Dear Rick Harwood and David Hoffman: In connection with Rick's list of Unconnected Brooks, I'd like to offer some other data for your consideration about the parents of James Smith. Simon Smith was his father; I believe his mother was Elizabeth Wells, not Alice or Alice Wells. Torrey is the source of the naming of Simon's wife as Alice - I do not have the new CD from NEHGS which includes Torrey's sources, but Torrey is not an original source. Best one probably is the Haddam Church Records which calls the wife of this Simon Smith Elizabeth Wells. (Simon is the son of an earlier Simon, a first settler of Haddam, and my ancestor.) Torrey also suggests that Elizabeth Wells is the wife of Simon's brother Benjamin, but he is the only one that I have ever seen to make that suggestion. Family Group Sheet Name: Simon SMITH[1] --------------------------------------------- Birth: 1658 Death: 15 Apr 1746 Haddam, CT[2],[3] Burial: Haddam, CT[3] Father: Simon SMITH (1628-1687) Mother: Elizabeth BATEMAN (~1634->1693) Marriage: bef 1688 --------------------------------------------- Spouse: Elizabeth WELLS --------------------------------------------- Birth: c 1672 Death: 8 Jul 1742 CT Father: James WELLS (-<1698) Mother: Elizabeth CLARKE (-1712) Children --------------------------------------------- 1 F: Elizabeth SMITH Birth: 2 Jul 1689 Haddam, CT Spouse: Joseph SMITH Marriage: 31 Dec 1712 Haddam, CT[4],[5] --------------------------------------------- 2 M: Simon SMITH Birth: 6 Oct 1691 Haddam, CT[6] Death: 13 Apr 1787 Spouse: Mary --- SMITH Marriage: 28 Sep 1715 Haddam, CT[6] --------------------------------------------- 3 M: James SMITH Birth: 16 Aug 1693 Death: 15 Sep 1735 Haddam, CT[7] Spouse: Susannah BROOKS --------------------------------------------- 4 M: Jonathan SMITH Birth: 20 Sep 1695 Haddam, CT[6] Death: by 20 jul 1742 [8] Spouse: Mary --- SMITH Marriage: 7 Dec 1730 Haddam, CT[4],[6] --------------------------------------------- 5 F: Hannah SMITH Birth: 22 Sep 1695 Death: 1727 Spouse: Noadiah SEWARD Marriage: 19 Oct 1721 [4] --------------------------------------------- 6 M: Samuel SMITH[9] Birth: c1697 Death: bef 20 Jul 1742 [10] --------------------------------------------- 7 M: David SMITH[1] Birth: 9 Nov 1701 Haddam, CT[6] Death: 1 Jan 1756 Haddam, CT[3] Spouse: Dorothy (Dolly) BRAINERD Marriage: 3 Dec 1728/9 Haddam, CT[6] Spouse: Elizabeth LEWIS (SHALER) Marriage: aft Feb 1754 --------------------------------------------- 8 F: Esther SMITH Birth: 20 Nov 1706 Death: by 20 Jul 1742 Spouse: Abijah BRAINERD Marriage: 28 Dec 1727 Haddam, CT[4],[6] --------------------------------------------- 9 F: Anne SMITH Birth: 15 Feb 1715 Haddam, CT Spouse: Israel CLARKE Notes for Simon SMITH Two sources says married to Alice ______, b 1689[11] who died 8 Jul 1742. [4] All others say Elizabeth Wells. Birth 1658 - Haddam not settled until 1662. Notes for Elizabeth WELLS Keeler-Wood says Simon married Elizabeth Wells.[12] Homer W. Brainard in the Boston Transcript 23 Jan 1935 says Simon "married about 1688 Elizabeth daughter of Capt. James and Elizabeth (Clark) Wells. No dates regarding her are obtainable. She was living in 1756, very aged. Simon Smith in 1710 sold land to his brother Thomas Welles (Haddam Deeds, Vol 3, p 8, Nov 1 1728." Haddam Church member #39 as widow of Simon Smith.[13] Sources 1. Royal R. Hinman, 1846 Catalogue of the Names - First Puritan Settlers - Colony of Connecticut, [Hartford: 1846; reprint Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co, 1968]. 2. "Smith Genealogy by Edward H. Smith," 22 Feb 1896, Tom Burnett <[email protected]>. 3. Lucius B. Barbour, Haddam, Connecticut Epitaphs, All gravestones standing in the town., Copied June - Oct. 1931. 4. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd, Dwight Brainerd, Ed. Donald Lines Jacobus, [Montreal: Printed The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1948], p. 269. 5. Raeola Ford Cooke, William Clark/Clarke of Hartford & Haddam, Conn., p. 6. 6. Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Records, Haddam, Middlesex, CT, [Hartford: Connecticut State Library]. 7. Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records - Hartford District, Manwaring, Charles William, [Hartford: R.S. Peck & Co., Vol I and II 1904, Vol III 1906], I-III, vol. XII, p. 199. 8. New England Historical and Genealogical Register [hereinafter NEHGR], Frank E. Randall, "Inscriptions in Colchester Burying-Ground," #18, 1889, p. 255. 9. Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records - Hartford District, Manwaring, Charles William, [Hartford: R.S. Peck & Co., Vol I and II 1904, Vol III 1906], I-III, vol. XI, p. 112. 10. Raeola Ford Cooke, William Clark/Clarke of Hartford & Haddam, Conn. 11. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Elizabeth P. Bentley, [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1985 Reprint], p. 689. 12. Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler, Josephine C. Frost, [Springfield: Springfield Printing and Binding Co., 1939]. 13. 200th Anniversary of the 1st Congregational Church of Haddam, Conn., [Haddam: 1902], p. 194. -------------------------------------------- Family Group Sheet Name: James SMITH --------------------------------------------- Birth: 16 Aug 1693 Death: 15 Sep 1735 Haddam, CT[1] Father: Simon SMITH (1658-1746) Mother: Elizabeth WELLS (1672-1742) Spouse: Susannah BROOKS[2] --------------------------------------------- Birth: 5 Nov 1706 Haddam, CT[2] Death: bef 24 Feb 1729 [3] Father: Thomas BROOKS (1664-1734) Mother: Susanna ARNOLD (1675-) Children --------------------------------------------- 1 F: Susannah SMITH[4] Birth: 1726 [1] Death: 17 Feb 1796 Haddam, CT[5] Notes for James SMITH No male descendants in Haddam in 1814, or male descendants from sons.[6] Notes for Susannah BROOKS Died before 24 Feb 1728/9, date of her father's will. (Manwaring 3:143-4)[7] Sources 1. Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records - Hartford District, Manwaring, Charles William, [Hartford: R.S. Peck & Co., Vol I and II 1904, Vol III 1906], I-III, vol. XII, p. 199. 2. Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Records, Haddam, Middlesex, CT, [Hartford: Connecticut State Library]. 3. Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records - Hartford District, Manwaring, Charles William, [Hartford: R.S. Peck & Co., Vol I and II 1904, Vol III 1906], I-III. 4. New England Historical and Genealogical Register [hereinafter NEHGR], Frank E. Randall, "Inscriptions in Colchester Burying-Ground," #18, 1889, p. 255. 5. Ancestry Chart, Society of Conn. Genealogists # 4997 Perry Kenly. 6. David C. Field, A.M., A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam, [Middletown CT:Loomis and Richard, 1814], p. 45. 7. Raeola Ford Cooke, William Clark/Clarke of Hartford & Haddam, Conn. ---------------------------------------------