FIRST GENERATION 1. Fayette SMITH was born on 1 Aug 1824 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 4 Jan 1893 in Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. History of Greenfield - Shire Town of Franklin County, Mass., by Francis M. Thompson, Volumes 2, Greenfield, Mass. 1904. p. 831. Fayette Smith prepared for college at the old Deerfield Academy, then under the charge of Luther B. Lincoln, and was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1844. He studied law with his cousin John Wells of Chicopee, who became a justice of the Supreme Court. He came to the Hampden bar in 1847 and practised in Chicopee and Holyoke until 1851, when he located in Cincinnati, Ohio. He practised with increasing success and reputation until in 1878 he was elected a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which position he retained for the usual term of five years. From his retirement from the bench in 1883 until 1893, when he gave up the practice of law and removed to this town, he was the head of the law firm of Smith & Martin who commanded a large and lucrative practice. Upon the death of Eunice, the widow of Rev. Dr. John F. Moors and sister of Mr. Smith, he came from Cincinnati and until his decease, which occurred January 4, 1893, he and his wife occupied the Moors' mansion which came to him by his sister's will. History of Deerfield, Volume II, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896. p. 367 of Cincinnati SECOND GENERATION 2. Rev. Preserved SMITH was born on 1 Aug 1789 in Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 30 Jul 1881 in Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. A History of the Churches & Ministers and of Franklin Association, Franklin County, Mass. by Rev. Theophilus Packard, Jr., Published by S.K. Whipple and Company, 100 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 1854. p. 319. Son of Rev. Preserved Smith, the first pastor of Rowe; studied theology with his father, with Rev. Jonathan Grout of Hawley, and with Rev. Dr. Packard of Shelburne; was licensed by Franklin Association, Sept. 16, 1813; was ordained as a pastor of the Unitarian church in Warwick, October 12, 1814, and closed his labors there, after a ministry of thirty years, October 12, 1844; then preached for several years in Pembroke; and then removed to Deerfield, where he now resides. Mr. Smith became a Unitarina minister after being licensed. Genealogical Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths) 1739 - 1900 - The Town of Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Compiled by Marilyn Allred, Feb. 2000. p. 256. Was ordained Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Warwick, 12 Oct. 1814, and for 30 years, it's faithful and devoted minister, preaching the Unitarian Doctrine. History of Greenfield - Shire Town of Franklin County, Mass., by Francis M. Thompson, Volumes 2, Greenfield, Mass. 1904. p. 831. Rev. Preserved Smith was a well known Unitarian preacher who had held pastorates in Rowe, Deerfield and Warwick, and was for some years a resident in Greenfield. He was a descendant of Rev. Henry Smith who was pastor of the church in Weathersfield, Conn., as early as 1635. He was married to Tryphena Williams GOLDSBURY on 18 Sep 1823. 3. Tryphena Williams GOLDSBURY was born on 23 Sep 1801 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. She died on 18 Jul 1835 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. She was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. History of Greenfield - Shire Town of Franklin County, Mass., by Francis M. Thompson, Volumes 2, Greenfield, Mass. 1904, p. 831. Name listed as: Tryphena Goldsmith Rev. Preserved SMITH and Tryphena Williams GOLDSBURY had the following children: 1 i. Fayette SMITH. ii. Eunice W. SMITH was born on 11 Oct 1826. THIRD GENERATION 4. Rev. Preserved SMITH was born on 25 Jun 1759 in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 15 Aug 1834 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. He was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. A History of the Churches & Ministers and of Franklin Association, Franklin County, Mass. by Rev. Theophilus Packard, Jr., Published by S.K. Whipple and Company, 100 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 1854. p. 311. He was the sixth in descent from Rev. Henry Smith, who came from England and settled in Wethersfield, Ct. in 1641. There is a tradition, on which much reliance can be placed, that Rev. H. Smith had a son born while on the passage to this country, and from that circumstance he called his name Preserved, a name that had been tetaine in the line of his descendants. Rev. Preserved Smith was ordained as the first pastor of this Church (Rowe), Nov. 21, 1787, and Rev. Robert Hubbard of Shelburne preached the sermon; and, after a ministry of about sixteen years and a half, he was dismissed, May 30, 1804; and was resettled as pastor of this church, Dec. 2, 1812, and Rev. Jonathan Grout of Hawley preached the sermon, which was published; and after an additional ministry of about twenty years requested a release from pastoral service, March 10, 1832, but was never regularly dismissed by a council. Both periods of his ministry in Rowe amounted to about thirty-six years. After leaving Rowe the first time, Mr. Smith was settled as pastor of two churches in Mendon, October 2, 1805, and was dismissed from there, Oct. 20, 1812. "His early education was much neglected. The schools at that period were imperfectly taught, and only a few weeks during the year. Dilworth's spelling book, and the Psalter, being the principal books used in the primary stages of education. He early discovered a thirst for knowledge; read the books that came in his way, and, when in the field at work, he would seize every leisure moment in exercising himself in arithmetic by the use of a piece of chalk on a log, or a piece of bark It was at that early period that he met with a Latin grammar. it greatly excited his curiosity, and he resolved from that hour, that, if his life were spared him, he would acquire the knowledge of the language, of which that little elementary work was the key. When the revolutionary war commenced, he was sixteen years of age. He immediately entered the army and served five campaigns a soldier in the militia department. He was not called into any actual engagement, but once participated in a skirmish when the army of General Gates and that of General Burgoyne lay side by side on the banks of the Hudson. In 1825, when in company with a friend, he reviewed the ground which were the scences of the most interesting events during the Revolution, and saw the identical pine tree which sheltered him from the balls of the enemy, which lay concealed behind a fortification. The recognition of this old friend, after a lapse of forty-eight years, to which he had been probably indebted for the preservation of his life, deeply affected him. Leaving the army when he was nineteen years of age, he bought his time, as it is called, of his father, and set out in the world for himself, with nothing to begin with save his hands and his health, and blessed with a constitution unusually firm and inured to hardship. He purchased a lot of land, and on this he commenced his labors for himself. With the proceeds of the first crop of grain he was enabled to pay for the purchase, then having an opportunity to sell it at a handsome advance, he was not long in deciding what to do. He immediately set about ful-filling the desire prompted several years before by the Latin grammar already alluded to. He commenced the study of the language with reference to preparation for college under the instructio n of Rev. Mr. Hubbard of Shelburne. He preparation was made partly with this gentleman, and partly under the instruction of Rev. Rm. Murdock of Pawlet, Vt." He graduated at Brown in 1786; and studied theology under the instruction of Rev. John Emerson of Conway; was licensed by the Hampshire Association in the spring of 1878. Becoming a Unitarian, Mr. Smith withdrew from Franklin Association, Feb. 9, 1821. He was the first person from Ashfield who obtained a collegiate education. He published two Masonic discourses, and the farewell sermon he preached at Rowe in 1804. After his dismission from Rowe the second time, Mr. Smith lived with his son, who was then pastor of the Unitarian Church in Warwick, and died at Warwick, August 15, 1834. The following scriptural epitaph is inscribed on his gravestone in he burial ground in Warwick: "Remember them who have spoken unto you the work of God, whoe faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Heb. xiii. 7." History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, by J. H. Temple and George Sheldon, published by Joel Munsell, 82 State St., Albany, N.Y., 1875. p. 538 Grad. R.I. Coll., 1786; settled minister at Rowe, 1787; left there, 1804, and the next year settled at Mendon; in 1812, he returned to Rowe, in 1832 on account of ill health, he resigned his pastorate. He was married to Eunice WELLS in Jan 1788. 5. Eunice WELLS was born on 12 May 1764 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut. She died on 13 Jul 1847. Rev. Preserved SMITH and Eunice WELLS had the following children: i. Royal Wells SMITH was born in 1799. He died on 8 Sep 1820 in Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts. A History of the Churches & Ministers and of Franklin Association, Franklin County, Mass. by Rev. Theophilus Packard, Jr., Published by S.K. Whipple and Company, 100 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 1854. p. 313. Graduate of Williams College in 1818, died while preparing for the ministry, on a visit to Shelburne, Sept. 8, 1820, aged 21. Vital Records of Shelburne, Massachusetts - to the End of the Year 1849, Published by The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 1931. p. 180 of Rowe, Mass. 2 ii. Rev. Preserved SMITH. 6. Col. James GOLDSBURY. He was married to Jerusha WILLIAMS on 28 Apr 1794. 7. Jerusha WILLIAMS was born on 3 Mar 1774 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. Col. James GOLDSBURY and Jerusha WILLIAMS had the following children: 3 i. Tryphena Williams GOLDSBURY.