Person:Ruth Smith (99)

Birth date of 3 Feb 1689 from R. G. Clarke.

Jack Springston states that in 1698, Ruth was still living with her parents.

25 Jul 2007: Stuart Price has pointed out a dilemma with the info on Ruth Smith. I had that she was a daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Hannah Carman, but Stuart points out that Jeremiah's 1725 will names his daughter Ruth Wiltsie. Ruth Smith and her husband Cornelius Witsie had children baptized in Jamaica from 1713 - 1732. It is unlikely that Jeremiah's daughter Ruth could have been the Ruth Smith married to Samuel Jackson about this same time period. I've been bothered with the seeming impossibility of confirming Ruth's children and now with the question of her parents also, I have to hope that someone will do an in depth study on Samuel's wives and children.

1. ↑ Clarke, Robert Gordon. Early New Netherlands Settlers.
2. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   Jan 1922, Vol 53, No. 1, pgs 14-16.

   Birthdate from the Smith Family Bible.

3.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   220.
4.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   9.