John Smith (1688 - 1785)

Born 1688 in Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Scott) Smith — married 2 May 1711 in Falls Mm,Bucks,Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 31 Jul 1785 at about age 97 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States

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John was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

John Smith was born in 1688 in Burlington County, New Jersey. His parents were John Emanuel Smith and Elizabeth Ball. He married Sarah Scott on May 2, 1711, in Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. John Smith passed away 31 July 1785, in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.^[1]

Marriage

Name: John Smith

Gender: Male

Spouse Name: Sarah Scott

Marriage Year: 1711

Marriage State: PA

Number Pages: 1^[2][3]

US Quaker Meeting Records(Marriage)

Name: John Smith

Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage)

Marriage Date: 7 Mar 1710

Marriage Date on Image: 7 1710 First

Marriage Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania

Residence Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania

Spouse: Sarah Scott

Monthly Meeting: Falls Monthly Meeting

Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Meeting State: Pennsylvania

Meeting County: Bucks^[4][5][6]

As a blacksmith John Smith moved back and forth between Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the Province of West New Jersey. He was also a member of the Neshaminy MM which was a mile west of Langhorne, Pennsylvania which later became known Middletown, Pennsylvania.^[7]

The "falls" of the Delaware River is not a dramatic waterfall but, rather, the rapids that mark the highest navigable point on the river. The names of Fallsington and Falls Township derive from it.^[8]

Falls Monthly Meeting. Bucks County, PA reported on May 2,1711 that John married Sarah Scott. Sarah was born July 23,1690 in Yorkshire, England.

The births of John And Sarah (Scott) Smith's children (from 1712 to 1730) were recorded in Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, PA. About 1745 in Buckingham MM, John was said to be formerly of Cold Spring, near Bristol. John died after 1753, in Plumstead Twp, Bucks, Pennsylvania, as he signed marriage certificates of two of his sons in 1752 at Buckingham MM. Sarah died Dec 2,1776 in Plumstead.

The children of John and Sarah (Scott) Smith were:

1. Ann born 1712
2. John Smith born 1715 (married Mary Stradling)
3. Joseph born 1717;
4. Robert born 1719;
5. Samuel born 1721(married 1st Elizabeth/Mary 2. Naomi) died 1785 Loudon Co., VA;
6. Henry born 1724 (married Alice Hill Jr.),1769 to Fairfax MM,VA;
7. Thomas b 1730 (m Sarah Cowgill).

The Bucks County Courthouse, established in 1663, is said to have been located in Fallsington until it was moved to Bristol in 1705. The first meetings of the Religious Society of Friends were held in the home of William Biles on Biles Island. Falls Monthly Meeting found a site for the first brick meetinghouse built in Fallsington, about 1690, on 6 acres (0.024 km2) of land that had been donated by Samuel Burgess. Also in 1690, Thomas Janney donated 72 acres (0.29 km2) of land to be used as the Quaker burial grounds for Falls Monthly Meeting. William Penn donated a tract of 120 acres (0.49 km2), for a Falls commons.^[9]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Smith-21444 created through the import of Donnell_FosterTREE gedFILE.ged on Oct 2, 2011 by Ann Fuller. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Ann and others.

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6YX-K8T
2. ↑ Source number: 224.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: MCL
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1125845:7836
4. ↑ Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
5. ↑ Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
6. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/99903517:2189
7. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=crillybutler&id=I00258&style=TEXT
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallsington,_Pennsylvania
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallsington,_Pennsylvania

For further research:

• History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time

• THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXIV, PLUMSTEAD, 1725.

• Six Columbiana County families, Author: Fetters, William B., Publication: William B. Fetters, Bowie, MD, 1994

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Lisa Hill for creating Smith-55918 on 23 Dec 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Lisa and others.