Person:Christopher Smith (23)

Came to Providence about the same time as his son-in-law Lawrence Wilkinson, about 1647. He was on the tax-list at Providence in 1650, served on a jury and was made a freeman in 1655. He received land from the town in 1656, 1658 and 1665. Moved to Newport during King Philip's war, during which his home in Providence was burned. Lived in what is now Lincoln, near the present [1908] site of the Butterfly factory, while his home place in Providence was on what is now North Main Street, north of Doyle Avenue. His death in Jun 1676 is recorded in the Friends book.^[4], ^[5]

References

1. ↑ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891).
2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:111.

   CHRISTOPHER, Providence, in the list of freem. there 1655, had d. Susanna wh. m. Lawrence Wilkinson; engag. for alleg. to Charles II. June 1668. In 1672, his w. was Alice; but what was her fam. name, or whether she were first, sec. or later w. is unkn.

3.   Married 1 May 1616. , in Savage, Richard, Transcriber, and Church of England. Parish Church of Stratford-upon-Avon. The Registers of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick. (London: Parish Register Society, 1897-1905)
   Marriages 1558-1812.

   https://archive.org/stream/registersofstrat02stra#page/28/mode/1up
   http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-27264
   Supported by 16 yDNA tests in SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project group NE18. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/smith-connections/about/results

4. ↑ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island
5. ↑ Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island