There are a number of excellent articles about the various early Smiths on Long Island. I don't have the references to them. I'd have to look on PERSI. I think the most recent is by Fred Hart. They are probably all in the NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. although there's a so-called Smith issue in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST. You can search on PERSI on Heritage Quest Online. Better narrow it down to those two journals because Smith is an impossible name to search for, of course. If you can't find them, and you really, really want them, I could take time to locate them. But not this week. I'll be at the big FGS conference in Boston all week. Helen Ullmann