Source: Amy Sue Connolly, Wilma Fleming Haynes, Robert E. Darling, Keith Lamar Higbee, Justin Lee, Ken Warren, et al.
Hij is getrouwd met Dorothy (NN-Smith, Henry).
Zij zijn getrouwd van 1620 tot 1622 te Eng.
Kind(eren):
Rev. Henry Smith
Sources: Author: Connolly, Amy Sue; Haynes, Wilma Fleming; Darling, Robert E.; Higbee, Keith Lamar; Lee, Justin; Warren, Ken; et al.; Title: "Rev Henry Smith of Wethersfield," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: vi July MMXXIII)
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"... Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield
Reason:
"of Wethersfield" is to protect this person from the incessant merging with other unrelated people. Please read his verifiable history.
Please leave the suffix "of Wethersfield, CT and Hadley, MA so he will not be merged again with other different people named Henry Smith. His history is in sources. Please leave the prefix "Rev" to protect him from all the merging with different people named Henry Smith. Have lost count of how many times he has had to be recovered from these mistakes. Rev Henry Smith of Wethersfield, CT. His wife removed to Hadley, MA with her 2nd husband and her children.
Last Changed: September 25, 2023 Douglas A. Wick Sex Male Last Changed: December 4, 2021 Justin Lee
Birth about 1599 England Reason:
Please read the historical sources and do not assume parents or birth place. This common name has made him a victim of confusion with many others. Please read the histories attached. Last Changed: October 3, 2023 M. Boyden
Death 9 August 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut ... Last Changed: July 1, 2023 Ken Warren
Burial 1648 Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Last Changed: June 30, 2023 Eugene [NN-familyname not given]
Occupation Abt 1637 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, ... First settled minister of the town of Wethersfield
Emigration 1640 on the Elizabeth with his wife and two oldest children
Residence 1641 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, ...
will 8 May 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Find A Grave 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find A Grave Memorial #32446228
Occupation First Pastor At Wethersfield
Religious Affiliation Puritan
Education Educated at University of Cambridge; college and year of degree unknown
EDUC Magdalene College, Cambridge, AB 1621/22, AM 1625
LifeSketch
CAUTION: THIS REV. HENRY SMITH AND HIS FAMILY HAVE NOW BEEN SEPARATED FROM MANY WRONG MERGES AND OTHER FAMILIES. HIS BIRTH PLACE AND PARENTS ARE NOT KNOWN DESPITE MUCH SPECULATION but none can be verified. Rev. Henry Smith's first wife's name was NOT K
Physical Description 0 Sources
He was 5 foote, 10 inches talle & spare of builde, tho not leane. He was as Active as ye Red Skin Men & sinewy. His delighte was in sportes of strengthe, & withe his owne Hands he did helpe to reare bothe our owne House & ye Firste Meetinge House of Weathersfield, wherein he preacht yeares too fewe. He was well Featured & Fresh favoured with faire Skin & longe curling Hair (as neare all of us have had) with a merrie eye & swete smilinge Mouthe
Spouses & Children
Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield Male 1599-1648
Dorothy of Wethersfield and Hadley Female 1599-1694
Marriage from 1620 to 1622 England
Children (13)
[1] Phillipa Smith Female 1622-1687
[2] Mary Smith Female 1624-1693 [<-ancestress]
[3] Christopher Smith Male 1625-1692
[4] Peregrine Smith Male 1627-1648
[5] Dorothy Smith Female 1631-1706
[6] Rebecca Smith Female 1631-1684
[7] Jonathan Smith Male 1635-1711
[8] Preserved Smith Male 1637-Deceased
[9] Rev. Samuel Smith Male 1638-1703 [<-ancestor]
[10] Joanna Smith Female 1641-1664
[11] Noah Smith Male 1643-1648
[12] Elijah Smith Male 1647-1730
[13] Elizabeth Smith Female 1648-1648
He was not the son of Erasmus Smith, That Rev. Henry died in 1591.
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-2065
Rev. Henry Smith
Born about 1599 in England
Husband of Dorothy (Unknown) Russell married before 1636 in England
DESCENDANTS
Father of Philipa (Smith) Birdseye, Mary (Smith) Hale, Peregrine Smith, Rebecca Smith, Dorothy (Smith) Moore, Samuel Smith, Joanna (Smith) Russell, Noah Smith and Elizabeth Smith
Died after 8 May 1648 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Biography
Parents Unknown
Over the years several sets of persons have been named as parents of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield. None have been proven. Perhaps: Erasmus/Erastus and Margaret or Robert[1] or Ambrose Smith-10337 and Margaret Cecil-79. Erastus Smith was located in Co. Leicester, England, as was Leonard Chester, of Blaby and Wethersfield. He and Henry may have known each other in England.
Birth
Early genealogists estimated Henry's birth at 1588. Based on the belief that he matriculated at Cambridge in 1618, newer estimates are 1599/1600.
Samuel's letter
The information that we have about Mr. Henry Smith is from a letter written by his son Samuel in 1698/99. The letter in it's entirety tells of early colonial times in Wethersfield and is well worth reading, below is the information specific to Henry's statistics.
" ' Hadley, Massachusetts Colony, Jan. ye Firste, 1698/99 " ' My Dear & Dutiful Son : . . . I was of so tender an Age at the death of my beloved Father that I am possessed of but little of the Information for which you seek. My Revered Father was an ordained Minister of ye Gospelle, educate at Cambridge in England & came to yis Land by reason of ye Great Persecution by which ye infamous Archibishop Laud and ye Black Tom Tyrante, (as Mr. Russell was always wont to call ye Earl of Strafforde,) did cause ye reign of his Majestie Charles ye First to loose favour in ye sight of ye people of England. My Father & Mother came over in 1636/37, firste to Watertown which is neare Boston, & after a yeare or two to Weathersfield on ye great River, where he became ye firste settled Pastor."
Cambridge
"Alumini Canatabrigienes has 32 listings for Henry Smiths. The most likely candidate is: SMITH, Henry, Matriculated sizar Magdelene [college] Easter 1618. BA.1621-22, MA.1625. Ordained Deacon June 1623 [at Peterborough Cathedral]. Probably identical to the man of this name who emigrated to New England." [2]
Marriage
Here also the early and later genealogists disagree. It was claimed that the tenor of Henry's will indicated that he had two wives. Reading, however, does not indicate two wives. The wife, we know, was Dorothy _____. Dorothy remarried after Henry's death to John Russell and the family moved to Hadley, Massachusetts. She died in 1694.
MIgration. Watertown vs Charlestown.
"My Father & Mother came over in 1636/37, "firste to Watertown which is neare Boston, & after a yeare or two to Weathersfield"
Donald Lines Jacobus tells us that it was not[3] "the wife of Rev. Henry Smith who came to New England in April, 1635, as Dorothy Smith, aged 45, with a daughter Mary, aged 15."[4] One supposes because this Dorothy was considerably older than a Henry b. c 1600.
Jacobus also points out that he was not the Henry Smith who was appointed by Massachusetts Bay in March 1636 to govern the settlements on the Connecticut River.
Jacobus also says: "Nor does it seem possible that the Henry Smith with wife Dorothy who joined the church in Charlestown, Mass., in 1637, was the Rev. Henry." 5th mo (July) 10th day 1637[5] There were a lot of Henry Smiths early in New England. Anderson lists five, but only one that I know of had a wife Dorothy. Anderson includes this reference in Henry of Wethersfield's entry in the Great Migration Directory.[6]
Anderson has concluded that this is the Henry who left Weymouth, England, bound for New England, in April 1637. "Henry Smith, wife, 4 children, 4 menservants, 4 women [servants]"[7] This would seem to be one child off but perhaps Dorothy was not yet born, or the count was wrong. Given a two month voyage, July 1637 is good timing for joining a church.[5]
If Samuel's remembrance of his mother's statements were off on the point of staying in Watertown a while, and instead his family moved from the Charlestown/Watertown area (only seven miles apart) shortly, there would be time to make the journey and arrive in Wethersfield before Nov 1637.
Wethersfield
We know for certain that Mr. Henry Smith "of this towne" was in Wethersfield 22 Nov 1637, when Leonard Chester named him overseer of his will on that date.[8][9]
Life in Wethersfield was not always easy for Henry. He says in his will, "I have well proved the difficultyes of this Country."[10] There were other ministers in Wethersfield at the beginning and the records show that this caused some dissension, causing one group to go to Stamford with their minister. It is very likely that Rev. Henry Smith was the first "settled" minister.[11] There was also a major problem with the ruling elder Mr. Clement Chaplin. Henry was eventually cleared of the charges put forth by Chaplin[12] and Clement was fined £10, by the court, "for divulging and setting his hand to a writing cauled a declaration, tending to the defamation of Mr. Smith,"[13]
The Rev. Henry's houselot was five acres on the E. side of High St. bordered south by the burying ground and the lane leading into it[14] He had 240 acres on the east side of the river. In 1647, his salary was raised from £70 to £80 [15][16]
Death, Will & Probate
I Henry Smith, of Wethersfield, being at present in health of body and soundness of minde, considering my mortality, and knoweing it to be my duty to provide for my family and settle my estate, that I may leave no occasion of trouble to my children when I am gone, and that I may be free my self from distractions of this kind, if it shall please God to visit mee with sickness before I dye: I doe therefore leave this testimony vppon Record as my last Will and Testament. Then, for my outward estate, wch, because it is little and I have well proved the difficultyes of this Country, how hard a thinge it will be for a woman to manage the affaires of so great a family as the Father of Mercyes hathe blessed me withall, and have had allso experience of the prudence and faithfullness of my deare wife, who shall, in parting with me, parte with a great parte of her livelihood, I give to my wife full power to dispose of all my estate in howses, Lands, Cattell and Goods whatsoever, within dores and without, only providing if she marry again, or otherwise be able comfortably to spare it from her owne necessary maintenance, that she give to my sonne Samuell that part of my howselott which was intended for my sonne Peregrine, lyinge next to the burying place, and the land I have beyond the great River eastward, and also to him and my 2nd sonne Noah, 5 acres apeece of meadow, with upland proportionable thereunto; and to the rest of my children unmarried, 20 pounds apeece at the age of 21 yeares, or at the time of her death wch shall come the soonest; and for my two daughters that bee married, my desire is that they have 20 shillings apeece, and every one of their children 5 shillings apeece, either in books or such other thing as my wife shall best please to parte withall. And I desire the Church, whose servant I now am, to take an ouersight of my family, that they may be brought vp in the true feare of God, and to see that this my will bee faithfully prformed. In witnesse hereof, I haue subscribed my name, the 8th May, 1648. Henry Smith.[10]
Inventory
Children
Source:[3]
Philippa, b. [say 1622]; d. by 1687; m. by 1640 Deacon John Birdsey (d. Stratford 4 Apr 1690). John and Phillippa Birdsey were admitted to the Milford church 23 Aug 1640, and dismissed to the Stratford Church 19 Mar 1649. He m. (2) Alice, widow of Henry Tomlinson.
Mary b. [say 1624]; m. by or before 1643 Samuel Hale
Peregrine b. {say 1627-9]; d. before 8 May 1648
Rebecca b. abt 1631; m. (1) Samuel Smith, s/o Lt Samuel and Elizabeth (___) Smith; divorced; m. (2) in 1669 Nathaniel Bowman
Dorothy b. [say 1633-5]; d. Farmington, Connecticut in 1706 ; m. John Blackman; m. (2) Francis Hall; m. (3) Mak St. John; m. (4) Dea. Isaac Moore
Samuel b. 27 Jan 1638/9; d. Hadley, Massachusetts 10 Set 1703 in 65th yr; m. Mary Ensign
Joanna b. 25 Dec 1641; d. Hadley 28 Dec 1664 ae 23; m. 4 Feb 1664 Philip Russell
Noah b. 25 Feb 1643/4; d. young after 8 May 1648
Elizabeth b. 25 Aug 1648; d. young.
DNA
Immigrant ancestor of yDNA group NE07 Rev. HENRY Smith-2065 (c1600 ENG - 1648 Wethersfield CT) m poss. 2x Dorothy Unknown-7644 . See SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project.[17]
Sources
? Preston, Mary Isabella, Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Wasson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) (New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, 1930) p 257
? Venn, John & J.A. Alumni Cantabrigienes, Biographical list of students & graduates of the University of Cambridge [ENG] from Earliest times - to 1900 (1927) Part 1 'Earliest times to 1751' Vol IV S-Z p.99]
? 3.0 3.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.) pp 730+
? Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. (London: John Camden Hotten, 1874.) p. 68
? 5.0 5.1 Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789]] (David Clapp and Son, Boston, 1880) p. 9
? Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New Englnad, 1620-1640. A Concise Compend
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