Is there a special group for folks working on Smith families? I have a marriage record of a marriage with a Sarah Smith. However, there are so many Smiths, I do not know where to start. Any suggestions out there? Jan

You are right....the Smith name is terrible to look at. However, there is one Smith family in Culpeper that I an also interested in. Well, I am not sure that they were in Culpeper....but they were in the general area. This family is linked to Samuel Smith. Samuel had a will in Louisa County and names one of his children as Sarah. I have been interested in this family because they intermarried with John and Mary Hawkins's family. John and Mary Hawkins seem to have had three children who married children of Samuel Smith. Their son, Philemon, married Samuel's only legitimate child with his wife...Sarah Smith. Two of their daughters, Phebe and Elizabeth married Charles and George respectively. Here is one of the pieces of information on this family in my data base: Phebe later married Charles Smith when he was using the name Smith instead of Noblit. (this makes more sense after I read land transactions that indicated that Charles was born to Samuel Smith out of wedlock) His will in Louisa, Co Va bk2, pg 33. “Left to John Hawkins of Hanover Co, in trust for children: Elizabeth Brown, Lucy SMith, Susannah Wild, William Smith, Ann Smith, Sarah Smith. Ex John Lewis, Patrick Henry, John Hawkins, son William Smith. Dated 30 Aug 1768. Witnesses Cosby Duke, John Cosby, Thomas Teel. Proved 12 Dec 1768. Certainly this is a really interesting Smith family....Marsha in WV [email protected] wrote: >Is there a special group for folks working on Smith families? I have a >marriage record of a marriage with a Sarah Smith. However, there are so many >Smiths, I do not know where to start. Any suggestions out there? Jan > > > >

Marsha--I have run across these people before in my Hawkins research. Could you give me time frame on these Smiths (because those Hawkins were NOT my line, I am not even sure what I did with the research. I do remember one of the Smiths saying "I have slept with Phebe Hawkins and she is a whore" and his being sued by her mother for saying it. BUT, the point is, I am working for a client on SMITH and his line goes back to Richmond County, VA. His ancestor moved to Boutetourt County, but one of his brothers was named Samuel but we have no idea what happened to him. He was born in the early 1720s and I think this time frame MAY be about right. So, a refresher course on the Smiths of Orange you are talking about would be helpful. Craig > From: marsha moses <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:32:08 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VACULPEP] Smith > > You are right....the Smith name is terrible to look at. However, there > is one Smith family in Culpeper that I an also interested in. Well, I am > not sure that they were in Culpeper....but they were in the general > area. This family is linked to Samuel Smith. Samuel had a will in Louisa > County and names one of his children as Sarah. I have been interested in > this family because they intermarried with John and Mary Hawkins's > family. John and Mary Hawkins seem to have had three children who > married children of Samuel Smith. Their son, Philemon, married Samuel's > only legitimate child with his wife...Sarah Smith. Two of their > daughters, Phebe and Elizabeth married Charles and George respectively. > Here is one of the pieces of information on this family in my data base: > > Phebe later married Charles Smith when he was using the name Smith > instead of Noblit. (this makes more sense after I read land transactions > that indicated that Charles was born to Samuel Smith out of wedlock) His > will in Louisa, Co Va bk2, pg 33. ³Left to John Hawkins of Hanover Co, > in trust for children: Elizabeth Brown, Lucy SMith, Susannah Wild, > William Smith, Ann Smith, Sarah Smith. Ex John Lewis, Patrick Henry, > John Hawkins, son William Smith. Dated 30 Aug 1768. Witnesses Cosby > Duke, John Cosby, Thomas Teel. Proved 12 Dec 1768. > > Certainly this is a really interesting Smith family....Marsha in WV > > [email protected] wrote: > >> Is there a special group for folks working on Smith families? I have a >> marriage record of a marriage with a Sarah Smith. However, there are so many >> Smiths, I do not know where to start. Any suggestions out there? Jan >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message