This tree is a work in progress. I will correct it when I can with sources. Primarily, I’m hoping that publishing this will get the names into to the search engines. Please let me know if you find a mistake.
The earliest record I can find for my Smith line is the will of Robert Smith of St. Matthew’s Parish in Orange County, North Carolina.
Here is an abstract of it taken from “Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800”.
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A-121 Will of ROBERT SMITH, of St. Mathew’s Parish.
Dated 20 June 1772, no probate date.
Wife: Mary sons: John, Andrew, Robert
daus: Elizabeth, Mary, Isabel
Executors: Jospeh McCaffrity, and son William.
Witnesses: John Walker, Robert Chassen
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I am also working from the analysis of Gerald W. Meade
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-101473
I still feel there are multiple Andrew Smiths getting bundled together in this research. I feel yDNA may be able to sort them all out.
According to old Robert’s will, our Andrew Smith would have had:
brothers:
– had a neice Sarah K. (Beard?) Maxwell (was a sister to Richard Beard)
– Robert Smith (executor of estate for his grand-uncle William, Andrew’s brother)
– Ann Smith (married Daniel F Sherwood V) (d. in Washington Co, IN)
sisters:
Mary (married James McMunn, lived on Back Creek next to our Andrew Smith)
– Sarah K. Beard married Logan Maxwell
Jane (married James Guthrie, lived in Sumner Co, TN, both said to have died before 1862)
Isabell (can find no info for her)
Speculated:
William Smith (will dated 4 Sept 1779, proved 4 Sept 1783) (possibly a brother of old Robert?)
– Ann
If you see anything that contradicts a secondary record, let me know.
