Person:Valentine Smith (1)

birth parents: Felten Smith and Susanna Dupuy (1)

VALENTINE SMITH MAY HAVE BEEN WHITE. A VALENTINE SMITH SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIOARY WAR IN ULSTER CO NY AND SURROUNDING AREAS. MOSTLY AS AN INDIAN SCOUT. HE MOVED TO CAYUGA CO NY ABOUT 1800 AND BEFORE 1810 MOVED TO ONONDAGA CO WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL AROUND 1830 WHEN HE MOVED BACK TO CAYUGA CO. WHILE IN ONONDAGA CO HE MAY HAVE SPENT TIME IN NEIGHBORING ONIEDA CO WHERE CYNTHIA TEECOMWAS HAD COUSINS. CYNTHIA'S GRAND UNCLE SAMSON OCCUM MOVED THERE ABOUT 1785 AND HAD 12 CHILDREN THERE. THIS IS WHERE CYNTHIA AND VALENTINE MET AND HAD BARTHOLOMEW. SHE RETURNED TO MONTVILLE CONNECTICUT ALONE BEFORE 1827. VALENTINE SMITH MARRIED IN ULSTER CO NY TO ANOTHER WOMAN AND APPEARS TO HAVE EITHER REMAINED MARRIED TO HER OR MAY HAVE DIVORCED AT SOME TIME DURING HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CYNTHIA TEECOMWAS. A YOUNG CHARLES SMITH FROM CT IS FOUND ON THE 1860 CENSUS LIVING IN CAYUGA CO NEW YORK. HOWEVER, VALENTINE SMITH MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN A PEQUOT INDIAN. ON THE 1861 LIST OF MOHEGAN INDIANS VALENTINE SMITH'S GRANDAUGHTER, FIDELIA SMITH-FIELDING, IS LISTED AS 5/8 PEQUOT. FIDELIA'S MOTHER, SARAH SMITH IS ONLY 1/4 PEQUOT. ASSUMING THAT VALENTINE SMITH'S SON, BARTHOLOMEW SMITH, WAS FIDELIA SMITH'S FATHER, BARTHOLOMEW SMITH HAD TO BE AT LEAST 1/2 PEQUOT. BARTHOLOWMEW SMITH'S MOTHER, CYNTHIA TEECOMWAS, WAS CONSIDERED MOHEGAN. THOUGH CYNTHIA TEECOMWAS MAY HAVE BEEN PART PEQUOT ALSO.

Valentine Smith was white.

1.   Emma Baker. List Of Mohegan Indians May 1861.