Lt.
John
Smith
Born about in Colony of Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Alexander Smith
and Mary Ann (Cocke) Smith
Husband of
Jane (Cocke) Smith
— married
about 1688 in Christchurch, Middlesex County, Virginia Colony
Descendants 
Died
at about age 37
in Middlesex County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
John Smith was possibly born in about 1662 (based on the date of his marriage), the son of Alexander Smith.[1][2]
In about 1688, he married Jane, the daughter of Nicholas and Jane Cocke and widow of Rice Jones, Jr.[1]
By 1693, he was a Lieutenant of Middlesex Militia.[1]
Lieutenant John Smith made his will on February 8, 1696, which was probated at the same time that his father's was. In the will he names his children, John, Jane, Maurice and Samuel.[1][3]
Children
The children of Lieutenant John smith and Jane Cocke included:[1]
- John, b. 23 Feb 1690
- Maurice
- Samuel
- Jane (m. John Webb)
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 P. W. Hiden, “Smiths of Middlesex County, Virginia,” The William and Mary Quarterly 10 (1930): 214–20, at 215; digital image, JSTOR, (https://doi.org/10.2307/1921287 : accessed 27 Dec 2021).
- ↑ Middlesex County, Virginia Wills Family Search film 2024834 image 449 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99PH-Z9XR?cat=1120225
- ↑ Middlesex County, Virginia Wills Family Search film 2024834 446-447 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99PH-Z96C?cat=1120225
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Gordon Smith
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test, haplogroup GRP-R-M269-2
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~0.39%
Anonymous Griffin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T640448 [compare]
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~0.39%
Mary Lee Rice :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch 8192340 [compare], Ancestry member ricemarylee
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~0.39%
Milus Wright :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member theothermickey
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~0.39%
Lin Griffin :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #546233
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Categories: Virginia Colonists | Estimated Birth Date
edited by Harold Bullock
The only record in a search of that database for a John Smith marrying a Jane in 1679 is the marriage to Jane Cocke, which also shows him as born in 1662. That database is known to be problematic and unreliable. The marriage year it uses clearly conflates the year Jane married her first husband with the year she married John Smith.
No changes have been made to Smith-84406 since it was created, and it is clear that it was created with that particular Ancestry database entry. That entry is clearly a butchered version of the marriage of Smith-34858 to his wife Jane, and has the same birth year for John. So to me these are clear duplicates.
Jane will need to be merged as well, but it seems someone gave her the birth year of Jane Charlton who married a different John Smith, so that should be double-checked and corrected first.