Person:Constantine Smith (1)

Records

Constantine Smith, his wife Frankey and four of their children are mentioned in the will of Constantine's sister-in-law, Sarah (Starke) Leith, as follows:

Granville County, N.C. Will Book 1, p. 246.

Sarah Leith late of the County of Gloucester, Virginia, Will dated May 18, 1770 - proved August 1779.

£500 given to Petsoe [s/b Petsworth] Parish wherein I formerly resided for the education of orphans & poor children within sd. parish who are not able to pay for their schooling, remainder to be divided between Thos. Starke & Wm. Starke my brothers, Lawrence Smith, Guy Smith, Eliz. Lewis & Ann Smith the four last mentioned are sons & daughters of Constantine Smith & Frankey Smith my Sister.

To Dr. Wm. Ridley for prof. services 500 a.

My exors to make ample satisfaction to Turner Starke for bringing me from So. Carolina to this place.

Brother Wm. Starke of King William County whole & sole Exr.

Wit: Robt. Burton, A. Barker, Richd. Edwards.

Source: "Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia, Volume 1", by Polly Cary Mason, pg. 134.

Plantation for Sale

To be SOLD, 300 Acres of Land in King and Queen county, convenient to church, court, warehouse and mill. There is a good dwelling-house on the land, with two rooms above and two below, shedded, with a partition in it, a good kitchen, smokehouse, dairy, tobacco house, corn house, and a fine young apple and peach orchard. Also 500 acres in Goochland, which is good level land, about fifty miles above the Falls, and two from Carter's run. The land in fence is sufficient for working six hands; there is upon it a dwelling-house, kitchen, and tobacco house; and it is only two miles from church, nine from the courthouse, and three from mill. For terms inquire of Constantine Smith."

Source: VIRGINIA GAZETTE 1736-1780, Vol. 2., 11 Dec. 1766, p. 3, col. 3

Ancestry Member Submission

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/17845863/person/18159984079

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   11. Constantine SMITH b. 16 Sep 1717, Essex Co., VA, m. Frances Starke, also known as: Frankey
   Children:
   27. i Lawrence SMITH.
   ii Guy SMITH.
   iii Elizabeth SMITH m. Lewis.
   iv Ann SMITH.
   
   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~don46/smith.pdf

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   8 Constantine Smith, the third of the four surviving sons of Guy Smith, was born in Gloucester County on September 17, 1717. This means he was only three years old when his father died. When he came of age in 1738 he inherited part of his father's land grant in King and Queen County, so he moved there and established his plantation. Around this same time, his older brother John, born in 1701, was moving west to Goochland County, where he had patented 600 acres on Lickinghole Creek southwest of the modern Gum Spring. Constantine remained in close touch with John and John's sons, especially his son Bowker Smith, who was only a few years younger than Constantine. Constantine didn't marry until the early 1750s; then he married Frankey (Frances) Starke. They had at least three sons and two daughters. Late in 1761, Bowker Smith decided to move from Goochland farther west to Bedford County, west of modern Lynchburg. Constantine financed this move by buying Bowker's share of the Smith land in Goochland. He had no intention of moving there, so in 1768 he gave the land to his oldest son Lawrence. Meanwhile, he had been following his father's footsteps by studying for the ministry, and in 1770 he was appointed rector of Farnham Parish, a few miles away in Essex County. He was 53. Unfortunately the parish records are not complete and his date of death is not known.
   
   http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/families/smith_of_gloucester.htm

4.   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
   Vol. 9, Pg. 44-455.

   10, John, born September 23, 1725, married, in Goochland county, in 1751, Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Hopkins; 11, Bowker, baptized in Gloucester county, March 31, 1723. In 1761, he was living in Goochland county, at which time he deeded lands on Lickinghole Creek to Constantine Smith, of King and Queen county. John2 Smith was probably the John Smith, of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover county, who devised to his son John land on Lickinghole Creek, Goochland county, which land was sold by the latter in 1772. Mrs. Ann Smith, wife of John² Smith, died in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, and was buried August 7, 1733.
   [Note: John was the elder brother of Constantine Smith].
   
   8. Constantine² Smith (Rev. Guy¹) lived in King and Queen county in 1761, but in 1770 calling himself of the Parish of South Farnham, Essex county, he gave the land deeded to him in Goochland by Bowker Smith to his son, 15, Lawrence Smith. {Goochland County Records.)