Person:James Smith (651)

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James Smith
b.Abt 1688
d.16 May 1754 Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  James SmithAbt 1688 - 1754
  • W.  Mary (add)
m. Bef 1716
  1. John Smith1716 -
  2. Archibald Smith1718 -
  3. Matthew Smith1720 -
  4. William Smith1724 - Aft 1803
  5. Mary Smith1729 -
  6. James Smith1733 - Bef 1754
  7. Robert Smith1735 -
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Name James Smith
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1688
Marriage Bef 1716 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Mary (add)
Death[1][2][3] 16 May 1754 Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Death[3][4] 18 May 1754 Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Find A Grave: Needham Cemetery, Needham, MA, in Find A Grave
    James Smith.

    HERE LIES THE
    BODY OF Mr
    JAMES SMITH,
    WHO DIED MAY
    16th 1 7 5 4 :
    AGED 66 YEARS.

  2. ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
    Vol. 49, p. 699.

    [Note: apparently no docket for this case?]
    Will of "James Smith of Needham ... Joyner; being sick & weak in Body", dated 4 May 1754, proved 22 Nov 1754, names wife Mary Smith; son John Smith; son Mathew Smith; son Archibald Smith; son William Smith; daughter Mary Colburn; son Robert Smith. Wife and son Robert to be executors.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Clarke, George Kuhn. History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911: including West Needham, now the town of Wellesley to its separation from Needham in 1881, with some references to its affairs to 1911. (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: Privately printed at the University Press, c1912)
    p. 61.

    "The Church records inform us whence James Smith and his wife came: 'Jan: 9. 1726. James Smith & Mary his Wife admitted into the Church. They came from Ireland A.D. 1718 & Brought a Testimonial with them from Mr. John Stirling Minister of the Congregation of the Belly kelly in the county of Londonderry'. ... James Smith died May 18, 1754 (his gravestone says May 16)..."
    [Note: italics in original. Note his oldest son is recorded in Needham records in 1716 which could mean it was recorded after the fact, or it could mean the above tradition is incorrect. The cited Find A Grave memorial gives his birth in Boston in 1688 (i.e., here), but James Smith is a common name and more evidence is needed to make the connection.]

  4. ↑ "Deaths Recorded by the Rev. Jonathan Townsend, A.M., Minister of the First Church in Needham. 1749-1762", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 56, p. 266.

    May: 18. 1754. James Smith died.

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