Stephen Smith Genealogy

STEPHEN SMITH, born , died 1760; married Dec. 28, 1736, Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Haines) Preston. Their children were:

1. JOHN, b. May I8, 1738.
2. STEPHEN, b. June 19, 1739.
3. MARY, b. July 25, 1741.
4. PETER, b. July 28, 1743.
5. JAMES, b. June 6, 1744.
6. BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 25, 174S
7. PEABODY, b. July 27, 1749.
8. SARAH, b. Dec. 11, 1751.
9. MEHITABLE, b. Nov. 3, 1754.

Nearly all of these children were baptized in the 2d parish of Windham, showing nearly twenty years of continued residence there, perhaps until the death of the father, Stephen, in 1760, and Mary, the wife, who died April 13, 1766.

The parentage of Stephen Smith has not been discovered. Being a tanner by trade, and not having lands deeded to him by his father or others, this means of tracing his origin is cut off. It seems probable that he went to Windham from some part of Essex Co., Mass. His associates and neighbors were many of them from that section, from Andover or Salem, which was also then true of Pomfret, upon the borders of which was situated the 2d parish of Windham.