Person:Robert Smith (331)

Watchers
Robert Smith
chr.9 Jul 1727 Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.4 Jul 1807 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
(edit)
m. 25 Mar 1714
  1. Jonathan Smith1714/15 - Bef 1745/46
  2. Patience Smith1716/17 -
  3. Elisha Smith1719 -
  4. Isaac Smith1722 -
  5. Eunice SmithAbt 1724 -
  6. Robert Smith1727 - 1807
Spouse and Children
(edit)
  • H.  Robert Smith1727 - 1807
  • W.  Sarah _____Abt 1733 - 1766
m. Bef 1752
  1. Abigail Smith1752 - 1840
  2. Lydia Smith1754 - 1840
  3. Elizabeth Smith1756 - Bef 1764
  4. David Smith1758 -
  5. Amos Smith1760 -
  6. Elizabeth Smith1764 -
  7. Sarah Smith1766 -
Spouse and Children
(edit)
m. 16 Dec 1767
  1. Ruth Smith1768 -
  2. Esther Smith1771 -
Add another spouse & children
Facts and Events
Name[4] Robert Smith
Gender Male
Christening[1] 9 Jul 1727 Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1752 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Sarah _____
Marriage 16 Dec 1767 Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Goodale
Death[2][3] 4 Jul 1807 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Church Records, in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Town of Weston, Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850: 1703-gravestones-1900, church records, 1709-1825. (Boston: McIndoe Bros., 1901)
    p. 410.

    1727.
    July. 9. Robert Son to Elisha & --- Smith [baptized].

  2. ↑ "Inscriptions from the Old Burial Ground on the Commons", in Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985-1986)
    Vol. 1, p. 58.

    Erected in Memory of Mr. Robert Smith who died July 4th 1807: Aet. 80.

  3. ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County). Probate files, 1731–1881. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2012)
    Case 54667 Smith Robert Worcester 1807.

    Will of "Robert Smith of Worcester ... Gentleman", dated 3 Oct 1801, filed 14 Jul 1807, proved 6 Oct 1807, names son David; son Amos; daughter Abigail the wife of Bnejamin Rice; daughter Lydia the wife of Daniel Ball; daughter Sally the wife of Samuel Bixby; daughter Ruth the wife of Aaron Parker; daughter Esther the wife of Jonathan Gleason Jun'r; grandchildrne Jonathan Flagg and Joel Flagg; grand son Hode[fer?] Ward [under 21]; grand daughter Betsey Ward [under 21]; wife Elizabeth. Wife Elizabeth to be executrix.

  4. ↑ Robert's will names a grandson Hode??? Ward and granddaughter Betsy Ward. The daughter who married a Mr. Ward has not been located. The grandchildren are under 21 in 1801 so born after 1780. It is not known which wife such a daughter could belong to.
    Source:Wall, Caleb A. North Worcester, Its First Settlers and Old Farms, p. 14, covers this family and mentions a daughter Hannah who married Josiah Flagg and another daughter who married a Ward.
    The first marriage appears to misidentify the parents of the Flagg grandchildren (there is a marriage record of Bette Smith to Joel Flagg, Jonathan's death record names father Joel, and Joel's death record names parents Joel & Elizabeth).
    No record of the other daughter, or such grandchildren (Betsy is too common of a name to be helpful, but no mention of any name similar to the grandson's) has been found. It is not known why this source thought there might be a daughter Hannah, but if she did not marry Mr. Flagg, perhaps this was the daughter who married Mr. Ward. But nothing has been located for Hannah or any other name.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Smith_%28331%29"