Name origin: The most common of all surnames as it was applied to artificers in wood as well as metal, in fact to all mechanical workers, hence its great frequency. Among the Highlands of Scotland the smith ranked third in dignity to the chief from his skill in fabricating military weapons and his dexterity in teaching the use of them. In Wales there were three sciences which a tenant could not teach his son without the consent of his lord, Scholarship, Bardism, and Smithcraft. The latter was one of the liberal sciences and the term was more comprehensive; different branches of knowledge were united in the profession which are now practiced separately, such as raising the ore, converting it into metal, etc.
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b.ca.1550 Caister On Sea, Norfolk, England
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Ref: That Man Eastman by Charles John Eastman, 1952
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m.Jonna ________ (Mayo?)
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From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: THOMAS, resident Ipswich, Mass., 1641.
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m.(1)Oct. 20, 1720 at Eastham, MA Thankful Paine
m.(2)Sept. 15, 1722 Pricilla Higgins
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NOTE: If marriage dates for Jonathan are correct, Thankful would be the daughter of Pricilla Higgins, not Thankful Paine.
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Research NOTES: (1) An Elizabeth Smith was christened 21 Oct 1756 in Halifax, N.S. d/o John and Martha Smith
(2) An Elizabeth Smith b.April 25, 1756 Lunenburg N.S. d/o Edward and Elizabeth Smith
Will of Elizabeth Knowlton of Deer Isle: [from a very faint photocopy-HAW] widow in good health & sound mind. When my brother Samuel Smith, late of Boston, deceased, willed me +++ use of interest of $5,00.00 with the right and power to dipose of s/d sum by will do declare === after my decease to dispose of sum as follows++++ to my sons Robert and Joseph $750.00 each. My other chdr. Elizabeth Hamilton, Jane (Curtis?), Sally Smith, Benjamin Knowlton, and Nancy Merrithew $700.00 each. lc everything else to sons Robt. & Joseph equally. Robt. executor. Done at Castine Aug. 2, 1815 her Elizabeth Knowlton -(s) mark. Wit. David Howe, Tho. E. Hale and Peter Robinson. Oct. 16, 1817 Codicil: Wants all debts and funeral chgs pd first before division of the brother Samuel Smith's property. That division made made of amounts to chdn in proportion as made in will. Oct. 16, 1817 her Elizabeth Knowlton mark. p.159 Probated 1st Wednesday March 1843, she late of D. Isle, by Robt. Knowlton.
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mother: Catherine _______ (Smith?)
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