Person:John Smith (1149)

The Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Supplemental Application of Harry Bartow Hawes, National Number: 33194, State Number: 445

John Smith of Baltimore, Md., Cumberland Co. Pa, born Feb. 1722, died June 9, 1794 and his wife Mary Buchanan, daughter of Robert and Janet (Boyd) Buchanan, born 1729, died Feb. 3, 1782.
Father: Samuel Smith, Cumberland & Lancaster Cos. Pa., born 1693, died 1784, and his wife Sidney Gamble, born ____, died 1759.
[Ancestry.com]

John Smith and William Lyon were the only ones listed as "merchant" on the 1759 tax assessment, but seven others on the tax roll were identified on later returns as either merchant or shopkeeper. Smith was the son of Samuel Smith from Ballymagorry, County Tyrone, an Indian Trader and one of Cumberland County's original justices.

John Smith's wife was Mary Buchanan, daughter of Robert Buchanan of Donegal Township, who succeeded Samuel Smith as Sheriff of Lancaster County. Buchananm like Smith, was from County Tyrone.