Within a week or two I'll be posting the full name index for Volume 2 on my website: http://www.paland.us. I'll post a notice on Paadams + Payork when I do. I'm in the final - final stages with the book and map and very close to shipping it off to the publisher. Neal -------------------------------------------------- From: <gjsmith58@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:32 PM To: <paadams@rootsweb.com> Subject: [PAADAMS] Smith, John, William and George > > Dr. Neal O. Hively, Thank You. I would really appreciate knowing when > your book > if for sale. Also, might there be a James Smith listed in the land > records? >>From what I understand of the will of John Smith, James inherited land >>from John > Smith. James Smith may be the son of William and Elizabeth Smith, who > married > Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John and Margaret. James Smith is listed in > the > will of John Smith, James is also to care for Margaret Smith, widow of > John. > These Smith families seem to complicate research in naming their children > somewhat the same, except for James {son of William and Elizabeth} and > Hugh, > {son of John and Margaret}, William, son of William and Elizabeth; and > John, > son of John and Margaret Smith. > > Marilyn, I don't think these are of the same William Smith families. > William > and Elizabeth did have a son named William. I don't know who or where > William > II married, or how many children he had. He did have a daughter named > Mary, > who somehow ended up in or near Mercer County, Kentucky. This daughter > Mary {Polly} married an Alexander McMurtry in Mercer > County, Kentucky in 1798. Hugh Smith was the bondsman. William Smith II > was > known as Billy Smith, Indian fighter. I have not been able to track where > he > fought, there are several men known as William Smith in the Revolutionary > War. > William and Elizabeth Smith, the elders, had children, James, George, > William > and Eleanor. Eleanor married a David Bales. > There was a William Smith who took a licensure west of the Susquehanna > River in > 1735, I have not been able to connect him to my Smith family, but it is a > possibility that he was an relative of one of our families. > Thank You both for your answers. > Judy Smith/Colorado > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAADAMS > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAADAMS Message Board are > gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed > messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed > messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. > ************ > Visit the ADAMS County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~paadams/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAADAMS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 3643 (20081126) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > >