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Samuel Snow was a member of the so-called Patriot Hunters, an American paramilitary organisation that led a series of ill-fated military raids from the United States into the British province of upper Canada in 1838. He was one of the 92 Patriots transported to Van Diemen's Land for his participation in the raids.

In the 1830s, Snow lived with his wife and five children in the township of Strongsville, Ohio. According to his memoir, he was impressed by the rhetoric of the politician and activist Dr Charles Duncombe ), that the Canadian population was ready to rise up to seize the same liberty enjoyed in the United States.

On his return from Tasmania, Snow rejoined his family in Strongsville, his occupation listed on census forms as a "stone cutter." His wife Mary died in May 1863, shortly after the death of one of their sons in battle during the Civil War. Snow retired to live with relatives in Augusta, New York, where he died in 1880.