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                                        SMITH FAMILY TIME LINE

6th edition [12 Apr 2007]

"The history of a nation is the history of its people."

William F. Boogher, Washington, D. C., April, 1903

"It seems that my ancestors gone on before want me to remember that they're something more than "names" on a tombstone, in census, or book. They want me to KNOW them. They want me to look." Sandra Smith Gwilliam

By Sandra Smith Gwilliam, granddaughter of Carl Leroy Smith and 6th Great Granddaughter of Col. John Smith, the earliest Smith ancestor to America of whom we have proof. There are several theories as to John Smith's parents and birth place but none are proven at this time.

           [If anyone has corrections or additions, you may contact me atthe email address listed in werelate]

This time-line goes through my grandfather, Carl Leroy Smith, (who has two Smith ancestries because his parents were double first cousins). A few of the other descendants and ancestors of General James Smith are included in this time-line.

Carl Leroy Smith>Henry Mattison Smith Jr.>Henry Madison Smith Sr.>General James Smith> David Smith>Henry Smith>Col. John Smith

Carl Leroy Smith>Delilah Jo Smith>Joseph P. Smith Sr.>General James Smith> David Smith>Henry Smith>Col. John Smith

THERE WILL BE MISINTERPRETATIONS IN THIS TIME-LINE. When a researcher is dealing with early records, sometimes documents seem to be referring to one person when they are actually another person with the same or similar name. Not all census records are accurate—not every family tree you will see on the internet or in a book is accurate—even legal documents have various spellings of people’s names—sometimes in the same document. Records are only as good as the person who kept the record made them. I have tried in this time-line to give an overview of the Smith family along with a few American historical facts with as much accuracy as is available. I hope there are not too many mistakes. I know there are mistakes and inconsistencies in the formatting of this timeline because it was done over the course of several years. This timeline is written for my children and grandchildren, but, perhaps, other relatives will be able to use the information here to make their own timeline, changing the generations if they wish. The Generations are counted from Sandra Smith Gwilliam.

Note: All of the Smith Cousins Four, Virkus, Chalkley, Boogher and many other records, including land records for Henry Smith, Guy Smith, Historian of the Col. John Smith Society, generously shared, along with interesting side-notes. Most of the documentation I have on Col. John Smith and Henry Smith is a direct result of his well-documented research. He has been researching the Col. John Smith family for many years and has spent much time, money and effort in helping Smith family members to know their great heritage. There are many records which will be added later. Guy Smith cautions us to be careful when using histories [Boogher, y, et al] because some of the information could be imprecise. The Library of Virginia posted a caution about Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish in Virginia, according to a pamphlet published by the DAR, Chalkley's Chronicles may serve as a useful source for leads and to identify original records to consult, but there are many reasons to exercise caution when using it. Chalkley has transcription errors and he did not include every record available, so it would be wise to read the original record.

                            Guy Smith wrote a note that he is checking out the following records:

"Possible ancestry of John Smith by an unknown author (documents in Guy R. Smith's collection): "Captain John Smith of Augusta County, Virginia was descended from Daniel Smith, Sr. of Marlborough, England, a Distiller. He had an only child named Daniel who was a Cheese Factor in London. Captain John was the son of Daniel Smith Jr."

"Captain John Smith of Augusta County, Virginia, was born in 1698, and he was 2 years old when his grandfather, Daniel Smith Sr. died in 1700. This Daniel had bought a number of land grants in Pennsylvania near where West Chester is now located. At his death this land fell to his only son and heir, Daniel Smith, Jr. He also died, seized of this land when his son, John, was still young. A guardian was appointed for John, who, as eldest child and heir of Daniel Jr., inherited this land amounting to some 2,000 acres. John came of age in 1719 & in that year he appointed Thomas Chalkley his agent & gave him power of attorney to sell this land." [The fact that this may be our ancestor, John Smith, is assumed by the unknown author from a 1725 Pennsylvania Deed by John Smith to Thomas Lindley through Thomas Chalkley, an attorney & from earlier deed records of Daniel Jr. & Daniel Sr. Deed Book E, pages 293-298 from Pennsylvania State Archive records]

Some of the children and grandchildren of Col John Smith were baptized in the Tinkling Springs Church I Augusta County, Virginia. There are original records at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, on microfilm:

List of Baptisms 1740 - 1749 by Rev. John Craig, First Pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia". [Note from Wallace Smith—"I believe he was also the first pastor of the Tinkling Springs Church"]:

   Facts about Augusta County, Virginia for perspective on the baptisms:

http://www.orchestralibrary.com/sgen/augustaco.html

·    The first settler was John Lewis, 1732

·    Staunton founded, 1732

·    William Beverly land patent, 1736

·    Augusta County founded, 1738 [in 1716, Augusta County included most of what is now Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania up to the northern boundary which was The Great Lakes.] The present boundaries were established in 1790

·    Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church est. in 1738

·    Augusta Stone Church, est. 1740 by Rev. John Craig, Presbyterian

·    Government of Augusta County was established in 1745

·    First courthouse was built in 1745

·    Bethel Presbyterian Church est. in 1746

·    Hebron Presbyterian Church est. in 1746

·    The Augusta Parish Vestry first met April 6, 1747, Rev. Mr. John Hindman

1698     Captain John Smith Sr. [9th generation] was born, perhaps, in England. "Officer British Army, from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. [Compendium of American Genealogy Vol. VII by Frederick Adams Virkus as quoted in Smith Cousins Four compiled by Zula Wood Atwood, Frank L. Eddens, Jr, Mildred Smith Shumaker, & Guy R. Smith. --hereafter referred to as (CF)]

             Another birth date: Colonel John Smith (1701-1783) Unsung Hero of Virginia Colonial Frontier by Gordon Aronhime who writes: "We have it on the best authority imaginable that Colonel John Smith was born in the year 1701, for this is stated in court sixty-five years after the event:

Augusta County, Virginia Order Book one, p. 350, 20 Nov. 1766, Plaintiff vs. Wm. Chandler, defendant: "The Plaintiff's attorney offered in Evidence the Deposition of John Smith which was objected to by the defendant alledging [sic] the said John Smith was able to attend in person, but the said objection was overruled by the Court they being of the opinion…that he (John Smith) is of the age of sixty-five years and lives at the distance of sixty miles from the court house that he is still able to attend in person but that it is unnecessary).

Aronhime continues: "Where he was born is another matter. A secondary work not noted for the scholarship states boldly that he was born in England of English parents and moved to Ireland before coming to America, but when one need not document it is not necessary to be accurate for paper never protests. Where he may have been born is not known to this compiler of data…but from the sworn statement (importation), we know he did live in Ireland and sailed from there to America, landing in Philadelphia."

1719     John Smith [9th generation] married Margaret about 1719 in Ireland. [Virkus]

1724     Daniel Smith, son of John & Margaret was born about 1724 in Ulster, Ireland. Daniel married (about 1751 in Virginia), Jane Harrison [She was born about 1735 in Rockingham County, Virginia and died 1796 in Rockingham County, Virginia]. (Ken Smith's records sent by Guy Smith)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Harrison/d0087/g0000078.html#I262

Daniel was one of the wealthiest men in the area serving as one of the justices of Augusta court, his last term ending with the formation of Rockingham Co. He was a member of the Third Virginia Convention in 1775. Daniel joined his sons John, Daniel, Joseph and Robert in Yorktown and fought in the seige. He took office on March 26th 1781 as County Lieutenant of Rockingham. On the return of Rockingham's troops following the surrender there was a great celebration and a grand review of the troops. Daniel's horse became frightened and bolted when the soldiers opened fire during the "running salute" causing his death a few days later. Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County Virginia and Their Descendants, of the Family of Harrisons and Allied Lines. AUTHOR: J. Houston Harrison PUBLICATION: 665p, C.J. Carrier Co., Harrisonburg VA 1935, reprint 1983.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Volume I -- By Chalkley

AUGUSTA COUNTY, [Virginia] COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XVI. JANUARY 20, 1777. Page 192 AUGUST 19, 1777.

(206) Following took the oath of allegiance, viz: Daniel Smith…--Justices.

Ken Smith's records sent to Sandra Smith Gwilliam by Guy R. Smith: For many years, Daniel Smith was presiding judge of the Augusta County Court. In 1776, he was captain of Militia. When Rockingham County was organized in 1778, he was one of the first justices of the peace. On 28 May 1778, Daniel Smith qualified as Colonel of the militia. He was also one of the coroners. The first County Court of Rockingham was held at his house. On the return of the troops from Yorktown, the victory was celebrated by the military of Rockingham at a grand review in November 1781. Colonel Smith's horse, taking fright from the firing of guns, sprang aside, causing him to fall and injure his back to such a degree that he died within a few days. Three of his sons: John, Daniel and Benjamin, took part in the siege of Yorktown.

1730's  John Smith [9th generation] family came from Ulster, Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania moved with the McDowells and others to what is now Augusta County, Virginia then moved to Orange County, Virginia. (CF)

Gordon Aronhime wrote this note in Unsung Hero of Virginia colonial Frontier: The importation order does not state the date of arrival, but it is likely that the date was about 1730-32…wherever John Smith and his wife and five boys may have first lived, the were certainly in what is today Augusta County, Virgina before the year 1738…The importation order was from Orange county, Virgina…but …all orders for Augusta County between its creation in 1738 and its organization on 9 December 1745 were issued by Orange County. [Orange County Order Book 2, 205, 26 Jun 1740]

1738     In 1738 Augusta County was taken from Orange, the first court being held in Staunton Dec. 9, 1745, prior to which time all the legal business of Augusta County was transacted at Orange Court House. June 26, 1742, John Smith qualified at Orange Court House as captain of the militia for Augusta County. (Gleanings of Virginia History –An historical and genealogical collection, largely from original sources. Compiled and published by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc Baltimore, 1976, page )

1740     John Smith [9th generation] proved his importation 26 June 1740 in Orange County, Virginia, stating he came with: "Margaret, his wife, Abraham, Henry [8^th generation], Daniel, John and Joseph Smith and Robert McDowel as his charges from Ireland to Philadelphia and from thence into this colony and that this is the first time of his proving his and their rights in order to obtain land." [Orange County, Virginia Order Book II, Circuit Court of Orange County, Orange, Virginia, 1740 page 205] (Abraham Smith is usually listed as the oldest son of John and Margaret. According to the Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1752-1755, 1756-1758, John Smith's oldest son was killed at Ft. Vause in 1756. [see notes in the entry for 1756/58] Guy Smith notes that the sons who were killed were Lt. John Smith, Joseph Smith, and most likely a Patrick Smith.)

From a petition by William Beverley to the government of Virginia it appears that the area of the Calf pasture River was already named and the rudiments of settlement present by 1726. However, according to Wilson’s “Tinkling Springs: Headwaters of Freedom”, in 1738 only eleven heads of household had obtained their titles to the land from Beverley. However, the year 1740 saw a rush of heads of household to register their importation into the colony for the purpose of gaining headrights to their property. Therefore, even the phrase immediately imported into this colony may be misleading when it comes to the date that a certain emigrant actually arrived in Virginia. Still, not every head of household obtained title to his land as witness the fact that in 1744, of the 77 heads of household who were subscribed members of the Tinkling Springs congregation (Presbyterian), only 47 of them held title to their land. This means there must have been a substantial class of tenant farmers, indentured servants, merchants and the like. (From John Man – Pioneer & Progenitor by an unknown author online at:

            http://www.angelfire.com/pe/shirleyspage/mann.html )

During his time in Virginia, John Smith [9^th generation] served in the military, farmed, was a businessman, and was active in the community, and the Episcopal Church of Augusta Parish. (CF)

John Smith was probably a land agent:

From JOHN MANN, Pioneer and Progenitor: The Council, meeting in Williamsburg, entered in its minutes: “November 3, 1740. Upon consideration of the petition of John Smith, Zachary Lewis, William Waller, Robert Green and Benjamin Waller, Leave is granted to them to Enter for and Survey One Hundred thousand acres of land in that part of Orange County which will be in the County of Augusta when that County shall take place on the River and Branches of Roanoke and the Branches of James River.”

 No further mention of this grant is found in the minutes of the council and no record is made in the county surveyor’s books or in the land office, except that it is stated in each survey made for these men that the tract surveyed is a part of the 100,000 acres allowed to them. Small tracts were entered and surveyed for individuals or for the company at desirable locations selected and the sum of the acreage taken to make up the whole.

From the beginning John Smith was the agent in the field to show purchasers over the land and have their surveys made. This order of council was renewed in May 1745 to John Smith and others for 50,000 acres and again renewed in 1750, this time to Zachary Lewis for 50,000. By purchasing the parts of all the partners, except Smith and Lewis, Colonel James Patton got the whole grant in his hands and became the director for the affairs of the company. In 1761 Lewis released to William Thompson and John Buchanan, executors of James Patton, all his right in the grant. According to the agreement patents for tracts of land were to come out in Colonel Patton’s name and he was to give deeds to the people who bought the land on the payment of their respective sums with the interest due. Buyers thus avoided the trouble of entering and surveying the land and the payment of the surveyor’s and quit-rent fees. Money received from the sale of the lands was to be divided into six shares, after expenses, and 10% commission for Colonel Patton had been deducted. The company finally played out and we do not know how much land to charge to its account.

The exact procedure used by these men in handling this land is not made clear by any records we have found. John Smith was the only one of the group who was actively interested in the settlement. Presumably he was in the territory from the time the grant was made. Where he first lived cannot be ascertained. He owned land at the Great Lick on Roanoke and at Looney’s Ferry where in 1755 he was found building a fort around the house. Later in the same year, Governor Dinwiddie referred to him as an experienced woodsman whose judgement could be followed in planning against the Indians. In the summer of 1756 after his return from the Shawnee expedition, he and his sons helped to defend Fort Vause.

There was another patent to Robert Green which supported an advanced settlement on the southernmost branch of the south branch of the Potomac. The settlers were John Patton, Senior and Junior, Roger Dyer, William Dyer, William Stephenson, Matthew Patton and John Smith. (According to the article, the above information comes from Kegley’s “Virginia Frontiers” http://www.angelfire.com/pe/shirleyspage/mann.html)

1741    Tinkling Springs Church was established.

David Smith baptized in Tinkling Spring Church 19 July 1741.

[Colonel John Smith (1701-1783) Unsung Hero of Virginia colonial Frontier by Gordon Aronhime as published in Augusta Historical Bulletin published by Augusta County, [Virginia] Historical Society Volume 14, Spring 1978 Number 1, page 5]

1742    John Smith [9th generation] qualified as Captain of the Virginia Militia at Orange Court, 24 Jun 1742. [Served 1742-1760 -Virkis]

1744     Jonathan Smith baptized in Tinkling Spring Church 22 Jul 1744.

[Colonel John Smith (1701-1783) Unsung Hero of Virginia colonial Frontier by Gordon Aronhime as published in Augusta Historical Bulletin published by Augusta County, [Virginia] Historical Society Volume 14, Spring 1978 Number 1, page 5]

1745     Louisa or Lovisa baptized in Tinkling Spring Church 6 Oct 1745…the wife of Rees Bowen, later killed at King's Mountain Battle. [Her name is variously written as: Margaret Louisa, Louisa, Louvisa, Lovisa, Levisa and possibly other variations.]

[Colonel John Smith (1701-1783) Unsung Hero of Virginia colonial Frontier by Gordon Aronhime as published in Augusta Historical Bulletin published by Augusta County, [Virginia] Historical Society Volume 14, Spring 1978 Number 1, page 5—the footnote states: "See note 2, supra; Howard M. Wilson, the Tinkling Spring, McClure, Virginia, 1954, p. 481, Draper Mss. 1 QQ 83]

There have been applications made to have Louvisa certified for Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation as at least half-blood Cherokee Indian, affidavit sent by Rufus M. Ward's affidavit sent from the State of Virginia, County of Tazewell, 24 August 1896 written by Charles B. Ward. The applications have been denied each time.

[Sandra's research notes, trying to prove the facts one way or the other:

A. Both John Smith and Margaret imported from Ireland, proven in 1740, so Lovisa could not have been a Cherokee as their child:

[John Smith made oath that he imported himself, Margaret his wife…from Ireland to Philadelphia & from thence into this Colony…(Orange County, Virginia Order Book II, Circuit Court of Orange County, Orange, Virginia, 1740 p. 205)

B. Louisa is listed in John Smith's 1753 will inheriting a tract of land, so she was in the family at that time and accepted as a full daughter:

"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN—I John Smith of Augusta County and Colony of Virginia… do make this my Last will and testament… first of all I Leave to Margaret my well beloved wife all my Stock of Horses and Cattle Household Goods and all my Movables Whatsoever She shall also make Choice of any one Tract of Land that I have which She is to hold During her Life and at her Death the sd. Land to fall to my daughter Louisa…

There are at least two possible scenarios for Louvisa/Margaret Louisa to be Cherokee: 

(1)  She could have been adopted. 

Sandra's note: If my memory serves me correctly in the Abercrombie Extracts, John Smith was familiar with some Native American languages, so it is possible, but I'm not sure it is probable.

(2)  She was illegitimate.  But, I don't think she would have been listed in Col. John Smith's will. And I don't think that she would have been baptized and on the records.

Hopefully one day the descendants of Louisa/Louvisa Smith Bowen will find the documentation they need to prove Louvisa's heritage.

             Gordon Aronhime states that another son, James was born after the Smiths moved to what is now Botetourt County, Virginia, but doesn't state the year. [Col. John Smith -Unsung Hero by Aronhime]

Augusta County organized in 1745. Prior to that date, all legal matters were handled at the Orange County Court. (1726 to 1745).

In the year 1745, all that portion of the Colony of Virginia which lay west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was erected into a County which was named Augusta. In December of that year, the County Court was organized and held its first sitting. Prior to that time it had become the refuge and abiding place of a strong body of Scotch-Irish immigrants. The bounds of the new County were limited on the north by Fairfax's Northern Neck Grant and the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania to the westward of Fairfax; on the east by the Blue Ridge mountains; on the south by the Caroline line. On the west its territory embraced all the soil held by the British without limit of extent. For about twelve years the County Court of Augusta was the only Court and repository of records within that district. From the end of that period, at frequent intervals, its jurisdiction was restricted by the erection of other Counties as the demands of the settlers required. Its original constitution embraced all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge (with the exception of the Northern Neck Grant, whose southern boundary was in the present County of Shenandoah, and western, through the Counties of Hardy, Hampshire, and northward to the Potomac); the whole of the present state of West Virginia; a portion of the present Western Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, which was, at times, the seat of the County Court; and the lands on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. [The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: 1745 to 1800 by Lyman Chalkley – Foreword—see Rootsweb copyright notice on their website] http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/

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1746/47 John Smith to help lay off road from Co. Ho. To top Blue Ridge, near Rockfish Gap, and from thence to Falls of James River and Fredericksburg. On March 19, 1746/47. Augusta County, Va. Court records Order book ___. {#175} (Chalkley p.27)

1747     Henry Smith [8th generation] (Son of John & Margaret Smith) marries Amy ______. [in Orange County, Virginia?]

On the fly lead of the Augusta County Court records Order book no III is the following: "Memorandum.—That Saturday, the 6^th of February, 1747/8, was the coldest day yet known in America." (Chalkley)

Captain Smith was one of the first Vestry members for the parish of Augusta; their first Meeting was held April 5, 1747, at which date John Smith, John Buchanan, James Patton, John Madison and other, took the oath appointed by act of Parliament as such. His name appears as being present at all meetings from 1747 to [except for] Nov. 23, 1756; at this meeting John Matthews, Jr., was chosen Vestryman in place of Captain John Smith, who had been captured at Fort Vause. Col. (Formerly Captain) John Smith having returned to Virginia, was chosen Vestryman, which position he held until May 25, 1760. [Note: The previous statement is a bit confusing. In the original records, John Smith is not present at the 23 Nov 1756 meeting having been removed, but was later chosen as a Vestryman.]. (Gleanings of Virginia History –Compiled & published by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc Baltimore, 1976, p. 332)

John Smith to lay off road which was ordered from Fork of the New Road, near Jumping Run, or Colletts, to the Co. Ho. On May 21, 1747. Augusta County Court records Order book III. {#199 } (Chalkley p. 26)

James Hogshead. 400 acs. Augusta Cou. on a br of Catheys Riv. called Moffet Br. on a Ridg; 25 Jun 1747, p. 630. For the Imp. of 8 pers: John Smith & Margaret his wife, Abraham Smith, Henry Smith, Daniel Smith, John Smith junr., Joseph Smith, & Robert McDowell. [Augusta County, Virginia Patent Book 25 as transcribed in Cavaliers and Pioneers (unknown author and publisher) p. 232.]

Guy Smith notes: The land acquisition was recorded in 1747 based upon our Col. John Smith's Oath of 1740.

1748     John Smith (son of Henry & Amy Smith) was born August 1748, in Botetourt County, Virginia. He married Sarah Guyton (the aunt of Hannah Parker Smith & sister of Elizabeth Guyton Parker), and died on 31 Dec 1834 at Smith's Ford, York County, South Carolina

John Harrington born 1748 Halifax Co to Chas Harrington and Agnes Hill [v2, p12 SCMAR]

2 October 1748: Henery Smith, a child baptized named Abraham

List of Baptisms 1740 - 1749 by Rev. John Craig, First Pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia". [Note from Wallace Smith—"I believe he was also the first pastor of the Tinkling Springs Church"]

1749    John Smith to help value William Park's acres on August 24, 1749. Augusta County, Virginia, Court records Order book__. {#264 } (Chalkley p. 29)

27 April 1749: Henery Smith, a child baptized named John

List of Baptisms 1740 - 1749 by Rev. John Craig, First Pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia". [Note from Wallace Smith—"I believe he was also the first pastor of the Tinkling Springs Church"]

1750     Brownlee vs. Smith—Bond of [Captain] John Smith, of Orange County, Virginia, to Alexander Brownlee, of Donigall, in the County of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, dated 9^th Jun, 1739. Conditioned that Smith shall make a title to Brownlee for 400 acres lying at the head of the great Poplar Bottom, on the North River, at the lower end of the Great Stony Lick, before 1^st July, 1740. Suit brought 25^th February, 1746, by Alexander Brownlee, of Donigall, &c. (Chalkley)

1751     Henry Smith & Daniel Smith and others, ordered to keep road from John Davis's mill to Wood's New Cleared Gap in repair on May 29, 1751. Augusta County Court records Order book No. II {#574} (Chalkley)

1752     John Lynn, an orphan boy complains that R. Edge had brought him from the lower parts of this Colony and indentured him to John Ramsey, and he to Henry Smith, and he to Silas Hart. Indenture declared void and Wardens ordered to bind him out. {#312} (Chalkley p. 58)

1753     John Smith fails to show for Jury duty and is fined –March 1753 Augusta County Court records Order book III. {#420 } (Chalkley p. 58) {note: there are quite a few entries where people failed to show up for jury duty.}

             John Smith [Jr. or Sr.?] worked on road from North Fork of James River, near John Mathew's, to Renix's Road on Nov 23, 1753. Augusta County Court records Order book IV. {#75} (Chalkley p. 61)

1754     The military record of Capt. John Smith is well known, he having received from his colony, grants of land for his service as early as 1754. (Gleanings of Virginia History –Compiled & published by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc Baltimore, 1976, p. 332)

Abraham Smith qualified Captain of Foot on August 22, 1754. {#269} (Chalkley)

             John Smith Jr. & Joseph Smith worked on road March 23, 1754. Augusta County Court records Order book IV. {#126 } (Chalkley p. 62)

             On motion of Cap. Andrew Lewis…John Smith, listed for his Majesty's service, takes Oath on March 23, 1754. Augusta County Court records Order book IV. {#129 } (Chalkley p. 62)

1754-1763: French and Indian War. According to the World Book Encyclopedia, that war was the last and most important conflict over French and British possessions in North America. John Smith fought under George Washington in an unsuccessful attempt to force the French to leave their chain of forts along the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania in 1754. The French forces defeated them at Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg, Pennsylvania). That campaign was the first battle of the French and Indian War. [Jean Carr & World Book Encyclopedia]

1755     John Smith was Captain of Rangers. His company was at Fort Vause at the head of the Roanoke River (Shawsville) in the present county of Montgomery, about ten miles from Christiansburg, Virginia. He served until 1763. (Sandra's note: This differs from the Abercrombie report which calls him Major.) (CF)

1756     John Smith was appointed Vice Vestryman for the Episcopal Church of Augusta Parish, Orange County, Virginia. (CF)

             Mr. Waddell, in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, says:

"Captain John Smith commanded a company in the disastrous Sandy Creek expedition, sent out on Feb. 18, 1756, and it would seem that after his return he was stationed at Fort Vause; also, that while Captain Smith was detained a s a prisoner and absent two years, his pay during that time, and also that of his son, Lieut. John Smith, Jr., up to the time he was killed at Fort Vause, on June 25, 1756, was provided for by an Act of Assembly, passed by the House of Burgesses.—Hening's Virginia Statutes."

Abraham Smith made claim for ranging and provisions for his company on April 29, 1756.

May 18, 1756: Formal declaration of war by England.

June 9, 1756: Formal declaration of War by France.

Major John Smith fought at Fort Vause, Virginia, which fell to French and Indian troops under the command of Monsieur Belester, commander of the Miamee Fort (Fort Miamee is near Toledo, Ohio). Major John Smith was captured by the French and held for two years. (CF)

Note from Guy Smith [historian of the Colonel John Smith Society]: The original document of the Abercrombie extract #16 will provide…illuminating historical facts…concerning Col. John Smith's Fort Vause Adventure. The original document…can be found in the Public records office in London, England…The reference number is PRO 30/8/95. [Sandra's note: Apparently, Major John Smith wrote a journal during the time he was captured and transported. He described the Forts and the French forces and numbers of guns each fort held. He also took note of each Native American tribe, their size and feelings towards the British and Americans. Major John Smith gave this information to the British to help with the war efforts. Mr. Abercrombie’s letter of Nov. 16^th, 1757 to Mr. Wood contains extracts from Major (John) Smith's journal, 1756/7.]

Guy Smith notes: Before one examines Abercrombie's extract #16, I've decided to highlight one historical fact at this time because there has been some confusion as to the route and final destination in 'New France' that Major John et. al. had been taken while prisoners of the French. Abercrombie's extract #16 summarizes the observations and recommendations from Major John Smith's personal diary, emanating from his prison or War march from his capture at Fort Vause, Virginia to each of the 10 listed forts and the various "…Indian Nations where Major Smith passed through and resided during his captivity, all which nations are over awed by the French." [Abercrombie Extract #16 p. 2]

Capt. John Smith, with seventeen men, held a fort, called Fort Vause—variously written Vass, Voss, and Vaus—which was located on the head-waters of the Roanoke River, about ten miles from where Christiansburg now stands. This fort was invested by three hundred French and Indians, and, after a brave resistance for three days, the garrison agreed to surrender the fort, upon a stipulation allowing them to return to their homes. Astonished and mortified at finding so few men in the fort, the enemy disregarded the terms of surrender and held the survivors—now only nine or ten in number—as prisoners. Two of Capt. Smith's sons were with him: John, who was wounded during the siege, and killed by an Indian after the surrender. The prisoners were taken down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and on the way down the other young Smith (Joseph), who had survived the disaster at the fort, died. Only five of the prisoners lived to reach New Orleans.

Captain Smith and two others were then sent to France, and he alone returned to America, after an absence of two years. "When the treaty was signed at the fort, Captain Smith was so cautious as to secure the paper by ripping open the lining of his coat and sewing it between, which defeated the most diligent search for it. On arriving at Paris, Captain Smith produced the agreement, and, upon exhibiting it to the proper authorities, was promptly released, and with his two companions was sent to London, where he received quite an ovation, a street being named in his honor. He there told of the immense territory of the Southwestern country…

"After his return to this country, probably in impaired health, he seems to have taken no active part in Military affairs. He survived until the Revolutionary War began, and this, his military spirit having revived, he applied for a Commission and was refused on account of his advanced age, then 78 years, which greatly offended him. He died shortly after this at Smithlands, the residence of his son Daniel, two miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia."

"His sons, Abraham, Henry, and Daniel, were also prominent in the French and Indian Wars; his son-in-law, Hugh Reece Bowen, was killed at the battle of Kings Mountain, near the close of the fight, as a Lieut. of Campbell's Regiment of Riflemen, Virginia Militia, on Oct. 7, 1780, and left many highly respectable descendants in southwestern Virginia, namely Tazewell, Wythe, and Montgomery Counties." (Gleanings of Virginia History – An historical and genealogical collection, largely from original sources. Compiled and published by William Fletcher Boogher, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc Baltimore, 1976, pages 330-332)

"The Attack on Vause's Fort" June 25, 1756 Upper Roanoke Valley, VA

"According to Preston's Register, those killed, wounded or taken prisoners at Vause's Fort were:

Capt. John Smith, prisoner, returned; Peter Looney, prisoner, escaped; William Bratton, prisoner, returned; Joseph Smith, prisoner; William Pepper, prisoner; Mrs. Vause, her two daughters, a negro, two young Indians and a man-servant, prisoners; James Bell, prisoner; Christopher Hicks, prisoner; Benjamin Davis, prisoner; Lieut. John Smith, killed; John Tracy, killed; John English, killed; Mrs. Mary English, prisoner; William Robinson, wounded; Thomas Robinson, wounded; John Robinson, killed; John Walker, prisoner; ___ Cole, prisoner; ___ Graham, prisoner; "Thomas Callaway came from Hickey's Fort and found the mangled bodies lying in heaps. All of Vause's family, he thought, killed, except a daughter Levice, and two sons who had gone to mill that day. He followed the Indians over the mountains and down the Leevice Fork of Kentucky, crossing the Ohio River at Leevice Ford near Cincinnati...." pg. 232

Another history states:

"…Major John Smith, Commander of a Company of Rangers on the Frontiers of Virginia, was prisoner for eleven months, taken with his party of ten men in a blockhouse towards the head of James River on the 25^th of June 1756 by Monsieur Belester Commander of Miamee Fort (about 500 miles from the head of James River) at the head of 205 Indians and 25 French Canadians of which party Major Smith killed 40 (and ) obliged Captain Belester to return without penetrating [Warwick] within 60 miles from Williamsburg where he intended. According to the information of his [Shawnee] Indians, his spies who passed through the settlements of Virginia some [months] before as Cherokees and our friends... [Abercrombie 'extract' #16 page 2 of John Smith's journal transcribed by Guy Smith]

"Putoataways [Guy Smith's note: probably Pottawatomie (Algonquian) tribe]. …of their towns, about 2000, inclined to come over to English for better trade…took Major Smith, into their counsel as a Sachem [a supreme or Political leader], went to their king, danced under the English colours, taken from Gen'l Bradock, and fired through the French colours, held council with Major Smith, agreed with him in a project formed by him for taking Fort Dequesne [Duquesne?] by their assistance with 1500 of their people. The intimacy [between] them and the Major being suspected, he was removed. He speaks the language." [Abercrombie 'extract' #16 page 3 of John Smith's journal transcribed by Guy Smith]

Monday April 3d 1758, a Memorial was read - "To the President, Council, and House of Burgesses and referred to Consideration of the House", stating that in June 1756, the said Smith then in Fort Vaufs [sic], in Augusta, was attacked by the enemy, his eldest son killed and he was captured. "He has lost three sons and a great part of his Fortune in the service of his country." [Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1752-1755, 1756-1758]. (Sandra Smith Gwilliam's note: Most family records of the John Smith family list Abraham Smith as the oldest son of John Smith, making one of these two assumptions correct: (1) The memorial of 1758 is incorrect about the oldest son dying or (2) Abraham was not the oldest son, making either John or Joseph the eldest son.")

Note from Guy Smith: The three sons John lost in the war: Lt. John Smith, Joseph Smith, and most likely a Patrick Smith. The State historical Library in Wisconsin has Preston Papers which summarized from 1754 to end of war the people killed Feb 1756 Chalkley Vol 2—March 1756 Robert Looney was killed (he was a neighbor of the Smith family),.. Patrick Smith was killed. He was probably born in the colonies because he was not listed in the importation papers.

John Smith Jr. [son of Captain John & Margaret Smith b.1730], was killed at Fort Vause, June 25, 1756. John Smith's will P. 155 Wills--22 January, 1756. …to John Smith, son of brother Daniel Smith, the plantation on North River, Shanedoe, [Shenandoah ?] which testator bought of Silas Hart; to brother Daniel; to brother Abraham Smith; to brother Henry Smith. Executor, brother Daniel Smith. Proved, 18th August, 1756. (Augusta County Court Records, Order Book, V, 371, June 17, 1757; Will Book, No. 2, p. 155)

Some sources list a son of Captain John Smith, named Joseph, b.1734 in Chester Co. Pennsylvania., taken prisoner at Ft. Vause along with his father, but that account of where he was born may or may not be accurate because John is listed in the importation papers of John & Margaret Smith, so he may have been born in Ireland. [More information is found in Smith Cousins Four compiled by Zula Wood Atwood, Frank L. Eddens, Jr, Mildred Smith Shumaker, & Guy R. Smith hereafter referred to as (CF)]

Abraham Smith, eldest child of Capt. John and Margaret Smith, was Capt. during the French and Indian Wars from Sept. 11, 1756, to April 19, 1760. [Boogher, Gleanings of Virginia History p. 333.]

23rd Nov. 1756, During a Vestry held for Augusta Parish, Virginia, John Mathers Jr. was elected a Vestry man in the Room (removal?) of John Smith. (Augusta County Virginia Vestry Book—page number unreadable)

[Maj. John Smith was a prisoner-of-war at this time. He had been captured by the French at Ft. Vause. See above entries for 1756 and note below:]

[From: Augusta Parish, Virginia 1738-1780 By Beverley Ruffin, McClure Press, Verona, Virginia

Three Smiths served on the Colonial Vestry. Col. John Smith, elected to the Vestry in 1758, was an Englishman and “an ardent” Church of England member. He was prominent in both the upper and the lower section of Augusta County. Daniel Smith, a son of the Colonel’s, was chosen vestryman in 1771. John Smith, Jr., was killed in 1756 in defending Fort Vause (Shawsville). His will (found in Augusta County Court Records, Order Book, V, 371, June 17, 1757; Will Book, No. 2, p. 155.), recorded in court on June 17, 1759, shows by internal evidence that he was the son of Col. John Smith. In the Vestry book of the Parish, under the date November 23, 1756, it was recorded that “Major” John Smith, one of the original twelve vestrymen, deceased, had been replaced by John Mathews, Jr. A check on all the John Smiths listed in Chalkley, vols. I-III, account for no other by that name in Augusta Parish, with the exception of Col. John Smith, who would have been eligible for election to the Vestry. One John Smith was a horse thief, another got into trouble for helping a prisoner to escape Jail. The obvious conclusion that John Smith, vestry-man, deceased in 1756, was the John Smith killed by the Indians in 1756, and therefore the son of Col. John Smith and a brother of Daniel Smith. [Captain John Smith was promoted to Colonel John Smith on November 17, 1758 (#223). CF & Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia by Lyman Chalkley -extracts of original court records of Augusta County, Virginia 1745-1800 vol 1]

Of the twelve vestrymen elected in 1746, John Madison and John Smith are known to be Anglicans…as a qualification as vestrymen, they not only had to take the oath of allegiance required of all public officials, swearing allegiance to the Hanoverian king, abjuring the Pope and certain Roman Catholic doctrines, but in addition they had to take an oath “to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England.” This they did, and thus qualified as vestrymen...the Augusta Parish vestrymen were “Politically Episcopalians and doctrinally Presbyterian. [John Lewis Peyton, History of Augusta County, Virginia (2^nd ed.; Bridgewater, Virginia; 1953), p. 97].

1758     Captain John Smith was promoted to Colonel John Smith on November 17, 1758 (#223). (CF & Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia by Lyman Chalkley [extracts of original court records of Augusta County, Virginia 1745-1800 vol 1-hereafter referred to as Chalkley.)

             Abraham Smith qualified as Captain of Militia November 18, 1758 {#233} (Chalkley)

Colonel John Smith was appointed Vestryman for the Episcopal Church of Augusta Parish and served until 1769. (CF)

At a Vestry held for Augusta Parish, (Virginia) the 20^th day of November 1758

            Present            Sampson Archer Churchwarden

                                    John Buchanan           John Madison

                                    John Christian             John Archer

                                    John Buchanan           Robt. Breckinridge

Mr. Sampson Archer made oath before this Vestry that Thomas Gordon a member of the same told him that the said Gordon could not sit or act any longer as Vestryman in sd Parish and desired that his resignation might be entered herein upon which the Vestry Unanimously made Choice of Col. John Smith to Serve in his Room. The Vestry is adjourned till Tomorrow Morning at 8 O-Clock.

(Augusta County Virginia Vestry Book page 233)

1759     Colonel John Smith qualified as County Coroner. (CF)

`           Henry Smith Jr. [son of Henry and Amy Smith] is born in Rockingham County, Virginia 18 Aug 1759. (statement Henry made in the Revolutionary War Pension records of Franklin County, Georgia. He also stated there was a family Bible with his birth date in it.)

1761     David Smith (son of Henry & Amy) is born in Augusta, Virginia about 1761.

1763     10th September 1763. John Mann and Damis to Thomas Meek, 73 pounds 15 shillings for the 254 acres conveyed by Beverley to Moses Mann, 4th February 1748 and descended to John as eldest brother and heir-at-law of Moses (this would have been in 1756); corner William McCutcheon’s land, Grassy Lick Run. Teste: Hugh Johnston, Robert Reed, William Mann, John Smith, James Graham. Delivered: Thomas Meek, March 1773.

1764     Silas Hart, gent. And Jane to John Smith, Jr. 230 acres, part of 400 acres patented to Jno. McClure, 15^th December 1749, and conveyed by McClure to Hart, on South Fork of North River of Shanandoe. Test: Jno. Malkern, Alexander Herring, Robert Gragg. Recorded on motion of Daniel Smith on behalf of John. Delivered: Henry Smith, 28^th July 1764

More land transactions of Henry Smith—(there are many more): [various dates]

1 Jun 1756: Silas Hart, gent., and Jane to Henry Smith L50, 170 acres on South Fork of North River Shannando, part of 400 acres above acres on Howell Branch patented to Henry, 3^rd November 1750, cor. Abraham Smith. Teste: Sampson Archer, Daniel Callachan. 13 September 1763.

James Humpheries, of Rowan County, North Carolina, to Henry Smith, ₤30, 400 acres on Free Mason=s Branch of North River Shanando, David Davis= line, pine on top Castle Hill, patented to James Humpheries, 25^th June 1747, and sold by James to Henry Smith, 1763. (Editor=s note: He more than doubled his money in two months.)

27 September 1764: Henry Smith, farmer, and Amelia, to Adam Stephen, of Frederick County, ₤136, 170 acres conveyed to Henry by Silas Hart, 1^st June 1756, on south Fork of North River of Shanandoe. Delivered: Robert Stephen, 29^th September 1767. Teste: William Teas and William Stuart.

27 September 1764: Same to same, L 100.10, 400 acres by patent, 27st June 1764, to Henry Smith on North River of Shanandoe, Hickory in the Barrens.

1765     Henry [son of John and Margaret] and Amy Smith move to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. [Later, (by 1785), it became York County, South Carolina—see maps of South Carolina County line changes on the usgenweb.com site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3837/sc_countyhistories.html#royal ]

1767     File number 1602 (881); Grant Number 120; Book 18, page 366, (17,400). Plat: Suarveyed for Henry Smith 150 acres on East side Broad River by the Island, Gayan Moore's corner…Howard's branch…23 August 1765 William Dickson, Surveyors: William McMullion, William Crow, Chain bearers, Issued 25 Apr 1787.

1769     "Ninety-Six" District of South Carolina was created in 1769 and was abolished in 1798.

1772     Colonel John Smith took oath to become a Deputy Sheriff. (CF)

1774     Some histories have Margaret _______ Smith, wife of Colonel John Smith dying this year in Rockingham or Orange County, Virginia, but there is no research proving her death date or indicating that John Smith had another wife later in life, so Margaret must have outlived John. An unnamed wife is listed in his 1779 will. [Taken from Guy Smith’s research and comments]

Augusta, Virginia, 1774 Taxes Levies: [760] William Frame Sr. listed as supernumerary (i.e. extra, over and above) tax levies collected by John Smith in 1774. http://www.phillipsplace.net/genealogy/ps01/ps01_216.html

1775     Colonel John Smith lived until the Revolutionary War began. He was greatly distressed when he was refused because of his advanced age -- about 78 years old. [information from Elizabeth Burns who quoted from Gleanings of Virginia History, William Fletcher Boogher, 1903 page 332.  It was a quote taken by accounts given by a Mr. Waddell and Benjamin H. Smith, Editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. A genealogy of the Smith family begins on page 330 and continues to page 372.] & CF]

The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired in Lexington, Massachusetts.

"At midnight on the 19th of April the British column, consisting of 650-900 troops left Boston, crossed the Charles River, followed closely by the alarm rider, Paul Revere. As the British marched towards Concord, the entire countryside had been alerted to their presence, and rebel militia was deployed to meet them.

Until this time there was no armed resistance to the British that had resulted in loss of British life. Several Months earlier, Gage had attempted to destroy military arms at Salem and met with resistance but no shots were fired, and the British retreated without completing their objective. Lexington Militia Captain John Parker had heard of the events at Salem, and collected his men on Lexington Green to face the British column.

At dawn Smith's advanced parties under the command of Major Pitcairn, arrived at Lexington Green to see a group of armed Militia in formation across the Green. Pitcairn ordered the militia, led by John Parker, to be surrounded and disarmed. In response Parker ordered his men to disperse. Then a shot rang out. No one really knows who fired first, but the British, hearing the shot, fired upon the small group of militia, killing 8, and wounding 10 more. The militia then retreated into the woods to avoid the British fire..

Information from: <a href="http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Lexcon/">http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Lexcon/</a>

1776     Henry Smith Jr. [Henry (2), John (1)] was drafted into the Revolutionary War in the Autumn of 1776, where he spent one year and seven months as a private horseman finding his own horse and receiving no pay and no written discharge. [Statements of Henry Smith Jr. as found in the Revolutionary War Pension records for Franklin County, Georgia 7 Jun 1832.]

1778     Abraham Smith [son of John & Margaret Smith] chosen as one of the 1st Justices for Rockingham Co., Virginia, and County Lieutenant. He and his wife, Sarah Caldwell and children, John (b. 1755) and Henry (b. 1758) lived on their estate named "Egypt", located near North Mountain. [Boogher, Gleanings of Virginia History p. 333.]

1779     Lt. Daniel Smith [son of Henry and Amy Smith], a First Lieutenant of a Company under Captain Barnet from York, South Carolina, died August 1779 from wounds he received in the Battle of Stono, South Carolina, which was fought 20 June 1779. Daniel Smith was nursed by his brother Henry Smith Jr. in the Old Barracks Hospital [the deposition doesn't tell which state, but it was South Carolina]. [Statements of Henry Smith Jr. as found in the Revolutionary War Pension records for Franklin County, Georgia.]

Colonel John Smith dies at Smithlands, in the residence of his son Daniel, two miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia (according to some histories, though Guy Smith says that he can find no proof of those statements) . His burial plot is probably under Silver Lake Pond, Dayton, Virginia.

"Capt. John Smith the immigrant, died at Smithland, the home of his son Daniel, shortly after the beginning of the Revolution." Page 141: Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: A contribution to The History and Genealogy of Colonial Families of Rockingham County, Virginia by J. Houston Harrison, C. J. Carrier Company Harrison burg, Virginia 1975

[John Smith’s first will is dated 1753. There was another will dated August 26, 1779 which only named his youngest son—the 1753 will names Margaret and the sons who were in the importation records, proving this is our John Smith in the will below:]

1753 Will of John Smith:

"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I John Smith of Augusta County and Colony of Virginia being very Sick in Body but in my perfect Sences do make this my Last will and testament first of all I Leave to Margaret my well beloved wife all my Stock of Horses and Cattle Household Goods and all my Movables Whatsoever She shall also make Choice of any one Tract of Land that I have which She is to hold During her Life and at her Death the sd. Land to fall to my daughter Louisa I also Constitute and appoint Daniel Harrison Silas Hart and my son Abraham Smith to be my Executors and it is my will that they Shall Sell all or so much of my Land Excepting the above Tracts as will Pay all of my Debts and funeral Charges and what Ever of my Land Remains un sold to pay of my Debts to be Divided Equally between my sons William Joseph David Jonathan and James Jordan my Executors to Pay five Shillings Each to my Sons Abraham Henry Daniel and John & I Do hereby Revoke make null and void all other wills made by me before this Date and hereby Pronounce and Publickly Declare this to be my Last Will and Testament in Witness whereof I have Hereunto Set my hand an Seal this Seventh Day of May on Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty Three— "In Presents of James Patton, Robt. Renick, Humphrey Madison "Jno. Smith (seal) (See original wills, Box 3, Staunton, Virginia) [Some creditors tried to prove this will when John Smith was a prisoner during the French and Indian Wars, but his sons stopped the proceedings stating that they did not believe he was dead. Guy Smith, historian for the Col. John Smith Society has not been able to find the James Jordan Smith in other records.]

1779 Will of John Smith: August the 26th 1779
In the name of God, Amen I John Smith of Botetourt, County, and Colony of Virginia, being sound of mind and Memory, but calling to mind the Mortality of my Body knowing it is Appointed for all men once to Die, and as it has pleased God to Blefs [bless] me with some small property of this life, it is my will that the same may be distributed in the following manner:   First I commend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be buried in decent manner at the will of my Executor, hereafter mentioned—
Item it is my will that my just debts & funeral charges be paid out of my estate Imprimis* and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife all my moveable estate and during her natural life and at her death to devolve to my son James Smith.

Item:   I bequeath to my son James Smith my part of a warrant for officer’s Claim-- Now in the hands of Col Preston, which is one thousand acres.   Also one Part of land in Craig's Creek containing about one hundred and eighty acres and one entry of land on Glade Creek.   The above lands to be at his disposal to sell and dispose of as he thinks proper.   I do hereby appoint my trusty and well-beloved friend George Skillern executor of this my will and testament requesting that he may act thereon and for the same punctually perform and I hereby revoke and make void all other wills and testaments by me made and do publish, pronounce and Declare this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & seal the day and year above written. Jno Smith [scrawled seal]

Published pronounced and declared by the said John Smith to be his Last will and Testament in presence of us X George Hutchison, Joseph Dickson,  William Watson,     Col John Smith’s Will

March Botetourt Court 1783.
This Instrument of writing was presented in Court as and for the Last will & Testament of Col John Smith deceased & proved by the Oath of George Hutchison one of the Witnesses
And at another court held for said county the 8th day of May 1783 the same was proved
by the Oath of William Watson another Witness & ordered to be recorded.           Teste D. M___ BC

* Imprimis: In the first place or in Primis—among the first or Chiefly.

Note from Guy Smith about why Col. John Smith did not name his other sons in his last will (1779): “As it was a practice of gifting land to the children of the " landed gentry" of the time as a way of passing on ones' living estate to their children, I would suspect, James being the youngest of the nine known surviving children of Col. John and Margaret, probably just got his share of the family fortune."

Guy Smith’s note to Sandra Smith Gwilliam about the death of Margaret (Wife of John Smith): Gordon Aronhimes Article written for the Augusta County Historical Society and published in the Spring of 1978 rings a truer sound as to some of the questions you've asking.
On page 29 of the article he says "...Margaret survived her husband, but probably not for long, as she must have been very old at the time of his death in 1783."

1781     Henry Smith Sr. [8 th generation] served in the Revolutionary War during 1781 & 1782

Paid: Indent Book V No. 291 No. 58 July 27th 1785

Henry Smith for 116 days in Militia (50 as Private and 66 as Segt) in 1781 and 1782.

Amount L 11: 3: 6 ¾ Eleven pounds three shillings & six pence 3.4 farthing of sterling.

Ex. J. McAll A. G. ?

South Carolina Archives (Records from Guy Raymond Smith)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA   TO Henry Smith Dr. [debtor]

1781.     24 Days as Horseman in Col. Taylors            )

                                                         Regt. on an Expedition at Congaree Fort       ) a 20/ L 24 --- [English Pounds]

[Congaree Fort is also known as Fort Granby]. There is a Congaree in Richland County, South Carolina and a Congaree (historical) in Lexington County, South Carolina. Fort Granby 5/3 - 14/1781 5/15/1781

Boatner , Mark M, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994.]

1782      26 days as Footman in Said [Regiment]         )

                                                         on an Expedition at Bigan Church                 ) a10/ ₤13

                                                         66 days as [Sergeant] of Foot in Said Regt    )

                                                         on 2nd expedition at Orangeburgh [S.C.]       ) a 12/6 ₤41 .. 5 ---

                                                         ____                                                                ____________________

                                                         116                                                                   78 .. 5

                            We Do Certify the above account to be just and true Wm Robertson, Captain Thos Taylor Colo.

              Henry & Amy Smith and their family took care of General Sumter and his troops after General Sumter was injured.

                          Henry Smith Sr. Proofs of Revolutionary War Service and helping General Sumter

Anderson District, South Carolina. Petitioner Jonathan Smith, [son of Henry Smith Sr.]

17th Nov. 1828

This is to certify that I have been intimately acquainted with the above Petitioner, Jonathan Smith for about Forty Six years…an honest man and a man of strait truth…I am under the impression that the statements made in his petition is the whole truth…he [Jonathan] was a good soldier in the war and that he went into it when a boy. I fought with his brother, Daniel in the Battle at Stono where he received his death wounds and I well remember that the said Jonathan Smith's father's house was considered as a home for the distressed Whigs during the struggle for independence.

Given under my hand this 17th Nov. 1828 Wm Millwee, J. P.

P/S Smith's Ford on Broad River derived its name from the old Mr. Smith [Henry Smith Sr.] alluded. [Jonathan, and Daniel were the sons of Henry Smith, Sr.]

Summary of Indent book Q #365:

To Henry Smith debtor: [List of expenses Henry Smith charged the Government for taking care of Sumter for at least 8 days.]  16 diets [meals] food for horses for 8 days, corn, rations for 3 men for 8 days, etc. Summary for the accounts for the supplies used by Sumter's group and paid by the government.

Order #008095 2/2

Issued to Henry Smith for Sundries supplied

No 364   Issued 13 May 1785 for 5 pounds 17__ [I don't know English currency]

For Sundry for Militia use w part of his account audited.  #13

Principal  Pounds 5.17.1   Annual interest Pounds 0.82

One of Jonathan's not vouched for properly and the one above that are some marks that look like addition of numbers & the words Henry Smith #286

Next page:

Certification that the accounts heretofore certified are just 27 Mar 1787;

Next account:

Jan 14, 1781

Received of Mr. Henry Smith

16 diets also 3 pecks of corn & 10 sheaves of oats for use of the horses of the third regiment of the Light Dragoons.       Thomas May

August 9 1781

Received from Hendry [sic] Smith three bushels of wheat, it being for the use of Gen Sumter 7th army ___ ___            Samuel Watson contractor

Another document notes:

Jonathan and Henry Smith [the sons] state "they saw the corn gave for the use of Washington's army also the above forage and rashins" [sic]

Indent book Q #365

1784     In August 1784, the State of Franklin, named for Benjamin Franklin, came into being when North Carolina ceded its western territory to the federal government. John Sevier was elected Governor. Greenville was the Capitol. It was started by a land donation from Robert Kerr. [Not sure if he ties into the Smith family Kerr line]. They established courts, militia and currency. The state applied to the Continental Congress for admission to the Union, but the petition failed by a single vote. By 1788, Franklin vanished. The land became North Carolina's. The area is now part of Tennessee.

1787     United States becomes a nation. [A few dates of admission to the United States of states where some ancestors lived are listed in this time line, plus a few historical facts..]

December 7; Delaware is the first state admitted to the Union
December 12; Pennsylvania is the 2nd state admitted to the Union
December 18; New Jersey is the 3rd state admitted to the Union

1788     April 28; Maryland is the 7th state admitted to the Union
May 23; South Carolina is the 8th state admitted to the Union
June 21; New Hampshire is the 9th state admitted to the Union and the US Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it
June 25; Virginia is the 10th state admitted to the Union

1789     George Washington inaugurated as first President of the United States of America. N.C. ratifies Federal Constitution and cedes its western lands for the second time.

             November 21; North Carolina is the 12th state admitted to the Union

1790     1790     David Smith & Barsheba Harringon [7th generation] marry, possibly in York County, South Carolina because they are found in the York County, South Carolina census in 1790.

First US Federal Census—the population is 3,929,214

 Federal Census of York County, Camden District, South Carolina.

#030 David Smith

      1 free white male over 16 years (David Smith)

      1 free white female (Bersheba Harrington)

1790 census, Union County in 96 District, South Carolina

Joseph Guiton:

2 free white males over 16 (Joseph Guyton, Abraham Guyton? [died before 1818)

1 male under 16 (Moses Guyton)

4 females (Probably: Hannah Whitaker Guyton, Hannah Guyton (later the wife of Alexander Martin], Sarah Guyton [later wife of John Smith the son of Henry & Amy] & Elizabeth Guyton [later the wife of Isaiah Parker & mother of Hannah Parker Smith])

1792     James Smith was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina to David & Barsheba Harrington Smith, 10 Sep 1792. He was reared and educated there. [According to C. B. Smith of Austin, Texas in The History and Geography of Texas.]

             Henry Smith [father of David Smith & grandfather of General James Smith], dies [born abt 1727 Ulster Ireland- died abt 1792, York County, South Carolina]. Amy and Henry may be buried behind the second Smith house in Smith's Ford, South Carolina. According to Guy Smith there are two graves in the back of the home.

Will of Henry Smith was written 11 July 1790. "I, Henry Smith of York County, State of South Carolina,…beloved wife do hold & possess all my Estate real & personal during her life or widowhood, and then…to my eldest son, Abraham…my second Volume of Pools Anotations* ..to son David, the plantation where on I live…in case he dieth without heir, to be sold & divided amoungst the rest of my Children, Male and Female. To my son John…fifty acres of land…son Henry, one hundred acres the which they are already possessed of...and my negroe fellow names Sam, together with one half of the fishery in his brother John's division ..son Jonathan…negro wench Rosee, reserving…forty pounds to be paid by him to his brother William in trade for her first child if she has any to my daughter, Sarah Ramsey…to my grandchild Henry Jolley ..a mare worth ten pounds together with two milch Cows to his mother to be paid by my Executors and the remainder of my estate to be divided equally amoungst my daughters, married & single,… wife, sons, John & William as executors. Signed Henry Smith [seal] Witness: Nathan Guyton, Nicholas Correy. York County, South Carolina Wills Vol. A-12 Page 65 Will No. 37. (FHL film: 229694)

*Note from Guy Smith: Pools Annotations was a law book and Abraham was a Probate Judge

John and Sarah Guyton are buried in the land that John inherited

Henry Jr married Sarah and he relocated to Georgia and his wife died and he married an Elizabeth Henning.? Joseph Jolley's wife is Elizabeth Smith Henry Jolley married a Cassandra buried in Old Hopewell Cemetery [Smith Cemetery] Buried there are a lot of relatives

Henry Smith's estate papers –"Abrm & John Smith's Admr. Bond 1792 Henry Smith Senr.decd." are found in York County, South Carolina Estate papers Case 63. File 2907

1793    John Harrington, (grandfather of General James Smith & father of Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk), dies. John's Last Will and Testament proved in open court by oath of Drury Harrington & Abraham Guiton [Guyton]. "Trusty and Well Beloved Wife, Fanny, all estate, real and personal…during her life and widowhood. If she marrieth or dieth before my children come of age… executors to keep estate together and make the best they can of it….to raise and educate the children till they all come of age and then (and not till then)…the estate to be equally divided amongst the children, make & female, in any matter that the major part of them shall agree upon. My beloved friends David Smith, my son in law & Nicholas Corry to be executors. Dated 12 Nov. 1792 Wit: Abraham Guiton [Guyton]. Joseph Morehead, Joseph Guyton, Drury Harrington.

Will - Summons to Young J Harrington, executor of the LW&T of David Smith, dec', who was the executor of the LW&T of John Harrington, dec'd. To show why a writ of petition should not issue to lay out to Jeptha Harrington, Hezekiah Harrington, Birt Harrington, Gabrial Martin and his wife Delila, Ezra Cates and Rhoda, his wife, Thos. Lusk and Barsheba his wife, heirs and legatees of John Harrington, late of said district, dec'd, their equal and distributive shares of a 600 acre tract situate on water of Gilkies and Abbentons Creek, adjoining land of _________ Morgan, Abram Guyton, Nicholas Corry, John Jefferies and others. 3 Oct 1814. ---- It was recommended that land be sold. Re-surveyed at 926 acres and valued at $1000. signed Corry, Jefferies, Jeptha Harrington, Moorehead, Drury Harrington. ( From S. Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Review) v4, p 27

June 1, 1793, Kentucky is the 15th state admitted to the Union.

Marriage - John Harrington's widow Frances married second, as his second wife Col. Robert Rutherford of Newberry Co. S.C. Col. Rutherfords' first wife is Dorthy Brooks, who was the mother of all his children. He moved from Virginia to Chatham Co., N.C. where he was justice of the county court and was a representative to the third provincial congress which met in Hillsborough N.C. in 1775 when he again was justice to the county court, elected to the house of representatives in the state legislature, sheriff of the 96th district and a large scale planter. v2, p45

1796     Tennessee becomes 16^th state with John Sevier as Governor.

            January 11. Tennessee officially became a state of the United States of America. A state convention met to draft a constitution at Knoxville, Tennessee. North Carolina had ceded the region to the federal government again on condition that all general provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 apply except that which forbade slavery.

1799     Hannah Parker [later the wife of James Smith, the son of David & Barsheba Smith] was born in either Spartanburg or Union District SC to Isaiah & Elizabeth Guyton Parker [exact date unknown but the 1860 census has her listed as 61, though the 1850 census lists her as 47.].

1800     Federal Census [Note from Sandra: Hannah Parker should be counted with Isaiah Parker in Union County, South Carolina if she was born before 1800, which I am sure she was. I believe the 1860 census gives her correct age as 61 which would put her born in 1799.]

Union District South Carolina Federal Census -1800 Isaiah PARKER family [Note from Sandra Gwilliam: when I hand copied it for my own records, I had the boys and girls opposite numbers than the census project online has them. I have listed: 3 males and 2 females under 10--I will have to double check the microfilms because I didn't photocopy or scan them.]

2 male 0-9 years old      born 1791-1800 [ If 3 boys: Aaron born abt 1794 & John born abt 1795 & Isaac G. Parker born abt. 1797 –Isaac's date according to the Rusk County 1850 census.]

3 female 0-9 years oldborn 1791-1800 [Hannah, Rachel & ?]

0 male 10-15 years old born 1785-1790

0 female 10–15 yrs old [ditto]

0 males 16-25 years oldborn 1784-1775

0 female 16–25 yrs old  [ditto]

1 males 26-44 [Isaiah Parker] born 1774 - 1756

1 females 26- 44 yrs old [Elizabeth Guyton Parker-daughter of Joseph & Hannah Whitaker Parker]

0 male over 45              [no one in the family home was born before 1755]

0 females 45 and older

1 slaves

1800 Federal Census of Union District, South Carolina. David Smith family. Their location change could be due to a boundary change or they may have moved.

#240 David Smith

                1 male under 10 years (James Smith 8)

                1 male 16 to 26 years (James 'Gideon' Smith, son of Gideon Smith?

   or John Smith, son of Daniel Smith? or brother-in-law Young G. Harrington?)

                1 male 26 to 45 years (David Smith 39)

                2 females under 10 years (Frances Smith 6, Delilah Smith 2)

                1 female 26 to 45 years (Bersheba Harrington 27)

                2 slaves

Note from Ken Smith: The age bracket for 16 to 26 years of age is an unknown male. Was the son of one of David's brothers (Gideon Smith or Daniel Smith) who were killed in the Revolutionary War?

Listed in the 1800 Federal Census as the next household to David Smith was the household of Thomas Lusk. This proximity is substantiated by the following deed transfer, ( date not readable); John Lusk ot John Jeffries, 200 acres for $900.00—where Lusk used to live on Thicketty Creek adjoining David Smith's to dividing line between Thomas Lusk and john Lusk to Abraham Smith. Witnesses: John S. Henderson, John Smith, Nathaniel Jeffries. Note the John Lusk is the brother of Thomas Lusk and Abraham and John Smith are brothers of David Smith.

1806     David Smith died in 1806 as shown by the will of David Smith, Union District, South Carolina, 1 February 1806, recorded, 25 February 1806. "Being weak in body, …my landed property to be in the hands of my Dearly beloved wife, Bersheba during her life or widowhood. If she should marry then to retain the one third part of my land and moveable property with the use of negro wench Sue to be at her disposal among my children. Children to be raised and reasonable schooled out of her thirds with the use of negro, Sam. The other two thirds of land to be equally divided between my two sons, James and Henry Smith when Henry is of age. Also my well beloved daughters, Fanny and Delilah the other two thirds of my moveable property to be equally divided between them as they come of age. Executors: Wife, Bersheba and Young G. Harrington. Wit: Wm. Cotton, Joseph Morehead. Thos. Lusk. ." Union County, South Carolina Wills Volume 1, Book A, page 209. (Copy of will obtained from the South Carolina Archives) Will was proven 3 July 1806, Chester County, South Carolina. Proven by Wm Cotton, 25 Feb 1806.

[Note by Ken Smith: Young Harrington was probably the brother of Barsheba. Since we know that James was the older of he and Henry, we may assume that Fanny was older than Delilah due to the naming order.]

Isaiah Parker, father of Hannah Parker Smith died. [actual date unknown, but it seems to be his headstone in the family cemetery with the date of 1806. Isaiah Parker isn't listed as head of household in the 1810 census]. . His land was not partitioned until 1818..

Note from Peggy Dillard: “ Four children of Isaac and Elisabeth Kerr Parker died of something in the spring and summer of 1806. They are buried in the Isaac parker Family Cemetery in, Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina and are:

1. "Isaac A. Parker who departed this life April 18, 1806, age 26 years"

2. "Thomas Lewis Parker died April 21, 1806 in the 23 year of his life".

3. "...Parker...who died 1806..." My sister, Carol, found the cemetery abt 1960’s Gravestone is unreadable now, but she could read it then & recorded “Isaiah”.

4. "Vilet Parker, died June 22, 1806 in the 25th year of her life"

“Handwritten on a note in my sister, Carol’s papers- from someone ca. 1968-70-appears to be an elderly person, is the following: "my grandfather always told us they died from yellow fever". Yellow Fever was a disease persons living near the river died of even as late as my childhood.

1809     Bersheba Harrington, General James Smith’s mother marries Thomas Lusk who was a widower. His wife Susanna Davidson Lusk had died leaving several children. She may have died after the birth of her last child, Susan.

1810     Federal Census in Union District, South Carolina

#232 Thomas Lusk

    1 male under 10 years (Henry Smith 6)

   3 males 10 to 16 years (John Lusk, Andrew Lusk, Isaac Lusk)

   1 male 16 to 26 years (James Smith 18)

   1 male 26 to 45 years

(Note from Ken Smith: May be: James 'Gideon' Smith or John Smith, son of one of David's brothers, or perhaps Young Harrington, Barsheba’s brother?)

                1 male over 45 years (Thomas Lusk 50)

   4 females under 10 years (Sarah Lusk, Martha Lusk, Nancy Lusk, Betsy Lusk)

                1 female 10 to 16 years (Delilah Smith, born 1794-1800 12)

                1 female 16 to 26 years (Frances Smith, born 1794 16)

                1 female 26 to 45 years (Bersheba Harrington Smith 37)

                3 slaves

             1810 Federal census Union County, South Carolina.. Hannah Parker is most likely counted with Betsy Parker in Union County, South Carolina.

SINDXL Name F Name  Date     NARS  Reel     Pg#

P626   PARKER Betsey 1810     M-252  61         232

P626    PARKER Isaac   1810     M-252  61         232

[Isaac is Betsey Guyton Parker's father-in-law, the father of Isaiah Parker]

1812-1815        War of 1812—The USA declares War on Great Britain in 1812. The Battle of New Orleans January 8, 1815. James Smith volunteered in Lincoln County, Tennessee at the age of 20 and fought under General Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans as a Lieutenant. According to the World Book Encyclopedia: "The Battle of New Orleans was the last battle of the War…A treaty of peace had been signed at Ghent, Belgium, fifteen days before the battle took place, but it was not ratified by the United States until a month later. The British had sent an army of more than 8,000 men to capture New Orleans…the British chose [from several routes] to march straight toward the entrenchments that had been prepared by General Andrew Jackson. American artillery and sharp-shooting riflemen mowed down about 1,500 British soldiers, including the commanding officer, General Sir Edward Pakenham. The Americans lost few men." 

1813     Joel Burditt Crain born in Hardeman County, Tennessee, 8 Sep. 1813, the son of Ambrose & Mary Burditt Crain. [Husband of Sarah Elvina Smith, the daughter of General James & Hannah Parker Smith] Joel & Sarah married: 3 Oct 1837 in Nacogdoches, TX.]. He died 18 Jan 1887 in McLennan County, Texas and is buried in Harris Creek Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas..]

1816     Marriage of James Smith and Hannah Parker probably in Union District, South Carolina. [Ken Smith has it in Spartanburg, South Carolina]. Exact date and place unknown

1817     Henry Madison Smith [son of General James & Hannah Parker Smith] born in South Carolina Spartanburg or Union District- 17 Nov 1817 –info from Rev. LL Stevens & land grant records.

1818     Sarah Elvina Smith [daughter of General James & Hannah Parker Smith- later the wife of Joel Burditt Crain] born in Spartanburg, SC - 18 Dec 1818.

13 Aug 1818, Joseph Guyton, (father of Elizabeth Guyton Parker, grandfather of Hannah Parker Smith), dies and is buried in Cherokee County, South Carolina. [ Notes on Joseph Guyton: He is shown on land deeds in 1761 with John Whitaker and Isaac Whitaker (relationship unknown). There were three early churches in Baltimore Co., MD. The records of one of them, St. George Parish, lists Joseph Guyton as a church officer in 1763 and 1770. Joseph and his brother Nathaniel moved their entire families from Maryland to Cherokee (later called Union District) South Carolina some time between 1770 and 1779. According to the church list mentioned above, Joseph and family were in Maryland in 1770, and then Joseph's name appears on the 1779 Census of the old "Ninety-Six" District of South Carolina. The district was created in 1769 and was abolished in 1798. It consisted mostly of present day Union Co. Joseph contributed supplies during the Revolutionary War, as shown in South Carolina Indents records. Joseph's will was probated in Union Co., SC in 1820. Both Joseph Guyton and Hannah Whitaker were buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Anderson, SC.

Union District Will book B Pp. 45-46 (transcript by Sandra Smith Gwilliam)

WILL OF JOSEPH GUYTON of Union District, being infirm through the decays of old age...to my son Joseph GUYTON, all the lands that I am possessed of reserving to the children of my son Abraham GUYTON decd., as much as will include the spring and still house now occupied by them, and reserving to the children of my daughter Betsy PARKER, that piece of land they now live upon, above one Isaac PARKERS spring, by John PARKERS fence; to my son Aaron GUYTON, one feather bed and furniture; to my two sons in law John SMITH & Jonathan SMITH, one dollar each; the three children of my son Moses GUYTON decd., Hannah FONDRIN, Sally GUYTON, & Tabitha GUYTON, one part equally divided amongst them; also the children of my deceased daughter Betsy PARKER, one share; my children Aaron GUYTON, Joseph GUYTON, Molly SMITH and Hannah MARTIN, each a share; to my grandson Abraham GUYTON by my son Joseph, saddle; my son Joseph GUYTON and my son in law Alexander MARTIN exrs.

26 May 1818. Joseph GUYTON (X) (LS), Wit: Nicholis CORRY, Gabriel PETTY, Sally PETTY.

Recorded 3 Aug 1818.

Union County South Carolina Probate Index

LAST FIRST BOX PACK YEAR

Guyton Joseph 11 1 1820

Isaiah Parker property is partitioned in Union District, South Carolina in 1818. Union District Writs of Partition Vol. 12 p. 197 South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Review 975.7 B2sc in writs of partition record of Isaiah and Elizabeth Parker names his daughter Hannah Smith as the wife of James Smith and his daughter Rachel as the wife of David Macombson.

Union County, South Carolina Probate index:

LAST FIRST BOX PACK YEAR

Parker Isaac 15 4 1825

Parker Isaiah 10 18 1818

[These documents may eventually be transcribed by Sandra Smith Gwilliam and Margaret "Peggy Dillard"]

             Selections from the inventory reported on 17 Nov 1818:

Isaiah Parker owned a "lot" of hogs, several cows and yearlings, one steer and yearling, two heifers, nine sheep, one "lot" of corn, two and a half hogs heads, one "lot" of wheat, one saddle & bridle, one chest, one bed and furniture, one reel, and a drawer knife. .

1819     James Smith family moved to Davidson County, Tennessee and he became a farmer. [LL Stevens history; C. B. Smith of Austin, Texas]

             December 14th; Alabama is the 22nd state admitted to the Union

1820     James Smith family is living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.

1820     1820 Federal Census of Lincoln County, Tennessee.

#36.4 William Moorhead

                            1 male 16 to 26 years (William Moorhead)

                            1 female 16 to 26 years (Frances "Fanny" Smith, born 1794-1800)

#37.4 Andrew Hamilton

                           1 male under 10 years (James Hamilton)

                           1 male 26 to 45 years (Andrew Hamilton)

                           1 female under 10 years (Ann Hamilton)

                           1 female 16 to 26 years (Delilah Smith)

#38.8 Thomas Lusk

                           1 male 10 to 16 years (Henry Smith)

                           1 male over 45 years (Thomas Lusk)

                           2 females under 10 years (Permelia & Caroline Lusk) daughters of Thomas & Barsheba.

                            1 female over 45 years (Barsheba Harrington Smith)

1820     1820 Federal Census of Lincoln County, Tennessee.

#38.9 James Smith

                            1 male under 10 years (Henry M. Smith b 17 Nov 1817)

                           1 male 26 to 45 years (James Smith)

 2 females under 10 years (Sarah Elvina Smith b.18 Dec 1818, Frances Smith listed as born abt 1823 in the 1850 census, or there is a daughter who was under 10 years of age who died before the next census. She would have had to been born about 1819 or early 1820)

2 females 16 to 26 years (Hannah Parker & possibly Hannah's sister Sarah Parker [Sarah "Sally" later married James Childress]. Their parents are both dead.)

#38.10 John Lusk

                             2 males under 10 years (Thomas David Jefferson Lusk, John Davidson Lusk)

                            1 male 16 to 26 years (John Lusk)

                           1 female under 10 years (Elizabeth Ann Lusk)

                           1 female 16 to 26 years (Rachel Tennason)

NOTE from Ken Smith: John Lusk is the brother of Andrew LUSK and Susan LUSK, children of Thomas and Susan DAVIDSON LUSK.

1822     Sarah Susannah Hall [future wife of Henry Madison Smith, the son of General James Smith and daughter of John & Susanna Hall] born in Tennessee on 29 Jul 1821 [John A. Hall Bible records]

1823     Some sources have Frances E. Smith (daughter of General James & Hannah Parker Smith) born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1823. This cannot be correct because she is on the 1820 census or there is a different female under 10 in that Lincoln County, Tennessee census. There may be a female child of General James & Hannah Parker Smith who died between the 1820 and 1830 census. Frances is in the 1850 census with her husband. The age for her in that census lists her as born in 1823.

1825     Joseph P. Smith (son of General James & Hannah Parker Smith), born in Lincoln County, Tennessee [Sandra's note: My guess is the P. is for Parker, but I don't know. On one census the middle initial is M., but the guardianship documents for his children after he died have a "P".]

1826     Andrew Jackson Smith (son of Gen. James & Hannah Parker Smith), born in Lincoln County, TN

             Thomas Lusk dies and James Smith [step-son] is the administrator of his estate.

1828     Isaac Newton Smith born in Lincoln County, Tennessee-son of General James Smith.

1830     William Jasper Smith born in Lincoln County, TN - 28 Mar 1830-son of General James Smith.

             1830 Federal census of Lincoln County, Tennessee includes Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk and her two Lusk children.

#183 William Moorhead 1830 census Lincoln County, Tennessee

       2 males 5 to 10 years (William W. Moorhead, James Moorhead)

       1 male 30 to 40 years (William Moorhead)

       1 female under 5 years (Mary Delilah Moorhead)

       1 female 5 to 10 years (Almeda A. Moorhead)

       1 female 30 to 40 years (Frances "Fanny" Smith, born 1790-1800)

#258 John Lusk 1830 census Lincoln County, Tennessee

[stepson of Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk]

       1 male 5 to 10 years (Thomas David Jefferson Lusk)

       1 male 10 to 15 years (John Davidson Lusk)

       1 male 30 to 40 years (John Lusk)

       3 females under 10 years (Nancy Samantha Lusk, Cynthia Lusk, Sarah Jane Lusk)

       2 females 5 to 10 years (Martha Lucretia Lusk, Sarah Louise Lusk)

       1 female 30 to 40 years (Rachel Tennason)

* 272 James Smith 1830 census Lincoln County, Tennessee

      3 males under 5 years (William Jasper Smith, Isaac Newton Smith, Andrew J. Smith)

       1 male 5 to 10 years (Joseph P. Smith)

                   1 male 10 to 15 years (James Smith) 1815-1820 * [questions–what sources? A son named James Smith does not show up on any of the Smith family records. James Smith Jr. and another purported son of James & Hannah Parker Smith named Sam Houston Smith are listed in a book called War of 1812 Veterans in Texas by Mary Smith Fae, but there is no documentation for either of these sons, nor any other proofs of their existence. The son, James, could have died before 1850, though, but the son Sam Houston Smith was supposed to have been married. Sam Houston Smith would have had to been born right after the 1830 census and moved out before the 1850 census].

       1 male 15 to 20 years (Henry M. Smith) 1810-1815

       1 male 30 to 40 years (James Smith)

       1 female 5 to 10 years (Frances Smith)

       1 female 10 to 15 years (Sarah Elvina Smith)

       1 female 30 to 40 years (Hannah Parker)

[Sandra's note: According to some researcher's records there was a James Smith born in Lincoln County, Tennessee ca. 1815-1820 (after the 1820 census but before the 1830 census) son of General James Smith.. James is listed in other records as having been born about 1830, but that date has to be incorrect, unless he is a twin or James was born in December-- Need sources. There is a James Smith, single male in the 1850 Rusk County, Texas census age 22. That James is in dwelling and household

1. 41 line 9. Notation on the side says Steam Mill. He is listed as a farmer from Tennessee. If that James is

#267 Barsheba Lusk

       2 females 15 to 20 years (Permelia Lusk, Caroline Lusk)

       1 female 50 to 60 years (Barsheba Harrington Smith)

1832     Cholera epidemic in the USA

             South Carolina Nullification Proclamation

1833     Marion Smith was born in Texas. Some sources list him as unmarried but two records: Burt Smith's will and another document- * refer to the "heirs of Francis Marion Smith". [ * Shirley Smith sent the document] 

1834     Barsheba H. Smith born in Texas

1835     Historical marker in Smith Park, Located at the end of South Street in Henderson, TX, states: General James Smith moved to TX in 1835. Returned to United States to raise troops for TX War for Independence

James Smith became a Mexican citizen March 30, 1835 at Nacogdoches, TX. His sponsor was Juan [sometimes spelled John] M. Dor. This same John M. Dor sponsored Samuel Pablo Houston. (Note from Helen Price: Sam Houston was born March 2, 1792. "On April 21, 1835, exactly one year before San Jacinto, his own character certificate, as Samuel Pablo Houston, a man of good character and without family, was signed by Juan M. Dor.")

It is thought that James Smith traveled to Nacogdoches, Texas, with his son, Henry Madison on a trip to purchase land in 1835. A letter of introduction to a land agent in New York supports this fact that James Smith was interested in purchasing land:

James Smith Letter of introduction by General Sam Houston

On the Envelope:

To Mr. James Prentiss
Wall Street
New York

[left bottom section:   Col Smith]
Nacogdoches 9th Apr 1835

Dear Sir,
Colonel James Smith, a friend of mine, will hand you this letter.   He visits your city with a view of transacting business, and any information which you may have at your command, I hope you will be kind enough to impart to him, to forward him in his business.

Colonel Smith is a Gentleman and any civilities which you may be so kind as to extend to him, will be gratefully received by him, and appreciated by your obedient servant & friend.
Sam Houston
[scrawl]                
Mr. James Prentiss
Transcript from Copy of original by Sandra Smith Gwilliam
Sam Houston Papers, 1814-1957, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Box 2E250 General correspondence, 1815, 1835-1843

They then returned to Tennessee to bring the family to Texas.

A Certified copy NO. 89 for Jas Smith receiving land, showing he "arrived in this Republic April Eighteen hundred & thirty five" [photocopied & scanned]

April 9, 1835, Gen. Sam Houston introduced James Smith, by letter, to business associates in New York as Colonel Smith. [New Handbook of Texas]

November 28, 1835, James Smith wrote from New York to Sam Houston that he was shipping 100 first-rate rifles to Natchitoches, Louisiana, and planning to bring well-equipped troops to Texas from Tennessee to fight against Mexico. . [New Handbook of Texas]

1836     "...the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic..." - from the Texas Declaration of Independence, 2 March 1836.

             Sam Houston Smith [often listed as a child of James and Hannah Smith] may have been born, but there are no documents we have found proving that this child existed other than a Sam Smith listed in the annual report of the probate of Frances Timmons, daughter of General James & Hannah Parker Smith. Mary Smith Fae lists him in her book: The War of 1812 Veterans in Texas. She does not state her documentation.

Fall of the Alamo: The siege began Feb 23, 1836. Santa Anna reported his victory to the Mexican Government at 8 am on March 5, 1836. [World Book Encyclopedia]

21 April 1836, because of the time that Santa Anna had spent fighting at the Alamo; Sam Houston was able to raise forces to save the independence movement. He retreated Eastward, pursued by Santa Anna. At San Jacinto, Texas, Sam Houston and his forces [including Captain James Smith], turned on the Mexican forces, surprising them at their afternoon siesta, routing the Mexican Army. . [World Book Encyclopedia]

22 April 1836, Sam Houston's Army [most likely including Captain James Smith], captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty granting Texas its independence. [World Book Encyclopedia]

Henry Madison Smith, Son of James & Hannah Parker Smith & the husband of Sarah Susannah Hall was permanently injured during the war to liberate Texas. He received land for his service and his injuries.

Name of Original grantee: Henry M. Smith
File number SA-446 Special Acts-446-Joint resolution For the relief of Henry M. Smith [Sr.] for his permanent disability in Battle in defence of his country. Certified by Garry Maauro, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas. March 16, 1848

July 26, 1881, the Board of Veterans appointed by the Governor under and by virtue of act entitled "An Act granting a land Certificate of 1280 acres, thus granted H. M. Smith Certificate #427 for 1280 acres of land. (See form describing file Liberty-B&D-236 to see Certificate #427.)

Henry M. Smith land grant for injury in Military

AFFIDAVIT

July 1, 1881, H. M. Smith personally appeared in Coryell County stating:

1. That he was a soldier and actually rendered military service in the Texas Army subsequent to the commencement of the revolution in 1835 and prior to January 1, 1837.

2. That he entered the said service on the 10th day of April 1836 and was honorably discharged therefore on or about August 15, 1836.

3. That during said time he served in Capt. James Smith Company Texas Cavalry Col. Sherman's Regiment.

4. That affiant provided a Bounty Warrant for 320 acres for services rendered between March 10th and August 15th, 1836.

5. That affiant is the identical H. M. Smith who served in such Company and regiment.

6. That affiant now resides in Coryell County, Texas.

              Also, at the same time personally appeared John B. Baker and Henry M. Smith Jr. credible persons being duly sworn and said they knew H. M. Smith the first affiant that he was the identical person he represented himself to be and that the facts stated by him are true to the best of their knowledge and belief. (This document bears the signatures of Henry M. Smith, H. M. Smith Jr., and John B. Baker.) From Helen Price's collection of documents 

June 15; Arkansas is the 25th state admitted to the Union

1836 to 1847—short history of the Smith family coming to Texas adapted from Rev. L. L. Steven's histories of Henry Madison and James Smith with other records cited:

             James Smith's wife and children started for Texas in 1835, and arrived on Jan 1, 1836.

According to Ken Smith: Andrew Hamilton also arrived in Texas on January 1, 1836. After spending one year in Nacogdoches, Andrew Hamilton and his brother-in-law, General James Smith, settled on adjoining farms where the town of Henderson now stands. [1837]

James Smith left Texas to return to Tennessee to raise a vigilante group. General Smith returned to Tennessee and Alabama and raised a company of 75 volunteers to help fight for Texas freedom from Mexico. Hamilton remained in Texas to take care of the families. The entire expense of the company of volunteers was borne jointly by Hamilton and Smith. Early in 1836, Smith organized a troop of cavalry, was chosen captain, and served until November 1836, rising to the rank of Colonel.

Henry served in the cavalry troop of Colonel Smith from April 11 until July 23, 1836. In the aftermath of the battle of San Jacinto, he, with his father's troops, faced the enemy in the Victoria area with Gen. Thomas J. Rusk.

Colonel James Smith wrote a letter to General Sam Houston to ask for more troops to help quell the Indian troubles:

Nacogdoches, Oct 5th 1836

To Genl. Samuel Houston Commander In Chief,

Sir I hav to in form in hast [haste] of the movements of the different tribes of Indians on our Northwest part of the ____ when I first [word crossed out] went up I threw much Difficulty got your letter to them   They appeared glad to reciev it and agread to comply with it and to Return what property they had taken but they hav Fail to comply with Evry part [“of” crossed out] ameadatly [immediately] of after We left them they all gathered up all they had and Put off   In two or three [days?] after we went to the Villeg [Village] To see if all was Rit [right] but there was not on [one] Indian to be Seene we took there trail and persude [pursued] them About thirty miles by this tim we Discovered large trails coming in from differrant dirrection intill their trails becom Verry large and there must be [a? ink blot over word] large Number of them they skinned the trees and [smudged]inted [painted ?] them as they went and all the men that was acquanted with them said they intended war And our number was Small and we Return back for we know we could not overtake them befor they got to the main body which is on Trinity at the mouth of a streem call the Bodark where at this tim there is not less than Seven or Eight hundred warriors of Different Tribes which I stated to you in my letter sent by Major Lusk also Williams who lived amonst [amongst] the Cadawes [?written over] Cam to inform me that all the wariers was gon to that point   there is no doubt but they intend Hostilities.   The peple are Verry much [inserted above] alarmed they wanted Me to call on men and fall on them but nowing it Was my Duty to in form you of the fact I [word crossed out] would not But told them I new as soon as you was inform you would order me to call out men anuff to Defeat Them   and I do not think less than three or four Hundred I hav acted with caulhion [caution] and will continue To do so I have give the facts, please answer me in hast
I am truly your friend             James Smith Coln

Sam Houston Papers, 1814-1957, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Henry Smith served Texas again with the mounted volunteers under General Smith during the fall of 1838 against Indians. He commanded his own company in the Army of the Republic of Texas under Maj. B. C. Waters during the battle of the Neches in August 1839, where he was severely wounded.

He also served as adjutant major under Cage Douglas. Smith married Sarah S. [Susannah] Hall on January 9, 1840. He owned a league and a labor of land in Rusk County near Henderson and was one of the town's early businessmen.

Various histories have Henry Madison Smith holding the rank of Lieutenant, Adjutant Major and Captain. [Sandra's note: Henry Madison Smith's tombstone has Captain H. M. Smith inscribed. Ken Smith has a theory that the Henry Smith who fought in the war was James Smith's brother, but land documents stating that Henry Madison Smith was permanently disabled in the war to liberate Texas, "Joint resolution for the relief of Henry M. Smith...was permanently disabled in the defence of his country...certificate for one league and one labor of land...approved Mar 16, 1848" GLO-R-03- (11-90)-scanned & photocopied] as well as his tombstone inscription, proves that Captain Henry Smith, General James & Hannah Smith's son, fought in the war to liberate Texas.]

James & Hannah Smith's daughter, Sarah Elvina Smith's future husband was in the battle of San Jacinto: Joel Burditt Crain joined Capt. William Kimbro's San Augustine Company on March 15, 1836. He was in the skirmish at San Felipe when Santa Anna's army first arrived there. His company joined Sam Houston at Groce's Retreat and was ordered down to San Felipe to guard that crossing. They burned the town, crossed to the other side, and entrenched.

During the battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston, in an attempt to disguise himself, wore the cap and rode the horse of Sergeant Major Crain. As Sergeant Major, Crain received the sword from Juan Nepomuceno Almonte at the surrender and carried the dispatches concerning the surrender to the authorities in Nacogdoches County. (Some in the Crain family say he was allowed to keep the sword.)

[The Handbook of Texas Online. ttp://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcr41.html

             In 1841, James Smith was, for a second time, made commander of a part of the Texas Army, guarding what was known as the Northwest Frontier. During this period he was commissioned Brigadier General. In 1844, Smith was commissioned by President Sam Houston to quell the Regulator-Moderator War in Shelby County, Texas.

Misc. excerpts about General James Smith from R. B. Blake XLVIII:

Page 6: 110 acres of James Smith and Isaac G. Parker land north of Nacogdoches where James Smith formerly resided and John S. Thorn resided on the 5 September, 1843.

Page 12: James Smith resided 2 miles North of Nacogdoches, Oct. 30, 1840.

Page 26: No. 705—Thomas Wm. Ward vs. Edward Davis Jan 9, 1844…Half a lot immediately back of Smith and Watkin's store….Smith and Watkins store not there in Feb. 1845. [Unknown if this is our Smith family's store.]

Page 26: David S. Kaufman vs. James Smith.

Levied the within execution on all the right, title, interest and claim that the defendant James Smith has in and to one league and one labor of land situated in Nacogdoches county and being about forty miles north of the town of Nacogdoches, commonly known and called Big Shawnee Town, it being the same tract of land whereon one Isaac G. Parker, Thos. G. Timmons and others now reside. Levied on by me as the property of the defendant, James Smith. Property pointed out by H. M. Smith this 8 October, 1840. D. Rusk, Shff.

Page 27: John Durst vs. James Smith.

Levied the within execution on all the right, title, interest and claim that James Smith has in and to 600 acres of land more or less, situated about one and a half miles north of the town of Nacogdoches, commencing at the northeast corner of the tract of land on this Thomas J. Rusk now resides, running north until it strikes the south line of John S. Thorns's tract of land on which he now resides. Thence running east with said Thorn's line to the Bayou Lanana. Thence….as to intersect the northwest corner of Thomas J. Rusk's tract of land, purchased of said Smith, it being the same on which he now resides. Thence running east with said Rusk's line to the place of beginning, to satisfy an execution issued by the Clerk of the District Court of Nacogdoches County wherein John Durst vs. James Smith. Property pointed out by Thomas J. Rusk. Nacogdoches, September 26, A. D. 1853. J. S. Payne, Shff. By E. S. Huston, Depty.

Page 135: #156—Thos. G. Timmins. Witnesses: Chas. H. Sims, Absalom Gibson & K. H. Muss & Richard Sparks. Arrived in 1834. Married in 1837. Served a tour of duty in the Campaign of 1836. Has received one-forth league of land. Entitled, under 23 Section to three-fourths league and one labor of land. Nacogdoches County Board of Land Commissioners—1838.

Page 135: #208—Ambrose Crain Ass. of Wm. T. Davis. Witnesses: Henry B. Dance, Hayden Arnold, Joel Crain & Jas. Smith…

Page 176: #200—Henry M. Smith. Witnesses: John B. Murray, & Francis M. Hamilton. (First) states applicant arrived in Texas 1 March 1836 & resided here since. (Second) states same. Single man. one-third league of land. Nacogdoches County Board of Land Commissioners. 1838.

Page 176: #57..James Smith Ass. of Francisco Valmore. Witnesses: Isaac G. Parker, 1838

Page 177--#200—Henry M. Smith, Witnesses: John B. Murray & Francis M. Hamilton

                          #100—Hayden Arnold. Witnesses: James Smith…Jan 24, 1838

Page 195 Stephen McLaughlin—Power of Attorney from Stephen McLaughlin to Rudolph von Roeder; dated December 23, 1836, to obtain Bounty land for three months service as Orderly Sergeant under Captain James Smith, discharged July 12, 1836 (in cavalry). Nacogdoches Archives R. B. Blake Transcript Vol A. page 183.

Page 215: Big Shawneetown on James Smith League, just south of present town of Henderson—Nacogdoches County Deed Records, Vol. G. page 94.

Page 215: James Smith to wife Hannah Smith, and Birt H., Maddison H., Sarah Crain, Frances Timmons, Joseph P. Smith, Jackson Smith, Isaac Newton Smith, Jasper Smith, Marien Smith and Barshava Smith, dated October 15, 1839. –Shawneetown—Nacogdoches County Deed Records, Vol G. page 125.

Page 245: Deed from Juan Antonio Padilla to John R. Clute; dated 1 November 1837. "Lying and being near the town of Nacogdoches, and bounded as follows: On the South by the Estate of Michel Sacco, deceased; on the West by the Bayou Banito; North by the land claimed by one James Smith; east by the public road leading from the town of Nacogdoches to the William Settlement… Deed Records of Nacogdoches County, Volume B. page 164.

             James Smith represented Rusk County in the Texas House of Representatives from 16 February 1844 to 13 December 1847. The session was only a few days old when on 26 February 1846; a bill to create a new county was introduced. The county was named in Smith's honor.

             Nacogdoches County Board of Land Commissioners 1838 #200: Witnesses--John B. Murray and Francis M. Hamilton (1st) states applicant [Henry M Smith] arrived in Texas 1st of March 1836 & resided here since. (2nd) states same Single man. 1/3 of League of land.

             Texas General Land Office records there is a unconditional Class 2 headright land grant of 1280 acres (No. 77) to Barsheba Lusk [General James Smith's mother] in Rusk County, Texas on 4 August 1844, signed by George W. Smyth, it stated that she arrived in Texas in 1836. She received a duplicate in 1856 in Cooke County, Texas on the headwaters of Fish Creek about 18 1/2 miles west from the town of Gainsville, Texas. The second one was part of the Hugh Sarles old grant. Adjacent plats belonged to H. Sarles, Francis Hamilton, and Kuykendall. Francis Hamilton may be her son-in-law and related to another son-in-law, Andrew Hamilton. On the 1837, 1838, and 1839 tax list of Nacogdoches County, Texas (Rusk County was carved out of Nacogdoches County) was a Barsheba Lusk and in 1840, James Smith was her agent as well as agent for the heirs of F. Hamilton. The 1850 and 1860 Federal Census of Rusk County, Texas has the families of Delilah Smith Hamilton and James Smith living in close proximity to a Dr. Y. (Young?) D. Harrington. [Ken Smith]

1837     Nacogdoches County, Texas on 1 Aug 1837--Frances Elvina Smith married Thomas G. Timmons (He was born abt 1815 in Tennessee)

Bert H. Smith born in Texas in 1837 to James and Hannah Smith.

3 Oct 1837 in Nacogdoches County, Texas --Sarah Elvina Smith [daughter of General James & Hannah Parker Smith] marries Joel Burditt Crain (He was born 18 Sep 1813 in Hardeman County, Tennessee to Ambrose and Mary Burdett Crain)

             Children of Joel B. & Sarah E. Smith Crain: who were all born in Texas were:

             William Hampton Crain b. 23 August 1838 in Nacogdoches County, Texas

             James Smith Crain b. abt 1841 in Texas

Patience b. abt 1842 in Texas [she married James Johnson Black. He married Patience Crain's cousin, Texanna Smith the daughter of Joseph P. & Minerva Ann Hall Smith after Patience died.]

                          Martha A. Crain, "Matt" born about 1845 in Texas.

                          Ambrose H. Crain, born 9 Sep 1846 in Nacogdoches County, Texas.

                          Joel Newton Crain " Nute"

                          Frances Marion (died bachelor)

                          Ida Mae Crain

                          Napoleon Bonaparte Crain

                          Sam Houston Crain,

General James Smith fought in Battles of Texas Republic. Regulator Wars: 1837 - 1838. He went back to Tennessee and recruited soldiers there and paid all of their expenses to fight the war.

Economic panic begins a depression that lasts until 1843
Magnetic telegraph invented
Invention of photography by Daguerre

1839    James Smith's deed to his family.

Republic of Texas, County of Nacogdoches

. . .fifteenth day of October one thousand, eight hundred and thirty nine before the undersigned witnesses personally appeared James Smith who declared that for and in consideration of the sum of four thousand dollars to him in hand paid by Hannah Smith his wife, Birt H Smith, Maddison H Smith, Sarah Crain, Frances Timmons, Joseph P Smith, Jackson Smith, Isaac Newton Smith, Jasper Smith, Marion Smith and Barshaba Smith as well as for the natural love and affection which he bears to the said parties of the second part, he hath this day granted, bargained, sold, assigned, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien [sic] and convey to the said parties last named all that tract or parcil [sic] of land, situate in the County of Nacogdoches, at and including a place called big Shawnee Town containing one league and one labor of land, surveyed by A. S. Hamilton as the headright of the said James Smith on the twenty third day of February one thousand eight hundred, and thirty eight, a more accurate description of which will appear by reference to the fields notes and accompanying plat. To have and to hold the same to them the said Hannah Smith, Birt H. Smith, Maddison H. Smith, Sarah Crain, Frances Timmons, Joseph P. Smith, Jackson Smith, Isaac Newton Smith, Jasper Smith, Marion Smith and Barshaba Smith their heirs and assigns forever in fee Simple in the following proportions to wit, Six hundred and forty acres each to Birt H. Smith and Hannah Smith, the remainder to be divided equally between the other venders according to quantity and quality. . . signed by Thomas J. Rusk and Jos' Cook. [transcribed by Shirley Smith]

1840     Census year Smith family would be in Nacogdoches & Rusk Counties, Texas, but that census only lists head of household.

9 January 1840 in Nacogdoches County, Texas -- Henry Madison Smith marries Sarah Susannah Hall (She was born on. 29 Jul 1821 in [Bedford County?] Tennessee, to John & Susanna Hall). Nacogdoches Marriages #22 [photocopied & scanned]

On the same day [9 January 1840], Sarah's sister, Ebelina Hall marries Eli Sparks (he was born abt 1812 in Lawrence County, Mississippi to William and Mary Fielder Sparks. He died by 1841.)

1841     James Smith was the Commander of North Western Frontier of Texas.

1843     James and Hannah Smith donated land for County Site in Henderson, Rusk, Texas

1844     Samuel F.B. Morse patents the telegraph

1845     Texas was annexed and became a state.

Joseph P. Smith married Minerva Ann Hall, daughter of John and Susanna Hall on 23 Nov 1845 in Rusk County, Texas.

1846     Smith County was named for James Smith 26 Feb1846. Smith County was created and organized in 1846, from Nacogdoches

             James Smith served as a Representative in Texas House of Representatives from Rusk County from 2-16-1846 to 12-13-1847.

1847     James Smith was elected first District Judge of Rusk County.

1849     Isaac Newton Smith marries Mary Agnes Childress [daughter of James Childress and Sarah Parker (the sister of Hannah Parker Smith) 2 May 1849 in Rusk County, Texas. They are first cousins. Mary Agnes is listed as Mary Agnes in The Rusk County book of Families. The article was written by Jimmie Ruth Mounger.

             California Gold Rush
Second major cholera epidemic in the United States

1850     Barsheba H. Smith married Joseph Moorehead 19 Feb 1850 in Rusk County, Texas.

1850 Census: [James Smith, the son of James & Hannah born maybe about 1830 in Tennessee is not living with his parents in this census. He was probably born several years earlier or does not exist.]