Person:Stephen Smith (11)

proprietor of Liverpool, NS. baptized chatham Ma 18 Dec 1726. m Chatham, Mehitable Edlredge, daughter of Nathaniel Eldredge of Chatham. Mehitable was b abt 1729, died Liverpool 4 sep 1815 NGS "Nova Scotia Settlers from Chatham, MA, vol 62, 108

1787 Census lists 3 men 4 women. _Massachusetts Archives_ show he helped American prisoners return to New England during Revolution. Descendant of Stephen Hopkins. NGS "Nova Scotia Settlers from Chatham, MA, vol 62, 108

1. ↑ Smith, William Christopher. A history of Chatham, Massachusetts: formerly the constablewick or village of Monomoit : with maps and illustrations and numerous genealogical notes. (Hyannis, Mass.: F.B. & F.P. Goss, 1909)
   p. 257.

   Children of Dea. Stephen Smith and 1st wife Hannah Collins: 1) Stephen, bp. 18 Dec 1726, m. [cites deed dated 12 Apr 1759] Mehitable Eldredge. Removed to Liverpool, N.S., about 1762.

2. ↑ "Notes: The Wills of The Stephen Smiths, Father and Son, of Chatham, Mass., and Liverpool, N.S.", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol. 122, p. 49.

   Stephen Smith only son of Dea. Stephen Smith and first wife Hannah Collins, bp. Chatham, Mass., 18 Dec 1725 [sic, compare to Smith's date], d. Liverpool, N.S., 9 Sep 1807, m. Chatham about 1746 Mehitable Eldridge. Will dated 4 Sep 1807 [Queens County Probates, Book 2, p. 43) names wife Mehitabel; sons Jonathan, Stephen, Nathaniel; daughters Hannah, Bethia, Tabitha, Sarah, Mehitabel and Betsey; grandchildren Ludovick Smith, Hannah Lewis, Elizabeth Smith.