Person:Nehemiah Smith (10)

"Nehemiah Smith came to Plymouth about 1638; married at Marshfield, 1640; removed to Stratford, Conn., by 1644; in 1645 was living in the Oyster River section west of New Haven; in 1652 he was living on Long Island, and then bought property in New London, whither he removed, but in 1655 was in Marshfield again. He lived in New London until after the settlement of Norwich, but had removed to that town by 1663.

He was brother of John Smith, born about 1609, died 4 Oct. 1679, who settled in Boston in 1639 and removed to New London in 1653. Edward Smith (born about 1637, died 14 July 1689) of New London was eldest son of their eldest brother in England. In the interesting testimony given after the death of John Smith when his nephew Edward was trying to break his will, John was quoted as saying that he was "stripped to his shirt" in the Civil War, indicating that the family, a Puritan one, had suffered severe losses before coming to New England to rebuild their fortunes.

The Nehemiah Smith genealogy (1889) assigned nine children to Nehemiah Smith and confused his wife Ann with Sarah wife of George Smith of New Haven, Conn. Of the nine children, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and Mercy were children of George Smith while Lydia was Nehemiah's daughter-in-law, Lydia (Winchester) Smith, and not his daughter. The daughter Ann (Smith) Bradford was really a granddaughter. The printed genealogy dignifies Nehemiah Smith with the title "Reverend," on what grounds is not clear."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Nehemiah Smith, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
   311.

   "Smith, Nehemiah: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration[ 1637; [Resided] Marshfield, New Haven, New London, Norwich [PCR 1:79, 138; PCPR 1:48; MD 13:85; TAG 11:12-14; Granberry 322-34; FANH 1664; Waterman Gen 1:621-23; H. Allen Smith, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith (Albany, New York, (1889)]."

2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edward Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. (New Haven, Conn. (I and II); Hartford, Conn. (III): E.F. Waterman (I and II); The Connecticut Historical Society (III), 1939, 1942, 1954)
   1:621.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Smith, H. Allen (Henry Allen). A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Conn: with Mention of His Brother John and Nephew Edward, 1638-1888. (Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889)
   53-63.