Person:Bethia Smith (4)

m. Bef 1640
  1. Samuel Smith1640 - 1732
  2. Lieutenant Joseph SmithAbt 1651 - 1725
  3. Esther SmithAbt 1653 - Bef 1725
  4. Benjamin SmithAbt 1655 - 1730
  5. Beriah SmithAbt 1657 - Bef 1727
  6. Bethia SmithAbt 1660 - 1725
m. 15 Aug 1680
Facts and Events
Name[1] Bethia Smith
Married Name Bethia Stoddard
Gender Female
Birth[1] Abt 1660 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Marriage 15 Aug 1680 Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United Statesto Joshua Stoddard
Death[2] Apr 1725 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 2. Richard2 Smith, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Smith Number - Richard Smith of Wethersfield. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1949)
    25:127-28.

    "Bethiah (Smith), b. say 1660; d. at Wethersfield between 19 and 28 Apr. 1725; m. at Wethersfield, 15 Aug. 1684, Joshua Stoddard, … No issue. By verbal will she made a bequest to her cousin Dorothy Smith, dau. of her brother Benjamin of Glastonbury. Distribution was ordered to her brothers and sisters: Samuel Smith, Joseph Smith, Benjamin Smith, Beriah Fox, and heirs of Esther Strickland."

  2. Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:583.

    'Stoddard, Bethiah, Wethersfield. April the 28th, 1725: We, the subscribers, being desired by Samuel Smith and Joseph Smith, of Glastonbury, to apprise the estate of their sister, Bethiah Stoddard, of Wethersfield, late deceased, …
    The verbill will of Bethia Stoddard, deliuered to us the subscribers as witness the 19th of April, 1725, as followeth: …'

  3.   Foote, Abram William. Foote Family: Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his Descendants; Also a Partial Record of Descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass., Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va., and John Foote of New York City. (Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press, 1907-1932)
    1:23.

    Child of John and Mary (Foote) Stoddard: 'Joshua, b. Sept. 12, 1648; m. Aug. 15, 1684, Berthia, dau. of Richard Smith, of Wethersfield. He d. abt. 1725, p. s.'

  4.   Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
    page 713.

    'STODDARD, Joshua (1648-1725) & Bethia SMITH (ca 1660-1725), dau Richard; 15 Aug 1680?, 1684?, no issue; Wethersfield, CT'