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REUNION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Descendants of William Smith 
 
 HELD IN 
 
 PETERBOROUGH, N. H., 
 
 August 10th, 1904 
 
 SMITH FAMILY CREST 
 
 CLINTON : 
 
 Press of William H. Benson 
 
 1906 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Researches in Ireland 5 
 
 Programme of Reunion 16 
 
 The Reunion 17 
 
 Historical Address 20 
 
 Military History 57 
 
 Robert Smith and His Descendants 79 
 
 John Smith and His Descendants 92 
 
 James Smith and His Descendants 103 
 
 Jeremiah Smith and His Descendants 112 
 
 Hannah (Smith) Barker and Her Descend- 
 ants 119 
 
 Jonathan Smith and His Descendants .... 128 
 
 Samuel Smith and His Descendants 150 
 
 Family and Guests Present at Reunion... 174 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Family Home, in Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Frontispiece 
 
 Birthplace of Robert Smith 11 
 
 Out-Buildings on Robert Smith Place.... i^ 
 
 Site of Robert Smith's Tannery 81 
 
 Site of First Presbyterian Church, in 
 
 moneymore 106 
 
 General View of Moneymore 130 
 
 Main Street in Moneymore 157 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In the preparation of the papers upon the sons 
 and daughters, and their descendants, of William 
 Smith, the writers were limited to ten minutes each. 
 When it was decided to publish the proceedings, it 
 was thought advisable to have some of the addresses 
 edited by inserting many interesting facts and circum- 
 stances of family history, which it were worth while 
 to preserve, and of which there was no opportunity 
 to speak under the original limitations necessarily 
 imposed. As here printed, they contain a fairly com- 
 plete family history down to 1904. It was not designed 
 originally nor has it been attempted in the revision, to 
 give a genealogy of the family, though much valuable 
 genealogical data are found in the different papers. 
 Altogether the contents of this volume are full of 
 interest to those who trace their descent from William 
 Smith and his wife, Elizabeth Morison. 
 
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RESEARCHES IN IRELAND. 
 
 It has long been the desire of many interested in 
 family traditions to learn what light investigations in 
 Moneymore, Ireland, and an examination of Church 
 and other public records there would throw upon the 
 history of the family prior to 1736. In the summer 
 of 1905 such researches were made and herewith is 
 given the result: 
 
 The libraries of Belfast, the place first visited, 
 yielded no information. The Linen Hall Library, 
 an institution similar to the American Antiquarian 
 Society, of Worcester, Mass., had no family gene- 
 alogies. It contained histories of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Ireland, and of the General Assembly, but 
 the name of Smith or Morison, of Moneymore, or 
 Londonderry, was not found, nor did any volume 
 give an account of the settlement of Ulster by the 
 Scotch in the 17th century. The records of the 
 different Presbyterian Churches are not kept at the 
 oflSce of the General Assembly. The offices of the 
 Harbor Commissioner and of the Collector of Customs 
 
f» RKSKARCHES IN IKKI AM), 
 
 seiKi lijcir records, containing passciijjcr lists of people 
 leaving Ireland, every seven years to London, where 
 they are destroyed. No such records were kept as 
 early as 1736, and if any were made, they have long 
 since disappeared. The effort to obtain a description 
 of the vessel in which Robert sailed, and the names 
 of his fellow passen;jers, thus failed totally. 
 
 Money more was next visited. The town is 
 thirty -two miles from lielfast. and with fifty -six 
 other towns was granted to the Drapers Hall Com- 
 pany of London, in 1606, by King James L In 
 Pynner's Sur\-ey of the Drapers Hall Company .s 
 Land (found in the Probate Office at Dublin), dated 
 1619, there is this description of the town: 
 
 ^^ "Moneymore — 3210 acres. This proportion is 
 
 not set to any man. but is held by the Agent. Mr. 
 '[ Russell. Upon this there is a strong bawn (a walled 
 
 enclosurf) of stone and lyme lUO feet square 15 feet 
 "high, with two maps, there is a castle within the 
 
 Bawn. of the same wideness being battlemented and 
 ''which hath aUo two flankers nearly nnishetl. Right 
 ^1 before the castle are built IJ houses, six of lime and 
 II stone very gocxl. and six of timber inhal)ited by 
 
 I\nglish families, and this is the best work I have 
 ■'seen for building; a water mill and mault house 
 
 also a (|uarter of a mile from the town there is a 
 
 "conduit head which bringeth water to all Places in 
 
 "the liawn cS: town in ])ipes. Ihit the.se tenants 
 
 I have not any estates foi the Agent can make none 
 
 neither will they (have estates) till such time as 
 '|their land can be improveil to the utmost. Within 
 ' this castle there is a good store of arms." 
 
RKSEARCHES IN IRELAND. 7 
 
 The town has now a population of about five 
 hundred, but that number is slowly declining. It 
 has a weekly grain market held on Fridays, and a 
 fair held on the 21st day of each month. There is a 
 small hotel, also a co-operative creamery, but no 
 manufacturing of any kind; and with the exception 
 of three or four small stores and as many saloons, the 
 occupation of the people is agriculture. It contains 
 one Catholic, one Episcopal and two Presbyterian 
 Churches. 
 
 The stronger of these Presbyterian societies is 
 also the oldest, and is the one to which Robert and 
 Elizabeth Smith belonged. Its present building is 
 quite large, its walls bare of all adornment, and was 
 built on its present site by the Drapers Hall Company 
 in 1825. The earliest record of a Presbyterian Church 
 in Moneymore is 1684, and its pastor from 1697 to 
 1734 was Rev. Henry Crookes. It now has no 
 organ, and the music of the serxace is entirely vocal, 
 rendered by the young people who occupy the pews 
 front of the pulpit. In faith it is Conservative Pres- 
 byterian, and the ser^'ice is much the same as was 
 that of the Presbyterian Church in Peterborough prior 
 to 1790. The oldest church building of the Society 
 in Moneymore stood on a site some distance away, 
 now occupied by a Catholic School. It was in the 
 edifice on this spot that Robert Smith and his wife 
 probably worshipped, and in the yard about it their 
 
8 RESEAKCHKS IN IRKI.AND. 
 
 ••^.^-^i.-i. ucic buric-d. All traces of the house and 
 cemetery disappeared long ago. When the workmen 
 were excavating for the foundations of the present 
 school building they came upon many human remains 
 which establishes the fact that there was once a ceme- 
 tery there. This First Presbyterian Parish has no 
 records of births, marriages or deaths prior to 1825. 
 and no such records were found in Moneymore. 
 
 Three families bearing the name of Smith are still 
 l>v.ng i„ Moneymore. There is one, also, bv the 
 name of Sianton, which through the female line trace 
 Its descent from the same name. Thev spell their 
 surname Smylh, but on some of the stones in the 
 cemeteries it was written as the family spell it here - 
 Stnif/i. 
 
 One of these Smith families consists of two men. 
 William Smith, aged seventy years and never married', 
 and a brother. James Smith, aged eighty, a helpless 
 paralytic. The latter has three sons in Worcester. 
 Mass.. named respectively James. John ;nul Robert! 
 The father of the two occupants was James, and the 
 grandfather. John Smith. They I.ve on a small farm 
 of f.)urteen acres, at a rental of £(y per annum. The 
 house is a small stone cottage with thatched roof and 
 having three rooms. The furnitur and surroundings 
 indicate straightened and humble circumstances. 
 
 Another Smith family lives on the "Desertmartin" 
 road, about three miles from lla- village of Money- 
 
RESEARCHES IN IRELAND. 9 
 
 more. This family consists of John Smith, aged 
 about seventy years, never married, and the widow 
 and children of a deceased brother. John had two 
 brothers, William and Robert, both dead. Their 
 father was James Smith, and their grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Smith. James died about thirty years ago, aged 
 ninetj'- three years. The house is of stone, two 
 stories, with many outbuildings also of stone, and 
 they have a farm of about thirty-seven acres. 
 
 A third Smith family living about three miles from 
 the village, in the opposite direction, consists of John 
 Smith, aged about thirty-five years, unmarried, and 
 his two unmarried sisters — Mary J. and Margaret, 
 Their farm consists of twenty -one acres under a 
 high state of cultivation. This family is an offshoot 
 of the one on the " Desertmartin " road. The 
 other family — Stanton — which traces its descent 
 from the Smiths, is that of Mrs. Matilda J. Stan- 
 ton, a widow, and her children. She is a daughter 
 of Thomas Smith and also a granddaughter of 
 Thomas. She owns about two hundred acres of 
 land, situate three miles south of the village toward 
 Cookstown, and divided into two farms about a mile 
 apart, one of them being on the main road two miles 
 from Moneymore. From all the evidence obtainable, 
 there is strong reason to believe that the latter farm 
 was the birthplace and home of Robert Smith. The 
 house consists of two parts, one very old, of stone, 
 
10 RKSKARCHES IN IREI.ANn. 
 
 a thatched roof and one siory in heiglit ; the other 
 and newer j)art, two stories and built of brick. There 
 are many outbuildings, some of them apparently of 
 great age. Kverythinp about the place save the two- 
 story addition to the dwelling, indicates great 
 antiquity. The house stands about fifty rods from the 
 main roa<l, on quite an elevation of ground. Fifteen 
 or twenty rods distant, on the north side of a private 
 way leading from the main road to the buildings, and 
 abutting on the main road, is the site of an old 
 tanner>', though every vestige of the industry has 
 now disappeared. The son of Mrs. Stanton, a young 
 man of twenty -five or thirty years, conducted the 
 writer to the spot, and told him that he him.self had 
 filled up the last of the «.ld tanning vats, and remem- 
 bered the remains of many others within the same lot. 
 The site does not now belong to the Stanton estate, 
 having been recently sold off, but the place, together 
 with the farm, came to his mother through her father. 
 Thomas Smith, and had been owned by the Smith 
 family from time immemorial, much longer than the 
 period of the grandfather, Thomas Smith. From Hr- 
 testimony of Mrs. Stanton and her children, and from 
 the statements of many of the oldest and most intel- 
 ligent people of Moneymore, and very many were 
 inter\'iewed as to the fact, this was the unly tannery 
 ever existing in Moneymore. 
 
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 The part of Money more in which this farm is situ- 
 ated is called' ' Dunnibraggy . ' ' In the office of the Pro - 
 bate Records of Dublin was found the original will of 
 James Smith, of Dunnibraggy, Moneymore, dated 
 1777, in which the testator gives to his brother, John 
 Smith, the right and property of his houses and lands, 
 also, all the debts and rents he owes him, and charges 
 the legatee "with the care and support of my aged 
 father." The testator also gives small legacies to his 
 sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Sarah. It is evident 
 that the instrument is the will of the probable pro- 
 prietor of this place and that he was an ancestor of 
 Thomas Smith, the grandfather of Mrs. Stanton. The 
 only circumstances opposed to that contention is that 
 Mrs. Stanton and her family belong to the English 
 Church, while all the Smith families named are of the 
 Presbyterian faith. The writer is convinced that this 
 estate at Dunnibraggy is the place where Robert 
 Smith lived and was probably born, and the tannery 
 was the one carried on by him. 
 
 None of the families have any traditional or record 
 knowledge of their ancestors back of the grandparents 
 of the eldest now living. They have no genealogies, 
 no information of the names of the forbears and their 
 children, or their occupations. Beyond the grand- 
 father their family history is a blank absolutely. 
 Socially they have little intercourse with each other, 
 but all say the families are related though the con- 
 
IJ RESEARCHES IN IRELAND. 
 
 nection dates back many generations. They do have 
 a tradition that lonj; ajjo some of the family went to 
 America, but of their names an*l the date of their 
 mijjration they know nothinj^ even from hearsay. 
 
 That they are all descendants of the same family 
 with Robert Smith, one striking bit of evidence was 
 found, cubing into the cemeteries of Money more, 
 parting the tall grass and scraping the dirt and moss 
 from the headstones which lay flat on the graves, one 
 can still read the names of Robert Smith. James 
 Smith, William Smith, John Smith, Marj- Smith. 
 Elizabeth Smith, Sarah Smith and .Margaret Smith 
 — names which have been preserved in every genera- 
 tion of the descendants of Robert Smith down to the 
 present day. Among those still living in Moneymore 
 not one was found who did not bear some out- of those 
 familiar family names. 
 
 Comparatively few of the graves in the cemeteries 
 at Moneymore and I.^ndonderry have headstones, and 
 the inscriptions of an older date than 1790 could not 
 be deciphered. In that cool, moist climate, the action 
 of the frost and wat3r speedily obliterates the lettering 
 originally caivcd on the stones. 
 
 Though close investigation was nrule, nothing 
 could be learned either from histories, records, 
 or oral tradition, when the faniily migrated to 
 Ireland, n«jr from what part of Scotland it came. 
 Moneymore was, however, settled very early, 
 
RESEARCHES IN IRELAND. 13 
 
 and there is record evidence that the family 
 was there in 1631, and probabh' earlier. In 
 the office of the Diapers Hall Company in London 
 was found the assignment of a lease of land in Monej^- 
 more by Henry Mynn to James Smith. The lease is 
 written on parchment and only the signatures and 
 names of parties, with the town, are legible. It is 
 dated December 20, 1631. There was also found a 
 letter from James Smith of Moneymore, administrator 
 of Peter Banker, to the Drapers Company asking for 
 a license to assign his lease or interest in the Com- 
 pany's property to Sir Jo. Clotworthy,' and a letter 
 of the latter to the same purpose, dated in 1632. 
 Also the assignment of a lease by James Smith of 
 Moneymore to Sir Jo. Clothworthy, dated 1633, of 
 land in that town. This was written on paper. The 
 writing was very distinct, but the precise locality of 
 the land in Mone3^more could not be identified. The 
 Records of the Drapers Hall Company showed no 
 other conve5'ance of land to or b}' any Smith of 
 Moneymore. This may be explained b}^ the fact that 
 verj^ early, the year was not ascertained, the Com- 
 pany leased all its lands in Moneymore to Sir John 
 Rowley, in whose family the title remained until 1816, 
 when it was reconveyed to the Drapers Company. 
 
 1 He was probably the same Sir John Clotworthy who was a member of 
 the Long Parliament, and was appointed one of the Committee to draft 
 the articles of impeachment against the Earl of Strafford. See Sanjords 
 Studies and Reminiscences of the Great Rebellion, pase 311; and who owned 
 estates in Ireland, same, pase 410. 
 
14 RKSHAkCHFS IN IKHI.AN'U. 
 
 The James Smilh above named coultl not have been 
 of the lamily of Robert Smith's wife. Frttm the 
 family records, see (ieneah)j;y of William Smitli, 
 1852. page 1, which states that her father was J nnes 
 Smith of England, who was the son of James Smith 
 of Scotland. They could not, therefore, have been 
 in Ireland in 1631-33. This James Smith must 
 therefore have been an ancestor of Robert vSmith. 
 
 The Stanton branch of the family has produced 
 many men of marked al)ility, who have rendered 
 efficient public service, as officers in the army and 
 navy, and in civil life; among them have been a 
 number of graduates of Queens and Trinity Colleges. 
 The writer recalls with pleasure his most hospitable 
 reception by one of them, Rev. James H. Smith, of 
 Pomcroy in county Tyrone, a graduate of Trinity, and 
 who for thirty years was a Chaplain and Professor of 
 Mathematics in the Royal Navy. It was through his 
 kindly courtesy that the cast of the Smith Family 
 Crest, see the title page, was obtained. The delightful 
 interview with Mrs. Stanton and her accomplished 
 daughter at the latter's home in Belfast, also, left 
 many pleasant memories. The writer was cordially 
 welcomed by all the representatives of the family in 
 Moneymore, who gladly furnished him with whatever 
 information they had and made many earnest inquiries 
 as to the welfare of the lamily on tliis side of the 
 ocean. 
 
RESEARCHES IN IRELAND. 15 
 
 An effort was made to get further knowledge of 
 the families of Elizabeth Morison and Margaret Wal- 
 lace by researches in and about Londonderry, but 
 without result. The same conditions as to family 
 genealogies and church records exist there as in 
 Moneymore. The oldest Presbyterian Church in 
 Londonderry had no records of births, marriages and 
 deaths earlier than 1825. In the Cathedral (Epis- 
 copal) Church were records dating prior to 1679 
 and subsequent to 1704. These were examined but 
 furnished no definite information. In the Apprentice 
 Hall is a tablet to the Apprentice boys, who in 1688, 
 of their own motion, closed the city gates in the face 
 of the advancing columns of King James' Army, and 
 the name of Robert Morison heads the list. From 
 the City Records it appears that one James Morison 
 was a member of the City Council m 1681, and that 
 one William Morrison was sworn in as Sheriff before 
 the City Councils in 1689, and was given the freedom 
 of the city. The identity of these men with the 
 family of Elizabeth Morison could not be determined. 
 It would seem from the different spelling of the 
 surnames that they were of distinct families. Of 
 Margaret Wallace, or her family, not a trace was 
 found. 
 
 On the whole, the search, while less successful 
 than had been hoped for, was not without interesting 
 discoveries. The facts ascertained, and the writer's 
 
16 RKSKARCHKS IN IRKI.AM). 
 
 conclusions from all he saw and heard, arc herewitli 
 given ill full, and tlu- interested family reader may 
 draw his (nvii inferences whether they are justified by 
 the evidence produced. 
 
 Jonathan Smith. 
 
Robert Smith 
 
 OF MONEYMORE, IRELAND 
 EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 
 
 1736 
 
 WITH HIS SON,. ^/LL/^M 
 
 Ye Blanchard Presi, Worcester 
 
WILLIAM SMITH 
 
 Ireland I q 2^^ Petc?-borough^ N, H,, lSo8 
 
 HE reunion of the descendants of 
 William Smith will be held at the 
 old home, Elm Hill, Peterborough, 
 New Hampshire, on August loth, 
 1904. 
 
 You are cordially invited with all members 
 of your family. 
 
 Conveyances will leave Tucker's Tavern in 
 Peterborough for Elm Hill about nine o'clock 
 on the morning of August 10th, returning at 
 such hours as will meet the convenience of the 
 guests. 
 
 Dinner will be served in the old barn at Elm 
 Hill bv the hostesses, Mrs. Perkins Bass and 
 Mrs. (jeorge E. Adams. 
 
 You are invited to bring with vou pictures 
 or relics of living or deceased members of your 
 branch of the Smith fiimily ; also ancient letters 
 or documents which would be ot general family 
 interest. All such will be faithtullv cared for 
 and returned to the contributors at the close of 
 the meeting. 
 
 After the dinner addresses, prepared for the 
 occasion, will be read. 
 
ADDRESSES 
 
 Historical Address 
 
 By JONATHAN SMITH, Esq. 
 of Clinton, Mass. 
 
 The Smith Family in the Military Service 
 
 By Capt. JOHN STEARNS SMITH 
 of St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 V 
 
 Robert Smith and His Descendants 
 
 By J. GORDON R. WRIGHT, Esq. 
 
 of Cincinnati, Ohio 
 
 'John Smith and His Descendants 
 
 By JOHN H. CAVENDER, Esq. 
 of St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 ^ , James Smith and His Descendants 
 
 By MARCUS SMITH THOMAS, Esq^. 
 of Decatur, Mich. 
 
 Hannah Smith Barker and Her Descendants 
 
 By ANDREW JEWETT, Esq. 
 
 of Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 'Jonathan Smith and His Descendants 
 
 By Mrs. PERKINS BASS 
 of Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Samuel Smith and His Descendants 
 
 By ABBOTT EDES SM1;TH, Esq^. 
 of Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
THE REUNION. 
 
 The reunion was held, as stated in the circular, at 
 the old family home, in Peterborough, New Hamp- 
 shire, which had been founded by William Smith in 
 1751, and where his father, Robert Smith, lived during 
 his last years, and where he died. A cold rain storm 
 prevailed throughout the day, but it did not chill the 
 spirits of the assembled relatives nor cast any shadow 
 over the enjoyments of the gathering. Represen- 
 tatives of the family were present from St. Paul, 
 Chicago, New York, Connecticut, Vermont and Mas- 
 sachusetts. Most of them arrived the previous evening 
 and were comfortably lodged at the hospitable tavern 
 of George Samuel Tucker in the village, and were 
 conveyed to Elm Hill in the morning, in barges and 
 carriages, arriving at the house about 9.30 o'clock. 
 All were greeted with a cordial welcome by the host 
 and hostesses — Mr. and Mrs. George E. Adams and 
 Mrs. Perkins Bass. Cheerful fires blazed on the 
 hearth of every room, and though the storm kept 
 everyone within doors, it interfered in no waj' with 
 the pleasure of the meeting. 
 
18 THK REUNION. 
 
 Some were present who had never before visited the 
 place, nor met many of the cousins whom they found 
 assembled. Hut no introductions were necessary and 
 the Reception Connnittee found little to do in the 
 way of making the guests acquainted with each other. 
 On a large tabU* in the South Room were placed old 
 family pictures which guests had brought with them ; 
 also there were ancient documents relating to events 
 in the family history, old letters, family heir-looms, 
 samples of the skill and industry of the fathers and 
 mothers of two generations gone, and many other 
 interesting and valuable memorials which attracted 
 great interest. The forenoon passed in conversation, 
 tracing family pedigrees and relationships, and in 
 exchanging reminiscences of scenes and incidents of 
 the past. 
 
 At one o'clock adjournment was made to the large 
 barn, which had been fitted up and decorated for the 
 banquet. The entire floor space had been cleared ; 
 the walls adorned witli the tools and implements of 
 husbandry and housekeeping of a hundred years ago 
 — spinning wheels, reeds, looms, churns, cheese 
 presses, winnowing mills, plows, hoes, spades and 
 •other articles of ancient farm and household use. 
 Huge old fashioned brass kettles stood about filkd 
 with golden rod, and the tables were adorned with 
 great bouquets of wild and cut flower.^ from the farm 
 and garden. Suspended from the beams and ]iosts of 
 
THE REUNION. 19 
 
 the barn were bunches of corn and other cereals 
 grown on the place. The banquet was most generous 
 and prepared with the highest skill of the culinary 
 art by the hostesses of the day, and was thoroughly 
 enjoyed by all. 
 
 After the dinner the addresses, here following, 
 were given. They had been arranged and prepared 
 with a view of giving a complete history of the family, 
 except genealogically, from the time of its arrival in 
 this country in 1736 down to the date of the reunion. 
 How nearly the plan was actually carried out a perusal 
 of the papers will show. 
 
 lyong as the program was, the addresses held the 
 close attention of all until the end which was not till 
 past six o'clock. After an enthusiastic vote of thanks 
 to the hosts for their munificent hospitality, the guests 
 returned to the hotel, where breaking up into groups 
 they continued the reunion until the hotel lights were 
 turned off for the night. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 Hy Jonathan Smith. 
 
 In Oil! Motialily, Sir Walter vScott has sketched 
 the life of one Robert Paterson, who for forty years 
 travelled among the hills and valleys of vScotlaiid. 
 visiting the places where the Covenanters, fallen in 
 the civil and religions wars of the previous century', 
 lay buried. The great novelist tells us that Paierson. 
 going to the cemeteries, would reset the fallen tablets, 
 brush away the moss and lichen from the grave- 
 stones, recut the letters and brighteji the inscrijitions 
 and memorials car\'ed on the monuinents, which 
 recorded the names and told in Scrij)tnral language 
 the blessings and rewards which had come to those 
 who slept beneath. 
 
 It is a .service not unlike that rendered b\- Rolitil 
 Paterson to his fallen countrymen, which calls u^ here 
 to-day. We arc met at a place- mack' dear !>> tlit 
 memories of our forbears. Like (Vd Mortality, wc 
 revisit the scenes of their labors, brush away iIk- 
 dust and moss which have partially obscured their 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 21 
 
 lives and deeds, and chisel deeper into our hearts 
 the record of virtue and high example they left us. 
 Ancestor worship, we do not, indeed, celebrate with 
 mystic rites and incantations. But in waj^s more 
 refined, and by methods of which the savage never 
 knew, we gather to pay reverence to the memories, 
 recount the service and acknowledge our debt to those 
 from whose loins we sprung. Let us invoke the 
 presence of those choice spirits who on this very 
 spot, more than one hundred and fifty years ago, 
 founded for themselves a home and for us a shrine at 
 which we can pay the full measure of filial devotion./" 
 
 William Smith and Elizabeth Morison, to whom 
 we trace our lineage, were of Scotch -Irish stock. 
 By Scotch -Irish is meant simply those people, who, 
 in the Seventeenth Century, emigrated from Scotland 
 to Ireland, and in the Eighteenth Century, removed 
 from Ireland to this country. While in Ireland they 
 did not intermarry with the native Irish, and so thej- 
 preserved their racial identity. At the time of their 
 arrival in America they were as purely Scotch in traits 
 and blood as the emigrants directly from Edinburgh. 
 The term is peculiar to the race in this country — it is 
 unknown among the people of Ulster. 
 
 In William Smith there may have been a slight • 
 strain of English blood. His mother, Elizabeth 
 Smith, was the daughter of James Smith of England, 
 and he was the son of James Smith of Scotland. But 
 
KI>iTOKICAI. ADDRKSS. 
 
 Klizabetli Smitli may liave been as pure Scotch as her 
 husband, for anything we know certainly. The only 
 evidence of possible KukHsIi lineay:e is that ht-r chil- 
 dren used the I''n»;lish and not the Scotch diak-ct. and 
 were the only ones of the early settlers of the town 
 who did. Whatever the fact may be, William Smith 
 was thorouijhly Scotch in character and temper. His 
 wife, however, was of the pure blood, s]ioke the 
 Scotch dialect down to the end of her days, antl 
 declined, against the remonstrances of her children, 
 to use any other. 
 
 The basis of this stock was Celtic. Between the 
 Sixth and Twelfth Centuries it had become mingled 
 with strains from the Saxon, Dane and Scandinavian, 
 which modified in some degree the original Celtic 
 character. This mingling of blood combined with 
 the influences of soil and climate which prevail 
 between the Tweed and the Grampian Hills, and the 
 almost continual civil and religious wars, had evolved 
 a peculiar people, which for the work of settling a 
 new country and laying broad and deep the foun- 
 dations of a great Democratic Republic has had no 
 equal in the history of mankind. 
 
 //- The short seasons of Scotland, the sterile soil, 
 and the cool, moist climate, in the course of time 
 impressed certain traits upon its i)eople. Life was a 
 constant wrestle with poverty; hal)its of the most 
 rigid economy and j)ersevering industry were neces- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 23 
 
 sary for a bare material existence, which traits became 
 
 a part of the warp and woof of the race. It made the 
 
 Scotchman self-reliant, independent in thought and 
 
 action, and fearless of danger. He was also stern in 
 
 demeanor, reserved in speech, quick in temper, and 
 
 clung to his opinions with a tenacitj^ as firm as the 
 
 hills of his native land. It has been said of him that 
 
 "he was the most orderly, the most persistent of men ; 
 
 slow to feel, but susceptible of the deepest feeling; 
 
 capable of enthusiasm but not easily aroused ; as brave 
 
 as the bravest ; not slow to take offence but moody in 
 
 his wrath ; and strenuous for liberty and law against 
 
 mobs and monarchs, lords and levellers." He had 
 
 traits, too, not so lovely to contemplate, for he was 
 
 harsh in temper, often cruel, quick to resent an injury 
 
 and slow to forgive one. To his convictions and his 
 
 ideals he was loyal even to the sacrifice of property 
 
 and life. In political opinion the people were from 
 
 their earliest history different from many others. Of 
 
 all the inhabitants of Europe they were the most 
 
 democratic in political thought and action, and herein 
 
 lies the key to their National history both in fields of 
 
 government and religion. Down to its union with 
 
 Great Britain, no nation on that side of the Atlantic 
 
 ever had so many and cruel Rebellions. The King's 
 
 person was never sacred in Scotchmen's eyes. Of 
 
 the Stuart line alone they murdered two kings, 
 
 deposed two, drove their queen from the country, and 
 
24 HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 (..mini Jaiiio \ 1. aluiiii the country as a prisoner. 
 They were first to raise the standard of revolt aj^ainst 
 Charles I., and afterwards j^ettinjj possession of his 
 person, sold him and his cause to his Kn^lish enc-mies 
 for a price. 
 
 I?nt loyalty to their clan and its chief was as 
 strong as their allegiance to their King was weak. 
 This was a distinguishing trait of the Celtic race, not 
 only in Scotland but in Ireland and in ancient (laul. 
 The King they seldom saw, but the chief of the clan 
 was personally known to all his tribe. They followed 
 his standard in war through \ictory and defeat. He 
 visited them in their homes, shared their hum])le fare, 
 slept upon their beds of rush, espoused their quarrels 
 with tlie neighboring clan ;uid avenged their wrongs. 
 The loyalty of the Scot to his chief distinguished the 
 Highlander and Lowlander alike. While a Celtic 
 trait, at the bottom lay that fearless democratic spirit 
 so marked a fe ture of the Scottish character. 
 
 In the Sixtt't-nth Century another intluence came 
 in which, while it did not modify the Scot as to his 
 leading traits, ditl give him a new object of interest, 
 and to his thoughts a new direction. Tliat was Cal- 
 vinism. This faith he accepted more completely than 
 any other people ami imshed its doctrines further to 
 their logical conclusion. It was a creed which har- 
 monized with the Scotch character of that age and the 
 natural forces which had made it what it was. It is 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 25 
 
 fashionable to think we have outgrown and left it far 
 behind. But in the past it has been a mighty force in 
 the affairs of men. Out of its iron creed and theories 
 of Church government have come those great ideas of 
 civil and religious liberty which have now become 
 incorporated into the constitutions of the most 
 civilized nations of the earth. In the past, no people 
 having once accepted it have ever bowed the knee to 
 royal or priestly power, either in Church or State. 
 Its Church government was Democratic to the core. 
 The people chose their own ministers; the laity 
 were represented in the General Assembly and had 
 large influence in dictating its policy. It claimed 
 supremacy over the civil power in all Church affairs, 
 and did not hesitate to defy the arbitrary will of 
 the Stuart kings when they sought to override its 
 decrees. Thus it gave added force and direction to 
 the Scotchman's democratic principles. It strength- 
 ened that spirit of individualism, or rather that quality 
 of self-reliance and personal responsibility which had 
 always been peculiarly his own. Calvinism was a 
 faith that exalted man because it honored God. It 
 taught its believer that he was made by an Infinite 
 Power which would finally judge him. From its 
 gloomy eschatology he reasoned that the fiery pit 
 was not created for a mere worm of the dust but 
 for a creature of vast powers and possibilities for 
 good and evil. The scheme of redemption was 
 
26 HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 tlevised for hitn. He faced iIk- responsibility of 
 accepting or rejecting it, ami asked no sympathy 
 or aid of any one. "W'liat can we do for yon," 
 asked the- symj^athizing friends standing about 
 the bed of a dying Scotch- Irishman in the Smith - 
 west. "Let me alone," was the feeble rejjly. 
 He had fought the battle of life according to his 
 own reason and conscience and was not afraid to 
 face the final ordeal alone. 
 
 Rut aside from adding fresh vigor to his democracy 
 and exalting his individualism and self-reliance. 
 Calvinism influenced the Scot in other ways. It 
 stimulated his mind, and aroused his interest in 
 education, which, from the daj's of John Knox to the 
 present, has been a prominent feature of his character. 
 The creed enjoined upon its believer to study the 
 Scriptures. "All sorts of people," nins the catechism, 
 "are bound to read it apart by themselves and with 
 their families, with diligence and attention to the 
 matter and scope of them, with meditation, application 
 ami prayer." The Scotchman's earnest, practical 
 temper construed this injunction literally, and no 
 article of his faith was more devoutly obeyed. lU 
 was to seek the meaning of the text in the Bible itself. 
 The minister could, indeed, be consulted for light, 
 but in the last analysis his own reason and conscience 
 were to be the final interjjreters. The abstruse, 
 metaj)hysical character of the confession ami its iron 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRKSvS. 27 
 
 logic ; the constant study of the Bible and Catechism ; 
 the continual effort to think out their meaning and 
 how their texts and statements applied to the problems 
 of daily living, were in the highest degree stimulating 
 to the mind, and strengthened and developed the 
 reasoning powers. It excited a desire for education 
 that they might better understand and apply the solu- 
 tion of its intricate questions to the issues confronting 
 them. In Scotland it made them a nation of mental 
 philosophers and metaphysicians ; in this country 
 they became the pioneers of education, "for," says 
 Green, "they seem to have furnished the principal 
 school masters of all the provinces south of New 
 York prior to the Revolution, and it is noteworthy 
 that a large portion of the leaders in that great move- 
 ment in the lower Middle and Southern States received 
 their education under men of this race." 
 
 Just how far the Scotchman, as here briefly out- 
 lined, w'as modified by his sojourn in Ireland, it is 
 not easy to define. That he w^as changed by his 
 residence in Ulster, to some extent, is probably true. 
 In his native land he had little, if any, sense of humor, 
 and the diflBculty of making a Scotchman see the point 
 of a joke passed into proverb long ago. The Scotch - 
 Irishman was known here for his keen sense of humor 
 and love of fun. Thej' had, however, none of the 
 impulsive droller}' of the Irish nor the delicacy of the 
 French wit, but were a resultant from grafting the 
 
28 IIISTOKICAI. AUDKKSS. 
 
 rollicking fun of the former and the reBnement of the 
 latter upon the stern, matter-of-fact, practical Scotch 
 nature. It was a wit intensely personal in its char- 
 acter, and the Scotch -Irishman using it spared neitlier 
 friend nor foe, old nor young, nor idiosyncracies of 
 manner or temper. It developed a fondness for 
 ridicule more dreaded by its victim than its user's 
 wrath. Practical joking was another favorite form of 
 it, and a chance to raise a laugh at another's expense 
 was seldom left unemployed./ The elder John Smith 
 often gave illustrations of the trait. He went one 
 day into a neighbor's blacksmith shop, still standing 
 about 100 rods down the road. While there, a 
 stranger came in to get his horse shod. The 
 proprietor, a worthy, industrious citizen, had the 
 infirmity of a fiery temper, which .Mr. Smith delighted 
 to stir up. At the stranger's appearance, divining 
 his errand, he got into conversation with him and 
 infjuired his errand. On being told it was to have 
 his horse shod, Mr. Smith answered in a loud voice: 
 "O, they don't know anything about shoeing here. 
 Everyone who gets his horse shod lure has to stop at 
 the first place he comes to and have the shoes taken 
 right (jff and set over again." Tlu- blacksmith's 
 wrath overflowed. " You're an old fool," he angrily 
 retorted. And then Mr. Smith laughed in his face. 
 
 They were as keen in retort as in attack. Mr. 
 Smith's daughter I\li/.abeth, who marrietl her cousin. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 29 
 
 Samuel Morison, and lived in the large house about 
 half a mile to the west of us, now belonging to the 
 estate of the late George S. Morison, is described as 
 having been exceedingly plain in her old age, and 
 during her last 3'ears was an invalid. Her brothers 
 Jeremiah and Jonathan one day went to visit her. 
 One had been Chief Justice of the State; the other, 
 a staid and dignified deacon in the Church for many 
 years, and both were white-headed. Yet they spent 
 the whole afternoon joking and poking fun at their 
 bedridden sister. The Judge, spying her nightcap 
 put it on, and going to the looking glass, exclaimed, 
 "Why, Betty, I thought it was you I saw in the 
 glass." "Yes," she quickly retorted, "they always 
 told me I looked like you, and it mortified me almost 
 to death." 
 
 Their social customs and their religious forms and 
 ceremonies were little modified by their residence in 
 Ireland. In Ulster the Scotchman and Catholic 
 Irishman had nothing in common, and were bitter 
 enemies, differing from each other in every trait, 
 principle and element which keep two peoples apart. 
 The custom of discharging musketry near the houses 
 of the groom and bride on the morning of their 
 wedding day, was carried to Ulster from Scotland, 
 though Mr. Parker, in his history of Londonderry, 
 erroneously implied the contrary. Dr. Charles 
 Kogers, of Edinburgh, in his ''Social Life i7i Scot- 
 
/<tfiJ," has given a lull account oi the funeral wake 
 as it was held in his country ilow n to the beginning 
 of the last Century. His description of its observ- 
 ance in Scotland does not ilitfc-r niatcriall>' from 
 the way it was conducted by the native Irish, 
 nor from the manner it was observed by the 
 early settlers of this town. In Scotland there was 
 dancing in presence of the body. II the deceased 
 were a husband, the widow led the first figure, and if 
 a wife, the husband led it. When the vigils were 
 protracted there were games, including card playing. 
 Liquors were freely used, and while silence was 
 enjoined at the beginning there was feasting and 
 revelry before it closed. Ouce at least the wake was 
 held in this house. The occasion wa^ the tuneral of 
 Margaret Morison, the mother of Elizabeth, wife of 
 William .Smith, who died here April 18, 1769. From 
 Dr. Morison s allusion, it was probably held with the 
 usual observances, but it is to be doubted if there was 
 any dancing or card playing. At any rate, many 
 weird and ghostly stories were told, and the ceremony 
 left an impression u]u>u the tliiUlren which was iie\er 
 forgotten. 
 
 There were other modifications also, but none 
 which touched the foundations of the Scot's char- 
 acter. In Scotlant) he was reserved, taciturn, blunt 
 in speech, and expressed himself in few words. Here 
 he was disputatious, fond of talk, social in disposition. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 31 
 
 and gave free play to his wit and humor. The genial 
 climate of Ireland, its fertile soil and the abundant 
 returns of labor, none of which he had enjoj^ed in 
 Scotland, thawed the hard, harsh crust of the Scotch 
 character, and gave a kindliness to his personality 
 unknown to him in the land of his origin. At 
 bottom, however, he was Scotch still, plain and 
 frugal, rough in manner, industrious, tenacious of 
 his views, and intensely loyal in politics and religion 
 to the opinions of his race. In the free air of America 
 these qualities had a full field for expression and led 
 him to take a foremost part in the war for indepen- 
 dence, and in establishing the principles for which he 
 had fought in the old country and emigrated to the 
 new, into the law and constitution of his new home. 
 
 In brief outline, such was the race to which 
 William and Elizabeth Smith belonged. If much 
 space has been given to this phase of their history, it 
 is because we cannot understand either them or the 
 guiding^rinciples of their lives without keeping the 
 racial traits in view. It is just as necessary for 
 a knowledge of their descendants and a correct 
 acquaintance with ourselves. 
 
 All that has come to light of William Smith and 
 his wife, their ancestr3^ their founding of this home 
 and their life here has been printed in genealogies, in 
 family histories, and in biographies of their most 
 distinguished children. What follows is little more 
 
32 HISTORICAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 than an abstract of what has already appeared in 
 print, but on this occasion it may lie ]>rofitably 
 reviewed. 
 
 The Smith family is, and always has been, 
 proverbially large. In Scotland, by tlie census of 
 1860, it was the "name above every name" by more 
 than 7000. It is found in all stratas of Scottish 
 society from the lowest to the highest. In the 
 "Heraldry of Smith in Scotland," published bj' John 
 Russell Smith, in 1873, is given a list of the name 
 who were members of the nobility, authors, soldiers, 
 or statesmen from the Fifteenth Century down to the 
 last. It would gratify family pride could we tiace 
 our ancestry to some one of these of gentle blood , 
 but candor compels the statement that there is no 
 such tradition. All the evidence, though it is very 
 little, points to the fact that both in Scotland and 
 Ireland our ancestors belonged to the industrial 
 middle classes. 
 
 Aristotle said long ago that it was to this section 
 of the community that the chief power in government 
 may be most wisely and profitably given. Ami 
 IvCcky, echoing the same sentiment, declared that 
 "it is not the class nu)St susceptible to new ideas or 
 most prone to great enterprises : but it is distinguished 
 beyond all others for its political indepenilence, its 
 caution, its solid, practical intelligence, its sturily 
 industry and its high moral courage." 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 33 
 
 As to the date they went to Ireland from Scotland 
 there is no information. Robert Smith was born in 
 Moneymore in 1681, and his father was James Smith, 
 also of Ireland, which might indicate that the family 
 came to Ireland early, perhaps in the great immigra- 
 tion of 1652,* if not in the earlier one of 1609 and 10. 
 They were Lowland Scotch. The Lowlander has 
 been described as of fair height, long legged, strongly 
 built, his features regular, his cheeks prominent, a 
 leanness of the face helping much to accentuate the 
 features. Generally he was of sandy complexion, 
 with blue or gray eyes and very muscular. All that 
 we know of Robert Smith in Ulster is that he was a 
 tanner by trade and that he brought with him to this 
 country about $1500 in money. His children came 
 with him arriving in the fall of 1736. After spending 
 the winter in Lexington, he removed the following 
 spring to Lunenburg, where he purchased a farm and 
 followed the occupation of farmer until February, 
 1753, when he sold his real estate. He was tax;ed in 
 Lunenburg that year for /lOO in money, and from 
 that time his name disappears from the town records. 
 His wife, Elizabeth, was a member of the Church in 
 Moneymore, but it does not appear whether she or 
 her husband ever joined the Church in Lunenburg. 
 The records of that Church for the whole period of 
 their residence in that town are very full, but the 
 
 But see Introduction, ante. 
 
34 HISTORICAI, ADDKHSS. 
 
 name of eitlicr is not in Ihtin anywhere. She died 
 in I.nnenburjj, it is said. Sept. 23, 1757. The place 
 ot her death may be questioned, for if she and her 
 husband were then residents of the town it wouhl 
 certainly seem that his name would be on the public 
 records as a voter or taxpayer after 1753, as it was 
 from 1737 to that date. It is certain that after the 
 wife's death, if not before, he came to live with his 
 son William on this spot, and in a small way carried 
 on his old trade of tanner. At the foot of this hill he 
 sunk four tanning; vats, which were in use as long as 
 the business was carried on there, which was for 
 more than a century. lie died January 14, 1766, and 
 was buried in the old cemetery on the hill where the 
 stone which marks his grave can slill be seen. Ol 
 the personality and character of Robert and Elizabeth 
 Smith not a tradition survives. That they were 
 thoroughly Scotch in habits and temper we may 
 readily believe. 
 
 William Smith was born in 1723, and was fourteen 
 when his parents landed in Boston. In Moneymore 
 Ik- went to school and obtained a good education for 
 a boy of the social and material circumstances of his 
 parents. His skill in penmanship won the prai.se of 
 his teacher, and rightly, too, if we may judge from 
 specimens still existing. He may have alttiided 
 school in Lunenburg, but this is not certain. Like 
 most young men of that day he did military duty. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 35 
 
 and served two enlistments, the first of seven days, 
 in Lt. Abel Pratt's Company; and the second of six 
 months, in the Company of Capt. Edward Hartwell. 
 For the latter service he was paid ^13, 4s, 3d, show- 
 ing that he was withdrawn entirely from civil duties. 
 He was called through life "Lt." or "Capt." Smith, 
 implying that he rendered other military duty, but 
 what it was no military roll has been found to 
 tell us. 
 
 Several attempts had been made to settle the town 
 prior to 1749, but the pioneers had been driven away 
 through fear of the Indians. In 1748 the French or 
 "King George's War," as it is called, was concluded 
 by the treaty of Aix-Ia-Chapelle, and the savage 
 peril was removed. The attention of the Scotch - 
 Irish of Lunenburg at once turned to a renewal of the 
 efforts to settle the town. Thomas Morison, who had 
 been prominent in the former movements, took the 
 lead, and joining him, among others, were William 
 Smith, then aged twenty-six, and his brother John, 
 eight years older. The three were brothers-in-law 
 and each took up large tracts of land in the southwest 
 part of the town, covering the territory where the 
 village of South Peterboro now is. William Smith's 
 lot included about 180 acres, and lay along the 
 southern borders of those of his brother John and 
 brother-in-law Thomas Morison. It was 521 by 52 
 rods, and extended from a point about 100 rods west 
 
36 HISTORICAL ADDRKSS. 
 
 ol the lot 111 ^i i.>.iL.i ..; ub to a point within 100 rods 
 of the west line of the town. Whether he built on 
 this lot is uncertain. He received the deed of it from 
 the proprietors in December, 1753, and paid, so the 
 instrument says, /^390 in old tenor bills. In 1750 or 
 early in 1751, he decided to locate on this hill. These 
 lots had been assigned to Peter Prescott by the 
 proprietors, and so Prescott was the oriKinal owner. 
 A man l)y the name of Bridge had chopped and made 
 an opening here but never had any title. Whether 
 Bridge had abandoned the place before William Smith 
 came, or was persuaded by purchase or otherwise to 
 vacate, we do not know. But here William Smith 
 came in one of the years before named, began to clear 
 the land, built his log house, and made ready for the 
 coming of his bride, Elizabeth Morison, to whom he 
 was married in Londonderry on December 31, 1751, 
 "the coldest day he ever knew." He never got title 
 to the lots until May 3, 1774. The consideration was 
 twenty shillings. The deed says "that whereas Said 
 Wm. Smith has been and is settled on Said Lots but 
 lie has not performed all the conditions of SaJe Settle- 
 ment; Now if the s'd Smith his Heirs or Assigns shall 
 do Ih^n- part toward Building a Convenient Meeting 
 House for the i)ublick worship of (lod and Maintain 
 Constant preaching of the Word of (loil in said 
 Peterljorough," then the deed was to abide. As his 
 heirs we need borrow no anxiety a!)out the validity of 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 37 
 
 the family title to the place. The "Convenient 
 Meeting House for the publick worship of God" you 
 have seen; and for ninety -eight successive years, 
 William Smith, his son and grandson who succeeded 
 to the estate, held the office of Elder or Deacon in it, 
 and all their lives were its staunchest and most liberal 
 supporters. 
 
 Of that gifted and courageous woman whose 
 coming made this place a home, we know much less 
 than is desired. She was the daughter of Charter 
 John Morison of Londonderry, and was born in that 
 town June 15, 1723. Her mother was Margaret 
 Wallace. There is a family tradition that Margaret 
 was a descendant of Sir William Wallace, the most 
 dangerous foe England ever encountered. The 
 historian of the Morison family does not allude to 
 this tradition, and whether it be true or not Elizabeth 
 Morison 's rigid integrity and strength of character, 
 her fearless courage, her energy and love of truth, 
 under all of which was a tender and loving heart, 
 made her worthy of such noble lineage. I doubt if 
 any of her talented children excelled her in natural 
 ability, and certanly none of them filled their places 
 with greater fidelity and success than she filled hers. 
 In temper and traits of character she was thorDughly 
 Scotch, and her Calvinism was not so much a creed 
 to be believed as it was a practical, living faith to be 
 applied to the problems of daily duty. Her family 
 
38 lirSTORICAI. APDRKSS. 
 
 discipline was ri>;id, as we iniKht supi>ose it would be 
 in a Presbyterian mother with nine strong, active 
 boys and girls to govern and train uji. Like the 
 mother described by the wise man, she attended 
 " diligently to the ways of her household," and her 
 industry and energy would be phenomenal even in 
 these times of strenuous living. She was a beautiful 
 singer of the old Scotch songs, and Dr. Morison has 
 told us how the children were always glad to leave 
 tlieir rough sports and crowd around to hear her sin^ 
 them. If many of the traditions of her which still 
 survive show more of the sterner side of her nature, it 
 should be remembered that in this primitive home, 
 crowded with many cares, there was little time or 
 opportunity' for the cultivation of the gentler side of 
 her womanly nature. With all her seeming sternness, 
 the just and kindly spirit underneath showed itself in 
 her fondness for music and in her sincere and earnest 
 piety, which was free from all cant or affectation. 
 That she was a loving and devoted, if sometimes a 
 severe, mother is evidenced by the deep affection of 
 her children, which she retained to the end of ht-r 
 days, and at Irt death they rose iij) with one accord 
 and called her blessed. There can be no more 
 eloquent tribute to her motherly tenderness and worth 
 than this. 
 
 After the log house, the next building erected was 
 the barn, at the east end of the building where wc 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 39 
 
 are, which was constructed in 1754. Its timber was 
 cut on the hill directly in the rear. About that time, 
 probably, a one-story, frame dwelling was built, and 
 in 1777, this latter was replaced by the two-story 
 house. Originally this house was two stories front, 
 sloping to one story in the rear, a style of architecture 
 common in those days. All the materials entering 
 into its construction, save the nails and hardware, 
 were from the farm. The bricks for the great 
 chimnej'- were made in the pasture about 100 rods 
 down the hill at a spot which can still be identified. 
 The fine finish for the four front rooms was obtained 
 from a single tree which stood on the west side of the 
 farm, the stump of which was still pointed out within 
 the memory of those now living. It was about the 
 same time (1777) , though the date cannot be definitely 
 fixed, that the long sheds, the cider house, which 
 stood in the open space at the west end of the present 
 sheds, and also the west barn, were erected. All the 
 wooden materials for these buildings were cut on the 
 place, and though they have since been re-covered, 
 their frames, all hewn by hand, are as sound to-day 
 as when first put in place more than a century and a 
 quarter ago. 
 
 We can hardly imagine now, much less appreciate, 
 the toil required to rescue this home from the wilder- 
 ness. One hundred and sixty years ago these hills 
 and valleys were covered by the primeval forest, 
 
40 niSTDRICAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 consisting of the l-Iiu, beech, rock and white maple, 
 oak. black ash and birch, mixed with the spruce, pine 
 and hemlock. The ground was Blled with rocks, as 
 the immense double walls around the fields still 
 amply prove. The soil, underlaid by a strata of hard, 
 blue clay, was cold, wet and full of springs. The 
 labor of subduing and Ijringing the land into cultiva- 
 tion was made the more difficult by the rude, imperfect 
 tools with which it had to be done. Money was not 
 plentiful, and there was little market for what was 
 raised on the land, flax perhajis excepted. The forest 
 on the place in 1750 would of itself be w«»rth to-day a 
 small fortune, but to William Smith it was valuable 
 only for firewood and the lumber necessary for build- 
 ing purposes. Xotwithstanding these conditions, 
 however, the land was cleared and brought under 
 cultivation, and the farm was made to produce the 
 food, drink, medicine, fuel, lighting and shelter of 
 the family. In addition to this. .Mr. Smith was 
 constantly improving his house and adding to 
 it conveniences and comforts; Ik- increased and 
 enlarged his buildings, and added to his hoklings of 
 real estate until li> 177.^ he was the owner ot about 
 500 acres, unencumberetl by debts, so far as the 
 records show. It speaks strongly lor the tlnitl\. 
 persevering habits of economy and industrv <»n the 
 part of William and ICli/.abeth Smith thai lhe\ could 
 accijuijilish so nuich in the space of one generation. 
 
HISTORIC AI, ADDRESS. 41 
 
 Beside his domestic concerns, William Smith was 
 for many years active in town affairs, and for more 
 than twenty years, at least, was almost constantly in 
 public office. He was Town Counsellor in 1766, 
 Selectman in 1761, '67 '69. '71, '72, '73, '77, '78 and 
 '82; Town Treasurer in 1775 and 1777, tithing man 
 in 1764 and 1774; Town Clerk and Assessor in 1782; 
 and Moderator in 1775 and 1779. He ser\^ed also on 
 many important committees during the whole period, 
 particularly toward, and just after, the close of the 
 Revolution. As Selectman he was charged with the 
 duty of keeping the town's quota of men for the army 
 full, and the requisitions on the town for commissary 
 stores for the military service answered. He was one 
 of those selected to settle and adjust the accounts of 
 the soldiers with the town for pay and allowance, a 
 most difficult and exacting service. In 1782, when 
 the newly drafted constitution of the State was before 
 the people for acceptance, he was a member of the 
 committee to whom the voters referred it for consid- 
 eration and report. When the same instrument, 
 with some amendments, again came before the people 
 later in the same year, he was once more named as 
 one of the nine to whom the matter was committed for 
 investigation. The questions involved were the most 
 serious which ever came before a free people. And 
 that these committees were alive to their responsi- 
 bilities is shown by the record, which states that the 
 
first committee touUl not a^ree, and that the town on 
 the report of the last committee wholly rejected the 
 plan of government offered. 
 
 As a patriot. William Smith rendered conspicuous 
 ser\'ice to the cause of the Revolution. He was past 
 the military age when the war opened, but his four 
 sons, all who were of military age, were in the army 
 and one of them was wounded. He signed the 
 "Association Test" of June 17. 1776, the " Peter- 
 borough Declaration of Independence," as it was 
 called, as did his sons Robert and John. Beside 
 his labors as one of the town officials in the most 
 trying period of the struggle, he was chosen by tlie 
 town a member of the Provincial Congress, which 
 met at Exeter, May 17. 1775, This body was called 
 together just after the battles of Lexington and 
 Concord to provide for raising and equipping troops 
 to resist the aggressions of the English King. Its 
 debates are not reported nor are the votes of the 
 members on the different measures before it on 
 record. It has been assumed, and rightly, I think, 
 that on all the ])roposilions adopted its action was 
 unanimous, so that every delegate was fully com- 
 mitted to its bold and uncompromising action. 
 Among the measures, it was voted "to send a 
 messenger to Albany or anywhere else" to purchase 
 firearms and i)owder for the province. There was 
 no money for this enterprise and the numbers pledged 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 43 
 
 their honor 'to pay for the purchases. It requested 
 the Selectmen of the towns to furnish the troops 
 raised by them with arms, and if unable to do so the 
 assembly assumed the expense. A commander for 
 the New Hampshire troops at Cambridge was chosen, 
 and muster masters were appointed to go and swear 
 them into service. The Committees of Safety were 
 instructed to consider all matters relating to the 
 safety of the Province and to act in emergencies in 
 the movement and equipment of troops to defend the 
 State against its enemies. Its Committee on Supplies 
 were authorized to borrow ^10,000 for warlike stores, 
 and the members pledged their faith and estates to 
 its payment. But the most important action of the 
 Congress was on May 20, when it passed a series of 
 Resolutions to raise and equip 2000 effective men 
 to serve until the end of the year. The preamble 
 expresses clearly the purpose and scope of this action. 
 It sets out that "by the late Acts of the British 
 Parliament and the Conduct of the Ministers it was 
 evident that the plan was laid to subjugate this and 
 other American Colonies to the most abject slavery, 
 and the late hostilities committed by the British 
 troops leaves no doubt in discerning that no othei* 
 way is left us to preserve our most darling rights and 
 inestimable privileges but by defending them with 
 arms, therefore by this most terrible necessity this 
 Convention, after the most solemn deliberations 
 thereon, have resolved." 
 
44 HISTORICAL AKDRKSS. 
 
 The second of these resolutions was: "That every 
 meniher iiledge his honor and estate in the name of 
 his constituents to pay their proportion of maintaining 
 and paying the officers and sohliers ot the al)ove 
 member while in their service." 
 
 These acts and resolutions levied war against the 
 
 sovereijjnty of the Knj,'lish King, and were as surely 
 
 high treason as any action of the Continental Congress 
 
 in the following year. Had (irt-at Britain prevailed, 
 
 without doubt the estates of every member of the 
 
 Congress would have been confiscated to the Crown 
 
 and their lives forfeited had the Mother Country 
 
 seen fit to exact them. While no letters or speeches 
 
 of William Smith exist to show how thoroughly he 
 
 espoused the cause of the Colonies, his action showed 
 
 that he shared the patriotic feelings of his race, who 
 
 were the- most uncompromising foes of Great Britain 
 
 from the beginning of the struggle to its triumphant 
 
 close. Their troops were on the firing line in every 
 
 battle of the war. Hut for the Scotch -Irish, says 
 
 Froude, the Colonies would never have won in the 
 
 Revolutionary conflict. How far the patriotic sjiirit 
 
 of William Smith still lingers in the blood you will 
 
 be told later. 
 
 One other public duty Mr. Smith performed, 
 which deserves brief recognition. In 177^ the town 
 voted to recomnjend liini for a'.>i)oiiitinenl to the oflice 
 of Justice of the Peace, and he was at once com- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 45 
 
 •missioned, and recommissioned until 1803, when he 
 declined further service. During this period he tried 
 all the civil and criminal cases coming within the 
 jurisdiction of that official which arose in town. 
 There was no lawyer here until 1786, when his son 
 Jeremiah was called to the bar; both had their offices 
 in the southeast chamber of the house, and there the 
 magistrate held his Court. Whoever has attended 
 a trial before such tribunals can imagine the scenes 
 there often enacted The farmer Judge, clad in 
 homespun, seated behind a small table, verj^ dignified 
 and loooking ver}^ wise, the noisy crowd, the coarse 
 wit, the rough jokes, the loud talk of the partisans — 
 all this was often seen and heard. About 1789, 
 General James Wilson was also admitted to the bar 
 and had his office on tlie same street, a mile to the 
 north. The two lawyers were often pitted against 
 each other and no doubt the trials grew in interest. 
 Whether these eminent attorneys ever indulged in 
 that privilege dear to the heart of every lawyer who 
 loses his case, of "swearing at the Court" behind its 
 back, your deponent saith not. If the magistrate's 
 ears sometimes tingled at their side remarks, let us 
 believe that he continued to hold the scales of justice 
 with an even poise and went on deciding his cases on 
 the law and the evidence before him. 
 
 Of life within this home we have some little 
 knowledge. Mrs. Smith was the disciplinarian of 
 
46 HISTORICAL ADDKKSS. 
 
 ihf iaiiiii_\ ami hci incthods were g;uided by her 
 Scotch nature and Calvinistic views. Undoubtedly 
 she could scold if occasion required, for it was an 
 acconiplishnient not unknown anions the women of 
 her race. "Johnny, " asked Mr. Miller, who lived 
 in the house across the road, "does your mother 
 ever scold?" "Ves," answered the boy cautiously, 
 "sometimes." "Sometimes!" exclaimed Mr. Miller 
 in disgust, " My wife scolds etarnally." If she used 
 the rod, its application was tempered by discretion 
 and her strong family affection. No doubt her 
 husband's gentle and philosophic temper often tried 
 her patience, and no doubt, either, he was dutifully 
 informed of it. "I have bten over to Samooel 
 Moore's," she said to him one day, "and there is 
 family discipline, so there is; and if you were worth 
 your ears you'd keep your boys* to hame." "Do 
 you remember the calf that we kept tied u]) in the 
 barn so long?" he quickly replied. "Ay, ay." was 
 the Scotchy answer. "And do you mind that when 
 we let it out it run until it broke its neck?" I'r. 
 Morison has not recorded the wife's rejoiner, but the 
 dialogue suggests the different views of the parents 
 on a point in family government. Hut the husband 
 was as fiercely industrious as the wife. " Lawful 
 soul," he would say to his boys when he fcnmd any 
 one of thera idle, "do do something." All worked 
 who were able, from early morn till "dewy eve," 
 
HISTORICAI, ADDRESS. 47 
 
 from January till December. The virtue of industry 
 was so persistently taught by precept and example 
 that it was impressed into the very soil of the farm, 
 and at least two present can testify that it was not 
 all exhausted in their own younger days. And yet 
 with the children work never became a grind, for 
 there was plenty time given lor play, and they all 
 grew up to love labor and became mighty in the use 
 of all tools of husbandry and housekeeping. The 
 crop which brought the best returns was flax, which 
 was made into thread and cloth before it left the 
 house. It was cultivated down to near the close of 
 the Eighteenth Century, but the flax wheel, the 
 ripple comb, the tooth brake, the swingling block, 
 knife, and the hackling tools of the' industry were 
 still found in the barns and attic when the place was 
 sold in 1873. It was probably from the linen, both 
 spun and woven by the diligent mother, that the 
 educational expenses of Jeremiah and Samuel were 
 largely paid. Very early in the settlement a large 
 orchard was planted north of the buildings, and by 
 1775 or 1776, a cider mill was in operation, which 
 helped to fill the family treasury. Besides these, large 
 crops of potatoes, beans, corn, oats, barley and rye 
 were grown. Swine and cattle were raised and butter 
 was one of the products also. Crops were abundant, 
 but there were many mouths to feed and the surplus 
 for sale was not very large. For all that there was a 
 
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 Steady gain in llic comforts of life and slyle of liviii)^. 
 and the house gradually became furnished with all 
 the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. 
 
 Hooks found their way into the family slowly and 
 were welcomed by all. old and young. It would be 
 interesting to know when the first newspaper appeared. 
 It is doubtful if it came prior to 1790. but once enter- 
 ing it never went out. The children were sent to 
 school and had the best educational facilities the town 
 afforded. They were great readers, for the habit was 
 encouraged and given ever)' opportunity for culture 
 by the parents. While their school advantages were 
 less than those of the generations succeeding, they 
 were carefully instructed in the homely virtues of 
 integrity, purity of speech and conduct, and of honor 
 and truthfulness. These were taught less by precept 
 than by the daily living conduct of the father and 
 mother. It is but just to say of the children of 
 William and Klizal.eth Smith that not one dishonored 
 their parents' instruction or example. 
 
 The domestic ties of the household were strong, 
 and the affection of each for all the others was never 
 broken. The Scotch- Irish were a social race and the 
 trait was intensified by their early life in this Country. 
 In this settlement they vi-ited back and iovlh at each 
 others' houses, and the hospitalities of the table were 
 offered and accepted as occasion i>resented to the 
 friendly neighbor and the stranger alike. In their 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 49 
 
 afternoon calls Mrs. Smith and her daughters took 
 their flax wheels with them and spun the long threads 
 of linen while they exchanged opinions and gossip 
 with their acquaintances. Around the great hearth- 
 stone of the kitchen, Mr. and Mrs. Smith welcomed 
 their neighbors in the long winter evenings, and 
 about the blazing fire the company retold the 
 struggles and privations of their early days in Ireland 
 and their sufferings and toil in the new land. They 
 sung the old Scotch songs together and in these Mrs. 
 Smith with her sweet voice held a leading part. In 
 the same room the children danced, played their 
 games and made merrj^ after their elders had retired. 
 Could the rafters of that kitchen speak, what tales of 
 earnest converse and social, happy intercourse, what 
 scenes of sorrow and tears, what sounds of mirth 
 and song might they not repeat! It was a plain, 
 simple life, and with all its dark threads of toil and 
 self-denial it was still a happy one. 
 
 But the central feature of the family life was its 
 reverent, religious character. Both heads of the 
 family were members of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and their sincere, devout natures made their faith a 
 very real thing. The Bible was read daily in the 
 household and grace was said before every meal. 
 In the evening family prayers were held. May we 
 not imagine the scene as it was daily enacted here for 
 more than fifty years? About eight o'clock the 
 
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50 IIISTORICAl. ADDRKSS. 
 
 family gather in the large kilclKii — in the \vinter 
 season they "Round the ingle form a circle wide." 
 Before the head of the house, is placed, on a table, 
 the family Bible. A psalm is sung in which all join. 
 A chapter is read and then all knetl down and the 
 "goodman" offers prayer. The sincerity and devo- 
 tion of that simple worship no one d(nibts who 
 knows the deep religious faith and feeling of those 
 who led the service. 
 
 Here, too, came the minister in his pastoral 
 rounds, gathering the household into the parlor, and 
 beginning with the youngest examined each one in 
 the shorter or longer catechism, called for the Bible 
 proof texts, removed doubts, explained the obscure 
 passages of Scripture and creed, and strengthened the 
 grounds of faith. At such times, after a chapter in 
 the Bible and family prayers. Dr. Morison tells us, 
 the father would say, "this little boy can repeat 
 that," and then Jeremiah would stand up and recite 
 the psalm: "For Zion's sake I will not hold my 
 peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest," etc. 
 The delighted minister would pat the boy on the head 
 and say, "Squire, this boy must be a minister, you 
 must bring him up to college." "It was the 
 ambition of every Scotchman," says Harrison, "to 
 breed one son who should wag his ])ow in the 
 pu'pit." If the i)arents shared this feeling and had 
 realized their wish the State might have gained a 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 51 
 
 good minister, but it would have lost an ablfe jurist 
 sure. 
 
 Attendance at Church was a requirement that 
 could not be escaped, and all spent the remainder of 
 Sunda}" in religious discussion and study. We do 
 not wonder at the prominence of religion in the 
 family life of the Scotch -Irish at that day. Their 
 fathers had suffered bitterly for conscience sake in 
 Scotland and Ireland. Here in free America they 
 felt the Icjneliness and isolation of their situation, 
 surrounded by the interminable forests and threaten- 
 ing savages. They realized with a force we cannot 
 appreciate their sense of dependence upon the Sover- 
 eign Power who holds the fate of men and nations 
 in His hands. To understand the influences which 
 ruled in this home and molded the character of its 
 inmates, large place must be given to this feature of 
 its domestic life. 
 
 In the j^ear 1791, William Smith retired from 
 active labor, to spend the remainder of his days 
 in that peace and freedom from toil which he had so 
 richly earned. His son Jonathan had been selected 
 both by himself and by his other sons as the one best 
 fitted to remain at home and care for the parents in 
 their old age. How faithfully he performed this filial 
 duty need not be stated here. He deeded to this son 
 one-half of his farm, and five years later made a will 
 giving him the other half, charged with a legacy of 
 
52 HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 X--U each U) llic iwo daughters, the support of John 
 Scott, an old Revolutionary soldier, and the care and 
 nurture of his wife while she lived. He survived 
 eleven years longer, and on January 31, 1808, without 
 any particular intervening disease, passed away. Ilis 
 minister made special entry of the event upon the 
 records of the Church, and says of him, " He was the 
 most pious and benevolent man I ever knew, and I 
 doubt not he has gone hence to the Church Trium- 
 phant in Heaven." It is a fitting eulogy ujion a 
 long, useful and honored life. Mrs. Smith survived 
 him a ft-w months. Toward the end her mind 
 became somewhat impaired, and she thought she had 
 lost her home. Looking into her son's eyes she 
 would beseech him to tal<e her back to it. "Come, 
 mother," he would reply, "we will go," and taking 
 her by the hand would lead her from room to room 
 through the house, talking of this neighbor and that, 
 and pointing out their homes. Bringing her back to 
 her own apartment he would say, " Xow, mother, we 
 have got there — you are at home again," and she 
 would sit down contentedly in her chair. On Sept. 
 15, 18U8, after a brief illness, she found that better 
 liome which she was never to lose. 
 
 To all his duties, William Smith brought a logical 
 mind and a well-balanced, indepenilent judgment. 
 His intelligence and general information were superior 
 to those of the men about him. Ik- was one of the 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 53 
 
 two persons described in the Town Records as 
 "gentleman," and he faced all questions submitted to 
 him with courage and tact. In dealings with men 
 and public affairs he was governed by the highest 
 principles of integrity and good faith, which soon 
 won the confidence of his fellow citizens, a confidence 
 which was never betrayed and never lost. At his 
 death, he left a name that had become a sj'nonym for 
 honor and probity, and which survived long after he 
 had passed away. "A good name," says the proverb, 
 " is more to be desired than many riches." Thus he 
 had enriched himself and made all his descendants 
 heirs of a priceless legacy. He was a peace-loving 
 man. No tradition survives that he ever had a 
 difference with a neighbor or that any act of his was 
 ever challenged by his contemporaries. And yet, 
 through all his long life he was deeply immersed in 
 business, the trusted friend and counsellor of his 
 townsmen, much of the time in public office, trans- 
 acting affairs ir which there were often opposing sides 
 and hostile interests. Such was his tact and good 
 sense, and so clean was his reputation for integrity 
 and impartiality that he retained the confidence and 
 esteem of his fellow men to the end. Others, whose 
 activities covered a wider field, have filled a larger 
 place in the community; but none have left a more 
 unblemished record. His was, indeed, a well- 
 rounded, finished life and no words can add to the 
 impressive lesson it conveys. 
 
54 HISTORICAL ADDRKSS. 
 
 lie was siiii^iiUirly fortunate aiul happy in his 
 raarriaRe. How nnicli of his succ-ss was due to the 
 energy and talent of Elizabeth Morison. his wife, we 
 may never know. It was certainh* very ^reat. In 
 some ways they were much unlike. He was cool, 
 even-tempered, witty and tactful. She was quick to 
 decide, somewhat of a nervous temj)erament and 
 expressed her views with precision and force. Her 
 sense of humor was le.ss than his, but in quickness 
 and keenness of retort, neither he nor any of her 
 chiUlren were her match. In all the traits which Hl- 
 at the basis of the Scottish character, they were 
 strikingly similar, and so were admirably adapted the 
 one for the other. They joined their fortunes on this 
 spot when these hills and valleys were covered by 
 the primeval forest; together they cleared these fields, 
 built this home, and brought up their sons and 
 daughters in wisdom's way. Together they joined 
 this Church, lived its faith, kept their minds and 
 hearts open to the new light constantly breaking in 
 upon them, and intellectually and morally growing 
 
 wiser, broader, more humane and gentle with the 
 years. Together they lived to see the best of all they 
 hatl labored and j>rayed for come to full fruition. 
 Here they passed their declining years in a serene 
 and happy old age, and in death they were not long 
 divided. Hapi)y is that home which lor its first fifty 
 years can tell such a noble story of a happy wediled 
 life. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 55 
 
 We view this home to-day, clad in its beautiful 
 new dress by the loving hands of a great grand- 
 daughter, in the light of the life and example of its 
 founders. We wander through its many apartments 
 as they were arranged and constructed, for the most 
 part, under the direction of its first occupants, and 
 catch the inspiration of the spirit they impressed 
 upon them. It has always been a most hospitable 
 home. Here the friend, the transient guest and the 
 stranger always found cordial welcome. Under its 
 roof the aged parents of the founders passed their 
 declining years in peace and contentment. To its 
 hearthstone for more than 100 years have come back 
 the children and grandchildren who have made its 
 rooms echo to their laughter as with wit and story 
 they recounted the incidents of their lives within its 
 walls. In days long gone by, its rooms have heard 
 the thrilling tales of the lives and struggles in the old 
 home across the sea. Into it have been born the 
 children who were destined to fill large places in 
 business and public affairs. Beneath its roof has 
 gathered many a wedding company to celebrate with 
 joy and feasting the union of loving hearts and hands; 
 and out from its doors has gone the funeral proces- 
 sion, bearing its dead to "the narrow house appointed 
 for all the living," on yonder bleak hillside. All the 
 vicissitudes of human life, its joys and sorrows, its 
 hopes and fears, have been witnessed within its 
 
56 IIISTORICAI. ADDKKSS. 
 
 borders. From lirst to last it has been the aboile of 
 generous living, of hi^h thinking, and of faithful. 
 though humble, doing. Its foundations were laid in 
 the domestic virtues and its walls were reared on the 
 eternal verities which make for personal and civic 
 righteousness among men. May the strong, sweet 
 spirits who first established and impressed their own 
 individuality so deeply upon the place reign over it 
 for a hundred years yet to come! Standing on the 
 spot hallowed by the toil, the self denial, and tlie love 
 of William Smith and Elizabeth Morison, here where 
 they lived and died, let us renew our vows of fidelity 
 to their memory and return thanks for the blessed 
 heritage they left us! 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 By Capt. John S. Smith. 
 
 From such brief and imperfect investigation of 
 military records as I have been able to make, I reach 
 the conclusion that the descendants of William Smith 
 were not, and are not, in any special sense, a warlike 
 race. The profession of arms, as a life occupation, 
 did not attract them. 
 
 No member of the family was graduated from the 
 Academy at West Point, or from the Naval School at 
 Annapolis, or, so far as I can find out, ever sought 
 admission to those, or any other similar institutions. 
 
 Such militia duty as the law required in the states 
 where they lived was cheerfully performed, and, in 
 some instances, where the public safety seemed to 
 demand it, or foreign or civil war was impending, 
 they helped form and maintain local organizations to 
 meet the needs of the hour, but when the danger was 
 passed they gladly put off the uniform and resumed 
 the peaceful occupations of civil life. 
 
 But, while these descendants did not love military 
 life as a profession, they have been prompt to take 
 arms when their sympathies were enlisted or their 
 
>^ Mil ITAKY IIISTIJKV. 
 
 patriotism aroused, and to enter the ranks of the 
 citizen vohniteers, to which a reinihlic must always 
 look for help in times of storm and stress. And thus 
 we find that a cause, to command their sui)iH)rt. in 
 that last argument to which Kings resort, musi, first 
 of all, appeal to their patriotism, their love of liberty 
 or their sense of justice. 
 
 These characteristics they shared in common with 
 their neighbors and townsmen, and with that great 
 body of jiatriotic, healthy -minded citizens, who 
 always rally to the support of their government when 
 they believe she is engaged in a good cause. 
 
 The parts assigned in the exercises permit me to 
 speak of the war record of William Smith, tlie 
 original proprietor of this land, as well as that of his 
 descendants; but it is not my purpose to mention, 
 except briefly, the military annals of the older 
 members of the family. These are already matters 
 of record. The story of the military services of 
 William Smith and his sons has been so well told in 
 the History of Peterborough, and in Jonathan Smiths 
 family history that I. with no historic archives or 
 other sources of information at my coinmaml, can add 
 nothing of value. 
 
 William Smith doubtless performed military ser- 
 vice in his early manhood, though I can find no 
 record indicating where or in what capacity. The 
 constant fear of attack from hostile Indians during 
 
MIIvlTARY HISTORY. 59 
 
 the early history of the town made such service 
 imperative for the protection of the homes of the 
 settlers. In some early records he is spoken of as a 
 Lieutenant, a title he probably acquired during that 
 period. 
 
 When the Revolutionary War broke out he was 
 too old for military service, but both he and his sons' 
 were intensely loyal to the cause of the Colonies. 
 He was a member of the Fourth Provincial Congress, 
 or more properly speaking, the Fourth Provincial 
 Legislature of New Hampshire, which met in 
 Exeter, May 17th, 1775, and authorized the raising, 
 equipment and officering of the regiments of New 
 Hampshire troops which served at Bunker Hill, the 
 siege of Boston, at Portsmouth, at Ticonderoga and 
 in Canada; and which by its resolutions of May 20th, 
 1775, pledged the honor and estate of every member 
 in the name of his constituents to pay their proportion 
 of the expense of maintaining these soldiers. The 
 preamble of these resolutions says : ' ' No other way 
 is left us to preserve our most darling rights but by 
 immediately defending them by arms." All his sons 
 of military age served short terras of enlistment in 
 the army. 
 
 Robert enlisted in Captain Joseph Parker's 
 company of Colonel Wyman's regiment, and served 
 six months in 1776 with the Northern Army at 
 Ticonderoga. 
 
t,U .MILITARY IIISTOKV. 
 
 John served in Captain IVtcr Coffin's company of 
 minute -men at Cambridge, two mtmths and twenty- 
 three da3'S, in 1775. 
 
 JdtHt's served a short time in Captain Alexander 
 Robhe's company in an expedition against Ticon- 
 deroga in 1777. 
 
 Jnt-miah, when seventeen years of age, as stated 
 in Dr. .Morison's biography, ran away to enlist and 
 offered himself to Captain Joseph Parker in the 
 summer of 1777, as a recruit. Captain Parker refused 
 to take him until he had se.-n his father, with whom 
 he was acquainted. The father gave his consent on 
 the condition that il the regiment was ordered into 
 action the boy should be detailed to some safe duty in 
 the rear. Captain Parker agreed and kept his word, 
 but in the midst of the battle of Henninglon he found 
 Jeremiah by his side, musket in hand; " Why did 
 you come here?" said Captain Parker. "I thought 
 it my duty to follow my Ca])tain," said the boy. 
 A bullet grazed his throat, leaving a mark which 
 remained for years; another bullet struck his gun and 
 rendered it useless. He threw it aside and seized 
 am^her which lay near a dying soldier and fought 
 bravely till the battle was ended. He passed the 
 night after the battle a.ssisting to guard the Hessian 
 prisoners who were confined in the Ikiinington 
 meeting-house. 
 
 None of the descendants of William Smith served 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 61 
 
 in the war of IS 12. His children were all many 
 years past military age when the war broke out and 
 his grandchildren, with two or three exceptions, were 
 too young for service. Moreover, the war was not 
 popular in New England. It did not appeal to the 
 patriotism or command the support of the people of 
 this section as a wise or necessary measure. The 
 embargo act of Jefferson's second administration, and 
 the non- intercourse acts which followed had destroyed 
 the commerce of New England and caused great 
 poverty and distress through that section. American 
 shipping had suffered as much from France as 
 from England, and the Federalists of New England 
 distrusted the French influences which appeared to 
 control the policy of the administration. So that, 
 while the young West and the South were hot for war, 
 the war party received little support from this section. 
 None of our family, so far as I know, served in 
 the war with Mexico. There was nothing in the 
 cause to enlist their sympathy or command their 
 respect. In common with the best sentiment of New 
 England, the family was opposed to the war on 
 principle. General Grant, though a member of the 
 war party at the time, says in his memoirs that he 
 was bitterly opposed to the measure and regarded the 
 war as one of the most unjust ever waged by a 
 stronger against a weaker nation. He says the 
 Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the 
 
62 Mll.nAKV HISTORY. 
 
 Mexican War and that we got our punishment in the 
 most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. 
 After many years of angry debate, and many 
 instances of violence and outrage, the gigantic 
 struggle for secession, on one side, and for the 
 preservation of the I'nion on the other, was inaugu- 
 rated in 1861. It was fortunate for the cause of the 
 free states that the commencement of hostilities was 
 deferred so long. 
 
 The Slavery Compromise measures of 1850, so 
 repugnant to the moral sense of the North, without 
 doubt put off the evil day nearly a decade. In lS5u 
 the South was flushed with military success in 
 Mexico, and the martial spirit was at high tide. 
 Moreover, as compared with the Xorih, the South, 
 both in population and resources, was, relatively, 
 much stronger in ISSo than in 1860. When the 
 conflict came, the strength and resources of the North 
 were taxed to the utmost limit, and many times the 
 issue trembled in the balance. Had the war come 
 ten years earlier, possibly we may have won. but who 
 can tell? 
 
 Ix't us then not be too harsh in criticizing the 
 political action of Uaniel Wtbster, who knew the 
 temi>er and purpose of the southcrti i)eo])le Ixtter 
 than any other northern statesman of his time, and 
 who foresaw and tried to avert the storm that was 
 coming ou. 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 63 
 
 The war of the rebellion was a contest of colossal 
 proportions. In numbers engaged, area covered by 
 the contending armies, cost, and loss of life, it 
 surpassed any other conflict of ancient or modern 
 times. There was, mdeed, a great difference in 
 population between the free and slave states. The 
 North numbered about 19,000,000 and the South 
 about 9,000,000-of which 4,000,000 were slaves. 
 There was a still greater disparity in wealth and 
 resources in favor of the North; but the North was 
 not completely united, while in the South the war 
 party had the solidity and compactness of a Mace- 
 donian phalanx. The negroes tilled the soil, nearly 
 . every white man of military age was in the army, 
 and before the contest ended, in the expressive 
 language of General Grant, the cradle and the grave 
 were robbed to fill the ranks. 
 
 In the courage, heroism and endurance displayed 
 on both sides, it was no unequal contest. When 
 Beecher visited England during the dark days -bt 
 the war, in 1863, to enlist by his eloquence, the 
 sympathies of the middle classes in behalf of the 
 Union cause, he spoke in the manufacturing city of 
 Manchester. His audience, many of them work- 
 men, -hungry and hostile — without employment on 
 account of our war, was cold and critical. A man 
 interrupting his address said, " Your government has 
 been engaged two years in this war, why haven't you 
 
64 MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 put down your rebellion?" "I'll tell you why," 
 
 was the instant reply. "Us bt-cause we're fi^jhtin? 
 
 Americans, instead of Kn^lishmen." An Ku^lishnian 
 
 appreciates courage and the andacits "f \h<- m-^wer 
 
 commanded applause. 
 
 To the army for the preservation o( the Union the 
 
 descendants of William Smith contributed ten soldiers, 
 
 and I will give a brief sketch of the services of each 
 
 by families in order of .seniority. 
 
 None of the descendants of Robert Smith, the 
 
 oldest son of William Smith, served in the army. 
 
 His youngest son, Robert, moved to Mis.sissipi)i in 
 
 1816, and subsequently to Simmesport. La., where 
 
 he owned and carried on a plantation. I have a 
 
 letter from his grandson, Jesse Hamilton Smith, the 
 
 only surviving rei)resentative of that branch of the 
 
 family, written June 20th last, informing me that none 
 
 of his family served in the Confederate army. His 
 
 father was too old and he too young. When the 
 
 war broke out his father was the jiresident of the 
 
 Planters' Bank of New Orleans. During the struggle 
 
 their slaves left them and all their other property 
 
 was swept away, leaving the family destitute. It is a 
 
 sad, pathetic story. 
 
 Tw<j nf the descendants of John Smith served in 
 
 the Union army during the Civil War. 
 
 Robtit Smith, son of Juhn, and grandson of 
 
 William Smith, was appointed at the age of fifty- 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 65 
 
 nine years, major and additional paymaster, U. S. 
 Volunteers, June 1. 1861, and assigned to duty at 
 St. I,ouis Mo., where he served continuously till 
 April 9, 1865, when he resigned. He died at Alton, 
 111., Dec. 21, 1867. 
 
 John Smith Cavcjider, son of John and Jane 
 Smith Cavender, and grandson of John Smith, was 
 easily the most distinguished soldier among the 
 descendants of William Smith, and performed con- 
 spicuous service in the Southwestern army. I have 
 a full and interesting history of his career from his 
 son. Colonel J. H. Cavender, himself a soldier, from 
 which I am permitted to quote. Born in 1824, the 
 outbreak of the war found him with a wife and child, 
 a fair share of this world's goods, and several years' 
 experience in the National Guards of Missouri, then 
 an extremely doubtful State, but subsequently sa^^ed 
 to the Union. He entered the army at the very 
 outset, and, on April 20, 1861, was mustered in 
 Colonel Frank P. Blair's Regt., 1st Mo. Volunteer 
 Infantry, as Captain of Company G. May 10, 1861, 
 he took part in the capture of Camp Jackson under 
 General Nathaniel Lyon, and under the same com- 
 mander on Aug. 10, 1861, he fought in the bloody 
 battle of Wilson's Creek. Here I.yon was killed, 
 and he himself nearly killed, being wounded three 
 times-twice with buck-shot and once by a minnie 
 ball, which tore a hole through his lung. He was 
 
66 MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 left for deail on the field, ami subsequently taken to 
 Springfield by the Confederates, but later was j^iven 
 up to his family as likely to die anyway, and brought 
 back to St. Louis. While recovering from wounds, 
 his regiment returned to St. Louis, and at Camp 
 Cavender was re-organized into the 1st Mo. Artillery. 
 He rejoined his regiment in the latter part of 1.S61, 
 was promoted to ^L'ljor, and, in command of the Jnd 
 Battalion, took part in General Fremont's South- 
 western expedition. In 1862, under General Grant, 
 in General Charles F. Smith's Division, his command 
 occupied the first line in front of Fort Donelson from 
 Feb. 12th to 16th. and was under heavy fire. The 
 weather was extremely severe, and the suffering of 
 the troops, in their exposed position, was intense. 
 On Saturday, the 15th, his batteries actually partici- 
 pated in General Smith's charge, which resulted in 
 the capture of the fort, several of liis sections going 
 through the abatis, over the logs and ditches, and up 
 the hill, arriving in the enemies' line almost as soon 
 as the infantry — a very unusual and difficult feat. 
 
 His next battle was Shiloli, April 6th and 7th, 
 1862. Here he commanded six batteries, ami with 
 the support of General \V. H. Wallace's Division 
 and the small r<ninanl of General rrcntiss' Division, 
 formed, what General Albert Sidney Johnston (killed 
 on the first day of the battle) christened the "Hor- 
 nets' Nest." This i)osition was charged repeatedly 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 67 
 
 by the brave and gallant troops under Hindman, 
 Breckenridge and otlier famous Confederate com- 
 manders, but the assaults were heroically repulsed 
 and the position held eight hours, when, after a 
 great concentration against it of troops and batteries 
 from the corps of Generals Bragg and Polk, the 
 "Hornets" were obliged to retire, and the force 
 under General Prentiss was captured. 
 
 Major Cavender took part in the siege of Corinth 
 from April 30th to May 30th, and remained with his 
 command until the call of the President for more 
 troops in July, 1862. He then returned to St. Louis, 
 on leave, and helped raise and organize the 29th 
 Volunteer Infantry, of which he was, Oct. 18, 1862, 
 commissioned Colonel. The Regiment was assigned 
 to General Blair's brigade in the Army of the Ten- 
 nessee. He was with Sherman's expedition up the 
 Yazoo River, and participated in the disastrous attack 
 on the rebel force in the impregnable bluffs back of 
 Vicksburg, Dec. 28 and 29, 1862. The expedition 
 failing here, Colonel Cavender's regiment took part 
 in the reduction of Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 12 and 
 13, 1863, in which his regiment sustained severe loss. 
 After this, on account of his father's death, he 
 returned to St. Louis, on leave, and finding his 
 pergonal attention to his own and his father's 
 business affairs absolutely necessary, he resigned 
 his commission, Feb. 19, 1863. After leaving the 
 
68 MII.ITAKY HISTORY. 
 
 army he was niailc a liii^aiu. r Ljcncral Ijv brevet, 
 for gallant coiuliict and services at Donelson, Shiloh 
 and Chickasaw liayoii. He died in St. Louis, Mo.. 
 Feb. 23, 1886. 
 
 John Pun tor Smith, son of Josey)li Addison and 
 grandson of James Smith, born July 24, 1837, was 
 a member of an independent regiment called the 
 Hallock Guards, organized in St. Louis in 1861. 
 when the city was in constant fear of rebel attacks. 
 This regiment was called to Hoonville, Mo., in 1861 
 to ])revent a threatened seizure of the town by the 
 Confederate forces under General Price, but per- 
 formed no service outside the State. I have not 
 been able to obtain the dates of his enlistment and 
 discharge. Present residence, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Four of the descendants of Jonathan Smith, 
 whose entire life was passed on the Kim Hill farm, 
 served in the Union army during the Civil War. 
 
 Sun in! Cordon, son of John and Hetsy Smith 
 Gordon, and grandson of Jtinathan Smith . born May 
 3, 1825, enlisted in Co. C. 118th Regiment, 111. 
 Volunteer Infantry, in Aug., 1862, and served con- 
 tinuously with his conun;ind till In* was nuistered 
 out. Oct. 1, 186.S. He participated in the battles of 
 Chickasaw Hluff, Arkansas Post. Thompson's Hill, 
 Champion Hills, lilack River Hridge, Siege of Vi«ks- 
 burg, Grand Caton P.ayou and Port Hudson, and 
 numerous skirmishes. His regiment performed much 
 
MII^ITARY HISTORY. 59 
 
 liard and perilous service. It marched more than 
 10,000 miles, and lost in battle and by disease, more 
 than half its original members. Samuel Gordon died 
 in Hamilton, 111., Oct. 18, 1901. 
 
 William H. Smith, born Nov., 1839, son of 
 William and grandson of Jonathan Smith, enlisted 
 in Captain John W. Chickering's Company F, S8th 
 111. Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel 
 Frank Sherman. His regiment was in General 
 Sill's Brigade and formed a part of General P. H. 
 Sheridan's Division in General Joseph McCook's 
 Corps. He took part with his regiment in the battle 
 of Perryville, Ky., in Dec, 1862, and in the desperate 
 engagement at Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862, 
 and Jan. 1, 1863. In the latter battle his brigade 
 commander was killed, his regiment suffered severely, 
 and he was taken prisoner. After the battle, the 
 Confederates being unable to guard or feed the 
 prisoners, they were paroled, and William made his 
 way to St. I^ouis, Mo., where he reported at the 
 parole camp to await exchange. While there he 
 was detailed as clerk at army headquarters. After 
 his exchange he was discharged by order of the War 
 Department, Sept. 24, 1863, to accept a position as 
 paymaster's clerk. Present residence, ^Minneapolis, 
 Minn. 
 
 Jolm Stearns Smith, son of John and grandson of 
 Jonathan Smith, born Nov. 27, 1837, enlisted as 
 
70 M 1 1 . i 1 \ Is ^ I i I > 1 I ' K \ . 
 
 private in Company K, 6th Regiment N H. Vol. 
 Infantry, Oct. 14, iSM ; was mnstered into the ser- 
 vice of the United States and promoted to Sergeant, 
 Nov. 28, 1861 ; was promoted to 1st Sergeant of 
 Company H. July 1, 1862; to 2nd Lieutenant of same 
 Company, Nov. 1, 1S62; and to 1st Lieutenant and 
 Adjutant of his regiment, March in, \S(^^. He was 
 mustered out by expiration of term of ser\'ice, March 
 2, 1865. 
 
 He was re-appointed 1st Lieutenant of Company 
 B, 9th Regiment, U. S. Vet. \'oluntt-er Infantry, June 
 10, 1865; was promoted to Captain of Company K, 
 Nov. 10, 1865; and mustered out June 19, 1866, 
 services being no longer required. His entire service 
 in the 6th N. H. Regiment was in the 9th Army 
 Corps, commanded first by Major General Burnside 
 and afterwards by Major General Parke. The Corps 
 saw a great variety of service, both East and West. 
 According to record endorsed on his discharge from 
 the 6th Regiment, he participated in the following 
 battles : 
 
 Camden, N. C, April 19, 1862. 
 
 Hull Run, \'a., Aug. 29 and ."^0, 1862; wounded 
 by nuisket ball in head. 
 
 Fredericksburg, \'a. , Dec. 13, 1862. 
 
 \'icksburg and Jackson, .Miss., Juut- and July, 
 1863. 
 
 Slightly wounded at Jackson, July IJlh, by 
 minnie ball on hip. 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 71 
 
 In General Grant's Army in Virginia in 1864 he 
 took part in the following engagements; 
 
 Spottsylvania Court House, May 16 to 24. 
 
 North Anna River, May 25 and 26. 
 
 Tolopotomy Creek, May 30 and 31. 
 
 Bethesda Church, June 3. 
 
 Cold Harbor, June 9. 
 
 Petersburg, June 16, 17 and 18. 
 
 Cemetery Hill. July 30; slightly wounded by 
 piece of shell on hand. 
 
 Weldon R. R., Aug. 9. 
 
 Poplar Grove Church, Oct. 1. ' 
 
 Hatcher's Run, Oct. 2 7. 
 
 His service while in the 9th Regiment, U. S. Vet. 
 Volunteers was garrison duty, and included no field 
 service. Present residence, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Jonathan Siniih, son of John, and grandson of 
 Jonathan Smith, born Oct. 21, 1842, enlisted in 
 Company E, 6th Regiuient, N. H. Vol. Infantry, 
 Nov. 1, 1861, and was discharged for physical 
 disability in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 20, 1862. 
 
 He re-enlisted in Company E, 1st N. H. Vol. 
 Cavalry, Aug. 16, 1864; was promoted to Sergeant 
 of his Company; and was mustered out on account 
 of close of the war, July 15, 1865. During his 
 connection with the cavalry, he served on the upper 
 Potomac, guarding Washington and Maryland against 
 Mosby's guerillas. I had personal knowledge of his 
 
MII.ITARV HISTORY. 
 
 record in the 6th Regiment, for we were in the same 
 company. Tall and slender, a boy in years, his 
 physical eqnipment for the exposure and hardships 
 of the camp and the march, was not good; but in 
 spite of this drawback he served constantly with his 
 regiment in the severe campaign under Pope in 
 \'irginia in the summer of '62. and participated in 
 the desperate battles of Hull Run and Chantilly, 
 Va., and South Mountain, Md., remaining with his 
 comi)any until Sept. 16th, when he was sent to the 
 hospital. 
 
 Tlie battle of Bull Run was the most disastrous 
 and sanguinary of any in wliich our regiment took 
 part — we went on the field with 450 men in line; 
 and in a terrific charge on Stonewall Jackson's lines, 
 through the woods and across a railroad cut. on the 
 afternoon of the i9th, in less than an hour we 
 sustained a loss of 210, nearly halt our number. 1 
 well remember the pleasure with which I greeted my 
 brother, when, after a search among the woumleil on 
 the morning of the 30tli. he found lue at a field 
 h(jspital on the bank of Hull Run Creek. 
 
 "Jock," said I. "how did you happ.-n to get out 
 of that i)lace without getting hit?" 
 
 " Hit;" he said, straightening himself up. "look 
 at me: the Rebs might as well have shot at tin- edge 
 <.f a lath!" 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 73 
 
 In this place it seems fitting to mention Rev. 
 Samuel Abbot Smith, born April 18, 1829, son of 
 Samuel G., and grandson of Samuel Smith, the 
 founder of Peterborough village. Although not 
 regularly enrolled or commissioned in the Union 
 Army, he as truly sacrificed his life for the cause 
 as if he had been killed in battle. His patriotism 
 was a part of his religion. He was untiring in his 
 devotion to the soldiers and their families, and on 
 ever>^ occasion was an eloquent advocate of the cause 
 they went forth to maintain. In April, 1865, as the 
 representative of the Sanitary Commission and the 
 American Unitarian Association, he visited Norfolk 
 and Portsmouth, Va. He was the guest of General 
 Hooker at Fortress Monroe, and, while laboring in 
 the camps and hospitals, contracted a malarial fever 
 which ended his noble and useful life on the 20th of 
 May, 1865. 
 
 Three other grandsons of Samuel Smith served 
 the cause of the Union, and all were the sons of 
 William Sydney Smith. 
 
 William A. Smith, the oldest, was the only 
 representative of his family who served the Union 
 cause in the Navy. Horn Feb. 9, 1836; he was 
 appointed Acting Master's Mate Dec. 27, 1861; and 
 Ensign, Nov. 21, 1863. He served on the U. S. 
 Steamship "James H. Chambers," and on the 
 "Michigan," and was discharged Oct. 8, 1865. 
 He died at Plattsmouth, Neb., Feb. 24, 1870. 
 
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74 MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 I knew liiiu intimately. In his boyhood he went 
 to sea — before the mast — and visited many distant 
 ports during his connection with the merchant 
 marine. He became an exj)erienced navigator, and 
 combined the generosity and impulsiveness of the 
 sailor with the courage of the soldier. His service 
 in the navy was mostly on the Southeastern Coast 
 of the United States, intercepting and capturing 
 Confederate blockade runners. He assisted in the 
 seizure of many valuable prizes, and his experiences 
 were romantic and exciting. 
 
 Josiah P. Sinil/i, third son of William Sydney 
 Smith, born Oct. 20. 1S40, enlisted as private in Co. 
 B, Sth X. H. \'olunteer Infantry, Oct. 1, 1861. and 
 was killed in the assault on Port Hudson. Louisiana, 
 June 14. 1S6.^. Uu was the only member of our 
 family killed in battle. I recall him as a generous, 
 imimlsive boy, apparently without any .sense of fear. 
 He particii)ated with his Regiment in the engagements 
 at Labadieville, La., Oct. 27. 1S62; Bisland, I, a., 
 April 12 and 13, 1.S63, and took part in the severe 
 fighting about Port Hudson May 26, 27, 29 and 31, 
 and June 14, 1X63. His Captain, Charles H. Camp, 
 says that on the morning of the assault it was known 
 that his Regiment would take part in the charge; 
 Josiah had been in the hospital for some days, ill 
 with malarial fever. Hearing that his Regiment was 
 going into action, he g(.t up. dressed, and took his 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 75 
 
 place in the ranks. His Captain, seeing this, went 
 up to him and told him he was not able to go, and 
 was excused from duty, and directed him to leave 
 the ranks. Josiah said, "I have been in every fight 
 the Regiment has had so far, and I am not going to 
 miss this one." He staid with his Company, and in 
 the fierce and impetuous charge that followed he fell 
 in the abatis, close under the rebel redoubt. He 
 was shot through the head and his body was not 
 recovered. His Captain spoke of him in the highest 
 terms as a brave and faithful soldier. 
 
 Sydney S. Smith, fourth son of William Sydney 
 Smith, born Feb. 8, 1843, enlisted in Aug., 1864, in 
 the 4th Regiment, Mass. Heavy Artillery, and went 
 into camp at Galloups Island, Boston Harbor. In 
 September the Regiment went to the front and was 
 stationed in the vicinity of Washington. It did 
 garrison duty in Forts Whipple, Corcoran, Berry 
 and Williams, but saw no active field service, and 
 was mustered out of service about June 1st, 1865. 
 Sydney died in Alton, 111., July 9th, 1871. 
 
 For many years the veterans of the struggle for 
 the preservation of the Union were accustomed to 
 speak of things that happened during the " late war." 
 They can do this no longer. Another generation has 
 come on the stage and there has been a later war. 
 The war with Spain, entered into from the highest 
 motives of philanthropy to rescue a feeble republic 
 
MILITARY HISTt)RV. 
 
 from the gjasp of a cruel and relentless master, was 
 of short duration and brilliant achievement. 
 
 Two of the descendants of William Smith served 
 in that war, and it was no fault of theirs that they did 
 not reach the firing line before the contest ended. 
 
 John Howard CavemUr, son of General John S. 
 Cavender, and great, great grandson of William Smith, 
 born May 15th. 1855, was in 1898 Lieut. Colonel of 
 The National Guard of Missouri, a military organi- 
 zation to which his father had belonged 37 years 
 before. This Regiment tendered its services to ihe 
 Government and was mustered into the service of t la- 
 United States at Jefferson IJarracks, May 13, 1898, as 
 the First Missouri Vol. Inf'y, with John II. Cavender 
 as Lieut. Colonel. The Regiment was the first in 
 the state to tender its services to the Government- 
 It was stationed at Camp Geo. II. Thomas in Georgia 
 for about four months during 1898, with Lieut. Col. 
 Cavender in command, and in spite of trying condi- 
 tions of climate, became a very efficient and soldierly 
 body of men. The regiment was mustered out at 
 Jefferson Barracks, Oct. 31, 1898. 
 
 .Ubert Smith, only son of Payson and Catherine 
 Smith, grandson of Dr. Albert Smith, and a repre- 
 sentative of the fourth generation from William Smith 
 through both his i)arents, closed his books at 
 Dartmouth College and enlisted as i)rivate in Co. G, 
 First N. H. Vol. Inly, April 15. 1898. His regiment 
 
MILITARY HISTORY. 77 
 
 served with the army reserves at Chicamauga Park, 
 in Georgia and Lexington, K5\, about six and one- 
 half months and was mustered out on account of close 
 of the War the last of October, 1898. While at 
 Lexington, Ky., he was promoted to Corporal of his 
 Company. 
 
 The military register of the family would be 
 incomplete without mention of the remarkable career 
 of John Foster Bass with the armies of Southern 
 Europe and the Orient. 
 
 He spent over a year in Greece (1897-8) as war 
 • correspondent of British and American publications, 
 going through the Cretan rebellion and the Greco - 
 Turkish War. During this war he joined a company 
 of Greek volunteers to help the Cretans in their 
 contest with the Turks. After that he was about 
 two years in the Philippines and was slightly wounded 
 in one of the battles there. He accompanied the 
 American forces to Pekin in the Boxer insurrection, 
 and sent the first dispatch which reached this country 
 announcing the safety of the embassies. 
 
 In 1903 he went to Turkey for Mr. Bennett of the 
 N. Y. Herald, at the request of the Sultan, to 
 investigate the condition of the Turkish army and 
 disprove statements made in this country regarding 
 outrages committed by the Turks. 
 
 He is now with the first division of the Japanese 
 army in Manchuria, under Kuroki. 
 
78 MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 In tliis lite of cxjM->uiv aiul aiivciiture he has 
 displayed in a conspicuous dcj-^ree the qualities out of 
 which jrreat soldiers are made. lie is the son of 
 Perkins and Clara Foster Hass, and represents the 
 fourth «:eneration from William Smith. 
 
 In closing these annals, I will say I have made 
 diligent inquir>' and have included all those of whose 
 military service I could find any trace. If any have 
 been omitted whose names should appear, I sincerely 
 regret it. On account of the limitation of time and 
 space I have been compelled to leave out many 
 incidents which were interesting and worthy of 
 mention. 
 
ROBERT SMITH AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 By J. Gordon R. Wright. 
 
 As I take mj^ pen to write this short sketch of our 
 branch of the family it is with increasing regret that I 
 am not privileged to be in person at the reunion and 
 become acquainted with the various branches of a 
 family for whom I have such a respect that I might 
 well be charged with immodesty. 
 
 My short article must be from the nature of the 
 case very personal, as I am not posted as to the 
 whereabouts of even my nearest relatives except in a 
 very limited way. 
 
 I shall trust that so much of this personality may 
 be looked upon as a form of introduction to you, 
 rather than an attempt to force ourselves unasked 
 upon 3^our attention. 
 
 As my Aunt Fanny is reputed to have said to my 
 Uncle William (her brother), "We are not very 
 prolific and would be poor members of a colonization 
 scheme." This seems to have been true in our 
 line, not only from the fact that many have remained 
 unmarried, but also, that death seems to have come 
 in early life to the large majority of us. 
 
go MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 My family comes through Rob.ii, ih^- oldest son 
 of William Smith. IK- was l.<»rn Feb. 15th. 1753. 
 From one authority I learn that '-he xvas a Yery 
 pious man. Deacon of the Church, respected for his 
 good sense and Christian character." Another 
 author states: "He was a Deacon in the Presby- 
 terian Church, and Yery much respected for his 
 good sense and Christian character." He liYed on 
 a farm in the south part of the to^vn (Peterborough) 
 originally deeded by Jeremiah Gridley. John Hdl 
 and John FoxYle, to Halbut Morison in 1753, and 
 by him to William Smith June 2, 1761, and by him to 
 his son Robert. He died in consequence of an injury 
 to his kuee on December 31, 1795, aged forty -three 
 years, and before his father. nyIio died Jan. 31, ISOS, 
 aged eighty -fiYe years. 
 
 He married May 25,177S, Agnes Smiley, daughter 
 of William Smiley. She died Oct. lo. 1791, being 
 the mother of tvYo children. William, bo.n May 16, 
 1779, and Fanny, born Aug. 4, 17S0. He certainly 
 impresses me as a gentleman xvho had been well 
 pleased ^vith the married estate, so much so in fact 
 that he remained a ^vido^Yer less than seYen mouths 
 and after a courtship Nvl.ich had at least the ..uality of 
 breYity married in May, 1792, Isabel Ames who 
 outliYed him. and afterNvards married a- lur second 
 husband Shubael Hurd. ..f Lempster. N. U.. dvin- 
 in August, 1S47. aged eighty four years. 
 

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ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 81 
 
 Robert Smith and Isabel Ames were the parents of 
 three children, Jesse and Stephen (twins) born Mar. 
 6, 1793, and Robert, born Aug. 8, 1795. 
 
 William Smith lived to be sixty -one years of age, 
 dying Aug. 31, 1840. He was sadly and unaccount- 
 ably, as far as I have been able to discover, subject to 
 epilepsy which greatly impaired his mental powers. 
 
 Fanny was reputed to have been an eccentric 
 but very talented woman. I am indebted to Jonathan 
 Smith, of Clinton, Mass., for a letter containing many 
 reminiscences from which I make the following 
 extracts: "Fanny Smith was a small, slender woman, 
 with blue eyes. In her younger days her hair must 
 have been very light brown or yellow, but I do not 
 remember her when it was not thick and white. She 
 spoke with a strong Scotch accent, the only one of 
 the family I ever knew who did so. She was 
 indifferent as to dress in her later years. In her youth 
 she had the vanities of her sex in that particular. She 
 was a great reader and always subscribed for two 
 newspapers— The New York Evangelist, a sheet of the 
 most conservative, Calvinistic type, and the Liber- 
 ator, published by Garrison. These she read and 
 re-read down to the end of her days. She used to 
 make long visits at our house and her wit and 
 eccentricities were sources of great amusement to us 
 children. One of the first things she would do was 
 
 to get hold of the youngest and hire it to commit a 
 
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82 ROBKRT SMITH \M> DKSCHNDANTS. 
 
 long chapter in the Hible. I remember her drilling 
 my youngest brother t)ii one of the Psalms until I 
 could repeat it myself, ami I think the money she 
 paid him was the first he ever earned. She was a 
 great talker, very witty, and keen as a razor's edge. 
 Hoth of her cousins together. Dr. Albert Smith and 
 my father, who were much like her in that, were 
 hardly a match for her, and I have a vivid recollec- 
 tion of their long discussions about the open fire at 
 the old house when they would attack her abolitionism 
 and orthodoxy, ])ut she gave them as good as she got 
 in every instance. vShe was deeply interested in 
 Sunday Schools and was one of the veiy first to take 
 uj) the work in the vicinity of her residence. She 
 was thoroughly Scotch -Irish in her mental and moral 
 makeup and had all their independence, their wit. 
 and talent for repartee, their intelligence, and their 
 supreme interest in political and religious questions. 
 She willed her property to the Anti- Slavery Society, 
 but after her debts, etc., were paid there was not much 
 left. While the Peterborough relatives used to make 
 some fun of her eccentricities, yet they had great 
 respect for her and fully appreciated her talents, 
 which under a different life from the one she led — she 
 lived all alone — would have won for her the name of a 
 very remarkable woman. After her death my mother 
 asked Rev. Samuel Abbott Smith to write a short 
 sketch of her, but for some reason he never did and 
 
ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 83 
 
 now we all deeply regret it. If she could have lived 
 a few years longer she would have seen the fondest 
 desire of her heart, the abolition of slavery, realized. 
 But the inscription she had placed on her monument 
 met a prophecy of the faith that was in her, and some 
 of her family, opposed as they were to her views, had 
 a humble hand in bringing it about." Of Aunt 
 Fanny, Dr. J. H. Morison writes in the history of 
 Peterborough, "She was a woman of decided ability. 
 She was a decided Calvinist, and in her theological 
 encounters with the ablest of her Uncles they did not 
 always come off triumphant. When I was a child of 
 nine or ten she used to walk from Rindge to Peter- 
 borough on Sundays, to take the entire charge of 
 two Sunday Schools, one in the village at the center 
 of the town, and the other in an old, uninhabited 
 house near my father's. I was one of her scholars, 
 and recited to her from memory nearly the whole of 
 the Gospel of Matthew. Her devotional services when 
 she kneeled down and prayed in the school were very 
 impressive. She did, in this way, a great deal of 
 good. Wherever she was she endeavored, and usually 
 with success, to induce the people around her to 
 study the Bible. Later in life she became deeply 
 interested in the anti -slavery movement, and I can 
 not read without deep emotion the remarkable and 
 prophetic inscription which she prepared for her 
 monument." 
 
84 K(1H1"RT SMITlt \N1> nKSCrVTi \ NTS. 
 
 She hersclt onlcrctl the marble obelisk which 
 stands over her K^ave, ami dictated the inscription 
 in 1S5S, the year of her death " I'his side is 
 dedicated to the glorious cause of Emancipation. 
 May God prosper it, and all the people say Amen." 
 
 Of Jesse, son of Robert, I have found the 
 following extracts, and am glad to give tJiem to 
 you. Ur. J. II. Morison says, "Jesse was a most able 
 and accomplished physician, and his early death 
 was regarded as a great pu])lic loss to the city of 
 Cincinnati. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 
 1814. lie concluded to study the medical profession, 
 but having expended all his means, and more too, 
 and having incurred debts for his collegiate educa- 
 tion, he was obliged to teach for a few years while 
 pursuing his medical studies and did not receive his 
 degree till 1S19, when he graduated in the medical 
 class of that year in Harvard University. In 1S20 
 he was appointed to lecture on Anatomy in the 
 Dartmouth Medical College, where he acquitted 
 himself so creditably that he was invited to the 
 Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery in the Ohio 
 Medical College ol Cincinnati, which he accejjted 
 and held to the time of his death. He became 
 eminent as a surgeon, standing at the very head 
 of tlie profession in the Western States. Ik- was 
 an independent and strong-minded man, willi an 
 indomitable will that overcame all obstacles, and with 
 
ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 85 
 
 a wide culture in his profession which rendered him 
 an interesting and instructive lecturer." 
 
 Dr. Ephraim Peabody said of him: "His mind 
 was thoroughly possessed by that foundation of every 
 virtue, a sense of his own personal responsibility.which 
 governed his life with the omnipotence of habit. 
 Hence that firmness and independence of purpose, 
 which kept its calm and Cv^en way, equally incapable 
 of being seduced by the solicitations or overawed by 
 the fear of man. His iron firmness of resolve seemed 
 almost to partake of obstinacy till a more intimate 
 acquaintance showed that it was the result of a 
 character where the mental and moral powers were 
 peculiarly well proportioned, where habits of inde- 
 pendent, clear thought left no wavering of mind, and 
 the moral energy fully sustained the intellectual 
 decision. And interfused through these more rugged 
 features was a true tenderness of nature which 
 softened down everything like austerity and preserved 
 for manhood the simple feelings of the child. It 
 struck men almost strangely, who had seen him only 
 in the struggle of life, to witness how quickly and 
 deeply he was touched by everything that interested 
 others, until it was remembered how much better the 
 firm character preserves the original susceptibilities 
 of the heart, than the feeble. But that which shed 
 beauty over his character, and commanded the love 
 and respect of his friends so deeply, was the light and 
 
86 KOUKKT SMITH AND Dl'SCKNDANTS. 
 
 strfn>;ih ii itcciveii from religious laiih. In conver- 
 sation, my friend speaks also of his fearless intrepidity 
 of spirit, which united with the Peterborough humor, 
 that spares no one, and with a fratne of mind so 
 vigorous gave to those who knew him little the idea 
 of coarseness and levity, hiding at once the nice 
 susceptibilities, deep feelings and lofty principle, 
 which were really with him the controlling powers. 
 
 From my knowledge of my grandfather I gather 
 that lie was an obstinate, independent, self-willed, 
 and dominating character, hard to bend to tlie judg- 
 ment of others even though he might recognize their 
 great and possibly greater ability. 
 
 My grandmother (his wife) was at least his equal 
 in intelligence and ability, and far his superior in 
 business capacity. She it was who paid his debts 
 after his graduation and bought for him his first case 
 of surgeon's instruments. His whole life was in 
 his profession. It was she alone who made that 
 profession pay the revenue required for the suste- 
 nance of the family, and made the investments, some 
 of which are still held in my family. 
 
 Stephen, my grandfather's twin brother, was 
 married three times. l)ut as far as we know his 
 children all died before him without issue. lie 
 lived in liuffalo, is said to have been very successful 
 financially, and died in 1X67. at the age of seventy - 
 four. He was, I believe, what is calleil "very near," 
 
ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 87 
 
 and I have thought from what I have heardof him that 
 his fortune, which was large for the time in which 
 he lived, was more the result of extreme thriftiness 
 and economy, denying himself and family all the 
 luxuries and many of the ordinary comforts of life, 
 than any large capacity for business. He could not 
 have been a man of lovable and sociable disposition, 
 for although I was a boy of fifteen years of age when 
 he died, I never remember to this day of even his 
 name being mentioned except in a most casual way, 
 and his death, if known, was not commented on in 
 our family. This can not but impress me deeply as 
 he was my mother's father's twin brother. 
 
 Robert, my grandfather's youngest brother, and 
 his great favorite, went as a young man to the South, 
 teaching first at Centervalle, Miss., and afterwards 
 was a planter" and slave owner of Louisiana, where he 
 died about the year 1852. He was very prosperous 
 in his business, bought a large plantation in Avoyelles 
 Parish, La., on Bayou De'Glaze, four miles west of 
 Simmsport, and was for many years President of 
 the Planters' Bank at New Orleans. 
 
 He left but one child, Samuel, born at Centerville, 
 whom my mother remembers as having been brought 
 North by my grandfather and kept in school at 
 Cincinnati for some months or possibly years. As 
 indicating my grandfather's affection and confidence 
 in Robert (and it has seemed to me, the reverse in 
 
88 RORi-KT '^MiTH ANii r)rc;ri*Nn A NTS. 
 
 his twill hroihcr StcphcM, who lived so much nearer 
 to him), his will requested that in case of the death 
 of liis widow that his only surviving (-"hild, in\- 
 mother, should be sent South to his brother Robert 
 for fatherly care and protection. 
 
 This would never have been, howevt-r, as after 
 the reading of the will, my grandmother, in her quiet 
 but forceful way, gave my uKJther and the executors 
 of grandfather's will distinctly and thoroughly to 
 understand that no child of her's should live or be 
 reared in a country of slavery. 
 
 I am thankful to say, however, that the question 
 never had to be decided, as niy grandmother lived 
 to eighty -nine years and was surrounded by grand- 
 children and great grandchildren, who to-day rise up 
 from personal remembrance and call her blessed. 
 
 Thus you see that from all Robert Smith's 
 children but one boy (a son of Robert) and one 
 girl (a daughter of Jesse) lived to maturity and 
 represented our line in the third generatit)n from 
 William Smith. 
 
 It has only been recently that I have known 
 anything of Samuel Smith and family. 
 
 John Stearns Smith, of St. Paul, recently wrote me 
 eticlosing a letter from Jesse II. Smith from which I 
 learn that he is the sole survivor of his father's 
 family of seven children. 
 
 Sanniel Smith was the (Jtdv heir to the consider- 
 
; ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 89 
 
 able estate of his father, but was one of the sufferers 
 in the war of the Rebellion and lost his whole fortune. 
 
 He married Lucy Ellen Poole, who was born and 
 reared in Portland, Maine. 
 
 They moved with their family after the loss 
 of tlieir fortune to Arkansas in 1870, and never 
 recovering from his great losses, died there in 
 1884, surviving his wife but one year. 
 
 They left seven children who were all married 
 but as far as I know died without issue, except 
 Jesse, named for my grandfather, and whose present 
 address is Hamburg, L,a. 
 
 Jesse was born in 1849 and I believe is the only 
 survivor of our line with the exception of my own 
 immediate family. 
 
 Although my grandfather, Jesse Smith, was the 
 father of seven children, only one lived to maturity, 
 Mary Elizabeth. She was born in Cincinnati, March 
 7th, 1830, and married in June, 1851, John R. 
 Wright. Her mother had married many years before 
 as her second husband the father of John R. , so that 
 they were reared together as brother and sister and 
 loved each other from childhood to old age. 
 
 God never blessed children with more devoted, 
 self-sacrificing or loving parents. It is a subject of 
 which my heart is full but I cannot feel that I am 
 entitled to the time to introduce you to all that is 
 in my mind of them. Suffice it to say they were 
 
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90 ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 wonderfully prospered in every way and reared a 
 family of such children as one would expect from 
 sensible, pains-takiiiu:. compaiii()nal)lc and C.od- 
 fearinj; ])arents. 
 
 Nine children blesseil the union, six of thcni 
 arrived at maturity and were all married, making 
 such wise choices that we feel like a large family 
 of own brothers and sisters. 
 
 Our names in the order of our biith are as 
 follows : 
 
 1. J. Gordon R., married Celia L. Doughty; 
 children: Mary Louise and Annie Hailey. Mary 
 Louise married Malcom McAvoy; child: Marjorie. 
 
 2. Jessie Smith, married A. P. Foster, son of 
 Bishop Foster of the Methodist Ivpiscopal Church; 
 child: Helen Wright. This dear sister left us for 
 her Heavenly home, June 29, 1894. 
 
 3. Clifford Bailey, married Virginia Ramsey; 
 children: Ethel and Clifford Ramsey. 
 
 4. Mary Klizabeth, married William A. Goodman, 
 Jr. 
 
 5. Annie Bramhall, married Geo. W. Taussig; 
 children: John Wright and Mariaiuia Wright. 
 
 6. (ileii, married Isabel Noyes. 
 
 J. Gordon R., Clifford H., and Mary M. make 
 their homes in Cincinnati. 
 
 A. 1'. I'-oster, with daughter Helen, and Glen, 
 reside in New York City. 
 
ROBERT SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 91 
 
 Annie E. lives in Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of 
 St. Louis. 
 
 The children of my parents are all leading 
 honorable and successful lives, respected by the 
 communities in which they live. Their names are 
 found among the officers of many of our leading 
 organizations, financial, religious, charitable and 
 social. I know our dear mother is capable of 
 judging, and should be unbiased in her judgment, 
 and she says: "She is proud of her children." 
 Nothing can or should bring greater joy than to 
 feel we are living up to a good woman's ideal. 
 
 In closing, I present the toast of tiny Tim: " God 
 bless us, every one." 
 
JOHN SMITH AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 HY Cdl.. J<MIN H. L A\ l-.MM-.K. 
 
 John Smith, second son of William ami Klizabeth 
 Morison Smith, was born at Peterborongh, X. II., 
 April 111, 1754. He married, December 17, 179L, 
 Margaret Steele, danghter of Captain David Steele 
 of that town. Eight children were born to them. 
 "Squire John," as he was called, was a large man. 
 both in stature and mind, and a pleasant, kindly man. 
 He enjoyed the affections, as well as the respect of 
 his fellow townsmen. ¥ov many years he held some 
 of the most important public offices within their gift. 
 He was a man of generous impulses, plain in spt-cch, 
 dress and manner, despising pretense, meanness and 
 dishonesty. Nothing can be added by the writer at 
 this late day, to what has long since been written of 
 him. 
 
 W'c havf more to do witli his childrt-n and 
 children's children. An accident caused his death 
 at Peterboroiigh, Aug. 7, 1H21. in his sixty -seventh 
 year. His wife died at I'ranklin, September 30, 1839,. 
 
 Harriet, eldest child of Juhu Smith, was born at 
 
JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 93 
 
 Peterborough, Nov. 3, 1792. She never married, 
 and died there, May 17, 1818. • - c '. 
 
 Louisa, second child of John Smith, was born at 
 Peterborough, May 9, 1795. She married, September 
 18, 1827, Joshua Fifield of Franklin. They had four 
 children. All died in early childhood, except Mary 
 Mansfield, born Feb. 8, 1835. Joshua Fifield, while 
 on a visit to his wife's brother, died at Alton, Illinois, 
 Nov. 27, 1840. Louisa in 1857, took up her 
 residence at Alton, where she died in the autumn of 
 1878. Mary, her daughter, married in Alton in 
 November, 1857, George Kellenberger. IJe died 
 there Jan. 4, 1866. Mary died at Chicago, Mar. 16," 
 1900, leaving two daughters, Annie Kellenberger, 
 t»orn at Alton, Dec. 28, 1859, who never married and 
 is now (1904) living at Chicago; and Edith, born at 
 Alton, Jan. 23, 1861. She married an Englishman, 
 Dr. Charles Monk. They have three young children 
 and live in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her husband 
 practices dentistry. 
 
 John, third child of John Smith, was born at 
 Peterborough, April 16, 1797. He left there in 1822, 
 going to Northfield, N. H., there engaging with John 
 Cavender and Thomas Baker in establishing a cotton 
 factory. He never married, and died at Salisbury, 
 N. H., Oct. 8, 1822. It is said of him that he had a 
 very fine singing voice, and was universally beloved. 
 Jane, fourth child of John Smith, was born at 
 
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 Peterborough, March 14, 1800. She married Aug:. 
 16, 1S23, John Cavender of Greenfield, N. II., at that 
 time a merchant atul manufacturer in the towns of 
 Peterborough, Franklin and Xortlifield. He after- 
 ward bec.une a partner in the firm of Smith Bros, 
 and Co. at St. Louis, Missouri, and went there to 
 reside in 1836. lie retired from the firm in 1S49, ami 
 thereafter, except for his connection as an officer or 
 director, with bankinjj or railway corporations in 
 which he was interested, he devoted most of his time, 
 and much of his mone}', to educational, charitable, 
 and churcli affairs, helping to establish in St. Louis 
 the Unitarian Church, and the Mercantile Library. 
 He was one of the corporators and a director ot 
 Washington I'niversity, and for many ^-ears its 
 treasurer. He was at the time of his death actively 
 engaged in caring for the needy and suffering among 
 the families of the S(ddiers in the civil war. Jane 
 Cavender died at St. Louis, Dec. 5, 1858. John 
 . Cavender died there Jan. 5, 1X6,1, in his sixty-seventh 
 3'ear. They had three children, all l)orn in New 
 Hampshire — John Smith, March 11, 1S24; Charles 
 James. Jan. 29, 1828, and Robert Smith, Aug. 28, 
 \SM. Charles died in his fourth year. Rolti-rt 
 married Caroline M . Atwc^od of Alton; they had one 
 child, a daughter, Hertie, who died in childhood. 
 Robert died at Alton, March 28. 1900; his wife is 
 still living. 
 
JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 95 
 
 John married Sept. 4, 1850, Mehetabel Chadwick; 
 she died Nov. 1, 1850. He married again, July 25, 
 1854, Lucinda W. Rogers, daughter of Luke Rogers 
 of Stow, Massachusetts. He engaged in merchandiz- 
 ing and manufacturing at St. Louis, and before 1860 
 had retired, with what in those days was considered a 
 competency. He was a member of the Missouri 
 Legislature in 1860, and was elected State Senator for 
 a term of four years in 1867. At the outbreak of the 
 Civil War he raised a company and was mustered as 
 Captain into the "First Regiment Missouri Volunteer 
 Infantry," Frank P. Blair's Regiment. 
 
 At Wilsons Creek (where General Nathaniel Lyon 
 was killed), he was shot through the lungs and left 
 for dead on the field. Recovering, he was made a 
 major and his regiment changed from infantry to 
 artillery. His batteries aided materially in the 
 capture of Fort Donelson, and at Shiloh, where he 
 commanded six batteries, they, with the division of 
 W. H. L. Wallace and the remaining fragment of 
 Prentiss' division, made the deadly " Hornets' Nest," 
 so called by the Confederates, under Albert Sidney 
 Johnston, who for eight hours of that Sabbath day 
 vainly hurled themselves against it in desperate 
 charges. 
 
 After participating in the siege of Corinth, he 
 went home, organized, and was made Colonel of the 
 29th Missouri Infantry. His regiment, in the Army 
 
9fi JOli:, ...iTH AND nKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 of the Tennessee, under Sherman, suffered terrible 
 loss at Chickasaw Bayou. II<- mxl took part in the 
 capture of Arkansas Post, January 11 U> \^, 1863. 
 
 Learning of his father's death, which had occurred 
 January 5, 1S63, he obtained leave and returned to 
 St. I^^uis. 
 
 Finding that his father's estate and his own affairs 
 required his personal attention, he resigned from the 
 army, February 19, 1S63. He was made a Brigadier 
 General by brevet, for "gallant service at Donelson. 
 Shiloh, Chickasaw Bayou, etc." 
 
 After the war he re-engaged in business at St. 
 Louis, and died there February 23, 1886. He was 
 buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. His wife and the 
 lour children (all sons) born to thtm, still (19i>4) 
 survive him. 
 
 John Howard, born May 15, 1855, at Watertown, 
 Massachusetts; James Sniitli, horn at St. Louis, Oct. 
 11, 1862; Edward Rowse, born at vSt. Louis, Aug. 
 30, 1864; and Harry Wales, born at St. Louis. Dec. 
 1, 1871. Harry, living at vSt. Louis, is still (1904) 
 unmarried. lulward, living at Denver, Colorado, 
 married, Sept. 24, 1892, Alice Turner of that state. 
 They have a daughter, Doris, born in July. 1S93. 
 James, living in Denver, is still unmarried. John 
 Howard, living at St. Louis, married. Dec. 7. 1876, 
 KfTie H. Oreenleaf, daughter of ICugene L. Oreenleaf 
 of that city. ICngaged lor many years in St. Louis in 
 
JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 97 
 
 the real estate business, and for the last twenty -five 
 years enjoying the "pleasant pursuit of Book Collect- 
 ing," he has now a library of some six thousand 
 volumes. 
 
 For about the same period he has served in the 
 Missouri National Guard. At the outbreak of the 
 Spanish War, he, on May 13, 1898, was mustered as 
 Lieutenant Colonel of the First Missouri Vol. Inf'y, 
 into the ser^uce of the United States. He was 
 fortunate enough to be in command of his regiment 
 through most of its service. Though well drilled and 
 efficient, this regiment was made no use of, other than 
 to be held in readiness at Camp Geo. H. Thomas, on 
 the Chicamauga battle field, in Georgia. He with his 
 regiment was mustered out Oct. 31, 1898. 
 
 He has two children-John Howard, Junior, born 
 at St. Louis, Dec. 23, 1877, and Lucile, born there, 
 March 6, 1882. 
 
 John Howard, Jr., married at St. Louis, December 
 26, 1901, Blanche Phillippi. They have two chil- 
 dren: John Howard, HL, born at Kansas City, 
 Missouri, December 26, 1902, and Louis Phillippi' 
 born there. May 12, 1904. 
 
 Lucile, married at St. Louis, October 21, 1903, 
 Albert Edward Bernet, whose business is flour 
 milling in that city. They have a son, born July 
 11, 1904. 
 
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98 JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Robert, fifth chiKl of John Smith, was born at 
 Peterborough, June 12, lS(i2. Upon the death of 
 his brother John in KS2J, he took his place in the 
 cotton factory at Xorthfiekl, and later went to 
 Franklin. Ik- married, November 23, 1828, Sarah 
 v. liinj^ham of Sanbornton, and in lSvi2 k-ft P'ranklin, 
 going to live at Alton, Illinois. From 1S43 to 1849, 
 he served three terms in Congress from that district. 
 He was appointed Major and Paymaster during the 
 Civil War, serving until obliged by ill health to 
 resign. He was stationed most of the time in St. 
 Louis. He died at Alton, December 21, 1867. His 
 wife died there some years later. He was one of 
 the most quiet of men. In his political campaigns 
 he sought the face to face acquaintanceship of his 
 constituents, and through his attractive and fascin- 
 ating personality won and held the confidence and 
 support of his district. They had two children, 
 Robert Hingham. born Jul>' 31, 1S3S, and Sarah 
 Hingham, born May 20, 1843. Robert married, 
 February 28, 1861. Helen 1'. Child. The Smith 
 singing voice appeared again in him, he having a 
 fine tenor. He died at Chicago, July 28, 19ui). Ik- 
 had <jnly one child, Ivarl Cavender Smith, born at 
 Alton, Ai)ril 26, 1862. Ivarl married, Jtiiu- 14. l')03, 
 Caroline H. Haagen of /\lton. They have no chil- 
 dren. His mother is still living at Chicago. 
 
JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 99 
 
 Sarah Bingham married J. H. Mahony in 1890; 
 she died without issue, at Chicago, September 26, 
 
 1902. 
 
 James, the sixth child of John Smith, was born 
 at Peterborough, October 28, 1804. In 1829 he was 
 a merchant in the city of New York. He married. 
 May 15, 1832, Persis Garland of Franklin, N. H. ; 
 and in 1833 joined his brother, William H., and his 
 brother-in-law, John Cavender, in establishing at 
 St. Louis the wholesale grocery house of Smith 
 Brothers & Co. After the great fire there in 1849 
 the firm dissolved partnership but the "Smith 
 Brothers," in 1851 re-entered, with George Part- 
 ridge, the same business, from which partnership 
 both brothers withdrew and retired with a compe- 
 tency in 1863. James continued to reside at St. 
 Louis until his death which occurred at Hampton, 
 N. H., Oct. 15, 1877. His wife died at St. Louis, 
 Feb. 14, 1891. They had no children. James Smith 
 was a republican in politics, and a staunch Union 
 man during the Civil War, when it cost somethino- 
 to avow Northern sentiments in St. Louis, which 
 was on the border line between the North and the 
 South, and where the Confederate element was stronc^ 
 and aggressive. After he retired from business in 
 1863, he became officially connected as Director with 
 the Provident Savings Hank, Belcher Sugar Refining 
 Company, St. Louis Gas Light Company, and the 
 
100 JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Missouri State Mutual Insurance Company. His 
 charities were many and generous. He was one of 
 the orij^inal incorporators of Kliot Seminary at St. 
 Louis, in 1S5.>, the name of which was afterwards 
 chanRed to W'ashinj^ton rni\ersity. In its early 
 years he Rave liberally to its sui)iK)rt. In 1S7.^ he 
 endowed it with $70,000, and l)y his last will left 
 one-half of his estate to Dr. \Vm. O. Kliot as trustee, 
 for " Kducational, Charitable and Religious pur- 
 poses." He gave to Washington University alone 
 more than $250,000. He also gave to the Public 
 Library of his native town a fund of $3000 for the 
 purchase of books. Smith Academy, a branch of 
 Washington I'niversity, was named for him. 
 
 James Smith was a Unitarian in faith, and when 
 Wm. G. Eliot arrived in St. Louis in 1834 to estab- 
 lish there an Unitarian Society, he was one of the 
 two persons to meet him at the steamboat landing 
 and care for him. " From that day to this," said 
 Dr. Hliot, late in life, "their homes (speaking of 
 Christopher Rhodes and James Smith) have been 
 niv home." He was one of the original members 
 of the Church of the Messiah (Dr. Kliot's Society in 
 St. Louis), and through his lung lik- was one of 
 the largest contributors to its support and to the 
 construction of the first two church buildings of the 
 Society, one erected in 1836 and the second in 1M51. 
 One who knew him well says that there was no 
 
JOHN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 101 
 
 worthy charity or enterprise for the relief or care 
 of the sick or destitute undertaken in St. Louis 
 during his time which did not receive from him 
 substantial support. 
 
 Jeremiah, seventh child of John Smith, was born 
 at Peterborough, October 1, 1806. He died there in 
 his eleventh year, April 6, 1816. 
 
 William Henry, eighth child of John Smith, was 
 born at Peterborough, Dec. 26, 1808, going to 
 Franklin to live in 1822. He remained there until 
 1833, when he joined his brother James and John 
 Cavender at St. Louis, entering into partnership with 
 them. He married, Nov. 5. 1837, Lydia Pettingill, of 
 Salisbury, N. H. She died without issue at St. 
 Louis, February 10, 1841. He married for his second 
 wife, Ellen Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith of 
 Peterborough, September 13, 1843. They had four 
 children, only one, William Eliot, living to maturity. 
 Like his brother James, he was a benefactor of 
 Washington University, donating the sum of $25,500 
 to found a perpetual lecture fund, resulting in the 
 " Smith lectures." 
 
 Like his brother, also, he was a constant con- 
 tributor to the support of the Church of the Messiah 
 in St. Louis, and its various charitable and educa- 
 tional enterprises. 
 
 He gave $5000 toward the erection of the Public 
 Library building in Peterborough, and was a frequent 
 
102 Jiill.N >M1TU AM) DKSCENDANTS. 
 
 contrilnitor to niaiiy other charital)le objects of his 
 native town. In liis lifetime he gave away fully 
 one-lialf of all he ever possessed. As was said 
 of his father, so it can be said of him: "With 
 wisdom, purse, or hand, he w^as always ready to helj) 
 his fellow men." 
 
 In 1S63. he retired from business with ample 
 means, going to Alton, where his brother Robert 
 was then living, and building for himself a country 
 home, with a fine view of the broad Mississippi 
 River. Here he died, October 2nd, 1894, aged 
 eighty -six years; and his wife, April 9, 1902. 
 
 William Eliot Smith was born at St. Louis. 
 December 31, 1844. He married Alice Cole at 
 Alton, September 24, 1873. They have two unmar- 
 ried daughters, Eunice Cole, born at Alton, March 
 23, 1875, and Ellen Dean, born there. May 15, 1876. 
 He is engaged in manufacturing at Alton, but no 
 longer devotes his whole time to business. He is 
 well able to afford and indulge his inherited love 
 of travel. 
 
 It seems now more than probable that with the 
 death of those now living, the male line of William 
 and Elizabeth Smith, through their son John, will 
 fail. 
 
JAMES SMITH AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 By Marcus Smith Thomas. 
 
 It gives me pleasure to write of this man and his 
 descendants, and when I promised to do so supposed 
 it would be easy to trace them all. The task has 
 been harder than anticipated. I am going to state as 
 few dates as possible and give such an account of 
 each as he or she has been or is to-day in actual life. 
 None have been millionaires and not many particu- 
 larly distinguished, but all have been energetic, useful 
 citizens, making themselves respected and influential 
 for the upbuilding of humanity wherever they have 
 lived. 
 
 James Smith, the son of William Smith, removed 
 from Peterborough to Cavendish, Vt., about 1790, 
 where he lived the rest of his life, dying August 11th,' 
 1842. In ability and intelligence he was second to 
 none of his brothers and held many positions of honor 
 and trust at the gift of his fellow citizens. He was a 
 Justice of the Peace for many years, filled different 
 town offices and was a member of the Legislature of 
 Vermont for thirteen successive terms. His wife was 
 
104 JA>ii,> >Mrni AM) DKSCENDANTS. 
 
 Sally Ames, whom he married Dec. M, 1791. She 
 died May 16, 1833. Sally, his oldest child, who 
 lived to reach maturity, married James Walker, Esq., 
 an eminent lawyer of Peterborough, May 13, 1819. 
 She has been described as a woman of rare beauty 
 and excellence of character, and was the favorite 
 niece of her uncle Jeremiah Smith. She died at 
 Peterborough, August 26, 1842. 
 
 Of the marriage three children were born : James 
 Smith Walker, who died at the age of twenty, while 
 a student with his brother George in Yale College; 
 George, born April 1, 1824, died Jan. 15, 1888; and 
 Ariana Smith, named for her mother's cousin, the 
 daughter af Judge Smith, born Nov. 8, 1829, died 
 Aug. 31, 1854. All were born at Peterborough in the 
 Carter house on the hill overlooking the valley of the 
 Contoocook, near which stream Mr. Walker built his 
 own house. The sons fitted for college at Exeter. 
 George, after the death of his brother, graduated at 
 Dartmouth, and studied law at Harvard, beginning 
 active practice at Chicopee in 1846, where he was 
 counsel for the Cabot Bank, which lent much money 
 to John Hrown before he went to Kansas, a fact which 
 led to the introduction of Brown by George Walker 
 to I*. H. vSanborn of the State Kansas conunittee in 
 1857. In 1849 (Oct. 24), (ieorge married Sarah 
 Dwight Bliss, only daughter of George Bliss. Esq., t.t 
 Springfield, Mass., where he then continued to prac- 
 
JAMES SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 105 
 
 tice law until after the Civil War. He was a colonel 
 of the staff of Gov. Banks in 1858, and for a year a 
 member of the Senate, before being appointed a Bank 
 Commissioner of Massachusetts, in which office he 
 served during the war and afterwards. He was sent 
 to Europe on a financial mission by Gov. Andrew in 
 1865, again by Secretary Sherman in 1880, and for 
 seven years was consul-general of the United States 
 at Paris. He had but lately resigned that office, and 
 gone to practice law in Washington, when he died 
 there, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He was a 
 student all his life, an accomplished man, and of the 
 most amiable character. His living children are 
 Louisa Dwight, James Smith, Philip and Ariana, both 
 daughters unmarried. Philip has a son George and 
 a daughter Mary, born at Washington. 
 
 Ariana was educated at Exeter, Peterborough and 
 Keene, with a few lessons at Tyngsboro and Boston, 
 but became an invalid at sixteen, and completed 
 her studies at home and in Boston, with her dear 
 friend Ednah Littlehale, older than herself. She 
 had that indefinable gift of genius, and through 
 that a knowledge of books and of society which, 
 joined to an attractive presence and great sweetness 
 of character, with noble aspirations and tender 
 sympathies, made her beloved by all who knew 
 her. Her health was never fully restored, yet in 
 her invalid condition she accomplished much, and 
 
106 JAMES SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 made many friends. To the dearest of these, F. B. 
 Sanborn, slie was for years united in the closest 
 affection, and at hist married, in the near prospect 
 of death from consumption. August 23, 1854, at her 
 father's house in Peterborough. At her request, 
 she was buried in the beautiful cemetery of Spring- 
 field, where her l)i()ther and his wife have graves 
 beside her. 
 
 James, the oldest son of James, has the most 
 living descendants. He represented Cavendish, Vt., 
 in the Legislature and afterwards removed to 
 Schoolcraft, Michigan. He married Betsy Brown of 
 Plymouth, Vt. She died May 11th, 1841, and he 
 died February 4, 1842. Of his l.-.rge family of chil- 
 dren three survived to maturity, and two are still 
 living — Sarah, who married Willard Flagg, and 
 Marcia, who married Nathaniel D. Thomas. Betsy, 
 the elder of the three, married Norman C. Eigelow 
 
 of Cavendish, April 20, 1845, died leaving two 
 
 children: Frank Bigelow of Rutland. \'t.. who 
 travels for the American Agricultural Chemical 
 Comi)any. He is a genial man with many friends, 
 is niarrifd and has daughters. Belle, the other 
 child of Betsy Bigelow, married lo Willis Spaulding, 
 who live on the uUl family homestead of James 
 Smith in Cavendish. They carry on a da'ry, and 
 make a large quantity of maple sugar every year. 
 They have five ch Idren, four boys and a girl. 
 
JAMES SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 107 
 
 Sarah Flagg, above named, lives on the Flagg 
 homestead near Alton, Illinois. Her husband is 
 dead and his widow carries on the farm. Her oldest 
 daughter. Belle, married Ozias Hatch, in the real 
 estate business. They have one son. Mrs. Flagg's 
 second daughter, Mary, married Edward Gillum, a 
 farmer, Edwardsville, Illinois. They have three 
 children. Norman, the only son of Mrs. Flagg, is 
 married and lives on the home farm near Alton. He 
 has two daughters. He is prominent in the grange, 
 being lecturer in the Edwardsville branch of the 
 organization, is active in politics and one of the 
 Republican Supervisors of the County. 
 
 Marcia Thomas— fifth child of James, resides in 
 the village of Decatur, Michigan. They were farmers 
 through their active life but have now retired. They 
 have four children living, all married except the 
 eldest daughter, Jessie. She was a teacher for many 
 years but now lives with her parents at home. 
 
 Their oldest son, 3-our essayist, is a farmer, his 
 specialty being the dairy. Living in the fruit belt he 
 has paid much attention to that branch of industry, 
 his specialty being the cultivation of the grape. 
 Married and has two children, a son and daughter. 
 He has been active in public affairs, is a member of 
 the village Council, of both boards of review for the 
 assessments of township and village, and has served 
 eight years on the Republican Township Committee, 
 
108 JAMES il \ND nKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 also Secretar>' of the Decatur Creamery Company and 
 Lecturer for the Decatur Grange. 
 
 Wilhinl Flaj^ij. third sou of Marcia, lives in 
 Traverse City, ^Iichi^^^n. He married Nellie Clapp, 
 and thry have three children. Their dauj^hter 
 graduated from the Ilij^h School in June and will 
 follow teaching. The two boys are still in the 
 High School. Mr. Klagg is a contractor and builder, 
 also Superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School, 
 numbering 325 scholars. 
 
 May, the youngest daughter of Marcia, married 
 Harry Ballard. He is a farmer and lives in Xiles, 
 Michigan. They have one son. 
 
 John Smith, fifth child of James, died April 20, 
 1839, aged twenty -six years. He married Xancy 
 Willard and lived at St. Josephs, Michigan, left one 
 child, still living, residence unknown. 
 
 William Smith, the third son of James, lived at 
 Cavendish, Vermont. He was born July 31, 1800, 
 and lived in Cavendish until 18S8. when he went to 
 reside with his son, and died April, 1891, at the age 
 of 91. He fitted for college and entered Dartmouth, 
 but was compelled to leave at the end of two years on 
 account of an affection of the eyes. After leaving 
 college he was for some years engaged in the manu- 
 facture of potato starch, but afterwards went into 
 wool maintfacturing at Proctorville, a village in tlic 
 town of Cavendish. On account dI tli- dejjressed 
 
JAMES SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 109 
 
 condition of the industry, he retired from this 
 business just prior to the Civil War. In all move- 
 ments for the social and industrial betterment of 
 the conmunity, he had an active part. He was 
 Selectman, did an extensive probate business, repre- 
 sented his town in the Legislature for two terms and 
 for forty -four years was a Justice of the Peace. He 
 was also a Director in the National Bank, a Trustee of 
 the Public Library and was one of the founders of the 
 Universalist Church in Cavendish. William Smith 
 was a lover of books and a great reader, and accumu- 
 lated for a man in his occupation a large library. 
 Prosperous as a business man for many years, when 
 reverses came he exhibited the same calmness and 
 serenity as when fortune smiled. In this he resem- 
 bled his Uncle Jeremiah who said, "I think my path 
 is in* allowing myself to be happy in the way 
 Providence pleases, and not in insisting or choosing 
 the way and manner for myself." He had in a 
 marked degree the salient family traits and his 
 geniality, cheerfulness, his warm, loving heart and 
 his inteiested service for others made his home a 
 magnet which drew all his friends and relatives to it 
 and to him. Summer after summer his hospitable 
 home was filled with guests to its utmost capacity and 
 when he passed away at the ripe old age of ninety-one 
 the world seemed poorer without him. Oct. 6, 1828, 
 he married Rhoda Bates, by whom he had one 
 
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 ! NDANTS. 
 
 child — Rhoda, who married Franklin Rice, a promi- 
 nent merchant of Boston. Mrs. Rice died leaving 
 
 one daughter, Frances Mary, surviving who married 
 I>r. William vStillman of Albany, New York, where 
 she now resides. Date of marriage, 18X0. They have 
 no children. Mrs. Smith died Aug. 8, 1844. For 
 a second wife Mr. Smith married Mrs. Isabella 
 (Proctor) Page, by whom he had three children— 
 Addison, Fallen and William, the last of whom oidy 
 now survives. Addison died j-oung and Kllen 
 deceased at the age of twenty -three years. She 
 inherited her father's gentle, magnetic personality. 
 An invalid for many years she retained her buoyant 
 courageous spirit through all her weakness and 
 suffering to the end. Rhoda— Mrs. Rice — had the 
 same strong, sweet nature and her character is best 
 summed up in the notice of her death published in a 
 •leading Boston paper: "The gentle life which has 
 just come to an end was one of peculiar beauty. 
 The serene, cheerful nature, the loving lieart, the 
 helpful hand drew to her young and old alike. Her 
 symj)athies did not grow cold with years. Hut while 
 in outside interests her practical hand and loving 
 sympathy will be missed, it is in her home where the 
 loss will be most profoundly felt. She was jire- 
 eniinently domestic and the memory <.f her temler 
 solicitutle and watchful affection for those nearest 
 and dearest to her will be above their consolation 
 and their grief." 
 
JAMES SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. HI 
 
 William, the youngest son, is Assistant Treasurer 
 of the Savings Bank at Springfield, Vermont, and in 
 character and standing is a worthy inheritor of the 
 old and familiar family name. Jan. 19, 1887, he 
 married Flora A. Brown, of Plymouth, Vt. They 
 have no children. 
 
 To recapitulate, there are now living, of the 
 descendants of James Smith, the son of Wm. Smith, 
 thirty-nine, namely: descendants of Sally (Smith) 
 Walker, six; James Smith (son), thirty: William 
 Smith (son), two; John Smith (son), one. The 
 branch of Joseph Addison (son of James) is extinct 
 Much more could be said of those who have 
 passed away, for all left traces along their way 
 that helped make the world better for their havincr 
 lived "" 
 
 It is with many regrets that I am unable to be 
 present at the Reunion, and so I must send this 
 paper to be read by another. I should like to hear 
 the other addresses and meet the Cousins, but 
 circumstances forbid. I hope the gathering will be 
 so successful that a permanent organization will be 
 formed, and that our children and our children's 
 children will come to know more fully that to be 
 descended from William Smith of Peterborough is 
 something in which they can all take pride 
 
JEREMIAH SMITH. 
 liY Jkkkmiah Smith. I.I,. I). 
 
 (From McClinlocks History of New Hampshire: pp. 4S1-48?.) 
 
 Jeremiah Smith, the son of William ami Klizabeth 
 
 (Morison) Smith, was horn at Peterl)oiou«;h, X. H., 
 
 Nov. 29, 17.'>9. III.' early developed great desire for 
 
 learning; sometimes walking miles to a place where 
 
 he heard there was a book. When seventeen years of 
 
 age he enlisted for a short term in the Revolutionary 
 
 Army, and was present at the battle of Bennington, 
 
 where he was slightly wounded. In 1777 he entered 
 
 Harvard College. After remaining there two j'ears, 
 
 he removed to Queens (now Rutgers) College in 
 
 New Jersey, where he graduated in 17M0. He was 
 
 admitted ti) the bar in 17S6, and opened an office in 
 
 his father's farm-house at Peterborough. In 1788, 
 
 1789 and 1790 he was a member of the legislature, 
 
 and was chairman of the committee which prepared 
 
 the draft of the revised statutes enacted in 1791. He 
 
 was a member of the constitutional convention of 
 
 1791, and took a i)rominent part in its ])roceedings. 
 
 Ill December, 1790, he was elected a member of the 
 
 second Congress of the United .States . and was 
 
JEREMIAH SMITH. 113 
 
 re-elected to the third, fourth, and fifth Congresses. 
 In Congress he was a supporter of Washington's 
 administration; and, when the inevitable division into 
 parties came, he joined the Hamiltonian Federalists. 
 
 In July, 1797, he resigned his seat in Congress, 
 accepted the appointment of United States district 
 attorney for New Hampshire, and removed to Exeter, 
 which continued to be his home until within a few 
 months of his death. In 1880 he was appointed 
 Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, and 
 it was probably at this time that he composed an 
 elaborate treatise on probate law, which still exists in 
 manuscript. In February, 1801, he was appointed 
 by President Adams a Judge of the newly established 
 U. S. Circuit Court, which was abolished a year later. 
 
 In 1802 he was appointed Chief Justice of the 
 Superior Court of New Hampshire, and served 
 until 1809, when he became Governor. Failing a 
 re-election as Governor, he returned to the bar in 
 1810, but left it in 1813 to take the position of Chief 
 Justice of the Supreme Court established in that 
 year. Upon the abolition of this court in 1816 he 
 returned once more to the bar, where he was associ- 
 ated with Mason and Webster as counsel in the 
 Dartmouth College case. 
 
 In 1820 or 1821 Judge Smith withdrew from 
 active practice, and passed the remaining years of 
 his life chiefly at his beautiful home in Exeter, still 
 
114 JKRKMI.MI SMITH. 
 
 continuing to be a purchaser and reader of law- 
 books, and an indefatigable student of general 
 literature. In these years he was never idle. In 
 addition to his legal and literary studies he gave 
 much time to financial and educational trusts; 
 serving as President ol the ICxeter Hank, and as 
 Treasurer, and President of the Board of Trustees 
 of Phillips Exeter Academy. 
 
 In the spring of 1842 he removed to Dover, N. 
 H., where he died September 21, 1842. 
 
 The most important public service rendered by 
 Judge Smith was that performed by him as Chief 
 Justice of New Hamp.'-hire. Before his time the 
 administration of the law in this State was exceed- 
 ingly unsystematic, not to say chaotic. A lively 
 sketch of the old slate of things may be found in 
 the life of Governor Plumer, pages 149-159 and 
 181-184. Many of the Judges of the highest court 
 bad received no legal education. Two of the three 
 Associate Justices at the date of Judge Smith's 
 appointment were clergymen. It cannot be doubted 
 that the ciedil of "bringing order out of chaos" 
 belongs to Judge Smith more than to any other one man. 
 " T(j him," said Mr. Mason, "the Slate is greatly, 
 if not chiefly, indebted for the i)resent more orderly 
 proceedings, and better administration of justice." 
 "With him." said Chief Justice Parkt-r. "there 
 aro.>>e a new onler ol things." Chief Justice Charles 
 
JEREMIAH SMITH. 115 
 
 Doe (in Vol. 49, New Hampshire Reports, p. 604) 
 alludes to the "inestimable labors of Chief Justice 
 Smith, who found the law of New Hampshire, in 
 practice and administration, a chaos, and who left 
 It comparatively an organized and scientific system." 
 "When I came to the bar," wrote Mr. Webster to 
 Chancellor Kent, "he was Chief Justice of the 
 State. It was a day of the gladsome light of 
 jurisprudence. ... He knows everything about 
 New England, having studied much of its history 
 and its institutions; and as to the law, he knows 
 so much more of it than I do, or ever shall, that 
 I forbear to speak on that point." 
 
 The practice of reporting the decisions in print 
 did not begin in this State until after Judge Smith 
 had left the bench; and consequently none of his 
 opinions are to be found in the regular series of 
 New Hampshire Reports. A volume selected from 
 his manuscript decisions was published in 1879, and 
 is commonly cited as "Smith's New Hampshire 
 Reports." But these decisions, though praised by 
 competent authorities, cannot give the present 
 generation a fair idea of the worth of Judge Smith's 
 judicial labors. His most valuable work, that of 
 systematizing the practice and administering the law 
 upon scientific principles, is something which cannot 
 be fully delineated on paper or in print. 
 
 Any sketch of Judge Smith would be incomplete 
 
116 "t'l \' 1 Ml SMITH. 
 
 if it faileil to mention the hiy;h estimate generally 
 formed of his conversational powers. ( )m this point 
 it will l)e snfficient to cite the testimony of Mr. 
 Webster, given near the close of his own life, after 
 opportunity for converse with the hest talkers of 
 Kngland as well as America. "Jeremiah Smith," 
 wrote Mr. Webster in 1849, "was perhaps the best 
 talker I have been acquainted with; he was full of 
 knowledge of books and men, had a great deal of 
 wit and humor, and abhorred silence as an intolerable 
 state of existence." 
 
 A Memoir of Judge Smith, by his kinsman. Rev. 
 John II. Morison, was published in 1845. 
 
 Wii,Li.\M Smith.— Son of Hon. Jeremiah Smith 
 and Ivli/.a (Ross) Smith; born, ICxeter, August 31, 
 1799; Harvard College, 1817; admitted, 1820; prac- 
 ticed. Kxeter; died. Centerville. .Mi.ssissippi, March 
 29. 18.30. 
 
 Mr. Smith received his early education at the 
 Phillips I{xeter Academy. He went into his father's 
 office as a student, and in 1S20 became a practicing 
 attorney in Kxeter. Horn to position and abundance, 
 he lacked some of the most i>owerfnl incentives to 
 exertion, and never chained hinjself to the oar of 
 the law. JUit he possessed popular and brilliant 
 (pjalities, and in jxiliiics and literature early made 
 himself a position. He was chosen a Representative 
 in the State I.esislature in 1S22, while he was in his 
 twenty-third year, and again in 182.^ and 1824. 
 
JEREMIAH SMITH. 117 
 
 He wrote with ability and point. He delivered 
 several addresses on public occasions, and published 
 a pamphlet on the "Toleration Act of 1819," and 
 another on the "Assassination of Julius Csesar," 
 besides many articles in the journals of the day. His 
 taste for historical study induced him to collect 
 materials for a history of the town of his nativity, 
 which was interrupted by his ill health. Though 
 probably not enamored of the law, he did enough in 
 it to prove that he was no degenerate son of his 
 distinguished father. 
 
 In the spring of 1828 he was attacked by pulmon- 
 ary disease. The winter of 1829-30 he was ordered 
 to a warmer climate, but for him there was no healing 
 virtue in the Southern breezes. To the great grief of 
 his friends, he never again saw his home. The indis- 
 cretions of his youth never for a moment obscured 
 the admiration of those who best knew him for his 
 brilliant talents and manly character. He died 
 unmarried. [From Gov. Bell's "Bench and Bar of 
 New Hampshire," page 651.] 
 
 Ariana Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Kliza 
 (Ross) Smith, was born at Exeter, Dec. 28, 1797, 
 and died there on June 20, 1829. 
 
 While her life affords no striking incidents, this 
 fact that she possessed unusual attractions is attested 
 by the unanimous voice of the best people among her 
 contemporaries. A perfect daughter, a perfect sister; 
 
lis JKRKMIAir SMITH. 
 
 pre-eniiiiciit for beauty of person, strenj^lh of niiiul, 
 ami l)t.aiit_\- of character: such was the impression 
 made upon those who knew her well. 
 
 Her life ami character are fully delineated in 
 Rev. Dr. Morison's Memoir of Judj.(e vSmith; and 
 an appreciative sketch of her, written by her kins- 
 woman, Mrs. Annie Wilson Fiske, is contained in 
 the book entitled "Worthy Women of Our First 
 Centurv." 
 
HANNAH SMITH BARKER AND HER 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 By Andrew Jewett. 
 
 Mr. President, Relatives and Friends: 
 
 We have all had a most enjoyable day thus far. 
 For one I can say, I never knew before that I had so 
 many distinguished relations as I have met here 
 to-day. 
 
 After this, I shall feel at perfect liberty to let ray 
 pride go out to its fullest extent when I think that we 
 all belong to the most famous branch of the Smith 
 family. 
 
 We have relished the ladies' bountiful and hospi- 
 table repast, and have thus far enjoyed "the feast of 
 reason and flow of soul," provided for us. 
 
 When I saw the list of addresses for the after- 
 noon, I was reminded of one of those layer cakes, or 
 w'hatever you ladies call it, that we sometimes buy at 
 the baker's. They have such a beautiful upper and 
 under part, but in the middle they put some of the 
 filling that— well, the less said about it the better. 
 
l^U HANNAH >M1TH HAKKKK AND DKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 The program announces that I am to tell you 
 aV)out Hannah Smith Harker and her descendants, 
 and that, too, after my telliui? cousin Jonathan Smith, 
 in the most emphatic manner, that I kntw nothing 
 about them that any of you would care to hear. 
 
 It seems my statement did not haoe any effect 
 upon him. but you will all see now what kind of 
 filling he has put in his cake. 
 
 Hannah Smith Barker was a woman of large and 
 commanding appearance, tipping the scales at more 
 than two hundred pounds. In early life, while 
 working in wet flax, she contracted a cold which 
 settled in one of her limbs, causing a lameness which 
 followed her through life. She had such energy of 
 character that she did not allow an infirmity like that 
 to lessen her activity or her vivacity of manner. 
 
 She was married to John Harker, of Rindge, N. 
 H., Dec. 7, 1795, and went there to live. She must 
 have had a home of unusual elegance, for that day. 
 Considerable of her furniture has been preserved. 
 One of her silver teaspoons, engraved "II. S." and 
 several after-dinner coffee cups have also come down 
 
 to us. 
 
 She was very fond of her relatives, and the young 
 people spent much tinu- with her. When she and 
 her sister I\li/al)eth were together at one time, one of 
 the nephews was asked which of his aunts he liked 
 the best. He said, "he didn't want to tell, for if he 
 did Hetty would be mad." 
 
HANNAH SMITH BARKER AND DESCENDANTS. 121 
 
 She died in 1813, leaving a daughter, Hannah of 
 twelve, and a son, John, less than nine. The years 
 were few in which to inculcate principles of a high 
 moral nature in minds so young, but so strong was 
 her personality that she impressed the ideas and 
 traditions of her family in living characters upon 
 their lives. The religion she had received from her 
 parents, she gave to her children. We have heard 
 our mother say that she was required to recite a 
 chapter from the Bible, and one of Watts' hymns 
 every Sunday. 
 
 In her home they kept Sunday religiously, from 
 Saturday night till Monday morning. I,ike her 
 ancestors, she always adhered to her faith in the 
 trinity. This idea has been brought down to the 
 present da}'. 
 
 Ill material affairs, the most prominent idea with 
 her was the honorablent-ss of work. This could not 
 have been theory, merely, with her. She must have 
 been a very industrious woman from the great amount 
 of linen she had, whicli she spun and wove herself. 
 
 She used to say of her young daughter, " If I 
 live and Hannah lives, Hannah shall be taught to 
 work, so, if she needs to in life, she will know how. 
 If she is ever situated so it is not necessary-, it will be 
 very easy to leave off. ' ' Wise woman ! She builded 
 better than she knew when she put dignity of labor 
 as the corner stone of temporal prosperity. Many of 
 
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122 HANNAH SMITH BARKKR AND DESCENDANTS, 
 
 her descendants have risen to call her blessed in 
 times of adversity, wlu-n that iiUa wn*; their chief 
 snpport. 
 
 The orator of to-day, shows us in his "Home of 
 the Smith Family," that this desire for work is a 
 family characteristic. 
 
 The Frenchman, Guyot. in his geography, which 
 was used in our public schools thirty years ago, said, 
 "The American people appear to love work." He 
 had probably come in contact with, or had heard a 
 good deal about our branch of the Smith family before 
 he wrote his geography. 
 
 As we have said, Hannah Smith Barker died 
 when her daughter was only twelve years old. So 
 successful had been her lessons to "little Hannah." 
 that at her death, the father considered his daughter 
 qualified to take her mother's place in the home, and 
 perform all the many duties of farm life, and be a 
 mother to her younger brother. It has been said by 
 those who knew her, that she did not disappoint the 
 father's expectations, for she took most excellent care 
 of the home for several years, until a new mother 
 came into the family t)nly a short time before her 
 father's accidental death. 
 
 Have any of us who are here to-day a daughter 
 of only twelve of whom we could .safely ex})ect as 
 much as that ? 
 
HANNAH SMITH BARKER AND DESCENDANTS. 123 
 
 After the new mother came and took the burden 
 from her shoulders, she was sent to a boarding 
 school at Keene. She had already shown a talent 
 for music. While at school there, she developed a 
 marked taste for drawing. In later life, her literary, 
 mechanical, and even inventive gifts were of no mean 
 order. 
 
 In society she was social and very popular with 
 the young people. She had inherited from her 
 Scotch ancestry their repression of feelings to such 
 an extent that it was difficult for the young men 
 to know how to gain her favor. 
 
 One of her jovial uncles used to sa}^ to her, 
 "Hannah, if any young man should ever wish to 
 make any advances to you, he would have to com- 
 mence by sa^'ing, ' I hate you, Hannah; I hate you, 
 Hannah.' " Just how the first love advances that 
 gained her favor were made we know as little as 
 of many of the good deeds of her ancestors. We 
 know this, that after she had daughters grown to 
 womanhood, the favorite cousin on- her father's side, 
 whom she had not seen for years, came to visit her. 
 At the sight of him, all her Scotch reserve came back, 
 and he had to say to her, before those grown 
 daughters, "Kiss me, Hannah." She never heard 
 the last of the incident from them. Not all the young 
 ladies in these days would require such an exhorta- 
 tion, under similar circumstances. 
 
1J4 HANNAH SMITH BARKKR AND DESCKNDANTS. 
 
 During the ft-w years between her father's secoiul 
 luaniage and her own, she was greatly sought after 
 by her large number of cousins on both sides, and 
 spvnt niucli time here in Pett-rboro. 
 
 When she spent a winter at her uncle's, Jeremiah 
 Smith, at Exeter, it was a source of great regret to 
 ht-r uncle's wife that she did not know how to dance. 
 
 When she went frtiui there to Concord, N. H., to 
 visit cousins on her father's side, tliej' expressed the 
 same regret. To please them she took lessons in 
 dancing, and was said to have become very proficient. 
 
 When she married and went back to Rindge to 
 live, she had no more use for her new found graces, 
 for everybody there frowned upon dancing. Some of 
 the young wags of the time said it was because the 
 minister, Mr. Burnham, was lame and could not 
 dance himstlf and thought it was wrong for anyone 
 else to do it. 
 
 June 7, 1825, she was married to Stephen Jewett. 
 At Ikt marriage she went into one of those stern 
 Puritan families, where I suj)pose they wt-re as 
 adverse to making any demonstration of their feelings 
 as is the Sphinx oi ICgypt. We luivc in> (lucstion 
 but she w;is able to match her mother-in-law and 
 her sisters-in-law in that direction. Whether she 
 ever kissed any ol her babies or not I do not know. 
 I know I never received any without begging for 
 them, unless I was going away for an unusual length 
 
HANNAH SMITH BARKER AND DESCENDANTS. 125 
 
 of time or when I returned from a prolonged absence. 
 
 Kleven children came to brighten the home. 
 Eight or whom lived to manhood and wominhood. 
 
 She was blessed with the most genial and hospita- 
 ble of husbands. Nothing pleased him more than to 
 have their home filled with guests. In the "good old 
 summer time," we have known her family for weeks 
 together to -consist of as many as twenty -four or 
 more. At their home the " latch string" was always 
 out. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to say that she had little 
 time or strength left to develop the gifts bestowed 
 upon her so lavishly. 
 
 She moved to Fitchburg in November, 1856, and 
 lived there till her death, Dec. 21, 1872. Her 
 brother, John Barker, went to New York in May, 
 1827. He was married May 10, 1830, to Eunice G. 
 Thompson, of Montville, Conn. She died Aug. 9, 
 1842, leaving three children, one having died before 
 the mother. 
 
 His second marriage to Harriet Eliza Gra}', took 
 place Sept. 5, 1843. She died July 14, 1873, leaving 
 six children. She had mourned the loss of three 
 during her life. 
 
 Of his life in New York, during the earlj^ days, we 
 have not been able to learn as the oldest son is not 
 living and the two older daughters are in the West. 
 We know he was in several liaes of mercantile 
 
12t> HANNAH >.MITH HARKER AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 business. We heard him say once, that thiring this 
 part of his life fire visited his i)lace of business eight 
 limes. Kach 6re commenced in some adjoining store 
 or building. This was in the days before the great 
 conflagrations which have swept so many of the 
 larger cities of this country during our generation. 
 In those days peojjle were not up to the danger of 
 having their insurance policies so large that the 
 friction of them would be liable to set their buildings 
 on fire. His fires usually struck him with little or no 
 insurance. The result was that he had an excellent 
 chance to start new in life several times, with only 
 his hands, his brains, atul the teachings received from 
 his noble mother before he was nine years old. After 
 the eighth fire, we believe lie came to the conclusion 
 that mercantile life was not the thing for him and he 
 then went into the freight department of the Harlem 
 railroad. He was there for a good many years. 
 
 In the spring of isr.9, he moved to Starke, 
 Bradford County, Florida, to take his chances in 
 the then expected rise in land valuations. He 
 struck the land where freezes come just when you 
 think Dame Nature is about to shower riches upon 
 you, but his expectations were not to be realized 
 here. It was his strong religious faith that sustained 
 him through all the trying days of his life. 
 
 He has now gone to his eternal home, with a 
 better chance for a reward than some ol those who 
 
HANNAH SMITH BARKER AND DESCENDANTS. 127 
 
 have, or will leave, millions behind them. He was 
 the father of thirteen children, seven of whom are 
 now living. He died Aug. 10, 1882. 
 
 There are fifty -one descendants of Hannah Smith 
 Barker now living 
 
 It is a grand thing that Hannah Smith Barker's 
 religious teachings and her precepts of the blessed- 
 ness of work have come down to this generation. 
 They have been a support to her children's children, 
 in helping them to fight the great moral and social 
 battles of life. Her descendants have always been 
 taught never to shrink from any duty or opportunity 
 for usefulness, no matter how exacting or disagreeable 
 it might be. 
 
 It is our earnest hope that at least one among the 
 generations represented here to-day may be able to 
 exemplify her teachings until they have achieved 
 such a victory that someone will be able to stand 
 here at a family reunion fifty or one hundred years 
 from now, and gladly and proudly relate the story. 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND HIS 
 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 liv Mks. Ci.aka F. Hass. 
 
 (The account here Eiven of Jountlinn Smith is princiiially taken from 
 the "History o( rctcrborouuh" and "The Home ol the Smiths. ") 
 
 Jonathan, the eighth child and sixth son of 
 William and Kli/abeth Morison Smith, was born 
 on this hill in 1763, amid the surroundiny;s and 
 under the influence which immediately followed the 
 first bitter strugjjle of the early settlers against the 
 forces of nature. 
 
 His father and mother had come to an almost 
 unbroken wilderness, had endured hardships, jiri- 
 vations and dangers which to us seem incompre- 
 hensible. Hut the first extreme harshness of this 
 battle with the elements, with sickness, exposure 
 and all the obstacles which the first settlers encoun- 
 tered was in a measure passed wh'-n Jonathan came 
 of age. 
 
 His father had settled ui)on tht- home farm some 
 ten years jirevious to Jonathan's birth. During his 
 boyhood the log cabin was r<-i)laced by a one-story 
 frame house, which in turn gave place ti) the two- 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 129 
 
 Story building whose frame still shelters his direct 
 descendants. 
 
 The sheds and barns were also erected at about 
 this time. The first doctor settled in Peterborough 
 in 1763, the first minister in 1766, the first store was 
 opened about 1770. 
 
 Before Jonathan came of age the farm had been 
 largely cleared, much of the land cultivated and some 
 of the stone walls we see all about us had been built. 
 
 Bearing their share of the toil, always bus}' 
 helping in small ways at first, and later with the 
 heavier work, Jonathan and his brothers were brought 
 up in the establishment and development of the farm. 
 
 They grew up in an atmosphere and amid sur- 
 roundings well fitted to develop sturdiness and rigid 
 integrity of character. Before them they had the 
 example of their mother, a woman of such strong 
 character, stern truthfulness combined with natural 
 piety, that it could not fail to leave an indelible mark 
 on the minds and lives of her children. 
 
 Their father was much respected by all the 
 members of this community. He was a man of 
 sound judgment and broad sympathy. His advice 
 and help was sought by his neighbors and by the 
 town on all important questions. 
 
 Truthfulness, godliness, unremitting industry and 
 thrift were some of the qualities which were ever kept 
 before Jonathan during his boyhood. He was not 
 
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130 JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 only taught these iiriiitiples in school and at church, 
 but was shown how to live tlieni every day and every 
 hour. 
 
 He wa> liiou>;lii iij) in the atmosphere of men of 
 action, men who were accomplishing things, men 
 who had hut recently jjcnetrated and settled this new 
 country, men who had cleareil farms, built homes; 
 raised, fed and i)rotected large families and who a 
 little later bore their full share of the burdens and 
 hardships of the war of the Revolution. 
 
 Jonathan Smith received his education in the 
 schools of the town. He was fond of reading and 
 l)y this means and in the bfoader school of experi- 
 ence he continued his education throughout his life. 
 Particularly fond of theological treatises and sermons, 
 he became remarkably well informed on the religious 
 questions of his day. Throughout his life he was 
 one (A the most active ant! prominent members of 
 the Church. In 1799 he was chosen to the office 
 of Deacon, and served in that capacity until his 
 death in 1S4J. Father and son serving together 
 for some years. 
 
 Jonathan was chosen to carry on the home farm 
 and to take care of his jiarents in their old age. 
 This obligation U> the jiassing generation he fulfilled 
 creditably and thoroughly. Public and church affairs 
 also entered largely into his life, lie was Selectman 
 for six years, and returnetl l«> tlu- I^egislature nine 
 
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 times. He was prominent in the movement which 
 led to the establishment in Peterborough of the first 
 Free Public I^ibrary in the world. 
 
 In 1792 Jonathan Smith married his first cousin 
 Nancy, daughter of John Smith. She was a quiet, 
 dignified and gentle woman, a thrifty housewife and 
 good mother. Their tastes appear to have been 
 congenial and the home life on the farm during 
 this generation presents many attractive features. 
 The family had prospered, harmony reigned. The 
 children were being educated and brought to their 
 home many new ideas and inspirations. Tlieir father 
 loved books and often used to read aloud. His 
 sympathetic and genial character made Elm Hill 
 the meeting place of the friends and relatives. 
 Here these men who knew how to think indepen- 
 dently and argue logically assembled and discussed 
 the important questions of the day whether religious, 
 political, economic or social. 
 
 Thus Elm Hill became one of those centers which 
 made the New England town meeting famous. Such 
 discussions of public questions by men of the calibre 
 of Jonathan Smith and his brothers helped largely 
 to raise the art of government by town meeting to 
 the height of effectiveness, intelligence and honesty 
 which it held during the early history of New 
 England. 
 
132 JONATHAN SMITH AND DKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 Jonathan Smith died in 1S4J. Of his eleven 
 children ei^ht survived him. 
 
 Klizabeth Smith, usually called Betsy, the oldest 
 child of Jonathan and Nancy Smith, was born 
 February 3, 1795. 
 
 She married, in 1S19. John Gordon of Peter- 
 borough, and moved to Hamilton, Illinois, in 1831, 
 where the familv still live. Miss Gordon, her 
 granddaughter writes: " I have often heard my father 
 tell of their jcmrney to Illinois. They traveled by 
 stage from Peterborough to Schenectady, then by 
 Erie Canal to Buffalo, by wagons to Pittsburg, then 
 down the Ohio and up tlie Mississippi by boat; the 
 journey took twenty -eight days. Their household 
 goods went via Xew Orleans and were three months 
 in reaching their destination." Mrs. Gordon died 
 August 12, 1845. There were two children. 
 Jonathan, died in 1S37, aged 17 years. 
 Samuel, born 1825, at Peterborough. He was six 
 years old when he accompanied his parents on 
 that long journey to Illinois. He married Miss 
 Parmelia Alvord of Hamilton. .\t the brt-aking 
 out of the Civil War Mr. Gordon joined Com- 
 pany "C" lis, Illinois X'olunteers, and served 
 three years. Of his services we have just heard 
 from John Stearns Smiih. He was Clerk of 
 the Township fourteen years, member oi the 
 School Hoard twenty years. City Clerk two 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 133 
 
 years, City Treasurer six 3'ears, member of the 
 City Council four years. The esteem in which 
 he was held by his townsmen is shown by the 
 offices he filled. Samuel Gordon died October 
 6, 1901. Six children survive him. 
 
 1. Rev. Elinor Elizabeth, a Unitarian Minister in 
 
 the West. 
 
 2. John A., in business in Hamilton, married Miss 
 
 Nettie Goodnough; they have five children. 
 Avis, a student in the State University of Iowa. 
 Bessie is a jeweler, her father's assistant. 
 Three j^ounger boys are still in the Hamilton 
 Public Schools. 
 
 3. Alice A., who has been an invalid for twenty 
 
 years. 
 
 4. Agnes C, has always been the caretaker and 
 
 home maker. 
 
 5. Robert Smith, entered the service of the Wabash 
 
 Railroad at the age of seventeen and is still in 
 the same office. He married, in 1903, Miss 
 Laura .Bridges, and has built a house close to 
 the old Gordon Homestead. 
 
 6. Mabel B., is a teacher in the Hamilton Public 
 
 Schools. 
 
 Jonathan Smith, the second child and eldest son 
 of Jonathan and Nancy Smith, was born in 1797. 
 
 He possessed perhaps the best mind and most 
 brilliant prospect of all the members of his immediate 
 
134 JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 family. Chosen by his parents lo j^o lo colleKtr he 
 graduated from Harvanl in 1S19, studied law and 
 settled iji Hath, X. li. lie was a man of clear, 
 incisive mind and of marked ability. He rose rapidly 
 in his profession and at an early age became one of 
 the leaders of the New Hampshire bar. His career 
 was cut short by his death in 1S4U of consumption. 
 He married Hannah P. Pay^on, daughter of Moses 
 P. Payson. of Bath, and left three children. 
 1. Moses Payson, who married Catherine, daughter 
 of Dr. Albert Smith of Peterborough. She died 
 at Newark. Ohio. There are three children of 
 this marriage: 
 Anna Perley, teaches kindergarten work in the 
 
 Public Schools of Chicago. ' 
 Ellen Garfield, took a course in Library work at 
 the University of Illinois, anil now fills a 
 position in the John Crerer Library of Chicago. 
 Albert, graduated in the Scientific department of 
 Dartmouth College. He is assistant professor 
 of engineering at University of Purdue, 
 Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 2. Henry, di.d 1.S57. 
 
 3. WUliam Hubbard, died 1S45. 
 
 Mary, the third child, was l)i)rn in 17'^^. She 
 attended school at the Academy in New Ipswich 
 and there met Timothy Kox whom she married in 
 1818. -Mr. l-'ox afterward came to Peterborough 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 135 
 
 and was in business with his brother-in-law, 
 William Smith, for several years. They kept a 
 store near Carter's Corner at the top of the hill on 
 Pine Street. Both families went West about the 
 same time, probably in the early thirties. 
 
 The Foxes settled in Denmark, Iowa, where they 
 spent the rest of their lives. Mrs. Fox had fifteen 
 children, only three of whom, Mary Caroline, Char- 
 lotte, and Harriet Frances, lived to grow up. She 
 died February 21, 1867. 
 
 1. Mary Caroline, born 182 2, married David Goche- 
 
 neur. Daughter Susan, married Robert Sutton, 
 died MaA' 21, 1871, leaving one son, Carlton 
 D., residing at Shenandoah, Iowa. 
 
 2. Charlotte Smith, born Nov. 20, 1826, married, in 
 
 1845, Charles E. Whitemarsh of Denmark. 
 
 Children : 
 Timothy Fox, residing at Denmark, married 
 Miss A. Hart in 1858. Two children, John 
 C. of Denmark, and Ariadna (Mrs. Addis 
 Andrews), of New lyondon, Iowa. 
 
 Edward, resides at No. 413 High Street, 
 Keokuk, Iowa. Three children, Charlotte, 
 Charles, Josephine, all living at home. 
 
 Eva Arianna (Mrs. Houston), resides at 
 Clarinda, Iowa, two children, Roy and 
 Mabel. 
 
 Mary Frances (Mrs. G. J. Steele), resides at 
 
136 .,11- -Mtrn \ NO DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Douglas, Nebraska, four children, Jesse, 
 Guy, Alta and Delia. 
 3. Harriet Frances, born Nov. 17, 1836, married 
 James k I';iyer\vealher, December 31, 1S5S, 
 resided at Denmark ; neither are living, but one 
 daughter, Mrs. II. W. Babcock, resides at 
 No. 5518 Minerva Avenue, Chicago. 
 William " vSmith the second son and fourth child 
 was born in ISOl. He went West in 1S31 in 
 company with William and James Smith of St. Louis. 
 Fearing that the region of the Mississippi River 
 would prove to be malarious he chose to locate his 
 home further from the river on the fertile prairies of 
 Illinois. 
 
 There were only two white men in the townshij) 
 where he established himself and he laid out and 
 named the town La Harpe. 
 
 He engaged in a general merchandise business, at 
 first in connection with the cousins at St. Louis and 
 afterwards independently, supplying all the region 
 within a large radius. 
 
 In 1S38 he married Ivlizabeth Stearns, daughter of 
 John Stearns, of Jaffrey. ami after a wearysome 
 journey of weeks they reached La Harpe where the 
 home was started which remaineil unbroken until 
 his death in 1873. 
 
 TIk- frontier life was full of hardships, i.rivations 
 and sickness ami they did not escape malaria 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 137 
 
 although away from the river. But in spite of the 
 privations of pioneer life they were never isolated 
 in thought from the world, for a constant stream 
 of books and papers from New England found its 
 way to them. William Smith was alwaj^s more 
 interested in the latest book or some theological 
 discussion than in the more material interests of 
 life. His little library of three or four hundred 
 books was a wonder to his neighbors. His char- 
 acter and tastes impressed themselves upon his 
 townspeople. 
 
 Of their four children, William born Nov. 1, 1839, 
 is living at St. Paul, Minn. [For his military service, 
 see page 69.] 
 
 2. Jonathan, born Nov. 9, 1848. He married, Sept. 
 
 24, 1873, Miss Lucetta Hull. They reside at 
 Tacoma, Washington. One child: 
 Mary, born May 10, 1879, married, Oct. 15, 1902, 
 
 Walter F. Boardman, residence, New York 
 
 City. 
 
 3. Albert, born June 28, 1851, married Miss Hannah 
 
 Jo5^ce Alley, Nov. 3, 1880, residence, Webster, 
 South Dakota. Three children : 
 
 Gordon Cyril, born Oct. 5, 1881, a graduate of 
 Amherst College, is a civil engineer employed 
 on the Government Survey in Idaho at 
 present. 
 
 Frederick, died in infancy. 
 
 Albert, born March 26, 1888. 
 
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1 ;\ KiNXTHW SMITH WD DESCENDANTS. 
 
 4. Elizabeth, born Au^- 30, 1S54, married Prof. 
 John M. Tyler of Amherst College. Children: 
 Mason Whiting, born Oct. 28. 1884, graduate of 
 Amherst College. 
 Elizabeth Stearns, born Jan. 17, 1888, attending 
 Smith College. 
 Deacon John Smith was the fifth child and third 
 son of Jonathan and Nancy Smith. He was chosen 
 to succeed his father on the farm and in turn to 
 perform that duty to his aged parents which Jonathan 
 had so well fulfilled for the previous generation. 
 
 To meet the wishes of his father he surrendered 
 his own ambitions, gave uj) all thought of seeking 
 his fortune in the West, and in 1833 formally took over 
 the management of the farm, where he continued 
 until 1873. 
 
 In 1834 he married Susan, daughter of John 
 Stearns of Jaffrey. Aunt Susan, as Mrs. Smith was 
 largely known to the later generation. Her thrift, 
 industry, neatness, and ability in management made 
 her an ideal hou.sewife, while her sound judgment, 
 her energy and untiring efforts in bL-half of her 
 children made her influence in the household 
 strongly felt. She had a keen ajjpreciation of the 
 best in literature ami il is from their mother that 
 her children have learned to love good books. 
 
 John Smith followed in the footste]is of his father. 
 He was a highly respected member of his community. 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 139 
 
 He was elected Selectman in 1838-39 and 40, and 
 sent to the Legislature in 1859-60. He held the 
 office of Deacon in the Church as did his father and 
 grandfather before him for thirty-four years. 
 
 He died in Chicago at the home of his son, John 
 Stearns Smith, in 1881. 
 
 Six of the seven children grew to manhood and 
 womanhood. 
 
 1. Mary Frances, the oldest child of John and Susan 
 Smith, was born Jan. 7, 1836. Reared in much 
 the same spirit as the previous generation, but 
 with larger opportunities, she early in life 
 showed capabilities and taste for learning. 
 She attended Peterboro Academy for several 
 seasons, where her talents were recognized. 
 She afterward spent one year at school at 
 Brattleboro, Vermont, and one year at Miss 
 Sherman's Boarding School at Hanover, N. H. 
 Her first experience in teaching was in the 
 home district school of Peterboro in 1855. In 
 1857 she went to Chicago and taught in the 
 public schools of that city for fifteen years. 
 She was an educated and refined woman of 
 fine literary taste, a great reader, gifted with 
 her pen. All that she has left us to recall 
 her unusual fluency of expression is her letters 
 to her friends and relatives. These show a 
 style remarkable for its vividness and charm. 
 
14U JUNATUA.N >.MUa AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 In ])oor health she ])assed several years in 
 the warm climates of southern ICiuope and died 
 in Lejihorn. Italy, in 1S,S4. Through the years 
 of failing health her patience, fortitude and 
 courage were impressive lessons to her friends. 
 2. John Stearns, born Nov. 27, IS.w. Kducated in 
 the public schools and was a student at Peter- 
 borough Academy, and Aj)j)leton Academy, 
 New Ipswich. Taught in the district schools 
 of the town and in the West, and was Assistant 
 in the Academies at Orford, N. H.. and Peter- 
 borough. For his military record, see page 69. 
 On his retirement from the Sixth Regiment, 
 the following letter was given him by his 
 brother officers: 
 
 HUADyiAKTKRS, 6th X. II. \'. \'. 
 
 Near Hancock Station. Va., 
 March 2nd, 1S65. 
 Jno. S. Smith. 
 
 Adjt. 6th X. II. W \'. 
 r>i(ir Sir: 
 
 We, brother officers of the 6th Regt., N. II. 
 V. v., in view of your prosi)ected departure from our 
 midst, by being mustered out of the U. vS. vService, 
 take this oi)porlunity of expressing to you the hii^h 
 regard we sustain for you. Von have faithfully 
 disi harged the duties pertaining to your otfice. 
 and on account of your faithfulness and unilorm 
 gentlemanly bearing you have endeared yourself 
 alike to officers antl men. 
 
 It is with heartfelt regret that we extend to you 
 the parting hand. He assured that in all the future of 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 141 
 
 your life you will be followed by our kindest wishes 
 of success. 
 
 May 3'our future course be as prosperous as 3^our 
 military career has been honorable. 
 We are yours faithfully, 
 
 Samuel D. Quarles, Major 6th N. H. V.V. 
 James H. Hayes, Surgeon 6th N. H. V. V. 
 GiEMORE Mcly. HuNSTON, Quartermaster 
 
 6th N. H. V. V. 
 J. S. DORE, Chaplain 6th N. H. V. V. 
 R. h. Eea, Captain Co. I, 6th N. H. V. V. 
 Jno. S. Rowell, Captain Co. A, 6th 
 
 N. H. V. V. 
 W. H. Keay, Captain Co. E, 6th N. H.V.V. 
 H. J. Griffin, Co. G, 6th N. H. V. V. 
 Fred P. Hardy, Capt. Co. K, 6th N. H.V.V. 
 Thomas J. Carleton, Captain Co. C, 6th 
 
 N. H. V. V. 
 John W. Hanscom, 2nd Lieut. Commanding 
 Co. D, 6th N. H. V. V. 
 
 In a letter to the Adjutant General of the 
 Army, of the same date, his former Regimental 
 Commander, General S. G. Griffin, wrote: 
 
 " I am intimatel}' acquainted with Adjt. Smith 
 and can say from mj'^ own personal knowledge 
 that he has served constantly and faithfully in 
 the field since 1861, has been Adjutant of his 
 regiment for almost two j^ears, has been with 
 it in every engagement except when absent 
 from wounds, and I take great pleasure in 
 recommending him as a brave, intelligent, 
 patriotic and efficient officer, eminently quali- 
 fied for the position he seeks." 
 
 He was mustered out June 19, 1866, by 
 reason of services no longer required. 
 
142 JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCKNDANTS. 
 
 After leaving the armv he settled in Chicajro, 
 and in 1869 was appointed Clerk in the Railway 
 .Mail Serv-ice, promoted to Head Clerk of the 
 line between Chicago and Cedar Rapids, la., in 
 1S71, made Asst. Snpt. loth Division, Railway 
 Mail Service, in 18S9. and Asst. Div. Supt. 
 Class 7. Railway Mail Service, headquarters at 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1900, where he still 
 resides. Married Evelyn Canavan of Buffalo, 
 N. Y., May 3, 1871. One child: Evelyn 
 Frances, born April 24, 1872. 
 3. Jonathan, born October 21, 1842. His educa- 
 tional opportunities as a boy were limited to 
 the district school and a few terms in the 
 Peterboro Academy. 
 
 April 1st, 1861. he entered the office of the 
 Keene, N. H., Saitinel to learn the printers' 
 
 trade. 
 
 He enlisted as a private in Company E, 6th 
 New Hampshire Volunteers, November 1, 1861, 
 and was mustered out as Sergeant of Company 
 Iv, 1st New Hampshire Cavalry, July 15, 1865. 
 After leaving the army he fitted for college at 
 New Hampton, and graduated from Dartmouth 
 in the class of 1871. 
 
 For several years he resided in Lancaster and 
 edited the Coos County h\-f^nbliinii a part i)f 
 that time. He was admitted to the Hillsborough 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 143 
 
 County Bar in 1875 and took up his residence 
 in Manchester, N. H., where he was three times 
 elected City Solicitor. Mr. Smith removed to 
 Clinton, Mass., in 1878, since which time he has 
 been actively and successfully engaged in the 
 practice of law. 
 
 Aside from his profession he has associated 
 himself with the public life of the town, was 
 twice elected Town Solicitor, and in 1886 was 
 returned to the Massachusetts Legislature. He 
 has served as Special Justice of the 2nd District 
 Court of Eastern Worcester County for twenty 
 j^ears. 
 
 He is President of the Weeks Institute of 
 Clinton, an association formed on the lines of 
 the Lowell Institute of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Smith's tastes and inclinations have led 
 him to be much interested in New England 
 history and genealogy ; he is the President and 
 one of the founders of the Clinton Historical 
 Society. Several publications and many articles 
 for New England magazines and numerous 
 addresses testify to his researches both his- 
 torical and genealogical. We owe the success 
 of this reunion to his interest and enthusiasm 
 in its organization and to the active part he 
 took in carrying it through. 
 
144 loNATIIAN SMITH AND DKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 For iwcnty years Jonathan Smith has been 
 an active member <>l the First (Unitarian) 
 Church of Clinton, ami the mantle of Deacon 
 has been hande<1 <1«>\\!i t>> liitn fmni liis fore- 
 fathers. 
 
 He married, Dec. 13, US70, Miss Tir/ah A. 
 
 R. Dow of Canterbnry, N. IT. She died in 
 
 1881. Children: 
 
 Theodore, born Sept. 25, 1S77, died Oct. 25, 1877. 
 
 Susan Dow, born May 24, 1S79, a graduate of 
 
 Smith College. 
 
 He married, second, Miss Elizabeth C. Stearns 
 of Clinton. 
 
 4. Susan Thinney, born October 14. 1844. married, 
 
 June 4, 1873, Eugene Lewis, Esq., a lawyer. 
 She resided in Moline, Illinois, where she died 
 Sept. 25, 1877. Two children: Ruth and 
 Theodore Ore^n ; both died in infancy. 
 
 5. Caroline, born March 3, 1847. She attended 
 
 school at Petcrrboro, and afterwards at Castleton, 
 Vermont, and New Hampton. New Hampshire. 
 She taught some years in the Public Schools of 
 Chicago, but on the death of her mother 
 returned to the Peterboro farm to keep house 
 for her father. She is now Librarian at the 
 Haptist Theological Library at Newton, Mass. 
 
 6. Jeremiah, born July 2. 1S52, resides at Streator, 
 
 Illinois. He has three children: 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 145 
 
 Frederick Stearns, in the Railway Mail Service. 
 
 Sarah Frances. 
 
 Bertha. All residing in Streator. 
 
 Nancy, the eighth child, born in 1808. 
 
 She attended school at Groton, Massachusetts, and 
 later taught in Dublin, N. H. There in the household 
 of Dr. lyconard she met Dr. John H. Foster whom 
 she married in 1840 and went west to Chicago. 
 There she lived to see the small frontier town grow 
 to an immense city. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Foster were among the charter 
 members of Unity Church, of which Robert Collyer 
 was the first pastor. After her husband's death in 
 1874 she resided with her daughter, Mrs. Porter, at 
 whose home she died in 1902 in the ninetj^-fourth 
 year of her age. She became interested in the higher 
 education of women. A few years before her death 
 she built for the University of Chicago, a woman's 
 dormitory called Nancy Foster Hall. She established 
 a fund for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and 
 other charitable work had her sympathy and support. 
 Although her bodily strength was steadily failing for 
 many years before her death, her health was good, 
 hei mind was clear, her interest in public affairs was 
 keen, and her unfailing sweetness of disposition was 
 a benediction to all who came within its influence. 
 Up to the very last she found pleasure in flowers, in 
 trees, in birds and the changing colors of the sky. 
 
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148 JONATHAN SMITH AND DKSCENDANTS. 
 
 Jerciniali, born Sept. 15, 1815, the eleventh child 
 of Joiiatlian and Nancy Smith. 
 
 At tht' ajje of eiy;hteen he followed his brother 
 William to Illinois and settled in La Harpe. There 
 he conducted a general store and traded in pork and 
 j^rain. He lived at different limes in Pontoosic, 
 Illinois: Keokuk, Iowa; and St. Paul, Minne.sota. 
 Later in life he returned to La Harj^e where he lived 
 until his death, Oct. 26, 1893. 
 
 He was twice married, first to Mrs. Sarah Oatman, 
 of New Hampshire, in 1843. It was after her death 
 in 1857 that he returned to La Harpe. There he 
 Harried, second. Miss Amanda Sperry, of La Harpe, 
 in 1862. He was identified with the business interests 
 of La Harpe for many years fillinj.!: positions of trust; 
 he was a man of integrity and gentle manners and 
 had hosts of friends. Of his five children three are 
 living. 
 
 1. Mary Kllen. who married Warren Harper, lives in 
 
 Burlington, Iowa. Children: 
 Abraham. 
 
 Flora (Mrs. George Coad). 
 Charles. 
 Fanny, 
 luigene. 
 
 2. Frank lives in Denver, Colo. Passenger con- 
 
 ductor on the Dmver iV Rio (iiaiule K. K. I le 
 married .Miss .Mary Jackson of Salido, Colo 
 
JONATHAN SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 149 
 
 Elizabeth, married James F. Anderson, a farmer 
 living- in Blandinsville, 111. Children: 
 
 John E. Anderson of Denver, Colo. 
 
 Louise. 
 
 Frank Smith. 
 
 Morton. 
 
 Maude, married Hez. G. Henry, of Ea Harpe. 
 They lived at Camp Point, 111., where Maude 
 died, 1896. Children: 
 
 Reva, living at Camp Point. 
 
 James. 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 Bv Ainu)T Ki)i:s Smith. 
 
 (Most of the (acts uiul nnich o( tin- lauKuatfc herein contained are 
 given (1) in the History o( the Town of I'eterborouKh. Hill&boroush 
 County. New Hampshire, by .\lbert Smith, M. D., LL. D.. reference to 
 which is made by the letter "P" with the page number of that part of the 
 iKKjk relatinc to nenealoio'. or by the letters "Ph." with the paKc numbers 
 of the first part of the book, and (J) in the History of the Morison or 
 Morrison Family, by Leonard A. Morrison, reference to which is made by 
 the letter "M" with the page number. Where other authority is relied on. 
 the name of the person is stated. By reason of the limited time assigned 
 for the reading of this paper, historical sketches arc brief and relate only 
 to deceased members of the family. Wherever I have been able to obtain 
 the necessary information, historical sketches of those tleceased and the 
 genealogy to date have been given. So far as known, there are sixty-one 
 descendants of Samuel Smith now living. Having almost no leisure at my 
 disposal, it was only upon urgent and continued solicitation that I was 
 willing to undertake this work. J 
 
 Samuel Sniitli, horn Nov. 11, 1765; died April 25, 
 1842 ; married, Nov. 10, 1793. Sally Garfield of Fitch - 
 burjj. Mass., daiij^hter of Klijah and Jane Nichols 
 Garfield. She was born Oct. 21, 1771, and she died 
 Sept. 1, IS 56. 
 
 Children: (A) Jeremiah, (li) Frederick .\.. (C) 
 Maria, (I)) Samuel Garfield, (I-;) .Mberl, ( !• ) William 
 Sydney, (G) Alexander Hamilton, (H) I-ili/.abeth 
 Morison, (I) Sarah Jane, (J) .Maria, (K) .Mary .Soky, 
 (L) Kllen. 
 
 (Kefcreucei., "P ' .'7'); ".M" \47.) 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 151 
 
 Samuel Smith, seventh son of William and Eliza- 
 beth (Morison) Smith, was a man of powerful and 
 highly cultivated intellect, of strong and honorable 
 character, of uncommon equanimity of temperament, 
 and of the utmost kindness, forbearance, and benevo- 
 lence. His colloquial powers were remarkable, he 
 was a ready debater, his conversation was alwa3\s 
 instructive, his language singularly accurate and 
 appropriate, and, possessing extreme energy and 
 activity with quick perception, keen wit, and sound 
 judgment, and having, besides his extensive general 
 reading, a thorough acquaintance with the topics of 
 the day and a wonderful knowledge of mankind, his 
 refined manners, his courteous deportment, added to 
 a phj'sique of fine proportions and a commanding, yet 
 pleasant, mien, he was in all respects a gentleman 
 of the old school, of the very highest type. 
 
 In addition to the educational advantages of his 
 native town, he studied at the Academies of Exeter 
 and of Andover. He was by his character and 
 intelligence a public educator, ever exerting over 
 the community an elevating and enlightening 
 influence. He delighted in politics, devoting much 
 time and study to it, was a Federalist of the old 
 order, and was chosen to represent his district in 
 Congress in 1813-15; but after attending the first 
 session and a part of the second, he resigned his 
 seat, owing to the press of his priv^ate business. 
 
1=^-' SAMIF.I. SMITH AND DESCKNDANTS. 
 
 ill ihc iiiumLijjal affairs of his native town he 
 always took a deep interest anil was a leading actor 
 in the same. He was Moderator for seventeen years, 
 beginning in 1794 and ending in 1829. He is justly 
 considered the founder of the village ot Peterborough, 
 X. II. 
 
 He possessed great business talents, was fair, 
 honorable, and upright in all his business trans- 
 actions. He always had a high sense of right. In 
 1788, at twenty-three years of age, he began busi- 
 ness as a trader at "Carter's Corner" in Peterborough. 
 In 1794 he built his mill, two hundred feet long and 
 two stories high, the wonder and admiration of the 
 whole country. In this building he carried on the 
 business of manufacturing paper. At the same time, 
 in addition to his trading and farming, he had in 
 operation a saw -mill, a clothier's shoji. a triphammer 
 shop, a wool-carding machine, and an oil mill. 
 When the cotton manufacture began, he converted 
 his great building into a cotton factory. 
 
 He devoted much time in the latter part of his 
 life to collecting files of the .early political pajiers. 
 
 All these valuable papers are now owned by the 
 Northern Academy of Science and are safely depos- 
 ited in the library of Dartmouth College. 
 
 (A) Jeremiah Smith, born Nov. 2.^, 1794; dieii in 
 New V«jrk Citv, Mav K'. 1X60; married. Mav 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 153 
 
 22, 1832, Emeline Van Nortwick, of New York 
 City. 
 
 Jeremiah Smith, the first son of Samuel and 
 Sally (Garfield) Smith, was fitted for college 
 in early life, but his services became so neces- 
 sary to his father's business that he could not 
 be spared. He retained his literary tastes all 
 his life, was an extensive reader, and a fine 
 classical scholar. 
 
 In 1825 he removed to New York City and 
 was for some years engaged in the commission 
 business, in the firms of Nesmith, Smith & Co., 
 Wheeler & Fairbanks, and Smith & Wheeler. 
 During the latter part of his life, he was the 
 chief clerk of the New York & New Haven 
 Railroad. Children: 
 
 (1) William Bruce, born. New York City, May 7, 
 1834; married Margaret I,. Norton, June 19, 
 1872; residence, Baldwin, Queens Co., L. I. 
 
 (2) Cornelia I^uqueer, born, New York City, Oct. 
 18, 1835; married, Sept. 16, 1857, to Edward 
 J. Kilbourne; residence. New York City. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) David Wells, born ; died ; married 
 
 Sarah Shiers; residence. New York City. 
 
 Child: Edward, born ; married ; 
 
 residence. New York Cit}'; has one child. 
 
 (b) William Bruce, born ; died in infancy. 
 
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\'^\ ■. . . ^MITH AND DKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 (c) Cornelia Kdiia, born ; unmarried; resi- 
 lience, New York City. 
 
 (d) Alanson Jermaine, born ; married Kli/.a- 
 
 beth Russell; residence, New York City. 
 
 Children: Icannette, born ; Kdward 
 
 Jermaine, born ; (one died in infancy). 
 
 (3) Klizabeth M., born July 5, 1858; married, 
 June 17, 1872, Elbert Floyd Jones, South 
 Oyster Hay, L. I. 
 
 (4) Jeremiah, born May 30, 1843; died . 
 
 (5) Francis T. L., born Jan. 24, 1845; died Oct. 
 9, 1848. 
 
 (6) Frederick Augustus, born Nov. 7, 1847; died 
 Jan. 20, 1875. New York City. 
 
 (7) Clarence Beverly, born Dec. 8, 1850; resi- 
 dence. New York City; married . Child: 
 
 Florence B., born ; unmarried. 
 
 (References "V 282, 5s2; "M" 172. 17.^; Mrs. Klizabt-tli M. Jones.) 
 
 (B) P'rederick A. Smith, second son of Samuel and 
 
 Sally (Garfield) Smith, was a very skilful 
 machinist. 
 
 (Rcrercuccs, "P" 282; "M" 148.; 
 
 (C) Maria Smith, born March 30. 1797; died June 
 
 15. 1798. 
 
 (Kclcrcnce*. "P" 2t»2; "M" 148.) 
 
 (D) Samuel Oarfield Smith, born August 23. 1799; 
 
 died September 9, 1842; married, first wife. 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 155 
 
 Sarah Dorcas Abbot, daughter of Rev. Abiel 
 Abbot, D. D., she was born June 22, 1801, died 
 June 11, 1831; second wife, Elizabeth Dow, 
 daughter of Jeremiah Dow, of Exeter, N. H., 
 who survived him and married, second husband. 
 Rev. Iv. W. Leonard, D. D., of Dublin, N. H., 
 March 25, 1851. He died at Peterborough. 
 
 Samuel Garfield Smith, third son of Samuel 
 and Sally (Garfield) Smith, was a manufacturer 
 of cotton, in which business he acquired great 
 skill, equaling the best manufacturers of his 
 day. He was the agent of the Phoenix Cotton 
 Factory in Peterborough, of a factory at Warren, 
 Maryland, and of a factory at South Berwick, 
 Maryland. 
 
 He was a self-made man. By his own and 
 almost unaided efforts he made himself a 
 mathematician, became a great and general 
 reader, and acquired a large fund of knowledge. 
 
 He was a man of rare excellence of character, 
 of great purity of life, and the very soul of 
 honor and integrity. Children: 
 (l) Samuel Abbot (by first wife), born April 18, 
 
 1829; died May 20, 1865; married, June 27, 
 
 1854, Maria Eliza Edes, daughter of Samuel 
 
 and Maria Edes, of Peterborough, N. H. 
 Samuel Abbot Smith, the only son of 
 
 Samuel Garfield and Sarah Dorcas (Abbot) 
 
1 5f' >\Mi 1.1. SMITH AND DKSCENDANTS. 
 
 Smith, was graduated, second in his class, 
 at Harvard Collejie in 1.S49. i)repared for the 
 ministry at the Divinity School of Harvard 
 University, and settled, June 22, 1854, as 
 pastor over the First Congregational Parish 
 (Unitarian) in Arlington, Massachusetts, 
 where he remained till his death. In 1.S66 
 a volume, entitled "Christian Lessons and 
 a Christian Life," containing an extended 
 biography and nuniL-rous extracts from his 
 sermons, was published by Prof. P^dward J. 
 Young. The following are brief extracts 
 from this memoir: "When a ])ure, noble, 
 disinterested, antl devout life is closed on 
 earth, some record of it, if jiossibK*, ought to 
 be i)reserved. The world should know that 
 such goodness has been seen in it. . . . He 
 was a model pastor. . . . He- was a minister- 
 at- large among ihe poor. . . . Ik- was no 
 res])ecter of persons. Social position made 
 no difference to hni. Among the poor his 
 praises are heard from every mouth. He was 
 unwearied in his attentions to the aged, the 
 sick, and the bereaved. . . . Never sparing 
 himself, and with overflowing symjjathy, he 
 seemed literally to bear the grief>, and to 
 carry the sorrows of his i)eoj)le. . . . He ]i:ni 
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SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 157 
 
 of his society. The same strong feeling of 
 attachment also existed generally among those 
 who did not belong to his congregation. . . . 
 Among his professional brethren he was a 
 general favorite ; no member of the ministerial 
 association to which he belonged being more 
 welcomed, as none could be more missed, 
 than he. With the other denominations in 
 the town he held the most pleasant and 
 friendly relations. . . . His humility concealed 
 his strength. . . . No one was more firm and 
 unyielding in following out his convictions of 
 duty. He had great moral courage, joined 
 with great practical wisdom and good sense. 
 This, together with his purity, his disinteres- 
 tedness, and his knowledge of human nature, 
 fitted him for that most difficult of all duties 
 — that of being a peacemaker and reconciler 
 of those who had been at variance. His 
 disposition to make the best of everything 
 and to look upon the bright side of life, was 
 so determined that, when any real misfortune 
 came, it was a common remark in the family, 
 * I wonder what good Abbot will see in that ? ' 
 From all quarters we have heard the same 
 testimony : ' He was a pattern man ; the most 
 perfect character I ever knew.' During the 
 war the government had in him a firm 
 
1 "^S SAMIKI, SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 supporter, the soldiers a fast and generous 
 friend." . . . He died from sickness con- 
 tracted while representing the American 
 Unitarian Association, as a missionary among 
 the soldiers in the South. Children: 
 
 (a) Abbot Kdes Smith, born Sept. 20, 1855; 
 married, Aug. 12, 1S84, at La Crosse, Wis., 
 to Alice Mar}' Prouty, daughter of Roswell 
 and Laura (Baldwin) Prouty. She was born 
 at Newport, \'t. ; residence, Minneapolis, 
 Minnesota. 
 
 (b) Maria Ellen Smith, born Feb. 13, 1857; 
 residence, Arlington, Massachusetts. 
 
 (c) George Albert Smith, born Oct. 15, 1861; 
 married, Feb. 26, 1895. Anna Putnam, 
 daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Abbot 
 Putnam, who was born July 30, 1872; 
 residence, Arlington, Mass. Children: 
 
 Samuel Abbot, born Dec. 9, 1895. 
 
 P:iizabeth Abbot, born Dec. 12, 1897; died 
 
 Feb. 26, 1898. 
 Charles Putnam, born March 22, 1899. 
 Elizabeth Abbot, born Aug. 21, 1900. 
 
 (d) Samuel Herbert Smith, born April 5, 1864; 
 died June 8. 1902; married. Vch. 18, 1892, 
 Maiy Helen Horton, at Altleboro, Mass. 
 
 Samuel Herbert Smith, third son of 
 Samuel Abbot and .Maria Eli/a (I^des) 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 159 
 
 Smith, cannot receive higher praise than 
 is expressed in the statement that his 
 disposition and character were like his 
 father's. He graduated with honor at 
 Harvard CDllege in 1887, studied his pro- 
 fession at the law school of Harvard 
 University, and became a member of the 
 law firm of "Lowell, Smith and Lowell" in 
 Boston, Massachusetts. He resided and 
 died in Arlington, Massachusetts. As a 
 lawyer he was one of the most respected 
 and successful of the Suffolk County bar, 
 and yet he always found time to advise and 
 to help the poor who sought his counsel. 
 Many were the receipted bills sent freely to 
 those to whom he believed payment would 
 be a burden. In his profession he was 
 brilliant and energetic as well as sound and 
 wise. Socially he brought sunshine and 
 life wherever he went. His keen and ready 
 wit was always used to entertain, never to 
 wound. In his family he was always the 
 light of the household, ever cheery, self- 
 forgetful, generous and thoughtful of others. 
 By his thoughtful consideration of others, 
 his ready helpfulness and his strength of 
 character, he won the love and respect of all 
 who knew him and his death was mourned 
 
160 SAMIi:i. SMITH .vXD DESCENDANTS. 
 
 as a personal loss by his neighbors and 
 acquaintances everywhere, both young and 
 old, rich and poor, of every creed and 
 opinion. Of him as of his father it is truly 
 said, " He went about doing good." Child: 
 Agatha, born Jan. 5, 1893. 
 
 (2) Ellen Parker Smith, born July 12, 1837; died 
 
 at Exeter, N. H. 
 
 (3) Sarah Abbot, born July 7, 1839; married 
 
 Nov. 13, 1862, at Exeter, N. H., to John L. 
 Dearborn. He was born in Exeter, Dec. 24, 
 1835; residence, 411 Marlborough St., Boston, 
 Mass. Children : 
 
 (a) Samuel S., born Oct. 15, 1863, in Exeter, N. 
 
 H. Manufacturer of woolen goods. Gradu- 
 ated at the Massachusetts Institution of 
 Technology; residence, 411 Marlborough 
 St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 (b) Elizabeth King, born April 4, 1865, in 
 Boston, Mass.; residence, 411 Marlborough 
 St. , Boston, Mass. 
 
 (c) William L., born Feb. 1, 1867, in Boston, 
 
 Mass.; married in New Orleans, La., April 
 26, 1904 to Ellen Eustis, daughter of 
 Cartwright Eustis; graduated at Massachu- 
 setts Institution of Technology ; residence. 
 New York Cit}^ and is with the Eastwick 
 ICngincering Co. 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCEN.DANTS. 161 
 
 (d) John, born March 27, 1868, in Dorchester, 
 
 Mass.; broker; graduated at Massachusetts 
 Institution of Technology; residence, 411 
 Marlborough St., Hoston, Mass. 
 
 (e) George K. , born Oct. 9, 1872, in St. I.ouis, 
 
 Mo. ; graduate of Massachusetts Institution 
 of Technology; residence, 411 Marlborough 
 St., Boston, Mass.; with the New England 
 Telephone Co. 
 
 (4) Ednah Dow (Smith), born May 12, 1841; 
 married, June 4, 1862, at Exeter, N. 
 H., to Knight Dexter Cheney; residence. 
 South Manchester, Conn. He was a son of 
 Charles and Waitstill Dexter Shaw Chenej- ; 
 born at Mt. Healthy, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1837; 
 occupation, President of Cheney Brothers, 
 silk manufacturers. Children: 
 
 (a) Ellen Waitstill, born Oct. 16, 1863, in Hart- 
 ford, Conn. ; married, in New York City, 
 April 23, 1895, Dr. Alexander Lambert, 
 second son of Dr. Edward W. and Martha 
 W. Lambert, of New York City; occupation, 
 physician; residence, 25 E. 36th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 (b) Elizabeth, born, Sept. 18, 1865, in Hartford, 
 Conn. ; married, at South Manchester, 
 Conn., Nov. 28, 1890, Alfred Cowles, first 
 son of Alfred Cowles, Chicago, 111. ; he 
 
 21 
 
162 SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 graduated from Yale in 1886; occupation, 
 lawyer; residence, 1805 Michigan Ave., 
 Chicago, 111. Children: 
 Alfred, born, 1805 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 
 
 Illinois, Sept. 15, 1891. 
 Knight Cheney, born, 1805 Michigan Ave., 
 
 Chicago, 111., Dec. 27, 1892. 
 John Chene3% born, 1805 Michigan Ave., 
 
 Chicago, 111., April 25, 1894. 
 Thomas Hoolser, born, 1805 Michigan Ave., 
 Chicago, 111., June 6, 1895. 
 
 (c) Harriet Bowen, born February' 4, 1867, 
 Hartford, Conn. ; married at South Man- 
 chester, Conn., Feb. 12, 1896, to William 
 Hutchinson Cowles, second son of Alfred 
 Cowles, Chicago, 111., who was a graduate 
 of Yale, in 1887; occupation, newspaper; 
 residence, 2602 West Second Ave., Spokane, 
 Washington. Children: 
 
 Harriet, born New York City, Dec. 2, 1898. 
 William Hutchinson, Jr., born Sands Point, 
 L. I., July 23, 1902. 
 
 (d) Helen, born March 7, 1868, Hartford, 
 Conn.; married. South Manchester, Conn., 
 Oct. 8, 1895, to Hugh Aiken Bayne, son 
 of T. L. Bayne, New Orleans, La. ; graduate 
 of Yale, 1892 ; occupation, la\v\er; residence, 
 544 West 1 14 St. , New York City. Children : 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 163 
 
 Helen, born South Manchester, Conn., Aug. 
 
 2, 1896. 
 Elizabeth Cheney, born South Manchester, 
 
 Conn., Oct. 16, 1898. 
 
 (e) Knight Dexter, born June 1, 1870, 
 South Manchester, Conn. ; graduate, Yale, 
 1892; married, New Causan, Conn., Oct. 13, 
 1896, to Ruth, sixth daughter of Dr. E. W. 
 and Martha W. Eambert, of New York City ; 
 residence, 12 East 31st Street, New York 
 City; occupation, silk manufacturing. Child : 
 Knight Dexter, born New Causan, Conn., 
 July 23, 1899; died New York City, Nov. 
 13, 1901. 
 
 (f) Ednah Parker, born February 3, 1873, at 
 
 South Manchester, Conn. 
 
 (g) Theodora, born September 12, 1874, at 
 South Manchester, Conn. 
 
 (h) Clifford Dudley, born Jan. 3, 1877, at 
 South Manchester, Conn. ; graduate, Yale, 
 1898; married, South Manchester, Conn., 
 May 25, 1904, to Elizabeth, first daughter of 
 John S. and Ellen C. Cheney, of South 
 Manchester, Conn. ; occupation, silk manu- 
 facturing; residence. South Manchester, 
 Conn. 
 
 (i) Philip, born May 8, 1878, South Man- 
 chester, Conn.; graduate, Yale, 1901; 
 
1(>4 SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCKN HANTS. 
 
 occupation, silk manufacturing; residence, 
 South Manchester, Conn. 
 
 (j) Thomas Langdon, born at South Man- 
 chester, Conn., Nov. 20, 1879; graduate, 
 Yale, 1901; occupation, silk manufacturing; 
 residence. South Manchester, Conn. 
 
 (k) Russell, born, South Manchester, Conn., 
 Oct. 16, 1881; graduate, Yale, 1904. 
 
 (References. "P" 285; "M" 173, 215. 216; Mrs. Ednah Dow [Smith) 
 CheneyJ 
 
 (E) Albert Smith. M. D., LL. D., was born June IS. 
 1801; died Feb. 22, 1878; married, Feb. 26, 
 1828, Fidelia Stearns, daughter of John and 
 Chloe Stearns of Jaffrey. X. II., who was born 
 Oct. 25, 1799. 
 
 Albert Smith, M. D., hh- D., fourth son of 
 Samuel and Sally (Garfield) Smith, super- 
 intended the spinning in his father's cotton 
 factory for five years, and entered Dartmouth 
 College in 1821, where he graduated in 1S_'5. 
 For a few years after graduation he assisted in 
 his father's business. In 1829 he decided to 
 study the medical profession, and attended 
 medical lectures at Bowdoin Medical School, 
 at the College of Physicians and vSnrgeons, 
 New Yt)rk, and at the Dartmouth Medical 
 College, where in 183.^ he took his degree M. 1). 
 He j)racticed his profession in lAomiiisUr. 
 Mass., from 1833 to 1838, ami then unloved 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 165 
 
 to Peterborough, where he continued his prac- 
 tice as long as his strength permitted. In 1849 
 he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica 
 and Therapeutics at the Dartmouth Medical 
 College where he lectured annually until his 
 resignation in 1870. In 1857 he delivered his 
 course of lectures before the Vermont Medical 
 College, Castleton, Vermont, and also the same 
 course at Bowdoin Medical School in 1859. 
 The honorary degree of L,L. D. was conferred 
 upon him by Dartmouth College in 187U, also 
 an honorary M. D. by the Rush Medical College 
 in 1875; and he was elected member of the 
 New York Medical Society. He published 
 some lectures, besides various articles in the 
 medical journals from time to time and in the 
 transactions of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. For five years, from 1871 to 1876, he 
 gave almost constant attention to the work of 
 preparing a History of Peterborough. It is a 
 very excellent history and was published in the 
 centennial year, 1876. 
 
 He was most generous in the practice of his 
 profession among the poor, and children would 
 show their appreciation of his gentle and lovable 
 thought by gathering around him to receive his 
 kindly greeting. He was of a deeply religious 
 nature and his church, the Unitarian, seldom 
 
166 SAMl'EL SMITH AND DESCKNDANTS. 
 
 was without his presence at its Sunday services, 
 even when hi^ professional duties jirevented 
 him from ;irrivinj^ until near the close of the 
 sermon. The ])urity and nobility of his char- 
 acter, those who knew him can never forget. 
 Children : 
 
 (1) Frederiik Augustus, born June 18, 1830; died, 
 
 Dec. 20, 1856; married Frances Gregg of 
 Belleville, N. J., June 18, 1856. The only 
 son of Dr. Albert and Fidelia (Stearns) Smith, 
 was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1852, 
 He attended medical lectures at the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and 
 also at the Dartmouth Medical College, where 
 he took the degree M. D. Having spent one 
 year as an assistant at the hospitals on Black - 
 well's Island, he began the practice of his 
 profession at Leominster, Massachusetts, in 
 August, 1S56, where he died suddenl>- a few 
 months later. He was a highly cultivated, 
 refined, and promising young man, and bade 
 fair to make his mark in the world. 
 
 (2) Susan S., born Feb. 4, \SM; died, April 20. 
 
 1836, Leominster, Mass. 
 
 (3) Catherine, born December 5. 1S.>7; died 
 Dec. 26, \H95; residence, Newaik, C). : mar- 
 ried, Dec. 6. 1869, to Moses I'ayson Smith. 
 The second daughter of Dr. .\lberl and 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 167 
 
 Fidelia (Stearns) Smith, was a well educated 
 woman with literary tastes. She was an 
 earnest worker in the Unitarian Church at 
 Peterborough until upon her marriage she 
 removed from the town. She was a devoted 
 wife and mother and her beautiful character 
 won her the respect of all. Children: 
 
 (a) Anna Perley, born Sept. 19, 1871 at Marion, 
 
 Ind. ; residence, 1843 Aldine Avenue, Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 (b) Albert, born March 3, 1873, at Tuscola, 111. ; 
 residence, 1843 Aldine Avenue, Chicago, 
 111. Graduated from Dartmouth College in 
 1898. Assistant Professor of Civil Engi- 
 neering at Perdue University, Lafayette, 
 Indiana. 
 
 (c) Edith Payson, born at Newark, Ohio, March 
 16, 1876; died August 4, 1876. 
 
 (d) Ellen Garfield, born Oct. 24, 1879; residence, 
 1843 Aldine Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
 
 "P" 283,286, 287; "P. h." 126, 128, 136. 137, 314; "M' 148, 173, 174 
 Anna Perley Smith. 
 
 (F) William Sydney Smith, born Dec. 14, 1802 
 died at Peterborough, Sept. 26, 1875; married 
 first wife, Nov. 18, 1834, Margaret Stearns 
 daughter of John Stearns, of Jaiirey, N. H. 
 she was born March 18, 1805; she died in 
 Belleville, Canada, West, March 20, 1851 
 
loS bA.Ml 1.1. SMITH AND nKSCKNDANTS. 
 
 second wife, in Peterborongh, Mrs. Mary 
 (Gray) Miller, daughter of Malthew Gray, of 
 Peterborough. 
 
 William Sydney Smith, fifth son of Samuel 
 and Sally (Garfield) vSmith, learned the trade of 
 paper-making in Peterl)orough, and "afterwards 
 carried on the business there. In ISJ9 he 
 removed to Helleville. Canada, West, where he 
 was a paper manufacturer until 1852 or 1853, 
 when he returned to Peterborough, residing 
 there until his death. He was clean-handed 
 and above leproach, and was universally 
 respected for his honorable and upright char- 
 acter. Children, all ])orn in Canada, by first 
 wife: 
 (1) William Ainsworth, born in Belleville, Canada, 
 West, Feb. 9, 1836; died in Nebraska, Feb. 
 24, 1870; married, Oct. 9, 1865, Augusta 
 Frances Ames, daughter of Joseph H. and 
 Mary Melvin Ames. He was the first son of 
 William Sydney and Margaret (Stearns) 
 Smith, served as Knsign of the United States 
 navy in the Ci^-il War. He was a man of 
 very high character. [See page 73. ] Children : 
 
 (a) Margaret Klh-n, born Oct. 3, 1866. 
 
 (b) Rev. Frederick W.. born Feb. 23. 1S69; 
 
 residence, Duxbury, Mass., where he is 
 pastor of Unitarian Parish. 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 169 
 
 (2) Samuel Garfield, born in Belleville, Canada. 
 
 West, April 20, 1838/ married Dora Bascom, 
 of Jaffrey, N. H., in 1862; occupation, 
 jeweller, in Boston, Mass.; residence, Brook- 
 line, Mass. Children : 
 
 (a) Kate, born ; married Charles Waterhouse ; 
 
 residence, Brookline, Mass. Children: 
 Irma, born . 
 
 (b) Dexter, residence, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 (3) Josiah Phinney, born in Belleville, Canada 
 
 West, Oct. 20, 1840; died July 14, 1863. 
 Third son of William Sydney and Margaret 
 (Stearns) Smith, served in the United States 
 army in the Civil War. He volunteered as 
 one of a forlorn hope to lead the charge of a 
 storming part}' against the Confederate forti- 
 fications at Port Hudson, La., in which 
 charge he was shot through the head and 
 instantly killed. [See page 74.] 
 
 (4) Sydney Stearns, born at Belleville, Canada 
 West, Feb. 8, 1843; died at Alton, 111., July 
 9, 1871. [See page 75.] 
 
 (5) Elizabeth Ellen, born May 19, 1845, at Belle- 
 ville, Canada West; died ; married, at 
 
 La Harpe, 111., Dec. 17, 1867, Samuel J. 
 Reeder. He was born Jan. 25, 1836, at 
 
 Greenfield, Washington Co. , Penn. ; died . 
 
 Residence. Topeka, Kansas; removed to 
 Indianola, Kansas. Children: 
 
 22 
 
17" SAMrm, SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 (a) Kiith, liiirn SlJ)!. _'5, 1868. 
 
 (b) He^^sie Smith, horn Oct. 9. 1S71. 
 
 (c) Frederick Augii.stine, born Jan. 19, 1873; 
 died Aug. 6, 1873. 
 
 ( Rf fcrenccs. "P" 283. 287: "M" 148. 174. 216; Jonathan Smith.) 
 
 (G) Alexander Hamilton Smith, born Auj;. 5, 1804; 
 died at St. Loiii.s, Mo., Now, 1S5S; married, 
 1831, Soplironia Bailey, (jf Charlestown, Mass. 
 She died at Cincinnati, O., July 15, 1848. 
 
 He was the sixth son of Samuel and Sally 
 (Garfield) Smith, and was considered a man 
 of jijreat intellectual ability. Children : 
 
 (1) Sally Garfield, born Jan. 1, 1833; died . 
 
 (2) Jonathan, born Jan. J, 1S35; lives in St. 
 
 Louis, Mo. 
 
 (3) A. Hamilton, born 1837; died Oct., 1840. 
 
 (4) Jesse, born March 10, 1839; died . 
 
 (5) IC'.iza Bailey, born Jan. 18, 1841 ; li\cs in 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 (References. "P" .'83; "M" 148. 174.) 
 
 (H) IClizabeth Morison Smith, born Aujj. 8, 1806; 
 died Sept. 13. 1848; married, Sept. 8, 1830, to 
 Rev. Levi \V. Leonard, I). D.,of I)ul)lin, X. II. 
 He was born June 1, 1790, at Briilj^ewater, 
 Mass. ; he married, second wife, Mrs. Ivli/.abeth 
 I). Smith, widow of Samuel G.. I^xi-ter, X. 11 , 
 March 25, 1851; he died Dec. 12, 1864, at 
 ICxeler, X. H. Children: 
 
SAMUEI. SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 171 
 
 (1) William Smith, born in Dublin, N. H., Oct. 
 
 13, 1832; died in Hinsdale, N. H., June 14, 
 1902; married, April 30, 1861, Martha E. 
 Greenwood, daughter of Jackson and Elmira 
 (Gowing) Greenwood, of Dublin, N. H. She 
 was born in Dublin, N. H., Aug. 19, 1832; 
 died in Hinsdale, N. H., Feb. 22, 1903. He 
 resided at Hinsdale, N. H., where he prac* 
 ticed his profession. He was widely known 
 as an able and skilful physician. Children: 
 
 (a) Annie E., born Feb. 25, 1862; died Aug. 27, 
 
 1862. 
 
 (b) Walter G., born Aug. 3, 1863; died July 18, 
 
 1865. 
 
 (c) Frederick Smith, born May 21, 1865; married. 
 
 (d) Margaret Elizabeth, born Feb. 18, 1867; 
 
 married. 
 
 (e) William Jackson, born Feb. 23, 1869. 
 
 (f) Cora E.,born Dec. 15, 1871; died March 17, 
 
 1872. 
 
 (g) Dolly E., born July 21, 1874; died April 9, 
 
 1877. 
 
 (2) Ellen E., born ; married J. H. Houghton, 
 
 who was a Captain in the Civil War, and 
 afterwards Auditor of the Western Division 
 of the Northern Pacific Railwa5^ He died 
 
 at Tacoma, . Her residence, Tacoma, 
 
 Washington. 
 
 (References. "P" 283; "M" 148, 174, 175; Fred'k S. Leonard, Hinsdale. 
 N. H.; Capt. J. Stearns Smith J 
 
i._ iiA.MLi:!. SMITH AND nESCKNDANTS. 
 
 •I) Sarah Jane Smilh, born Sept. K>, 1S08; died '; 
 
 married, 1S43, Abraham W. I'.lanchard, of 
 
 Boston, Ma^^ lie- died . She received a 
 
 good education and was a woman of intellij^ence 
 and hijjh character. For a ^rcat many years 
 prior to her death, she and her ditu^hter resided 
 together in lioston. ChiKl; Catherine Kllen, 
 born . 
 
 (Reference. "P" 283.) 
 
 'J) Maria Smith, born Aug. 30, ISlO; died May 19, 
 1812. 
 
 (References, "P" 283: "M" 148.) 
 
 (K) Mary vSoley Smith, born Sept. 11, 1812; died 
 Aug. 14, 1822. 
 
 (References. "P" 283; '"M" 148.) 
 
 ^V Ellen Smith, born Jan. 23, 1815; died April 9, 
 1902; married William H. Smith, vSept. 13. 
 1843. He died Oct. 2, 1894, She was his 
 second wife. He was born Dec. 26, 1808. 
 
 ICUen (Smith) Smith, si.xth daugliter of 
 Samuel and Sally (Garfield) Smith, was married 
 at l)ul)lin, X. H., I think, and thence, on their 
 way to the raw home, slie anil her husband 
 drove in a carriage to liuffalo, X. V., enter- 
 taining themselves at their stops by reading 
 together one of the W'averly novels. At Hnffalo 
 they took one of tlie lake boats to Chicago. 
 From Chicago they drove in a carriage to St. 
 Louis. On Sl-|)1. 13, 1893. their golden wedding 
 was. unexpecleilly to thein, celebrated by a 
 
SAMUEL SMITH AND DESCENDANTS. 173 
 
 quiet gathering of near relatives at the Pahner 
 House, by the sea, in Hampton, N. H. 
 
 A more perfect character than Mrs. Smith's 
 would be hard to find. She was truly one 
 of the saints of the earth. Gentle, yet strong, 
 noble in her patience and forbearance and 
 forgiveness for all, tenderl}^ loving the true, 
 
 the beautiful, and the good, and seeking to 
 share them with everyone, she will never be 
 forgotten by those who have loved and rever- 
 enced her. She and her husband, William H. 
 Smith, both seemed made for each other and 
 for the world. Self-forgetful and benevolent, 
 unfaltering in their obedience to conscience, 
 intellectual and strong, they j^et reminded us 
 all of the psalmist's words, "Thy gentleness 
 hath made me great." Children: 
 
 (1) William Eliot, born Dec. 31, 1844; married 
 
 Alice Cole of Alton, 111., 1873; residence, 
 Alton, 111.; occupation, manufacturer of green 
 glassware. Children: 
 
 (a) Eunice C, born March 23, 1875; graduated 
 
 at Wellesley College. 
 
 (b) Ellen, born May 15, 1876; graduated at 
 
 Wellesley College. 
 
 (2) Henry Ware, born Feb- 3, 1850; died June 
 
 23, 1851. 
 
 (3) Margaret, born ; died . 
 
 C4) Jane, born ; died . 
 
 [vSee page 102.] 
 
 (References. "P" 283; ' M" 148. 168, 248.) 
 
PRESENT AT THE REUNION. 
 
 Dksckndants ok Rohkrt ^Son or William) Smith 
 Glenn W'riy^ht, New York Cily. 
 
 Dksckndants or James Smith. 
 
 Mrs. Frances Rice Stilhnan, Albany, New York. 
 William Smith. Sprin.^fieUl, Vermont. 
 Mrs. Flora A. (Brown) Smith, Springfield, \'ermont _ 
 
 Descendants of Jeremiah Smith. 
 Jeremiah Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Hannah (Webster) Smith, Cambiidj4:e, Mass. 
 Miss Klizabeth Hale Smith, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Di:SCENDANTS OF IIaNNAH (SmITHI HAkKliK. 
 
 Andrew Jewett, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Rachel A. Diili. Jewett, Fitchbnrg, Mass. 
 Miss Adeline h\ JeWL-tt, I-'ilchburg, Massachusetts. 
 Miss Nancy H. Jewett, Fitchburg, M;issachusetts. 
 Mis^ Harriet J. (Harker* Saxton, Xlw York Cily. 
 Miss Lilly May liarker, .Xtlleboro. Massachusetts. 
 William II. Jewett, Ivast Rindge, New IIamj)shire. 
 Mrs. William H. Jewett, Fast Rindge. N. II. 
 Kenneth DuH. Jewell, I'ilchburg, Massacluisetts. 
 
present at the reunion. 175 
 
 Descendants of Jonathan Smith. 
 
 Mrs. Clara (Foster) Bass, Peterborough. N. H. 
 Mrs. Adele (Foster^ Adams, Peterborough, N. H. 
 Mr. George E. Adams, Peterborough, N. H. 
 Miss Isabel F. Adams, Peterborough, N. H. 
 Miss Margaret Adams, Peterborough, N. H. 
 John S. Smith, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 
 Mrs. Evelyn (Canavan) Smith, St. Paul, Minn. 
 Evelyn Frances Smith, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 
 Jonathan Smith, Clinton, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Stearns-* Smith, Clinton, Mass. 
 Miss Susan Dow Smith, Clinton, Massachusetts. 
 Miss Caroline Smith, Newton Centre, Mass. 
 
 Descendants of Samuel Smith. 
 Samuel Garfield Smith, Brookline, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Dora (Bascom) Smith, Brookline, Mass. 
 Mrs. Kate (Smith) Waterhouse, Brookline, Mass. 
 Miss Irraa Waterhouse, Brookline, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Maria (Edes) Smith, Arlington, Mass. 
 Miss Maria Ellen Smith, Arlington, Massachusetts. 
 George A. Smith, Arlington, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Anna (Putnam) Smith, Arlington, Mass. 
 Mrs., Augusta F. (Ames) Smith, Duxbury, Mass. 
 Miss Margaret Ellen Smith, Northampton, Mass. 
 Rev. Frederick W. Smith, Duxbury, Mass. 
 Mrs. Cornelia L- (Smith) Kilbourne, New York City. 
 Miss Cornelia Edna Kilbourne, New York City. 
 
176 PRESENT AT THIv REUNION. 
 
 Mrs. Hli/;n.rth M "SniitlO Kloyd -Jones, New York 
 
 City. 
 Clarence Beverly Smith, New York City. 
 Miss Kate K. Hlatichard, Boston, Massachusetts. 
 Miss ICllen Garfield Smith, Chicaj^o, Illinois. 
 Miss Edna Parker Cheney, South Manchester, Conn. 
 Samuel Stei)hen Dearborn, Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 Descendants of Makv Smith (d.wghthr ok 
 First Robert Smith) Morison. 
 
 Miss Mary Morison, Peterborough, New Hampsliire. 
 
 Guests. 
 Rev. Frederick W. Greene, Middletown, Conn. 
 Mrs. Frederick W. Cireene, Middletown, Conn. 
 Mrs. Pierson, Orange, New Jersey. 
 Miss Margaret Pierson, Orange, New Jersey. 
 Miss Louise Pierson, Orange, New Jersey. 
 Mrs. Kendall, Lowell, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Emma (Read) Pearson, Boston, Massachuseiis. 
 Mrs. NL Agnes Wheeler, Peterborough, N. II. 
 Carlton A. Wheeler, Peterborough. N. H. 
 
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