Smith Official DNA & One Name Study

This is one of 2 main groups that claims descent from Nicholas Smith m Elizabeth Flood of Surry Co VA. Nicholas named, among others, two sons, William and Lawrence. One YDNA tester has a very strong paper trail line from Lawrence born 1797 VA that includes a son named Flood Smith. Locations include Brunswick Co, VA.Another matching tester is a descendant of Edward Smith m Dorothy Hardeman Owen. This line found in Oglethorpe Co GA. The third member in this line has a Lawrence that may be from Cumberland Co VA.

The conflict here is that the group that has tested for Nicholas Smith/E Flood has a YDNA haplogroup of R-M269 and the one for Edward, George, Lawrence, etc are I-M223. The people in the group below are I-M223, so there is definitely NO match with the people who have done YDNA testing and have R-M269. 

We would like to have additional Smith YDNA testers to prove this line, including any and all male Smith descendants from lines that were in 1820, 1830, 1840 Upson Co GA and Ogletree Co GA, as well as Wake Co NC.

Lines and Locations: Nicholas Smith is said to have had the following chldren, per will.

• Nicholas Smith b 1682 d 1730 Westmoreland Co VA - no specific YDNA tester for this line.Note that he has a son Peter of Westmoreland Co VA. There is another distinct DNA group that lays claim to Peter Smith of Westmoreland, Haplogroup J-M172  
• John Smith b 1685 m Mary Price: Children: Arthur Smith, John Smith-no specific YDNA tester for this line
• William Smith b 1695 d 1750 m Ann Isham- Children mentioned in will
  • Josiah Smith b 1728 Sussex Co VA YDNA tester for this line- R-M269 haplogroup. 
  • Cuthbert Smith b 1720 Surry Co VA. Descendants in Jones Co GA, Oglethorpe Co GA, Talbot Co GA -Possible I-223 haplogroup 
  • William Smith b 1730 Surry Co VA-No YDNA tester for this line. 
  • Isham Smith d 1795 Sussex Co VA No YDNA tester for this line.
  • Sarah Smith
  • Lucy Smith
  • Susannah Smith b 1737
• Lawrence Smith b 1687 Surry Co VA d 1746 Isle of Wight VA. -Son Flood Smith to Northampton Co and Wake Co NC. (There is a YDNA tester in this group for Lawrence Smith m Caroline Gardner.  If R-M269, not the same;  this second Lawrence Smith d in Lamar Co GA) 
• Mary

In this I-M22

• George Smith b 1821 Fentress TN (there is not a George listed in Nicholas Smith will) 

In order to help resolve this, looking for YDNA testers that are  from Cuthbert, Frederick and Lawrence. Meantime, the Edward and Lawrence in GA's ancestry is Virginia but needs the county to be proven

James M Smith b 1810 GA (or SC) Descendants in Lee MS, Itawamba MS

James M Smith that our DNA traces back to the surname RAINEY/RANEY. My YDNA matched folks with the last name RAINEY/RANEY. as did a 3rd cousin on a different branch from James M. Smith our progenitor. We determined that there was surname change event that occurred with James M Smith or prior to him, which no one has any info on him prior to 1840. and believe all the records were destroyed in Georgia because of the Civil War. Rainey researchers have not been helpful as they cannot find any possible links between our James M Smith and any of their Raineys/ Raneys in the geogrpahical area during his timeline.

Andrew Smith b 1648 Bristol MA m Mary Bundy. Descendants in Taunton MA Also Joseph Smith b bef 1740 Putney, VT, Eliab Smith b c 1750 of Kennebec Maine

John Smith b c 1619 Hertfordshire ENG d 1684 New Haven CT; Zera Smith Brookfield, Fairfield CT, Chauncey Smith b 1797 Cornwall, Litchfield CT, George Smith b 1618 West Haven CT.

Nehemiah Smith b England m Sarah Bourne

Also Jedediah Smith b New london CT. Descendants in Sherman, NY, an Deerfield MI

Locations: New york, Clinton County, PA; Harford County, MD; Colchester, New London CT; Pittstown, Luzerne, PA; Ontario, NY; Lyme, New London, CT; Chautauqua Co, NY; Crawford Co PA; Lenawee, MI.

Yost Smith b before 1760 GER went to Washington MD. Descendants in Carroll OH. Also Elias Smith b c 1813 MD; descendants in Carroll IL 

John Smith b 1735 VA; Joseph Smith b 1780 VA; Joseph Smith b 1839 Indiana

John Smith b c 1756 CT m Lucy Rowe

James Atwell Smith b 1841 AL, Isaac Smith b 1801 VA -

Roy Chester Smith

David Demoret Smith b 1800 UNK

VA/KY- Adam Smith b 1740 VA m E Moore; Ezekiel Smith b 1772 Mercer KY 

Elijah Smith 1761-1852 Smithfield RI

Unknown Smith m Sarah Strickland
William Marcus Smith b 1869 IL m Ella Shugart
Robert Smith 1797-1865

Joshua Smith b 1828 PA ; William Smith b 1837 OH