Steve --- While I can't help you with John Whitney and his dependents, I can tell you that Richard Smith (b. unk; d. abt 1682) was of Lyme, Connecticut. Nothing more about his ancestry is known. He m. Mar 4, 1669/70 Bathsheba Rogers, dau. of James and Elizabeth (Rowland) Rogers of New London. She m2 Samuel Fox. Sources: A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE REV. NEHEMIAH SMITH OF NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONN., H. Allen Smith, 1887 [Note: Richard Smith was NOT related or otherwise connected to Nehemiah Smith]; A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, Vol. IV, James Savage. --- Scott Foster