Person:Dorothy Unknown (195)

Dorothy _____
b.Est 1603
  • HRev Henry SmithAbt 1600 - Aft 1648
  • WDorothy _____Est 1603 - Bef 1694
m. Bef 1622
  1. Philippa SmithEst 1622 - Bef 1687
  2. Mary SmithEst 1624 - Aft 1667
  3. Peregrine SmithBet 1627 & 1629 - Bef 1648
  4. Rebecca SmithCal 1631 - Aft 1679/80
  5. Dorothy SmithBet 1633 & 1635 - Bef 1706
  6. Samuel Smith1638/39 - 1703
  7. Joanna Smith1641 - 1664
  8. Noah Smith1643/44 - Aft 1648
  9. Elizabeth Smith1648 -
  • HJohn RussellEst 1597 - 1680
  • WDorothy _____Est 1603 - Bef 1694
m. Est 1649
Facts and Events
Name[1] Dorothy _____
Married Name Dorothy Smith
Married Name Dorothy Russell
Gender Female
Birth[1] Est 1603
Marriage Bef 1622 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Rev Henry Smith
Marriage Est 1649 to John Russell
Will[2] 16 Feb 1681/82 Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2] Bef 22 Dec 1694 Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United StatesBefore date of probate.
Estate Inventory[2] 22 Dec 1694 £183 6s., of which £147 was real estate.
Probate[2] 22 Dec 1694 Will proved.

Origins

Warning: While Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut (page 614) writes:

The name of (Henry Smith's) second wife was Dorothy, sister of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston.

There is no documented evidence of Dorothy's surname. It may be that the Cotton surname is based on a bequest in the 1652 will of Rev John Cotton to "my cousin, Henery Smith." However, Dorothy's husband, Rev. Henry Smith, was deceased at the time of this will, and the bequest was for "diet, lodging and apparel so long as he serve my wife, and 20 pounds" - clearly not intended for Rev Henry Smith, husband of Dorothy.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rev. Henry Smith, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    730-33.

    Dorothy -----, born probably about 1603, died at Hadley, Mass., 1694.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 John Russell, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    6:137.