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Elkanah Smith

Male 1758 - 1840  (81 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Elkanah Smith was born on 11 Aug 1758 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA (son of Elkanah Smith and Elizabeth Stevens); died on 26 Mar 1840 in Grafton, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.

    Notes:

    He was a corporal in Captain Robert Crosman's Company of minute-men, Col.
    Nathaniel Leonard's regiment which marched April 20, 1775, in response to
    the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Roxbury; discharged April 29, 1775;
    service, 12 days; also, Sergeant, Capt. Josiah King's Co., Col. David
    Brewer' s 9th Regiment muster roll dated August 1, 1775; also, order for
    bounty coat dated Roxbury Camp, November 6, 1775. Also shown serving
    under Capt. Rufus B arney's Company, Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment;
    service from July 29, 1778 t o September 10 1778 in Rhode Island. He
    served two months under Ens. Corneli us Smith where he marched to Winter
    Hill , between Cambridge and Bunker Hill.
    He was a brick maker in New Britain, Columbia County, New York. He moved
    to Grafton a year after his marriage.
    Facts about this person:
    Burial
    Smith/Eldred Cemetery, Grafton, New York

    Elkanah married Hepsibah Reynolds on 26 Sep 1783 in New Britain, , New York, USA. Hepsibah was born in Sep 1765 in Chatham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Lydia Smith was born about 1784.
    2. Pheobe Smith was born on 11 Jul 1785.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Elkanah Smith was born about 1736 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA (son of Jasiel Smith and Hannah Gachet); died about 1810 in Petersburg, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.

    Elkanah married Elizabeth Stevens on 26 Oct 1757 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth Stevens
    Children:
    1. Prudence Smith
    2. Elizabeth Smith
    3. Shubiah Smith
    4. Lucy Smith
    5. Sybil Smith
    6. Rhoda Smith
    7. 1. Elkanah Smith was born on 11 Aug 1758 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 26 Mar 1840 in Grafton, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.
    8. Eunice Smith was born about 1760.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Jasiel Smith was born about 1703 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA (son of Samuel Smith and Esther Caswell); died in Jun 1757 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.

    Notes:

    Some records indicate that he was Silas Smith. He died of spotted fever.
    During his lifetime he was a blacksmith, and served in the French and
    Indian War.
    From The Smith Manuscript, Reed & Seaver, unpublished 1892, Old Colony
    Historical Society, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. "Jasiel with his
    sons Jasiel Jr., Elkanah, and Cornelius engaged in the French War about
    1754 or 1755. They were out 16 or 18 months and were at the taking of
    Schectady and several other places. In May the father with Cornelius,
    their regiment returning home, but before they landed in Boston, Jasiel
    Sr. was taken ill and was brought home on a horse litter. He got home on
    a Thursday night and died the next Sabbath night. His wife caught the
    distemper, and died 12 days after her husband. The doctors called it
    spotted fever. The following July , the sons Jasiel Jr. and Elkanah came
    home but alas, their parents were gone ."

    Jasiel married Hannah Gachet about 1728 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah was born in 1711 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1755 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Hannah Gachet was born in 1711 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1755 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.
    Children:
    1. Isaac Smith was born in Jul 1729.
    2. Elijah Smith was born about 1731.
    3. Cornelius Smith was born in 1732 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1804 in Pittstown, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.
    4. Jasiel Smith was born on 25 Mar 1734 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Oct 1810 in Turner, Oxford Co, Maine, USA.
    5. 2. Elkanah Smith was born about 1736 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died about 1810 in Petersburg, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.
    6. Abial Smith was born about 1740.
    7. Samuel Smith was born on 17 Apr 1742 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 17 Apr 1827 in Henderson, Jefferson Co, New York, USA; was buried in Henderson, Jefferson Co, New York, USA (Fales Cemetery).
    8. Hannah Smith was born about 1743 in , Dutchess Co, New York, USA; died on 28 Mar 1813 in Pittstown, Rensselaer Co, New York, USA.
    9. Rachel Smith was born about 1744.
    10. Sarah Smith was born about 1746.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Samuel Smith was born on 15 Oct 1666 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA (son of Samuel Smith and Susanna Read); died on 3 Nov 1719 in .

    Notes:

    Samuel Smith was mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Francis Smith,
    in 1679. He also administered upon the estate of his father Samuel. In
    1698 he filed an addendum to the inventory of his father's estate. The
    addition was a one "half share of the old Iron works in" Taunton. This
    half share was divided among his own children twenty years later, after
    his death, which provides a firm link among three generations. Samuel's
    grandfather had bought this share in the iron works in the 1650's.
    Several of Samuel's children sold their shares in their father's estate
    in 1726 to Samuel Pitts. Their mother was mentioned as Esther Fisher,
    thus she had remarried in the eight years since her husband's death. No
    marriage record for Samuel and Esther exists , but she is found as Esther
    Smith, widow of Samuel Smith, selling her rights in her father's, Thomas
    Caswell's, estate in 1722.
    Samuel belonged to the First Foot Company of Taunton and was impressed
    into expeditions against Canada at least twice during the French and
    Indian Wars. The first time was on April 7, 1693. The second time was on
    June 26, 1711 for an ill-fated expedition. The fleet set sail on July 30,
    but one night eight transports were wrecked and one thousand soldiers
    were lost. The remainder of the expedition returned at that time without
    undertaking their mission. Samuel appears on a list of the Military
    Training Company of Taunton on May 30, 1700 under Capt. Thomas Leonard.
    He was also on the list of First Foot Military Company of Taunton in 1710
    under the now Major Leonard.
    Source: Paul Smith
    Samuel's two children by his first wife Rebeckah Hoar, Samuel and Sarah
    were beneficiaries under their grandfather Hezehiah Hoar's will, her
    son's receiving land in Eaton (Taunton North Purchase) and moving there.

    Samuel married Esther Caswell in 1695 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA. Esther was born on 4 Jun 1669 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in Aug 1718 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Esther Caswell was born on 4 Jun 1669 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in Aug 1718 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.
    Children:
    1. Marcy Smith was born in 1696.
    2. Keziah Smith was born in 1698.
    3. 4. Jasiel Smith was born about 1703 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in Jun 1757 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.
    4. Damaris Smith was born about 1706 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.
    5. Benjamin Smith was born about 1707 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.
    6. Esther Smith was born about 1709 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA.