Philip Smith1

#10131, (circa 1632 - 10 January 1685)
Relationship8th great-granduncle of William David Lewis
Father*Lieut. Samuel Smith1 (c 1601 - b 1680/81)
Mother*Elizabeth Smith1 (c 1602 - 1685)

Family

Rebecca Foote b. c 1634
Birth*circa 1632He was born circa 1632 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, EnglandG.1,2 
BaptismNovember 1632He was baptized in November 1632 at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk, EnglandG.1 
30 April 1634He accompanied Lieut. Samuel Smith and Elizabeth Smith on 30 April 1634 from Ipswich, England, on the Elizabeth to Watertown, Massachusetts, age 1.1,3,4 
1635He removed with Lieut. Samuel Smith and Elizabeth Smith to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1635.5 
Marriage*before 1660He married Rebecca Foote, daughter of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming, before 1660.6 
Death*10 January 1685He died on 10 January 1685.7 

Citations

  1. [S944] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield", The American Genealogist 32 (Oct. 1956).
  2. [S165] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, four volumes (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), IV:131, citing the custom house record of their voyage on the Elizabeth in 1634 (age 1).
  3. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), VI:396, citing Hotten 280, 282; Elizabeth as "his wife, aged 32."
  4. [S165] James Savage, First Settlers of New England, IV:131, citing the custom house record of their voyage on the Elizabeth in 1634.
  5. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:396.
  6. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, VI:400–01.
  7. [S947] Abram W. Foote, Foote Family (Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press—The Tuttle Company, 1907), I:25. Quotes Cottan Mather saying that Philip Smith was "murdered with an hideous witchcraft.". Hereinafter cited as Foote Family.