... Thomas Smith, born at Aberdeen, in 1692, married Elizabeth Duncan in 1724.
She was a daughter of Alexander Duncan, Esq., of Lundie county, belonging to a Dundee family of remote antiquity, who married a daughter of Sir Peter Murray, Bart, of Auchtentyre, and had beside Elizabeth, a son Adam Duncan, born 1725, who adopted the naval profession and became celebrated as "the hero of Camperdown." He entered the naval service in 1746, under Robert Haldane, and became Rear Admiral of the Blue in 1789, passing through all the intermediate grades. On October 11, 1797, he achieved a splendid victory over the Dutch fleet, under Admiral de Winter, of Camperdown, and was elevated to the peerage October 30. 1797, as Baron Duncan of Lundie, and Viscount Duncan of Camperdown. He married Henrietta, second daughter of Right Honorable Robert Dundas, of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session, and niece of Henry Dundas, Lord Dunira, first Viscount Melville.
He came to Philadelphia later, and resided for a time at the corner of Front and Arch Streets. ...
