Person:Daniel Smith (165)

m. 15 Sep 1618
  1. Judith Smith1621 -
  2. Captain John Smith1623 - 1695
  3. Ensign Henry Smith1626 - 1676
  4. Elizabeth Smith1628 -
  5. Daniel Smith1631 - 1633
  6. Daniel SmithAbt 1634 - 1692
m. 20 Oct 1659
  1. Sarah Smith1670 - 1717
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Daniel Smith
Gender Male
Birth[4] Abt 1634 Stratton-St. Michael, Norfolk, England (probably)
Marriage 20 Oct 1659 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United Statesto Esther Chickering
Death[1][2][5] 28 Apr 1692 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[1][5] 1 May 1692 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1. Henry1 Smith, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960)
    110-11.

    "Daniel2 Smith, born in co. Norfolk, England, died at Rehoboth, Mass., 28 Apr. 1692, buried 1 May 1692; married there, 20 Oct. 1659, Esther Chickering, born at Dedham, Mass., 4 Nov. 1643, buried at Rehoboth, 6 June 1687, daughter of Francis and Anne (Fiske) Chickering.

    When very young he came with his parents from England and was brought by them to Rehoboth. He held many town and colony offices; grand juryman, 1662; member of two coroner’s juries at Rehoboth in 1664; grand juryman, 1667; receiver of excise there, 1667. He was allowed by the Plymouth Court to keep an ordinary at Rehoboth in 1667 in case Goodwife Abell lay it down. He was Constable, 1671; one of Rehoboth’s council of war, 1675/6; Selectman, 1676, 1677 and 1678; an auditor of Plymouth Colony accounts, 1676; one of a committee of six appointed by the Plymouth Court to hear complaints of persons to whom the Colony was indebted relating to the war, 1677, and one of a committee of twelve appointed to determine debts due from the Colony to all persons, 1677; member of a committee to treat with Swansea about border claims, 1677. He was Deputy, 1672, 1674, 1675, and 1676; Magistrate at Rehoboth, 1677; Assistant 1679-86, 1689-91; nominated Commissioner of United Colonies, 1683, 1684, 1690, 1691; and member of the Council under Gov. Andros, 1687."

  2. 2.0 2.1 Family Recorded, in Colonial Dames of America. Chapter 1, Baltimore. Ancestral records and portraits: a compilation from the archives of Chapter I, the Colonial Dames of America. (New York: Grafton Press, 1910)
    2:617.

    … [Lt. John Smith's] younger brother Daniel, was magistrate of Rehoboth, and represented that place in the Plymouth Court from 1679 to 1692; also Deputy Governor in 1684, 1690, and 1691, dying April 28, 1692. His wife was Esther Chickering. …

  3. Daniel Smith, in 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.

    "Daniel (Smith), Rehoboth 1650, nam. in the will of that date of his mo. Judith, was prob. s. of Henry, m. 20 Oct. 1659, Esther, d. of Francis Chickering, of Dedham; rep. 1672, an Assist. 1679, had Nathaniel, b. 7 Aug. 1674; Ebenezer, 29 July 1676; Judith, 7 Feb. 1679; Rebecca 20 Apr. 1680. He was made one of the Counc. for governm. of N. E. under Sir Edmund Andros, 1687."

  4. Mahler, Leslie. The English Ancestry of Judith1 Ray, Wife Of Henry1 Smith Of Hingham And Rehoboth, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Dec 2015)
    87:268.

    "Daniel Smith (again), b. ca. 1634, bp. not found; m. Rehoboth, 20 Oct. 1659, Esther Chickering."

  5. 5.0 5.1 Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1897)
    p. 876.

    1 90 [SMITH], Daniel, died April 28, buried May 1, 1692