... Charles Mynn Thruston, Senior, and John McDonald, Edmund Taylor, John Smith, Charles Smith, John Hite and Isaac Hite were members of the first justice's court of Frederick county, Virginia, that convened after the colony had thrown off British rule. It organized at Winchester under "the Honorable the Convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia," August 6, 1776, and, all the above being present (except Charles Smith), proceeded to take oath of allegiance to the new government. Charles Smith was absent on account of illness, and at the meeting one month later a certificate of his death was filed. ...
... Charles Smith was an officer with Washington at Great Meadows, and married the daughter of John Hite, and their daughter married Philip Eastin, a lieutenant in the War of the Revolution, who was the grandfather of the author of this work. ...
