Person:Robert Smith (111)

Robert Smith
b.1611
  • HRobert Smith1611 - 1706
  • W.  Susannah Porte (add)
  1. Sarah SmithAbt 1632 - Abt 1698
  2. Jonathan Smith1640 - Abt 1725
  3. Susan Smith1641 -
  4. Asahel SmithAbt 1642 - 1715
  5. John SmithAbt 1645 - Abt 1700
  6. Meribah SmithEst 1647 - Aft 1706
  7. Israel SmithAbt 1649 -
  8. Joseph SmithAbt 1653 - 1717
Facts and Events
Name Robert Smith
Gender Male
Birth[4] 1611
Marriage to Susannah Porte (add)
Residence[2][5] 1638 Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United StatesExeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. Exeter Combination
Death[4] 30 Aug 1706 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Burial[3] Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
References
  1.   Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire. Hampton Genealogy Database. (https://gw.geneanet.org/hamptongenealogy).
  2. Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. Exeter Combination. (Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States).
  3. Robert Smith, in Find A Grave.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

    Robert1 Smith, tailor was of Exeter, NH by 1639 and Hampton, NH by 1654. Born about 1611 (deposed ±61 in Oct. 1673, ±83 in May 1695 when he depos. ab. the Willix daughters). He was granted admin to his son Israel of Boston on 20 May 1676 who wrote 24 July 1676, agreeing that the est. be divided among his five sons, including son-in-law Francis Page. died in Hampton, N.H. 30 Aug. 1706, will made 22 March 1699/1700, proved 3 Sept. 1706 names 5 ch. He married Susanna, who on 12 June 1680 was "Slaine by ye thunder."

    Children:
    1) John, willed ½ the land given his fa. by Robert Mason, Esq.
    2) Jonathan, b. ± 1640.
    3) Asahel, given 40 a. at the new plantation, £4 and 1/5 the cattle.
    4) Joseph, given ½ of the Mason land.
    5) Meribah m. Francis Page (2).
    6) Israel of Boston

    (Note: The authors make no mention of evidence for the children Sarah and Susan shown on this profile. As for the wife of Judge Robert Wadleigh in the Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, 2:229 for Judge Robert Wadleigh, his wife Sarah _____ and neither the authors of these volumes nor the authors of GDMNH cite any evidence or even suggest his wife's name was Smith. link)

  5. Smith, Robert, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    312.

    Origins Unknown; arrived by 1638 to Exeter removed to Hampton