{geni:about_me} He was the son of Samuel Smith was born Apr 1644 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts and was christened 20 Apr 1644. He died Dec 1719/1729 in Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey. His parents and siblings - data is;
>Samuel married (1) Esther Dunham on 1680 in Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey. Esther was born about 1657/1659 in , Essex, Massachusetts. She died 14 Aug 1689/1690 in Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey. They had the following children:
>>23F i. Elizabeth Smith was born 15 Aug 1681 in <Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey>. She died after 9 Dec 1719. Elizabeth married Matthew Bunn. Matthew was born 1681 in <New Jersey>.
>>3 M ii. Samuel Jr. Smith was born 18 Apr 1685/1690 in <Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey>. He died 9 Dec 1748 in Elizabeth/Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey.
>>4 M iii. Benjamin Smith was born 28 Jan 1687 in <Woodbridge, Somerset, New Jersey>. He died 8 Jun 1731/1732. Benjamin married Sarah Shotwell, daughter of John Shotwell and Elizabeth Burton, on 29 Apr 1712 in , , New Jersey. Sarah was born 1694 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey. She died 2 Oct 1786.

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Samuel SMITH
* 18 Apr 1685 - Dec 1748
* OCCUPATION: Merchant
* BIRTH: 18 Apr 1685, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
* DEATH: Dec 1748, Elizabeth Town, Union, NJ
* Father: Samuel SMITH
* Mother: Esther DUNHAM
* Family 1 : Rebecca

Children:
* Hezekiah SMITH Hezekiah's will places him at Piscataway, Middlesex County, in 1790. Piscataway is on the Raritan River, half way between Bound Brook and Elizabethtown. The will names Hezekiah's
* wife as Sarah and thc children Hezekiah and Peter. He mentions a home plantation in Piscataway
* and a house in Bridgewater, Somerset County. (Bridgewater is now Bound Brook.)
* +Joseph SMITH
* Othniel SMITH
* Samuel SMITH
* William SMITH

Family 2 : Mercy TAYLOR
* +Joseph SMITH

1715 - ____
BIRTH: 1715, Sussex, NJ [1123]
EMIGRATION: ABT 1755
Father: Samuel SMITH
Mother: Rebecca
Family 1 : Rachel ALRED

Benjamin SMITH Some question as to whether wife is Sarah Nicholson or Ellinar Irons, m 20 Oct 1767.

Joseph SMITH BIRTH: 13 Aug 1740, Sussex, NJ married Mary BONHAM 4 Nov 1769

Jeremiah SMITH BIRTH: 13 Sep 1741, Log Gaol (Johnsonburg), Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

DEATH: 1809, Hardwick Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA ,married Margaret VAN ATTEN Info on this family from Herbert V. Book's draft typescript, and Ancaster's Heritage From Log Gaol area Will dated March 1803. Hardwick Twp., Sussex Co., NJ

Othneil "Othol" SMITH OCCUPATION: Cooper BIRTH: 29 May 1743, Log Gaol (Johnsonburg), Sussex, NJ [1133] DEATH: 20 Feb 1813, Charlotteville Twp., Norfolk, Ontario, Canada BURIAL: Woodhouse Methodist Cmtry., Woodhouse Twp., Norfolk, Ontario, Canada Some claim family roots are from Cheshire England to NJ in 1749. Parents Samuel John Smith & Sarah Curtis. Settled in Norfolk Co. See Annals of Forty # 8 p. 50, "Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement", p.243; Grant Smith & Jannis Rogers, Long Point Settlers Journal, Vol 4 No. 4, Oct 1997. Reputedly part of 1787 party, but not on return. Pioneer Sketches states 1778- both wrong.

[Willard Tottle claims 1778- email 2 Jun 2001. Othneil, Silas, John & 11 other families incl. John Kelly b. 1748 made up party.] Settled originally in Grimsby area near brothers, 1796; before moving to Norfolk Co. in mid 1798. Land Petition 25 Jun 1796- claims arrived a few days earlier with wife & 9 children. Nathaniel Pettit

knew & recommended. Granted 200 acres , Lot 24 Con III On Lot 24 Con V Charlotteville Twp., Norfolk Co. ca 1800 where better wood for barrell making. Will dated 20 Feb 1813 mentions wife Elizabeth; children Andrew, Garrett, Samuel, Rachel Boughner, Abraham; gson Joseph, son of John deceased

Rebecca SMITH BIRTH: 27 Feb 1744 & John Mills U.E.L, [U.E.L.=United Empire Loyalist] of Sussex Co., NJ to Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario John Mills was imprisioned in 1788 and in 1794 applied for a land grant. The British Empiregave him 200 acres in Grimsby, hence the move to Ontario. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...M%20LINEAGES-1.html]

Mary SMITH BIRTH: 11 Oct 1746

Samuel SMITH BIRTH: 7 Feb 1748

Rachel SMITH BIRTH: 5 Mar 1752

+John Cooper SMITH OCCUPATION: Cooper BIRTH: 22 Aug 1754, Sussex, NJ EMIGRATION: 1787, "The Forty", Ontario, Canada DEATH: 26 Aug 1826, Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada BURIAL: Fifty Burying Ground, Winona, Saltfleet Twp., Wentworth, Ontario, Canada Smith and associated lines from a GEDCOM at RootsWeb by Ronald Cox [roncox@cam.org]. There was a John Smith as part of the1787 party; a married man, horse and cow, no children. Hence would suggest either before 1787. [Willard Tottle claims 1778- email 2 Jun 2001. Othneil, Silas, John & 11 other families incl. John Kelly b. 1748 made up party.] Question as to name- was it Cooper, or was he called "Cooper" because of his trade? Settled Grimsby Lot 17 Con I & II "Smith Genealogy (Absalom Smith)" Jesse Smith Lowe, Highland Park, IL (1933) Blanche Beal Lowe, Newark, OH (1966)

"People & Places From Grimsby's Past" Dorothy Turcotte, Grimsby, ON, 1995 Smith, pp. 69-70 "...John, lived in Sussex, New Jersey near Jonathan Pettit's Log Gaol. As a Loyalist, he came to The Forty in 1787 with the other families from that community." Brant County, Ontario Biographical Sketches: Burford Township from "History of Brant County, 1883" Warner and Beers, p. 621 http://www.rootsweb.com/~onbrant/biosburf.htm

(This sketch only lists eight of John's twelve children.)

Silas SMITH BIRTH: 18 Apr 1756, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA DEATH: 4 Jan 1844, Saltfleet Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, CANADA BURIAL: St. Andrew's Ang. Cmtry., Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada married 1): Esther married 2) Mary MCGEE Annals of the Forty" R. Janet Powell Grimsby Historical Society, 1950-1959 Volume 8, p. 46 The Annals cite Silas' death as being on 14 Nov 1844. Reputedly part of 1787 party, but not on return. [WillardTottle claims 1778- email 2 Jun 2001. Othneil, Silas, John & 11 other families incl. John Kelly b. 1748 made up party.] 600 acres Saltfleet Lot 2, Con II to V Became local Methodist preacher. "Silas Smith, UEL and his descendants" R. Janet Powell states, "lived for a time in Germantown, Pennsylvania and then in the Log Gaol district in Sussex County, New Jersey" Also implies a relationship between two families of John & Joseph Smith, "Family historystates that she (Esther, wife of Silas) was a cousin of Silas but this has not been proved". Preponderance of evidence is that they are cousins.

Sarah SMITH BIRTH: 30 Oct 1759

Annals of the Forty" R. Janet Powell Grimsby Historical Society, 1950-1959 Volume 8, p. 41

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Smith and associated lines from a GEDCOM at RootsWeb by Ronald Cox [roncox@cam.org].

Found in Bound Brook area of NJ, near village of Woodbridge on land from his father; c. 1735.

In a land transfer dated 1718 Samuel Sr. gave his son, Samuel Jr., a meadow and half of land containing forty acres lying within the township of Woodbridge on the east side of the road that leads to Elizabethtown. This land waspart of a parcel that Samuel Sr. received in his patent and the land layed out by the appointment of the freeholders. A man named Jacob Janeway had a store in East Jersey. It appears to have been located in what was later the town of Bridgewater and is, today, Bound Brook. Jacob kept a set of books (now called the Janeway Account Books) from 1735 to 1746 and the following items appear on page 43 of volume 33.

Smith... Joseph, Oct 35 - Sep 46, son to Samuel
* ... Otheniel, Jun 35 - Aug 46, son to Samuel; delivered to Joseph Smith
* ... Samuel, Mch 35/6 - Feb 45, at Lamerton, John Bewah near, James Anderson on his place
* ... Samuel Jr, Oct 44, Dec 44
* ... William, Dec 36 - Jan 42, son to Samuel; joint account with James Quirck.