Abraham Smith (abt. 1725 - abt. 1781)

Ancestors

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Biography

Birthyear rough guess. "may be the Abraham Smith of Dinwiddie County who left a will dated 5 Jan 1782 and prove Feb 1782."

"(Footnoote 23 on page 105) United States Circuit Court, Box 127, Hamilton Trustees vs. Smith, 1829, in William Lindsay Hopkins, Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia (Richmond, 1987), p. 31. Since John Chiders was one of the witnesses, the testator may be this Abraham Smith. In the will he named daughter Elizabeth, under 21 (who later married James Macfarland), son Richard, unmarried (who later died intestate; the suit concerned his estate), daughter Nancy Jones, wife of Kennon Jones (both alive in 1806 and he then the only surviving executor of Abraham Smith's will), daughter Martha, wife of James French, and wife Ann Smith."

His father's will names wife Jane, sons Abraham, Humphrey, Childaws [sic], Elacksander, Joseph, John and James; and daughter Mary Blankinship. Will was proved 28 Feb. 1756

Sources

[http://original.childers-childress.com/Book_Mosby_Childers.pdf Mosby Childers Our Revolutionary War Grandfather] by Barbara Couts Evans. Bottom of page 103-105.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.