In a message dated 7/4/02 10:37:37 AM, [email protected] writes: << 1. Eliakim SMITH >> Do we have a match? My gggg-grandfather Jedediah Smith was the oldest of 10 children, b. 31 Jan. 1726/27 Suffield, Hartford, CT, d. 2 Sep 1776 in Natchez, MS. He had a brother Eliakim, b. 27 Jan 1735. Longtime minister of the Congregational church in Granville, Hampden, MA. Parents Ebenezer Smith, b. 1699, and Christiana Owen, b. 1704. E. W. Prichard researching SMITH, BAKER, COBB, COOPER, DUNN, ROBERTS, WOODWARD & related families in SW MS and the Florida parishes of LA, 1776-1900, including BUHLER, DEVALL, LILLEY, BARNETT in East Baton Rouge Parish; also CARSON in St. Mary Parish; also PRICHARD, BYRD, HERRINGTON, STRINGER in Franklin County, MS.