John
W
Smith
Born in Sichem in the Oblong, Dutchess Co., New York
Ancestors 
Son of Elijah Smith
and Mary (Warner) Smith
Brother of
Mary Smith, Peter Smith, Bethia (Smith) Griswald, Hannah Smith and Polly (Smith) Sharpsteen
Husband of
Hannah (Pettit) Smith
— married
23 Nov 1794 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut
Descendants 
Father of
Joel Thacher Pettit Smith
Died
at age 76
in Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jan 2015
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Biography
John was born in 1770. He was the son of Elijah Smith and Mary Warner. He was one of a pair of twins, both baptized in the Moravian Congregation at Sichem in the Oblong, Dutchess County, New York on the 21st of January 1770. The entry reads: "1770 Peter & John Twins} Sons of Elijah and Mary Smith were Burried thru Baptism in the Death of Jesus by Br. Böhler the third Sunday after Epiphany Jan: 21st in the presence of the Brs & Srs & Children. Sponsors were the Brs Daniel Warner Sen & Azariah Smith, Edmond Edmonds & Jonathan Moore and the Srs Böhler, Smith & Warner." [Marginal note: Jan 20 Born about 8 o’clock in the morning and the next about a quarter of an hour afterwards.] [1] He married Hannah Pettit (or Pettitt) in 1794.[2]
He passed away in 1846.
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Sources
- ↑ Records of the Moravian Congregation at Sichem in the Oblong, Dutchess County, New York, Register of Baptisms, 1770
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Volume 101 Sharon.
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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:
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- Gaylord Smith
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup R-U152, FTDNA kit #235837 - Rick Smith :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 12 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #636856
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~3.12%
Pam (Rowland) Ressler :
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~1.56%
Andrea (Arnold) Bryer :
23andMe, GEDmatch F242990 [compare]
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Aline Barbeau
Aline Barbeau
Smith-262557 and Smith-76513 do not represent the same person because: not the same country, not the same parents, not the same wife
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Rejected matches › Johannes Gerhardt Schmidt (abt.1770-)
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