Hi Cousin Donna! ...Just two minutes nosing through my FTM files...and...at least four upline connections to these your Smiths so far... ...(and that's just my dad's side!) please note ellipses...below.. ----- Original Message ----- From: <DonnaRNCEN@aol.com> To: <RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [RIWASHIN] 1800 US Census and Smiths > Hi everyone, > I've been working at sorting out one Smith family in Washington County - > the one which married into the Gereardy family. ....yes, Phyllis Gerardy's father Jan/John Gerardy I have b. 1626....I have for his wife Marie Pollet (French?)...he's my 9th ggrandfather...he's the one New Amsterdamer in the tree...tied in with Wickford Cocumcossoc trading post magnate Richard Smith.(is Richard related to this Smith line? he's my 11th g-grandfather...Updykes to Wightmans, to Gardiners....4 generations of these...) ..I'm guessing Jan Gerardy came up West Bay to the Warwick RI area as one of the early Dutch traders...seems I've heard of a Dutch trading post on the West Bay there, and...recently, of one other Dutch trading post on the East Bay side near Sowams/Warren, and near James Brown's Wannamoisett plantation...only thing is, I have for Jan's wife Meribah Sweet...any thoughts on that? (Please see below) These people are tough - that > is all the Smiths, because there were so many and they don't appear to have a > common connection, at least on paper. DNA tests would surely be interesting > :)))) This is some of what I have - and before anyone comments on the > Hopestill Smith/Northup connection, she was shown as the wife of Henry > Northup in Exeter, RI records. She is commonly believed to have married > Joseph Northup and indeed she may have done so, but I think she must have > married Henry somewhere along the line. > If anyone wants more info I have notes and sources in my file and would > be glad to share. Donna Potter in RI > Descendants of John Smith > > 1 John Smith - 1677 d: Bef. October 24, 1677 > . +Margaret Unknown > 2 John Smith 1640 - 1730 b: Abt. 1640 d: 1730 > .... +Phillis Gereardy - 1741 d: Bef. April 13, 1741 in > South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island Father: John Gereardy Mother: > Renewed Sweet ....Not Meribah Sweet, but Renewed Sweet? More than one wife? (Sisters? ...not unusual then...childbirth death and such...) (I was just guessing that, but...hah! That's what's in my database....the two seem to be both wives in succession of Jan/John Gerardy...but my database shows Phyllis's mother as Meribah...am I wrong about that? I also have for these sister's parents John Sweet m. Mary Periam....)(Is this the great South Kingstown line of the famous colonial "Bonesetter" Sweets?) ...And then there's Phillis Gerardy's sister Mary Gerardy m. Jeremiah Smith(Isn't he the abovementioned John Smith's brother...i.e., two Smith brothers m. two Gerardy sisters? ...Is that what you have as well?) and...Jeremiah Smith m. Mary Gerardy's dau. Sarah Smith m....Jeremiah Hazard, (of the great millowning Hazard family)...and their dau. Ann Hazard...m....my John (3) Browning of the South Kingstown John(3) Browning line...there's the first connection.... (then we skip the next Thomas(4) Browning generation....) > ... 3 John Smith - 1771 d: April 24, 1771 in South Kingstown, > Washington, Rhode Island > ....... +Mercy Westcott - 1776 d: February 19, 1776 ...Ho boy! Here we go....at John(3) Browning's grandson's level, and the next two generations after...descended (at least) three more times from them..... ...And by their dau. Bathsheba Smith m. Jeffrey Watson, their dau. Hannah Watson m. Joshua Allen, and in turn their dau. Mary Allen m. Robert (1) Browning of my direct South Kingstown John3 Browning line...some West Bay Quakers here... ...and Mary Allen's sister Sarah Allen m. David Greene...their dau. Sarah Greene m. Robert (2) Browning of my direct Browning line, son of the abovementioned Robert (1) Browning.... ...and Mary Allen's sister Sarah Allen...m. David Greene (of the Potowomuck/Warwick Quaker Gen. Nathaniel Greene line....) and their son Caleb Greene m. Sarah Ann Gardiner(prob. of the Pettaquamiscutt Purchase George1 Gardiner line)...their dau. Patience Gardiner Greene m. Edward Reddy/Ready....(and their dau. Mary Ann Ready/Reddy m. Robert(3) Browning of my direct John3 Browning line, the son and grandson of the abovementioned Robert (1) and Robert (2) Browning... ...That makes four times so far... (Anyone know the upline of these Reddy/Readys? They appear to be Irish....Edward Ready's parents suspected to be Patrick Ready m. Ann Doran....this line has stumped us for some time now...) > ... 3 Daniel Smith > ... 3 Son Smith > ... 3 [1] Hopestill Smith 1680 - 1759 b: Abt. 1680 d: Aft. October > 09, 1759 > ....... +Henry Northup 1688 - 1759 b: Abt. 1688 in North Kingstown, > Rhode Island d: Bef. October 09, 1759 Father: Stephen Northup Mother: > Mary Thomas > ... *2nd Husband of [1] Hopestill Smith: > ....... +Joseph Northup 1676 - 1754 b: 1676 d: Bef. 1754 Father: > Stephen Northup Mother: Elizabeth Harrington ...Hmmm...these are...8th-great-grandparents...Steven1 Northup....son David2 Northup m. Susannah Congdon....(I'm a Congdon! Who's surprised...) their son Robert3 Northup m. Susannah Gardiner....(George1 Gardiner line again.)...their son Benjamin4 Northup m. Ruth Austin...their dau. Elizabeth Sweet Northup m....George Washington Rose...aha!...their dau. Freelove Dorcas Rose m. Greene Herbert Gardiner I...their dau. Mary E. Gardiner m. ....aha! My Robert Browning (4)!... (So it's true! In South County everybody IS related to everybody!) > 2 Mercy Smith 1652 - b: Abt. 1652 > .... +Benjamin Clark > 2 Jeremiah Smith 1652 - 1719/20 b: 1652 d: Bef. February 11, > 1719/20 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island > .... +Mary Gereardy - 1733 m: January 02, 1671/72 in Warwick, Rhode > Island d: Aft. October 01, 1733 Father: John Gereardy Mother: > Renewed Sweet > ... 3 John Smith 1673 - 1727 b: Bef. 1673 d: Aft. 1727 > ... 3 Mary Smith 1674 - b: Abt. 1674 > ....... +John Congdon 1674 - b: Abt. 1674 Father: Benjamin > Congdon Mother: Elizabeth Albro ...There are all the Congdon and Albro cousins... > ... 3 Ephraim Smith 1675 - 1724 b: Bef. 1675 d: Bef. December 14, > 1724 in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island > ....... +Margaret Pierce 1688 - b: Abt. 1688 in Newport, Newport, > Rhode Island Father: Daniel Pearce Mother: Mary Weaver > ... 3 Ebenezer Smith 1677 - 1743 b: Bef. 1677 d: Bef. October 09, > 1743 > ....... +Abigail Unknown - 1743 d: Aft. October 09, 1743 > > ... 3 Sarah Smith 1678 - 1765 b: April 16, 1678 d: March 12, 1765 > > ....... +Jeremiah Hazard 1675 - 1768 b: March 26, 1675 d: March > 02, 1768 Father: Robert Hazard Mother: Mary Brownell ...Yup! Mentioned above...their dau. Ann Hazard m. John3 Browning....my direct line 9th great-grandfather... ...but....equally interesting, their other dau., Ann's sister Sarah Hazard m. Robert Morey of the Newport RI shipbuilding Moreys...their son Robert Morey....well...here's the notation: . " Robert Morey and his father, of the same name, were in charge of part of the work of building the U.S.S. Constitution., better known as "Old Ironsides" > ... 3 Deliverance Smith 1685 - 1715 b: Abt. 1685 d: Aft. 1715 > > ....... +Robert Reynolds - 1715 d: 1715 > 2 Hannah Smith 1658 - b: 1658 > .... +Joseph Case > 2 Daniel Smith 1660 - 1707 b: Abt. 1660 d: 1707 ...Consanguinous best wishes, as always, Barry Hale Browning