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Facts and Events
Will Abstract
- Will of Obadiah Smith, written 29 October 1744, proven June 1746.
- Will of Obadiah Smith of Henrico County.
- To son John, 300 acres next to John Pleasants on Miry Br. also next to John Cannon, and Joseph Pleasants, also 20 acres meadowland on Cattail Cr., also water mill and 2 acres.
- To son Obadiah, 300 acres next to above...
- To son Jacob, 300 acres, the remainder of above tract, next to Col. Byrd, John branch, John Price, Thomas Williamson, and Mr. Richardson.
- To daughter Elizabeth Ellis, 400 acres being uppermost part of aforesaid tract adjoining Long and Hungary,
- To daughter Mary Smith, 400 acres being part of aforesaid tract adjoining Rowlin Blackburne
- To son Luke... Personal property.
- To daughter Ann Smith, personal property...
- To son William, 300 acres next to Horse Swamp on Brook Road, next to Mr. Richardson, Mr. Massey and William Ferris, also the land I bought of William Ferris, 40 acres, also to son William, all the remainder of the aforesaid tract and plantation where I now live...
- Wife Mary property for life.
- Son William to be executor.
- Dated October 29, 1744.
- (Signed) Obadiah Smith
- Wit: Nathaniel Vendewall, John Pleasants, James Allen.
- Recorded June 1746.
- [Source: "Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia, Part Two 1737-1781", by Benjamin B. Weisiger III, Page 155 Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1744-17].
Abstract of Mary (Cocke) Smith
- Written 3 June 1753, Proven April 1754
- Names same children as in husband's will
Name: Obadiah (Smith or WARE)
Given Name: Obadiah (Smith or Surname: Ware)
Sex: M Change
Marriage 1 Mary COOKE
Children
Elizabeth (Smith or WARE) b: Abt 1690 in Richmond Co.,VA or Jamestowne,VA
Sources:
Title: GEDCOM File : 1594071.gedDate: 17 Jun 2001
Title: GEDCOM File : Cates and Garmon Family.gedDate: 10 Feb 2003
Title: GEDCOM File : ~AT85.gedDate: 12 Feb 2003
Title: GEDCOM File : ~AT1E.gedPage: License # 738, book 42, page 92Date: 3 Sep 2003
References
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- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
Vol. 5, pg. 80.
The Family Of Ohadiah Smith.
In a previous article (page 95 of Virginia Historical Magazine, July, 1896, and page 328, October, 1896), we stated that Mary Cocke,5 daughter of William Cocke,'married Obadiah Smith, and some seventy-five years afterwards (1777) his descendant, Lucy Smith (daughter of his grandson, Obadiah Smith5,), married James Powell Cocke,6 of Malvern Hills.
Obadiah Smith' and Mary Cocke' left issue: William, John, Obadiah, Jacob, Luke4 Elizabeth, Anne, Mary.
Luke Smith 4 left a son, Obadiah,5 who married Mary Burks,* in Albemarle county, Va., and died in 1777.
Obadiah Smith5 and Mary Burks left issue: Luke, Susanna m. Isaac Winston,t Peartree, Elizabeth, William (married Elizabeth Mayo), Obadiah, Lucy? born December 8, 1756; Charles, and Joseph.
William Smith6 and Elizabeth Mayo + (he died in Chesterfield county in 1800) left issue: Mary, William, Elizabeth, Beverly (Dr.), Lucy Ann, Signora Tabb, William Mayo, Edward Warren, and Obadiah. We get the above information from Mr. Charles L. Pullen, of New Orleans, great grandson of William Smith,6 son of Obadiah.'
We have another pedigree of the Smith family sent us by Mr. Willis B. Smith, of Richmond, which gives the descendants of Mary Smith,3 who was a daughter of the first Obadiah Smith. Mr. Willis Smith writes that their "old book says" that Obadiah Smith,' who married Mary Cocke,3 was the son of John Smith, of Charles City, who came there from England.*
Mary Smith, born 1726, died 1804, the ancestor of Mr. Willis B. Smith, married a William Smith, of Gloucester, son of Robert Smith, of Gloucester,! son of William Smith, of Gloucester, probably of the family of Colonel Lawrence Smith. William and Mary Smith settled at "Montrose," in Powhatan county. They had a number of children, among them: 1. Josiah, who was the father of the late Benjamin Mosbv Smith, D. D., of Union Theological Seminary, Virginia; 2. Mary, married James Morton, father of Dr. W. S. Morton, of Cumberland county; 3. Anne, married Rev. Drury Lacy, who was the grandmother of the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D. D., of Richmond; 4. Judith, who was grandmother of Mrs. Terhune (Marion Harland).
Josiah married Judith Michaux Mosby, daughter of Colonel Littlebury Mosby, and granddaughter of Jacob Michaux.
The will of Obadiah Smith,3 probated, in Chesterfield county, May 2, 1777, disposes of lands in Mecklenburg county, "with negroes and stock" to son of Peartree Smith; to son William land on James river "above Moses* creek, &c.; to Obadiah the residue of tract of land in Chesterfield county, "being plantation whereon 1 now live;" to William land at mouth of Hico and Dan rivers (Halifax county); to Obadiah all his land in North Carolina; to Lucy two negroes; to Elizabeth two negroes; to Edith Christmas one negro boy and £100 in money, and two girls for life; to granddaughter, Eliz. Winston, one girl and /"100; to Peartree Smith ^250; and all the residue of his estate to William, Obadiah, and Lucy.
There is a letter from "Will. Scott," dated "Bunkershill, Va., Feb'y 25, 1777," to "Mr. Wm. Smith, Paymaster 5th Virginia Regiment," who was with the army in New Jersey, informing him of the death of his father.
There was an Obadiah Smith and two William Smiths, who were lieutenants in the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.
*In "The Cabells and their Kin" we have the following (page 59): Elizabeth Cabell [Burks], wife of Dr. William Cabell, was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Davis. Burks, of Hanover county (when that county extended to the Blue Ridge mountains). Her only sister. Mary Burks, married Ohadiah Smith (who died 1777 in Chesterfield county), and became the mother, inter alias, of Peartree Smith, whose descendants went to Kentucky: of William Smith, who married Elizabeth Mayo; of Lucy Smith, who married James Powell Cocke, and of Elizabeth Smith, who married Isaac Winston.
Peartree Smith got his name from John Peartree Burks, the brother of Mary Burks, the wife of Obadiah Smith. He moved to Kentucky. In 1852 "Mrs Hebe Carter Preston married her cousin, Wm. Peartree Smith, of Henderson county, Ky." (page 455).
t Isaac Winston married, second, daughter of John Coles. He was a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Fontaine) Winston: the latter born 1718. and daughter of Rev Peter Fontaine.
Peter Winston, brother of Isaac, was a member of the Henrico Committee of Safety, 1774, and he was the grandfather of John Winston Jones, Speaker of House of Representatives.
X Descended from Joseph Mayo, who came to Virginia, 1727, from Barhadoes, and settled at " Powhatan" (near Richmond), the seat of the Indian chief. They intermarried with the Carringtons. Philip Mayo represented Henrico in House of Burgesses in 1768. John Mayo represented Cumberland in 1770 and 1777. William Mayo, Jr., represented Powhatan in 1785. John Mayo was a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety '775
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