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William Smith
m. 1748
  1. Francis Smith, of Piscataway, Essex, VAAbt 1749 - Bef 1814
  2. William SmithAbt 1760 - Bef 1785
  3. Anne SmithAbt 1762 -
  • HWilliam SmithAbt 1760 - Bef 1785
  • WMary BelfieldAbt 1760 -
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  1. William SmithBef 1785 -
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Name William Smith
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1760 Essex, Virginia, United States
Marriage Essex, Virginia, United Statesto Mary Belfield
Death[2] Bef 14 Oct 1785 Essex, Virginia, United States[date of Thomas Adams' will]
Other[2] 14 Oct 1785 Essex, Virginia, United Statesnamed as dec'd in Will of Thomas Adams, his uncle
References
  1.   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute).

    Vol V (1897), pp 159-164.
    GENEALOGY OF THE ADAMS FAMILY OF NEW KENT AND HENRICO COUNTIES, VA.
    Compiled by C.W. Coleman.

    ... 7. Anne, b. about 1731 ; d. 1775 [Essex Records], mentioned in her grandmother's will. She married about 1748, Col. Francis Smith, of South Farnham parish, Essex Co., member of the House of Burgesses, 1752-'58, and was his second wife. ... by his second wife, Anne Adams,
    ... ii. William Smith, member of Essex Co. Committee, 1774, House of Delegates, 1778, etc.; married Mary, daughter of John and Ruth (Sydnor) Belfield, and died in 1785, leaving issue.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Will Abstract of Thomas Adams, in Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. (Rosslyn, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912-1913 in Three Volumes).

    p 99 -
    14th October, 1785. Thomas Adams' will, of the Calfpasture, being about to take a perilous journey to the Ohio River; to wife, Elizabeth, lands in Augusta and Amherst; to only brother, Richard Adams; to nephew William Adams Fry, all lands on Western Waters; to William Smith, son of my highly esteemed and much lamented nephew, William Smith, lately of County of Essex, deceased; to nephew, William Adams; to friend, John Blair, Chancellor, lands he purchased of testator in Albemarle County known by name of Mountain Plains; to Ralph Wanlass, lands whereon Ralph lives and to support Ralph's mother while she lives; to niece, Tabitha Epps; to slave, Joe, freedom --"As there is no man to whom I consider myself under Greater obligations than to my slave Joe." Executors, Maj. Thos. Massie, of Frederick, nephews Wm. Adams and Wm. Adams Fry. Written with own hand.
    Proved, 22d October, 1788. Executors Massie and Fry qualify; other executor is dead. Handwriting is proved by Thomas Hughart and Archibald Stuart.