James Smith Sr. (abt. 1655 - bef. 1700)

Born about 1655 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Goodenow) Smith — married 25 Mar 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Hannah (Pendleton) Maynard — married 5 May 1693 in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died before 23 Dec 1700 before about age 45 in Lancaster, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Mistaken or Disputed Identity

James Smith, son of John Smith and Sarah Hunt, was born about 1655 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and was married to Hannah. He has on occasion been conflated with James2 "Jacques" Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, who was born 18 Sept 1637 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, married Martha Mills, and died August 1687 in Kittery, Maine. That man was son of Thomas1 Smith of Watertown.

The mistaken identity and the evidence distinguishing these men is discussed in Kempton Ancestry 1:496 (see footnote available at openlibrary).^[1]

Biography

James Smith was a son of John Smith and Sarah (Hunt) Smith of Sudbury, Massachusetts. There is no record of his birth or baptism.^[2]

Evidence that James was a son of John Smith comes from a pair of deeds. On 11 October 1682 John Smith of Sudbury and Mary, his wife (apparently his second wife), executed a deed conveying land "formerly granted by Susannah Hunt, widow, the said John's former wife's mother, deceased," to "his Loving Son James Smith." Evidence that James Smith was a son of John Smith and Sarah Hunt comes this deed and a later deed by which James Smith and his wife Hannah transferred the same property.^[2]

James Smith was married to Hannah Goodenow in Sudbury, Massachusetts, on 25 March 1680.^[3] Hannah (Goodenow) Smith died on 22 November 1691 at the birth of her daughter Hannah. James Smith married Hannah (birth name Pendleton), a widow, as his second wife on 5 May 1693. As many as nine of the ten children of James Smith, are assigned to Hannah Goodenow as mother; at least one child is assigned to the second wife. ^[2]

The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)(subscription) Vol. 61 : Pg. 18 "John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts" by Robert Charles Anderson

James Smith of Lancaster, Massachusetts, died intestate. His widow Hannah Smith, son James Smith of Lancaster, and John Goodenow and Thomas Smith of Sudbury petitioned for administration of his estate on 13 January 1700 (New Style date would be 13 January 1701). The probate file contains administration papers, inventory and dispersal of estate naming children James (identified as the eldest son), Samuell, Hannah, John, Sarah, Joseph, Benjamin and Daniell, plus widow Hannah Smith. Debts due to the estate include two, one from John Goodenow, his father-in-law, and one from Joseph Goodenow.^[4]

Marriage

Husband: James Smith

Wife: Hannah Goodenow

• James Smith
• John Smith
• Sarah Smith
• Daniel Smith
• Benjamin Smith
• Joseph Smith
• Hannah Smith

Marriage:

Date: 25 Mar 1680

Place: Sudbury, Massachusetts^[3]

DNA

Descendant of yDNA group NE05 John Smith-70371 (b ENG - 1669 Lancaster, Massachusetts) m Mary Unknown. See SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project.^[5]

DNA test places a descendant of this line in Group 5 of SmithConnections.com DNA Project. The tester's genetic and documented line is:

0 John Smith (___ENG - 1669 MA) m. Mary _____
1 John Smith-62521 (c1622 ENG -1687 Sudbury MA) m. Sarah Hunt-6216
2 James Smith (____-___Sudbury MA) m.Hannah Goodenow & Hannah Pendleton Bush Rutter
3 James Smith (1680 Sudbury - 1700 Coventry MA) m. Mary Atherton
4 Azariah Smith (c1717 –1784 Dutchess Co.NY) m.1740/41 CTVR Mary Dogged
5 David Smith*Revo (c1754? -1831 Wayne Co.OH) m.1820 OHVR Mary Tryon
6 Azariah Smith (c1785 Dut.Co.NY-1867 Wayne Co.OH) m1 Mariah__ 2 Wealthy Enos
7 Sardis Smith (1808 Col.Co.NY-1891 DavisCo.IA) m1 Ruth Warner 2 Catherine Warner
8 Ebenezer Smith (1850 Wap.Co.IA -1926 Daviess Co.MO) m. Caroline Shuler

Sources

1. ↑ Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton, 1817-1879 (Boston 1996) 1:425-442 Smith).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Seymour, Keith M. "Four James Smiths in the Coventry-Bolton Area". The American Genealogist Vol 57 (1981), pages 232-242 (subscription)].
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Sudbury, page 203: GOODENOW, Hannah and James Smith, Mar. 25, 1680. [M.R.]
4. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org). Case 20644, James Smith, 1700.
5. ↑ SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project, haplogroup Rb1 NE05 John Smith.

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