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Persoonlijke gegevens Josiah Smith 

• Hij is geboren op 25 december 1704 in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Hij is overleden op 19 oktober 1781 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Een kind van George Smith en Dorothy Elizabeth Archer

Gezin van Josiah Smith

Hij is getrouwd met Edith Elizabeth Darrell.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1729 te Charleston District, South Carolina, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Josiah Smith  1731-1826 
2. George Smith  1734-1784 
3. Thomas Smith  
4. Dorothy Smith  1734-1734
5. Elizabeth Smith  1736-1736
6. Anne Smith  1737-1818 
7. Martha Smith  1745-1815 

Notities over Josiah Smith

Josiah, clergyman, born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1704; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October, 1781. His grandfather, Thomas, was a landgrave and governor of the province of South Carolina. Josiah was graduated at Harvard in 1725, being the first native of South Carolina to receive a college degree. He was ordained in 1726, returned to Charleston, and was successively pastor of Presbyterian churches in Bermuda, Cainhoy, and Charleston, South Carolina tie maintained a learned disputation with Hugh Fisher in 1730 on the subject of the right of private judgment, and in 1740 espoused the cause of George Whitefield, whom he invited to occupy his pulpit. He was an earnest friend of American independence, and on the surrender of Charleston became a prisoner of war, was taken to Philadelphia, and died there while in confinement. He published numerous discourses, and a volume of sermons (Charleston, 1752).
RIN: MH:N914

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