Jonathan Smith

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• Name	Jonathan Smith
  Birth	01 Aug 1705	Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  WILL	7 Nov 1775	Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
  	The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: “To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100499550/jonathan-smith
  Death	1776	Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
  Burial	Old Judea Cemetery, Washington, Litchfield, CT, USA
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  Person ID	I1173	Smith Smyth Schmidt Smythe Smitt
  Branches/DNA What is a Branch?	Group GRP-R-M269-53 Smith Branch: Henry Smith (Rev) b Eng. d 1648 Wethersfield, CT m Dorothy(2.Samuel 3.Ebenezer) (Kit# N547****/ ), Group GRP-R-M269-53 Smith Branch: Henry Smith d 1648 Wethersfield CT 2. Samuel 3 Ebenezer (Kit# B591****/ ), Smith Branch: Phillip Smit b c 1730 Germany(1) Henry Smith b Eng d Wethersfield CT (2) (Kit# B435****/ ), Group GRP-R-M269-53 Smith Branch: Henry Smith (Rev) b Eng.; d 1648 Wethersfield, CT m Dorothy(2.Samuel 3.Ebenezer) (Kit# 1165****/ ), Group GRP-R-M269-53 Smith Branch: Henry Smith (Rev) b Eng.; d 1648 Wethersfield, CT(2.Samuel 3. Ebenezer) (Kit# 9208****/ ), Group GRP-R-M269-53 Smith Branch: 3 Lines.1st Abraham Smith b 1734 CT 2 Enos Smith b 1749 MA 3. Petrus Smith b 1731 NY (Kit# B807****/ ), Smith Branch: Rev Henry Smith d 1648 CT 2. Samuel 3 Preserved 4 Samuel (Kit# 9058****/ )     Showing line by DNA type-if DNA tester representation, will be on above line If a branch has more than one Smith line, be sure to check the branch description (click Smith Branch: link above) to see which group, if any, represents each line JOIN the Smith Official DNA Project w a DNA Kit If you are a male Smith or have a male Smith that can test for you, do a YDNA test Come Discuss Jonathan Smith on Smith DNA Discussion Forum(2) Smith Matched Groupings List (All) Is This Your Line? Have confirmed DNA match? Have additions/corrections? Come Collaborate With Us!-Submit Your Tree/Match or Suggest a Change/Reference/Source
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  Last Modified	15 Dec 2019 Help

  
  

  Father	Ebenezer Smith,   b. 02 Sep 1668, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Sep 1728, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Sarah Huxley,   b. 1675, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 1749, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA (Age 74 years)
  	1693	Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F559	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Susanna Johnson,   b. 9 Jun 1706, Roxbury, MA d. Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
  Marriage	28 Dec 1727	Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, USA
  Children	+ 1. Martin Smith,   b. 15 Dec 1729, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 1805, Rupert, VT (Age 75 years) + 2. Charles Smith,   b. 1731, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 1804, Washington,Orange County,Vermont,USA (Age 73 years)   3. Abiah Smith   4. Susanna Smith,   b. 1736 + 5. Elihu Smith,   b. 10 Jul 1734, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Feb 1830 (Age 95 years) + 6. Col Jonathan Smith,   b. 4 Mar 1741, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 09 Sep 1802, Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 61 years)   7. Elisha Smith,   b. 1743
  Family ID	F560	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2019 Help

  
  

  Family 2	Ann Hurd
  Marriage	9 Oct 1753	Judea Parish, CT, uSA
  Children	1. Elisha Smith,   b. 1754 + 2. Eunice Smith,   b. 3 Mar 1758, Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA d. c 1813, Sheldon,VT,USA (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F41109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2019 Help

  
  

  Family 3	Esther Davis   d. 26 Apr 1799
  Family ID	F41111	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2019 Help

  
  

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  Birth - 01 Aug 1705 - Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Marriage - 28 Dec 1727 - Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, USA WILL - The will of Jonathan Smith of Woodbury, County of Litchfield [CT] dated 7 Nov 1775 is abstracted: “To my wife Esther…household goods, except all such household goods as were brought to me by my second wife [i.e. Ann Hurd]; to my son Elihu my old house and barn…and also my rights in the Publick Library in Bethlehem…; my son Charles Smith…; my daughter Abiah Durkee…; my daughter Susannah Clark…; my son Elisha Smith…; my daughter Eunice Smith…; to my sons Elihu and Elisha all my right in the Susquehannah Purchase…; I also give to my said daughter Eunice all the household goods brought to me by her mother (viz.) my second wife before mentioned [i.e. Ann Hurd]…; my son Elihu to be sole Executor. Witnesses: William Slade, Ebenezer Clark, Increase Mosely. Filed April 1776. [The Susquehannah Purchase is that part of present day Pennsylvania that was claimed by the colony of CT at that time.] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100499550/jonathan-smith - 7 Nov 1775 - Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Death - 1776 - Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Burial - - Old Judea Cemetery, Washington, Litchfield, CT, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Jonathan Smith, son of Ebenezer Smith and Sarah Cook, was born in 1705, in Suffield, Connecticut. Jonathan married Susanna Johnson, daughter of John Johnson and Mary Ramsey in 1727. Susanna was born in 1706, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Jonathan and Susanna lived in Suffield, Connecticut. Captain John Johnson, Susanna?s Great Grandfather, was born about 1590 in England. John married Mary Heath, daughter of William A. Heath and Agnes Cheney, in 1613, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. Mary was born in 1600, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. This "Puritan" immigrant ancestor and the first member of the Johnson family in America came from Wilmington Parish, county Kent, England with his wife Mary and five children with the Winthrop Fleet. All of his brothers immigrated to America with the exception of Abraham who remained in England. The fleet sailed from London March 1, 1630. John Johnson, with his family, arrived aboard the ARBELLA ? the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet landing at Salem Massachusetts on June 14, 1630 ten weeks later. Capt. John Johnson settled in Roxbury, and was appointed Constable in 1630. He and his son-in-law Richard Mowry, were made Freeman in 1631. He owned and operated a tavern or "ordinary" in Roxbury. Capt. John Johnson was active in the business of the Colony, as Juryman, serving on Committees, as Surveyor laying out the bounds of Towns around Boston. In 1634 John Johnson and Richard Dumer were ordered to build a bridge across Muddy River. Five towns were to contribute to the cost. In 1636 he was chosen one of a Committee to determine the valuation of the several towns. In 1637 he was chosen one of the Deputies to levy on the towns for raising fifty men to send against the Pequots. He was also chosen Surveyor General, an office, which at that time, included the care of the stock of arms and the ammunition of the Colony. An interesting account of the burning of his house, with the Colony's stock of powder, also the Town Records of Roxbury, of which he was Town Clerk, is given in Governor Winthrop's History, also in Drake's History of Roxbury. He was chosen Deputy to the House of Deputies to represent Roxbury in 1634, the first year of that Assembly; and was chosen for twenty-one years afterward, nearly all consecutively. He was also one of the founders of the First Church of Roxbury and, together with his sons Isaac and Humphrey, was an original donor to the Free School in Roxbury. Captain John Johnson was the first Clerk of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. His son, Isaac, was its Captain and leader at one time. It is the oldest military organization in this country, founded March 13, 1638, and which still proudly maintains its existence. Upon the rolls of its members are to be seen the names of men who in their day, through the entire history of Massachusetts, were foremost in peace and war, and who occupied the highest place in science, art, and literature, and in social, political and military life. At no time could any but a distinguished citizen have become a member of its society." Late in his life, John Johnson was granted one thousand acres of land in consideration of his great service to the Colony. When the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorized the minting of the now famous "Pine Tree Shilling," Edward Johnson, Thomas Clark, and John Johnson as members were charged with selecting the mint master, John Hull, and supervising the operation to insure the fineness of the silver content. His house and buildings were destroyed by fire in August 1645, caused by the explosion of seventeen barrels of his colony's gunpowder, which destroyed many arms and most of the towns, first records. In 1655, he and others were granted permission to "set down" (erect) a gristmill. As an addenda of possible family interest regarding the official duties of John Johnson in connection with the historic case of Anne Huchinson. Anne Huchinson, the religious dissenter of the time, are the following: She had publicly challenged the Puritan religious and political principles of the Colony and was subsequently tried, banished and migrated to Rhode Island. When Anne Hutchinson was taken into custody, the Court ordered that the arms of her adherents be delivered to the custody of Captain John Johnson and the town of Roxbury be required to take orders for their custody and any charges that might arise be defrayed to her husband. After her court trial and sentence of banishment by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she was restricted from November 1636 to April 1637 to the home of Joseph Weld. Her stay in Weld's home apparently was not too oppressive, because she stated "that except for the fact that she must have a companion when she went for a walk, she would have thought herself an honored guest in the house." Weld was an important man in the Colony and the father of Mary (Weld) Harris whose daughter Mary married Isaac Johnson, Jr., a grandson of John Johnson. Captain John Johnson died in 1659, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, aged 69. Mary died in 1655, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, aged 55. Twelve Presidents of the United States number among his descendants. The list of names of his other descendants who held prominent military, civic, social, literary, and educational offices in service of this country would number in the thousands. Descendants of Captain John Johnson who are your notably cousins are: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 41st U.S. Vice President and Governor of New York James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th U.S. Vice President Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of F. W. Woolworth chain of stores Walter Elias 'Walt' Disney, movie and television producer, founder of Walt Disney Studios and Disneyland, pioneer in film animation Jonathan and Susanna had seven children Martin, Charles, Abiah, Susanna, Elihu, Jonathan, and Elisha Smith.