Born in Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Shubel Smith
and Abigail (Skiff) Smith
Sister of
Mercy (Smith) Maker [half], Lydia (Smith) Skiff, Remember (Smith) Jennings, Abigail (Smith) Gibbs and Shubal Smith
Wife of
Benjamin Burgess
— married
13 May 1712 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Abigail (Burgess) Nickerson
Died about
at about age 101
in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]
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Biography
Dorcas was born to Shubael and Abigail Skiff Smith at Sandwich in 1686.[1]
Dorcas Smith m. Benjamin in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, on 13 May 1712.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-R7BS : 18 February 2020), Shubal Smith in entry for Dorcas Smith, Jan 1686; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934221.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3L-W4N : 25 September 2017), Benjamin Burgess and Dorcas Smith, 13 May 1712; citing Marriage, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 775,836.
- Doug Coldwell, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Doug and others.
- Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 18 Part 1 of 3, Richard Warren, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004. "The Silver Book" Page 138
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If one is a Smith who became a Burgess, the other is a Burgess who became a Smith. Then the Burgess who became a smith needs the LNAB corrected. Neither of the profiles have an sources to go by.