Person:Matthew Smith (29)

Matthew Smith

b.Bef 1606

d.Bef 20 Jul 1681

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m. Bef 1631

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Matthew Smith
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1606	Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage	Bef 1631	Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child. to Jane _____
Emigration^[1]	1637
Residence^[1]	1637	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (first)
Residence^[1]	1637	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (second)
Residence^[1]	1637	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (third)
Other^[1]^[3]	May 1645	Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Mathewe Smith").
Death^[1]	Bef 20 Jul 1681	Before date of inventory.
Estate Inventory^[1]	20 Jul 1681
Probate^[1]	1681	Administration to son Matthew Smith.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 ^1.9 Smith, Edward Church, and Philip Mack Smith. The Family of Matthew Smith of Charlestown, Massachusetts 1637. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1943; Jan 1944)
19:203-04.

"If Wyman is correct as to the date of a deposition in 1682, Matthew¹ Smith, then 72, must have been born about 1610. But the inventory of the estate of Matthew Smith Senr. Deceased, made July 20, 1681, indicates that he died some time before that date."
↑ Matthew 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)
4:126.

"Matthew (Smith), Charlestown, a cordwinder, came, 1637, from Sandwich, Co. Kent, with w. Jane and four ch. and was that yr. adm. inhab. of C. tho. Felt shows, that Salem made him gr. of ld. perhaps conditional. His w. was rec. by the ch. 22 Dec. 1639; but no bapt. is ment. on the rec. nor can the names of those brot. from Eng. be ascertain. He was a householder in 1658, and perhaps in 1678, under the title of goodman."
↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:190.