Chileab died on 7 Mar 1731, at Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [1]
"Ens. Chileab Smith dyed on March ye 7th, 1731, aged 96 years, and Hannah his wife dyed Aug. 31, 1733, aged 88 years. It is worthy of memory that they lived together in marriage state 70 years."—Inscription on gravestone at Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts [4]
DNA Confirmation
Descendant of Lt. Samuel Smith and Elizabeth Smith[5]
Lucius M. Boltwood. Genealogies of Hadley FamiliesEarly Settlers of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby; Pubishers Northampton: Metcalf and Company. 1862; Page 126.
James W. Hook. [1] "Lieut. Samuel Smith, his children and one line of descendants and related families"; Publishers: Compiler, New Haven. 1953; Page 22.
Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. The English Ancestry of Samuel1 Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts, Whose Wife Was Elizabeth (Smith) Smith, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., Winter 2020) Vol. 174, WN 693, Page 44.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Chileab 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:
Smith-5945 and Smith-1818 appear to represent the same person because: I just changed the parents of Sarah Smith-5940 to Chileab Smith-1818 and wife Hannah, per the Hadley source info added to Smith-1818 profile.
Birth date was estimated, as stated, for Smith-5945 based on dau Sarah's birth date, but she was the last child born, so her birthdate and her father's are much farther apart.
Smith-197466 and Smith-1818 appear to represent the same person because: Same unusual name, same dates, same father (the misspelling of Samuel notwithstanding), same wife, same child. I'm having trouble imagining what went wrong to cause them to marked as rejected matches.
Smith-38603 and Smith-1818 appear to represent the same person because: they have the same death information. Please compare and merge Smith-38603 into Smith-1818 if you agree they are two profiles for the same person. Thank you. Kitty Cooper-1 Smith
I have Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Smith, as Elizabeth Chileab, b. in Whatfield, Suffolk in 1602. There was a friends meeting in Wethersfield for a while when things were hot in Mass. This would make sense onomastically of Smith Jr's first name.
Birth date was estimated, as stated, for Smith-5945 based on dau Sarah's birth date, but she was the last child born, so her birthdate and her father's are much farther apart.