----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Zachariah Smiths continued Barbara, this is the tree that you had copied for us in BR. I wish we could find that Bible. Nan > Hi Barbara > Please never hesitate to question anything I do. That is the only way I > can get fresh perspective to find the right answers to our puzzles. > This Smith family has had much work done on it but there remain many > puzzles. > Oh how I wish some of the direct male descendants of Zachariah and your > William M. (Did John Lovelace Smith have any sons?) would do a cheek > rubbing and give us a DNA Sample. We could then have a basis for further > research. I keep close tabs on the Smith project waiting for these > smiths to show up on the list but to no avail as yet. I have gotten a > Smith cousin to provide a sample for Peter Smith. I just need some > Zacahriah and Christopher Kit Smith samples to compare it with. > Your William M's close association with the Lovelace, Wall and Lightner > families was my first clue he might be a part of Zachariah's family. > The family Tree that Nan has is probably the source of all the old lists > that show William M. (Son of Zachariah and Francis) children as > Zachariah, Frances Augusta, William, Betty, Barbara, Elizabeth, Augusta > Matilda, William Henry and Adolphus Frederick. I have been able to find > no records of the first five in any of the records I have abstracted > until I ran into the possibility that your William M. of Sicily Island > might be his son William. > I do not believe that William and Prudence came to Natches district with > their families. I know he was in the Bahamas in1791 from his daughter > Elizabeth's birth record recorded in the St. Martville Catholic Church > records at the time of her marriage to Robert Armstrong.(he may be a > Natches native also) My William M does not show up in Wilkinson records > until 1794 when James' two oldest sons are apprenticed to him. He is > granted land in the Feliciannas in 1797 and buys the property in New > Iberia from Nicholas Hebert in 1798. From there is trail is clearer > until his death in 1811 in what was then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. > (The family owned the property where Shadows on the Tech now sits in New > Iberia.) > William M son of Zachariah was born 16 September 1757 according to the > dates from the Zachariah Smith bible record. So he would have been > married and having children when your William M. was born. > Other than that until I find more records it is just my theory. There > are too many William Smiths in Natches district. > Will be glad to help any way I can to sort the puzzle out. > Thanks! > Sherry > > -----Original Message----- > From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barbara Haigh > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:16 PM > To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Zachariah Smiths continued > > Sherry, am very interested in the theory that Wm M.Smith is son of > Wm.Smith and Prudence Bonner-or at least that my Wm.M.Smith was this > son. If WMS isn't named in W.Smith's will, where is it stated that he > was a son? > Please don't misunderstand...I'm not questioning, just want to be > sure. > WMS was very wealthy over in Catahoula Parish before his death in > 1821. Both he and Patience died young, leaving 5 daughters. Patience was > a double-first cousin of Martha Kirkland, wife of Thomas Marsden Green > of Springfield Pltn. in Jefferson Co. Patience and Martha each named a > daughter Laminda. Laminda Green became wife of Thomas Hinds. Laminda > Smith became my gt-gt-grandmother. > Thanks for any info you can give me. > Barbara > > "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> wrote: > John Smith did not come with them. Or at least I have not been able to > find any indication in the Natches or Wilkinson County Records that he > did. Nor have I been able to find him in North or South Carolina where > the family came from. > I am not sure William came with the extended family to Natches. He may > have arrived later. There are so many Williams in Natches records it is > impossible to place many of them. He appears to have had a merchant ship > and traveled extensively. He was in the Feliciana's but there are few > records existing for him there. The only definite records I get are in > St. Martin, Iberia, and St. Mary Parishes of Louisiana from about 1797 > until his death in 1811. > All of the rest of the family appear to have arrived with Zachariah or > shortly thereafter. Most came with their in laws in tow. > The only one of Zachariah's children who I have not been able to get a > handle on their spouse's family is Peter. I know nothing about Joanna > Goodby's parents or history though I would love to. > Sherry > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:05 AM > To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MSWILKIN] Zachariah Smiths continued > > It just occurred to me that I have gone on the premise that all of the > 1st and 2nd generation offspring of Z & F traveled with them from N.C.- > Adams Co.-Wilkinson Co. Perhaps some were born and remained in Anson > County or elsewere. > > Sherry, as to the first 5 children of William, have you checked Adams > Co. records. Moses Bonner had a tract of land bordering our Widow Mary > Foster here on St. Catherine Creek which was also very near the tract > Zachariah purchased from Wm Penrice in 1783 and later sold to James > Foster before removing to Wilkinson Co. You might also wonder, was > there an epidemic in between the dates of birth of these children. So > many children died in these epidemics. At least Barbara can account for > Wm Martin Smith. > > > I have a copy of some research done by Carolyn Brendt of Birmingham, AL > She is a descendant of Capt Peter Smith through his daughter Frances > Matilda. Are any of you familiar with this? > Nan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. 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