Mary (Swain) Smithwick (abt. 1693 - abt. 1738)

Born about 1693 in Chowan, Carolina

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Died about 1738 at about age 45 in Bertie, North Carolina

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Spouse: Samuel Smithwick

Mary (named after Stephen's mother) must have been born by about 1694. She was married to Samuel Smithwick by about 1714, and had her first child (Sarah Smithwick) by about 1715. Mary's brother John, Stephen and Elizabeth's Swain's eldest son, (he was named after Stephen's father), appears in a July 1716 court record in Chowan County, wherein he dismisses his guardian, indicating he has achieved the age of majority [21], proving he was born by 1695. Mary is not mentioned; she was certainly older than John, and married to Samuel Smithwick two years earlier, by 1714, indicating her birth before 1694. Mary and John's sister, Stephen and Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth (named after her mother Elizabeth's mother), must have been born after 1698; John retained her guardianship, and indentured her as a servant to John Worley, on 17 July 1716. She had to be under 18 on that date, and perhaps younger.

Mary and Samuel's first child Sarah (named after Samuel's mother Sarah Elizabeth Woolard, the second wife of Samuel's father Edward Smithwick) was born by about 1715. Mary and Samuel's second daughter Elizabeth (named after Mary's mother) was married, to William Ross, by 1730; she and William's first son, Captain William Ross Jr., was born in 1731. Daughter Sarah married Luke Mizell about 1740; she and Luke's daughter Sarah Mizell married Benjamin Richardson c 1767. Not much is known about Mary and Samuel's son John.

Some trees show Mary's husband as John Smithwick, but the will of John, 18 June 1764 in Bertie County, names children William, Luke, Joel, Sarah, Mary, and Cloanah, who of course do not match the names of the Smithwick grandchildren in the will of Patience, Mary's stepmother.

From "The Kenan family and some allied families," compiled by Alvaretta Kenan Register:

""RICHARDSON Many of the early settlers of Effingham, Screven, and Bulloch Counties in Georgia, were of North Carolina stock. This was the case of the Richardson family. 1. Benjamin Richardson, b. ca 1740; m. 1767, Sarah Mizell, dau. of Luke Mizell IV and his wife Sarah Smithwick, dau. of Samuel Smithwick and Mary Swaine. Benjamin and wife Sarah, with Sarah's widowed mother Mrs. Sarah Mizell, migrated to the area that is now Bulloch County, in 1770. Benjamin took up land on Scull's Creek near the Ogeechee River. He was tax collector in the three year period before Screven Co. was cutoff into Bulloch Co. Benjamin Richardson died in Bulloch Co. in 17991. Issue: [Deed Book A, pg. 59].""

See also "Georgia Genealogical Magazine" #4 pages 174-5.

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #116478370.

End Notes

The Washington County Genealogical Society (WCGS) Journal, December 1995, p 76, (Contains significant misinformation).

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