She was married to Morton Wineinger on 3 May 1904 in Jackson County, INdiana.

He was married to Kay Dodson Private. Children were: Marlena Smallwood.

He was married to Elizabeth Jane McCory on 8 Feb 1850 in Jackson County, INdiana. Children were: Laura Smallwood, Mabel (Isabella) Smallwood, George Smallwood , Alta Smallwood.

He was married to Maggie in 1889. Children were: Laura M. Smallwood.

She was married to Jacob Travaniel Munden on 30 Sep 1869 in Jackson County, INdiana. Children were: Bruce Munden, Willard Buell Munden, George Albertson Munden, John Alexander Munden .

She was married to Jackson W. Eastin on 25 Nov 1885 in Jackson County, INdiana. Children were: Roxanna Eastin, George P. Eastin, Charles H. Eastin.

He was married to Nancy Taylor on 16 Nov 1809.

He was married to Daughter Baker WFT Est. 1580-1620. Children were: Margery Smart.

She was married to Brian Philip Wright Private. Children were: Amber Leigh Wright .

He was married to Magdalene Low WFT Est. 1686-1720. Children were: Benjamin , Jr. Smedes, Petrus Smedes.

He was married to Machtelt Ysselstein WFT Est. 1669-1702.

She was married to James Davis in 1701 in Concord, MA.^{(8) (5833)}

She was married to James Davis in 1701 in Cambridge, Mass..

She was married to William Norton Marler on 17 Aug 1882 in Logan, Cache, Utah. Children were: Sarah Jane Marler, Mae Emaline Marler, Franklin Joynes Marler, Verna Ann Marler.

She was married to Jeremiah Ryan on 5 Apr 1810 in Putney, Vt.. Children were: Sarah M. Ryan, Caroline R. Ryan, Charles J. Ryan, Charles C. Ryan, Clinton Fayette Ryan, Mary A. Ryan.

She was married to Josiah H. Frantz WFT Est. 1885-1917.⁽⁸⁶¹²⁾

He was married to Anna Hansen WFT Est. 1773-1806.

He was married WFT Est. 1862-1920. ⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: Garrett Smiley .

He was married to Mavel Beckum Hunsaker WFT Est. 1916-1949.⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: Gladys Imogene Smiley, George Edward Smiley, Garrett Ronald Smiley , Stephen Wayne Smiley.

She was married to Stephen Lee on 27 Feb 1784 in Charleston, South Carolina. Children were: Joseph Lee, Paul Smiser H Lee, Caroline Lee, Maria Lee, Francis Joseph Lee, William States Lee.

He was married to Alice* WFT Est. 1609-1641. Children were: John** Smith .

He was married to Mildred Irene Jillson Private.

He was married to Joane Dabinott WFT Est. 1559-1592 in Eng.

He was married to Joane Dabinott WFT Est. 1559-1592.

He was married to Elizabeth Weaver in 1804.

She was married to *Levi Brundige on 12 Jan 1837 in Chatham, Quebec. Levi and his brother came from Canada together as far as Geneva. Levi stopped at Geneva and his brother kept going, and they never saw each other again.

John Brundige attended a school on the north side of what is now Keslinger Road, about 1/2 mile west of LaFox, according to Clyde Divine.

Charlotte Smith Brundige wrote a letter from Blackberry (LaFox), Illinois to her uncle Ivory Fuller in Chatham, Quebec on August 30, probably 1863. This letter is now in possession of Donald and Elaine Fuller, and has been transcribed by Elaine:

"Dear Unkle,

I thought as you didn't never write to me I would take the liberty to write to you. We are all in good health. There was a bad frost last night. The times is hard. Crops is not very good this season we haven't thash our grain yet we sowed 100 akers of land and sowed _____ grain, 40 of corn. We have 5 horses, 6 cows, 80 sheep, and have enuff to eat and to ware. Mrs. Arnel come from Declab [DeKalb, Illinois] Friday. I nevery saw any person feels as she did. She had reseved a letter from Mindle. It was uncommon. It was full of cusing and daming us at the West for emposing on Louisa. Dear Unkle, please tell our folks Louisa is treated as well as we can treat her. Tell Mother that letter was fawls, for Louisa has not worked for her board since she came to the West. She last spring went out sewing, got two shillings a day, and her health was not so good. At sewing word (?) She came to our house and stayed till May, and a old lady came and wanted her to do housework and sew. She would give her two shillings a week. I thought it was for the best, for she hadn't anything to do only to set around in the way, and she is there yet. I saw her a week ago. Her health was good then, and I have not heard of her being sick very much. It is not only two miles where she is. Our girls goes often to see her. I do not know why she wrote for money. Arthusa gave her ten dollars. Eley gave her ten more. Arnel gave ten also. She was taking sick soon after she got here. I think Eunice done all she was able to do. They had two doctors to attend her. Eley and Arthusa attend too. There was no one to blame for her sickness but herself. When she got so she could ride on the cars, she came to our house, where she was sick yet awile. We had doctors sat up night after night with her and done all we could. Eunice has trouble anuf without Louisa making her any. Her children are all babyes. Arnel is a good provider. They have anything that is wishfored to be sure. The children is worshiped by him. Eunce is quick-tempered and frets a great deal if he drinks as Louisa say he does they will have some trouble. All the letters that come West he sees, and it don't set very well. Give my love to Miss Mindle. Tell her we do not thank her for her letters nor will one [own?] her for a sister. It was bad anuf for a drinking man to write. I expect Mother has trouble anuf to home without any to the West. If you can read this, please read it to Mother, Unkle Ivery. Unkle, now I wish you would write all to me about Father and Mother and your children. Give my best love to Aunt Maritta and her mother, for I did love her deare. Tell Unkle Ryneldo that I often think of him away in the West. Tell them all that I have not regretted coming West, that we enjoy ourselves well. Brundage says whorow [Hoorah?] for Linkon. We all give three cheers for the Union. Brundage and Levi belongs to the lege. The draft is not began in this state yet [some unreadable] Mabe you would like to know about our children. Stelar is marred to widdower he is a very good man. He is a farmer and very well to do. Levi a large heavy man. Amanda is keeping school this summer. The rest is all to home. Tell John Cass Brundage sends his love to him and to you all. I should like to go and visit you all. I wish you to come west and see how we look now. Unkle, you must excuse bad writing for I have not wrote a letter this ten years. My pen is like a rule sharping. Unkle you will write as soon as you can will you give my love to all.
Charlotte Brundige"


From "Record of Kane County, Illinois", Beers, Leggett, & Co., 1888, page 784:

"Levi Brundige, Sr., prominent among the early settlers of Blackberry Township, is the proprietor of a fine stock, dairy and grain farm of 140 acres, situated on Section 1. He was born in New Brunswick, August 31, 1811. His parents, Nathaniel and Eleanor (Clark) Brundige, moved to Canada when he was nine years old, and there the father died, in 1821, at the age of thirty-five years, and the mother in 1845.

The subject of this biographical sketch, Mr. Levi Brundige, Sr., married January 12, 1837, Miss Charlotte Smith, a daughter of Johnson and Arethusa (Fuller) Smith, who emigrated from New England to Canada previous to their marriage. Both of Mrs. Brundige's grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War.

Mr. and Mrs. Levi Brundige have had eleven children.... In 1852 Mr. Brundige bought the farm which he has since occupied. In public relations he has served as a member of the school board, and in his political views is a Republican. Mrs. Brundige is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church."


North Sugar Grove:
1837-1897

"Mr. and Mrs. Levi Brundige, Sr., celebrated the 60th anniversary of their marriage, January 12, at their home, about four miles west of St. Charles. Relatives were entertained at a sumptuous dinner, after which an informal reception for old friends was held from 2 until 4 o'clock. Guests from Aurora, Sycamore, Elburn, LaFox, Sandwich, St. Charles and Sugar Grove were present. Mr. and Mrs. Brundige were married near Montreal, Canada, while William IV was yet king of England. They came to Illinois in 1842 and spent a few years in St. Charles, but have lived in their present home since 1851. Both retain their faculties to a remarkable degree, considering that their respective ages are 85 and 81 years."


Obituary:

"Died, at his home near LaFox, Ill., Feb. 9, 1898, Levi Brundige, Sr., aged 86 years, 5 months and 9 days. He was born on an island near the coast of New Brunswick, Aug. 31, 1811 and came to St. Charles Oct. 25, 1842, living in and near here for half a century, and his friends were legion. For more than sixty-one years he lived with the wife now lying so low that she may follow him at any hour. The end of his long useful life came quietly and easily, and during the last two days of his helplessness the loving old husband bravely repressed every moan for fear he might disturb mother..." Children were: Adeline Brundige, Estella Brundige, Levi Brundige, Amanda Brundige, Melissa Brundige, Marilda Brundige, Portland Bigelow Brundige, Mary Ellen Brundige , Charlotte Brundige, Mary Ellen "Nellie" Brundige, *John Clayton Brundige.

He was married to *Arathusa Fuller on 14 Mar 1815 in Chatham, Quebec.⁽⁸⁸⁸⁰⁾ Children were: *Charlotte Smith, Ellison Smith, Stella Smith, Nancy Smith, Martha Smith, John Smith, Mariah Smith, Amindle Smith, Henry Smith.

He was married to *Martha Mills about 1784. From U.S. National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension Application Files, Roll 2223:

"29.752 Johnson Smith's Declaration

Rejected

Hon. B. F. Deming H R
Feb 18, 1834.

State of Vermont
Orleans District

At a Probate Court holden at Barton within and for the district aforesaid on this 28th day of January AD 1834 personally appeared in open court Johnson Smith a resident of Chatham in the County (or district) of the Lake of the two mountains in the Province of Lower Canada aged 73 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make this the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

That about the first of March in the year 1777 there was a call for the Town in which I was then living (New Boston N.H.) for sixteen men to be raised from said Town to join the American Army and that the Town was classed? into 16 estates? and offered one hundred dollars each to those who would enlist for three years when I with 15 others enlisted for three years and received each $100- in paper continental money which proved of little value to us. Those who enlisted with me were named John Smith, Thomas McNeal, John Jronass Johnathan Monging[?] Abner Hagg. The names of the others who enlisted at that time I do not recollect as they did not join the same company but those whose names are above all with myself joined Gen. Poor's[?] Brigade in Col. Cilley's Regiment in Capt. William Scott's Company, we passed muster at Wilton in the state of Massachusetts we then marched to Charleston, N.H. (then called Number four) where we drew arms and provisions and marched to Ticonderoga where we continued until Burgoyne's army arrived, and I was placed as a sentinel on what was then called the Jourey redoubt and was the Court person who discovered Burgoyne's Army as they were coming up the Lake and I fired the alarm at that time.

Not many days after Burgoyne arrived with his Army we retreated from Ticonderoga by order of Gen. McElvis[?] who had left the place five days previous and had left orders for our retreat at the time we left, when we had got as far as Hubbardton on our retreat we were attacked early in the morning by Indians & Tories (and I know not but them [?] some British among them) when our army suffered considerably more especially Col. Warner Rigament which suffered severely after the battle. We then proceded to Fort Miller on Hudsons river where we made a stand of a few weeks when the enemy coming nearer too us than we wished we retreated to Saratoga where we returned until the enemy came near, we then retreated to Stiwater where we continued until the British came up when we had three days battle with the enemy on the last of which Burgoyne with his Company retreated back to the plains of Saratoga where he was obliged to capitulate on the morning after the capitulation of Burgoyne's army and as they were marching off from the ground Burgoyne was upon his horse and I saw him draw his sword from its sheath and present the hilt of it to Gen. Gates who told him to kick his side arms and he (Burgoyne) returned it into the sheath after Burgoyne surrender there was nothing special took place during that season, but I assisted in transporting the [?] that was taken from Burgoyne to Fishkill and after we left Fishkill we marched to Valley Forge where we wintered.

In the summer (I believe in June) of 1778 Gen. How left Philadelphia to march to New York by land our army pressed them and came up with the enemy at Monmouth where we had a hand fought battle and killed 1500 m. of the enemy & wounded 2000 m. Part of the time the fighting was by pushing the bayonet our loss was only 30 killed & 300 wounded the battles which I have mentioned were of the most consiguance of any I was in although I was in many small skirmishes the battles at German Town and Brandywine I was also in.

The second winter I was out we wintered near Hartford in the State of Connecticut one winter we were stationed at Castleton in Vermont (part of the winter) during the remainder of my service we were at many different places much of the time we were marching up and down the Hudson River as [?] [?]. I enlisted for three years as above stated but served six years and from March until June or July being over six years that I was Served as a private in the Revolutionary War.

It will be seen that my enlistment was for three years but I with Thomas McHead & John Smith were returned as droving the war mon.

The manner in which we were returned as droving the war was this John Jrondass who was Orderly Sergeant of the Company had been guilty of some offence for which he was liable to be broken (that I afterward learned) that he had the the offer that if he would procure three men to enlist for droving the war he should be pardoned and he the said Jrondass being acquainted with our hand writing forged our names to an enlistment at droving the war mon which was unbeknown to us until our three years enlistment was nearly out. I never left the army from the time of my enlistment until my return after the war had closed being over six years at which time I returned and my parents brothers and sisters did not know me when I returned having heard and supposing that I had been dead.

I was born in New Boston in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire on 5 day of June 1760 where I suppose is a record of my age. I lived in New Boston except while I was in war until until I was 23 or 24 years old. After that I lived in various towns in Vermont & New Hampshire for about four years when I settled in the Town of Topsham in Orange County Vermont where I lived fifteen years. I then removed to Stanbridge near Missisco Bay where I lived and in Dunham a town adjoining about five years. I then removed to Chatham my present place of residence where I have since resided.

I received a written discharge from Gen. Stark[?] at the close of the War which I have lost. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declar that my name is not on the pension roll of the [?] in any state.

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid

Johnson Smith

I John Smith of Barton in the County and district of Orleans aforesaid do hereby certify that I wale[?] remember my brother Johnson Smith's returning home to smay[?] in New Boston N.H. at the close of the Revolutionary War. (I being then about nine years of age) and at that time and ever since it has been understood in the family and also in the neighbourhood that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and I further certify that I in my childhood & ever since have understood that he was at the taking of Burgoyne ... Monmouth Battle and that he was in the army serving[?] and was in Col. Cilley's Regt.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid -

John Smith

And the said court do hereby declare these opinions after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that John Smith who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in Barton [?] and is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit.

I Hon. H. Kimball Register of said court do hereby that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Johnson Smith for a pension.

The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my [?] and seal of Office this 28th day of January 1834.

John H. Kimball Register-


February 17, 1915.

Mrs. Herbert Norton,
139 S. 8th Street,
St. Charles, Illinois.

Madam:

In response to your letter...

He stated, that he was born June 5, 1760 at New Boston, New Hampshire where he resided when he enlisted, about the first of March 1777, for three years, as a Private in Captain William Scott's company, Colonel Cilley's regiment of New Hampshire troops: he marched to Ticonderoga, and was in the battles of Hubbardton, Stillwater, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth; and then finding that he would not be discharged at the end of his three years but would be held "for during the war", he deserted, having served one year and seven months.

In explanation of his desertion he stated, that the Orderly Sergeant of Captain Scott's company, who was under suspicion, was told to procure three men to serve "for the War", and that he forged his, Johnson Smith's name, who thereupon told his officers that if they would not discharge him at the end of three years, he would desert at the first opportunity; he did so and on arriving home in March 1779, he hired one Matthew Stewart for $330. to serve as his substitute.

The pension was not allowed on account of the charge of desertion.

After the Revolution ...

It also appears that Johnson Smith was commissioned on June 5, 1795, Captain in the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Fourth Division of Vermont Militia...

He was appointed Assistant Assessor of the first district in the third division of the State of Vermont, October 23, 1798 at which time he was a resident of Topsham....

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

I David Dodge of lawful age depose and say that I am acquainted with Johnson Smith and have been acquainted with him from a child. I remember that he went into the service of the United States as a private soldier I think it was in the year 1777 I recollect of his returning home to New Boston I believe in the year 1779 then he hired Mathew Stewart to take his place. It was commonly reported that he gave Stewart an extravagant price. It was commionty[?] reported that Genl. John Start gave the said Johnson Smith his discharge. David Dodge

At a probate court holden at Barton in said District on this 8th day of March 1834 personally appeared before said court Johnson Smith a resident of Chatham in the district of the Lake of the two Mountains, Lower Canada, aged seventy three years, who having first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted as a private into [?] of the United States in the New Hampshire Line for the term of three but was returned for during the war as stated in my first declaration I joined Capt. Scott's company in Col. Cilley Regt. April 5th 1777. That the second summer after my entering the service I learnt that I was returned as during the war. When a difficulty arose as to my term of service. and I told my officers that if they would promise to discharge me at the close of three years oservice I would remain otherwsie that I would desert the first opporutnity. I accordingly deserted after I had been in the service about a year and seven months with one John Bano (or Beno) who was a corporal in the same company. and we went to the town of Pawlet in the State of Vermont that whilst at Pawlet Capt. Scott sent to us that if we would return to our company we should suffer no punishment. Nano returned and joined our company and was made a Sergent as I understood. I returned home to New Boston New Hampshire and in the month of March 1779 I hired a man by the name of Mathew Stewart to take my place for during the war for which I paid the said Stewart three hundred and thirty dollars - in good money - and the said Stewart took my place and served in my stead in the Army. and I received a written discharged signed by Brig. Gen. John Stark certifying that I was discharged by having substituted the said Stewart in my place which discharge I sent to Exchange when I received my [?] 2 terms no & [?] of service. And that after this I received the asseninges[?] of my pay which was ours at the time of my deserting. and in the year I believe 1792 I drew my military bounty land. I would further state that by sundry papers it will appear that I have the confidence of my country after the War.

I was a tru whig and did [not?] desert by reason of disaffection to the American cause but wholly on account of the difficulty as to my term of Service. and when I had obtained a man at great expense to serve in my place I believe that all the offence of my deserting was wholly healide[?].

Subscribed and Sworn on the day and year aforesaid--

Johnson Smith.

And the said court do hereby declare the opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

I John H. Kimball Register of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the supplementary application of Johnson Smith for a pension.

In restissry[?] whereof I have hereunto set my [?] seal of office this 28th day of March 1834

John H. Kimball Register




From History of Argenteuil, page 321:

"Captain Johnson Smith, who had been a soldier in the American Revolution, came from New Hampshire to Stanstead, Que., about 1799, and in 1805, to the front of Chatham, and bought 100 acres of land, which is now owned and occupied by Geo. M. Bradford. In the war of 1812, he became Lieutenant of Militia, and after the war, he was promoted to the rank of Captain - a title by which, subsequently, he was always known and addressed. He had five sons and five daughter. His two eldest sons, Walter and Johnson, were also soldiers during the war of 1812, and the former was wounded at the Battle of Lacolle Mill. Captain Johnson Smith died 30th November, 1857; his wife died 19th February, 1850. Three of their sons, Johnson, Daniel, and David, all remainded in Chatham till death, and reared large families."

From a letter from Nancy Smith, dated December 11, 1990:

"When Johnson Smith and Martha first were in Canada it was very wild. One day an Indian came to their house and a fight ensured. Johnson was losing and about to be scalped when in a desperate move to get free Johnson brought down the Indian's arm with the tomahawk with his one free hand and cut off several fingers on his other hand which was being held down by the Indian. In this way he was free to step away from the Indian. Immediately, Martha, who was standing by the fireplace, flung a kettle of boiling water at the Indian to stun him, then picked up the gun in the corner and shot the Indian dead! Johnson's hand healed up but of course the rest of his life he worked minus several fingers. This story was generally told in praise of the ruggedness of the pioneer woman."
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From "The Reverend Richard Bradford", page 156:

"Walter Smith and Laura Fuller 'both of this place' were married by Mr. Bradford on Monday, January 31, 1814. They both lived on his land, and both therefore lived in Chatham. Calvin Fuller and Sarah Smith were the witnesses and the wedding would be in the home of Ephraim Fuller, who was the father of Laura and Calvin, and lived about a mile north of Mr. Bradford. Presumably Walter Smith was home on leave, possibly due to illness. About two months later, on March 30, 1814, he was wounded at the Battle of Lacolle. He was the son of Lieut. Johnson Smith, U.E.L. of Chatham, who was also in the militia in the War of 1812, and his son Johnson Jr., too. These were two of the brothers and the father of Martha Smith, wife of George Bradford."

On page 167, "On Tuesday, March 14 [1815], Mr. Bradford married two young couples. Since they were married on the same day, and were all Chatham people, they might have had a double wedding. Johnson Smith, son of Capt. Johnson Smith, was married to Arethusa Fuller. Both lived on Mr. Bradford's land. Their witnesses were Walter Smith and James Fuller. Then Jacob Brewer and Nina Smith both of Chatham were married. Nina was probably a cousin of Johnson Jr. and the daughter of James Smith, who was a witness, with Isaac Merrill. If this was a double wedding it might have been in the George Bradford school."
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From "Sketches of the Town of Topsham, Vermont", 1929:

"The first votes in the Town of Topsham after its organization were cast by the proprietors or their proxies and the owners of the various lots on the first day of November, 1792. By the records of Johnson Smith, clerk of that meeting, the allotment of the town according to a plan exhibited by Major Caleb Willard was adopted." It appears that Johnson Smith was not given any of the lots. Children were: *Johnson Smith, Daniel Smith, David Smith, Walter Smith, Martha Smith, Jacob Smith.

He was married to *Betsy Ramsey WFT Est. 1735-1784. Children were: *Johnson Smith , James Smith, John Smith.

He was married to *Ann\Mary Karr WFT Est. 1705-1739. From "History of Old Chester, From 1719 to 1869", by Benjamin Chase:

Thomas Smith was among the 24 persons admitted as proprietors of Chester November 20, 1720. "Of the proprietors who were allowed 'settlery for ye first year'... only two of them were actual settlers - Samuel Ingalls and Thomas Smith - and Smith might not then have resided in town. The proprietors had voted, January 11, 1721, 'That each Propr that does not settle shall pay ten shillings per year during three years, the whole to be Divided yearly among those that settles.' The proprietors would build a house and break up a piece of ground, and would be entitled to the money. This settlement money, amounting to twelve pounds, is charged by the receiver or treasurer as having been paid to Samuel Ingalls in 1723. There is another list, 'For ye 2d & Third year,' of eighteen, all but Ingalls and Smith non-residents." In 1723, Thomas Smith was among those who were allowed 10 shillings for settlement. (pp.27-28)

"Lt. Thomas Smith is sais to have come from Hampton to Chester, though born in Ireland. Among several families of Smiths in Hampton, the names of the other grantees are not found. Benjamin, Samuel and Thomas Smith were cut off from Haverhill [Massachusetts] by the settlement of the province line in 1741. Thomas and Benjamin were paid settlement money in Chester, and were probably Haverhill Peak men." (p.47)

"Lt. Thomas Smith was a grantee [of Chester, New Hampshire], having been admitted by the committee, Nov. 20, 1720, in the place of Richard Swain. It is said that he came from Ireland to Hampton, but his name is not found on Hampton records. He came early to Chester; was a lot-layer in 1725, and selectman in 1728. It is said that he married a sister of John Karr, Sen. He settled on II.L. No. 150. His name appears frequently on the records as Lt. Thomas Smith. In March, 1762, he sold to Gideon Rowel of Amesbury, and moved to New Boston. The Rowel heirs conveyed to Nathaniel Sleeper. John Picket and Thomas Haselton have since owned it.

In 1721, he and John Karr were taken by the Indians, an account of which I extract from Dr. Bell, N.H. His. Soc. Coll. Vol. 7, p.404:-

'Karr was about eighteen years of age, and his sister was Smith's wife. They were making brush fence to secure the cow from the Indians. They were surprised by the crack of a gun, the ball passing between them, touching Smith. The Indians sprang upon and captured them; a scuffle ensued in which Smith turned the butt of his gun with a view of sinking the lock into the head of Capt. Joe English, the leader of the Indians, but missed his aim. (The hill in New Boston, whose south end is very steep as seen from Auburn, was named for this Indian.) They were captured. They proceeded northward till night, when the keepers each managed to secure his prisoner for the night. They were not allowed to see where each other lodged. Smith's captor cut a notch in the spreading root of a beech tree, fitted in the ankle of the prisoner, then drove down a stake so as to make the foot secure, while the prisoner was lying on his back. His arms were also tied above him with the sinews of a deer. The next day they pursued their journey, the prisoners not being allowed to speak to each other. The next night Smith took special notice in which direction Karr was placed from him. He was secured as on the night previous, with the addition of having hooks put over his elbows and driven firmly into the ground.

Resolving to make his escape after his Indian was asleep (the Indian slept on the ends of the cords with which he was bound), he gradually tried the strength of his strong arms, and the hooks gave way. Then he found that the cords would give. He continued to strain upon them until he could get his thumbs under the cord that stretched across his breast. Then with that aid he raised it upon his chin, then got it into his mouth, and after a long trial, succeeded in raising it over his nose, and finally over his entire head. He might have killed the party but thought it would be murder. Leaving them to their pleasing dreams, they found a stream of water in which they traveled as far as possible to elude the dogs. At length they climbed some trees, and soon the day dawned, when they heard the alarm war-whoop of their disappointed captors, which was answered by another party on the opposite side of them. Their position was now a critical one; directly between two parties of Indians so near as to answer each other with the voice. Descending, they made their way back towards Chester, where they arrived on the evening of the third day after capture. The garrison was at Chester, not Londonderry.

The above is the relation of Dea. Thomas Smith, a grandson of Lieut. Smith, now (1852) over eighty years of age.'

John Smith was probably a brother of Lieut. Thomas, and was the first settler at the Long Meadows. In laying out Gov. Wentworth's farm of 200 acres in 1728, they began 'about 40 rods from John Smith's corner where he now dwells.' Thomas Smith deeded to him the Add. No. 51 in 1731, and something is said in the deed about his quarter or share. They had bought Brownell's right, or a part of it. John and Rachel Smith sold John Mills No. 51, in 1741. Thos. Shirley and Capt. James Silver afterwards occupied it." (pp.593-594)
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From "History of New Boston, New Hampshire", by Elliott C. Cogswell, 1864:

"Thomas Smith - He came from Chester to this town about 1734, when it was an entire wilderness, and settled where the late Hiram Lull lived, in the east part of the town. He was for some two years the only white man within the present limits of New Boston, before the grant of the town was made. It was near his farm that the Proprietors built sixty dwelling-houses, a grist and saw mill, and a meeting-house, as early as 1740. Mr. Smith is said to have built the first frame house in New Boston, and it yet stands in a state of comparatively good preservation, and constitutes a part of Widow Hiram Lull's house. Mr. Smith was once obliged to flee from his farm before he had moved his family to it, because of the presence of Indians. They had done violence to some neighbors living a few miles from him in Goffstown, and seeing traces of one or more in the vicinity of his cabin, evidently seeking an opportunity to capture him, he precipitately fled with his faithful gun, and returned not until the Indians had departed from his neighborhood. His son Samuel, in 1765, lived where the late Deacon Thomas Smith died; his son James perished with cold on the road leading from his father's to Parker's, in Goffstown. His son Reuben was in the war of the Revolution, and after the close of it he removed into the State of Maine, near the Passamaquoddy Bay." (page 349) Children were: *Samuel Smith, Deacon John Smith, James Smith, Reuben Smith.

She was married to John H. , Jr Williams WFT Est. 1830-1862.

She was married to Jones Williams WFT Est. 1836-1868.

He was married to Jeanette Tillotson WFT Est. 1884-1917.^(23380)

He was married to Sarah Willard WFT Est. 1789-1822.

He Private-Begin Private.

He was married to Hannah Brown WFT Est. 1808-1822.

She was married to Josiah Flanders in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.⁽⁶⁰⁾ Children were: Nathaniel Flanders, Zebulon Flanders, Samuel Flanders.

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