Deliverance Smith (1659 - 1729)

Born 1659 in Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Tripp) Smith — married 1690 in Dartmouth Township, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 30 Jun 1729 at about age 70 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Rod Carty [send private message] and Mark Boudens [send private message]

Biography

Deliverance was a Friend (Quaker)

Deliverance Smith was born in Dartmouth, Bristol to John Smith and Ruhamah Kirby.^[1]

He married Mary Tripp in 1690 Dartmouth Township, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

He died 30d 4m 1729 [30 Jun 1729].^[2]

The following is an excerpt from Five Johns of Old Dartmouth by William A. Wing:^[3]

After the Indian war there appeared in Dartmouth John Akin.

Some claim him Dutch, others Scotch, and he seems to have combined doughtiness and canniness. His dwelling place was at Nomquid Neck (now Nonquitt), and later at Colvins Neck (now Padanaram). His position in the community was that of the best type of colonial yeoman.

His first wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Briggs, a sometime member of Peleg Sanford’s troop-of-horse, an early colonial company of cavalry. This Briggs family much-landed in old Dartmouth were closely connected with that famous Dyer family of Rhode Island. Several of John Akin’s many children married Allens– descendants of the first-comer, George Allen of Sandwich.

Captain John Akin had a martial spirit for Deliverance Smith, woefully related to the Meeting of Friends-how he with others were ordered by John Akin to exercise in “war-like posture” with the intention of being pressed into his majesty’s service in Canada.

This son of John Smith was not so easily dealt with contrary to his principles. For making a weary journey he stated his woes and views to the Governor who graciously excused this determined Friend, who returned to his home in Dartmouth delivered from anymore “trayning” in the abominated “war-like posture.”

If in military matters, John Akin opposed John Smith’s son, he was well in accord with him in their township’s struggles to maintain the dearly bought liberty of conscience.

Deliverance Smith for refusing to collect taxes to pay a “hireling minister,” was shut up in the Bristol gaol which by freak of fate had been built in part with money collected by his Father, John Smith. “We are done with the Indians and now are molested by the Quakers!” deplored an eminent divine! Later in the so-called “Great Controversy” Dartmouth absolutely refused to pay such taxes and appealing to the King their refusal was upheld. Then Captain John Akin was released from the same gaol and allowed to live out his days undisturbed after a year’s imprisonment for “conscience sake.”

Children

Children of Deliverance and Mary Smith:

• John Smith, born 11d 5m 1693 [11 Jul 1693].^[2]
• Deborah Smith, born 13d 5m 1695 [13 Jul 1695].^[2]
• Ann Smith, born 16d 10m 1696 [16 Dec 1696].^[2]
• Alice Smith, born 29d 8m 1698 [29 Oct 1698];^[2] died 22d 10m 1783 [22 Oct 1783].^[2]
• Peleg Smith, born 27d 3m 1700 [27 May 1700];^[2] died 8d 8m 1778 [8 Aug 1778].^[2]
• George Smith, born 27d 6m 1701 [27 Aug 1701];^[2] died 17d 7m 1769 [17 Jul 1769].^[2]
• Hope Smith, born 23d 11m 1703 [23 Feb 1704].^[2]
• Humphrey Smith, born 13d 2m 1705 [13 Apr 1705];^[2] married Mary Wilcox, daughter of Jeremiah;^[2] died 4d 11m 1777 [4 Nov 1777].^[2]
• Mary Smith, born 14d 11m 1706/7 [14 Jan 1707].^[2]
• Abigail Smith, born 10d 2m 1709 [10 Apr 1709].^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ North American Family Histories: 2x
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15} Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 76.
3. ↑ Five Johns of Old Dartmouth by William A. Wing

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49445985/deliverance-smith : accessed 28 March 2022), memorial page for Deliverance Smith (1667–30 Jun 1729), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49445985, citing Smith Family Cemetery, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Don Blauvelt (contributor 46932939) .
• Mark Boudens