escape to fight for the Confederacy, but rather used his legal skills to maintain
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Accomack County to the former Susan Upsur Dennis (1799-1864) and her husband, Edward Smith Snead (1793-1853). He had a younger brother, Dr. John D. Snead (1829-1866), and younger sisters Susan Upshur Snead (1838-1930), Margaret Ker Snead (1839-1935) and Elizabeth Dennis Snead (b. 1842). In the
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Virginia counties from the massing Union forces. He decided to retreat rather than fight the 4500 Union troops that gathered at Newtown (now
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