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Alice (Smoot) Stretchly (1666 - 1701)

Alice Stretchly formerly Smoot aka Chinn
Born in York, Virginiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of [father unknown] and
Sister of [half] and
Wife of — married 1680 [location unknown]
Wife of — married before 1695 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of and
Died at about age 35 in Lancaster, Virginiamap
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Disputed Parents

Alice has often been incorrectly thought to have been the daughter of William Smoot of Richmond County, Virginia. However, it is now clear that Alice was the daughter of William's sister Mary, and possibly the daughter of Mary's husband James Gilbert.[1]

Questions that arise: Where did the name Smoot (or Smoote) come from? Is there documentary evidence that she used that name? (Supposedly, Rawleigh Chinn was mentioned in her will.) Why didn't she go by the name Gilbert? Is it that customs about last names were different in those days? Was she born out of wedlock, and did she take the LNAB of her mother? Is there any documentary evidence that Mary Smoote was indeed her mother?

Biography

Alice Smoot was born about 1642 in York County, Virginia. She married John Chinn and they had at least three children together. She then married John Stretchley on May 8, 1695, in Lancaster, Virginia. She died in 1701 in Lancaster, Virginia.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/6221149/person/210059374/facts

Death

Death:
Date: 1701
SDATE 1 JUL 1701
Place: Lancaster County, Virginia
Note: Will recorded in Lancaster Co VA; Children named were Ann Fox, wife of Capt. William Fox, Catherine Heal, and Rawleigh Chinn.[2]
Note: Alice married (1) John Chinn and (2) John Stretchly


Sources

  1. ↑ See Alice's page at the Early Settlers of Colonial Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties website.
  2. ↑ Source: #S648 Page: p.4
  • Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649–1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. pg 75
  • Purcell, Hester Towles.. The Towles story : from Henry, the emigrant, of Accomac County, Virginia, to Hester Towles and Jean Bryan Johnson. Kansas City, Mo.: unknown, 1957. pg 24

Acknowledgements

  • WikiTree profile Smoot-77 created through the import of Foster Family Tree.ged on May 27, 2011 by Ferrell Foster. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Ferrell and others.







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Janean Skiles
I worked on these lines for 20+ years. Saved EVERYTHING and put the pieces of the puzzle together. William Smoot and Mary Smoot were brother and sister. Mary m. James Gilbert and had daughters Alice, Thomasin, & Dorothy. I have a compilation of abstracts of deeds, wills, transfers etc between all parties of one such parcel with a common demoninator Briery Swamp or Briery Creek. I have it all laid out in a time line of events and it is so widely accepted that a genealogist researcher that I worked with out of Virginia who along with another man - some editors including myself, declared that it was significant enough to make it part of an Ancestry tree that he put together from YEARS of work on the Chinn/Ball family and all other Northern Neck of Virginia families as plausible conclusion to the mystery. I would gladly email you a copy of it. [email address removed] Alice Gilbert and John Chinn are my 8th g-grandparents.
posted by Janean Skiles
Rowan-450 Bill Rowan
Let's dig up some evidence to guide us.
posted by Bill Rowan
[Living Schmeeckle]
Well, what do you think... Alice was definitely not a Smoot, but she might have been a Gilbert. Are you inclined to prefer "Gilbert" or "Unknown"?
posted by [Living Schmeeckle]
Rowan-450 Bill Rowan
Re changing the LNAB: as a general policy, it is best to do this as few times as possible, due to the fact that it results in a redirection of the page. Too many changes results in too many redirections. I would prefer adding working notes and discussion to the profile as an initial step, and when and if some consensus is achieved, then changing the LNAB.
posted by Bill Rowan
[Living Schmeeckle]
Perhaps Alice's LNAB should be changed to "Unknown", per the Disputed Parents paragraph.
posted by [Living Schmeeckle]
Rowan-450 Bill Rowan
Pertaining to Alice's birthdate: perhaps the Alice Smoot who was Rawleigh Chinn's mother is actually the daughter of William Smoot, Sr., (Smoot-74), who according to the GEDcom import that created him had a daughter Alice Smoot (Smoot-77) born in 1642 and died in 1701.
posted by Bill Rowan
Jim Henderson
Seems to be a mix-up in dates here. Alice was born in 1641 but her father, William was born in 1647.
posted by Jim Henderson
Rowan-450 Bill Rowan
Chinn-74 and Smoot-67 appear to represent the same person because: Hi, I created Alice Chinn (Chinn-74) to be the wife of John Chinn and the mother of Rawleigh Chinn. She was born Alice Smoot, I have since learned. Thus, I believe Chinn-74 should be merged into Alice Smoot (Smoot-67) whose biography mentions that Rawleigh Chinn was mentioned in her will.
posted by Bill Rowan

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