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Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta (Barons of Runnymede). The notes are almost all from printed sources. Research covers Huguenot settlers in Virginia and Quaker and Scots-Irish settlers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The collection also includes genealogical charts and notes compiled by Marie M. Smith and Edith W. Smith.
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James George Smith was a founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Miami College in Ohio from which he graduated in 1840. The letters were written while Smith was on a trip to Florida for reasons of health- tuberculosis. He recovered but died of cholera in 1849.
Letter written December 5, 1862 from Callatin, Tennessee where he was serving in the U.S. Army.
The Constitution of the Emigration Society was formed to assist settlers moving to land north of the Ohio River and in securing clear title to the land. Meeting held at Smith's Chapel, March 27, 1798. Manuscript.
Includes notes on the Smith family of Powhatan County, Virginia and other Smith families, early settlers in Virginia.
Genealogical notes on families: Querrant - Virginia; Richard Thompson - Maryland; Usula Bysshe - Maryland; William Brewster - Massachusetts; Pearce - Massachusetts; Pierce - Virginia and Massachusetts; and Trabue - Virginia. Includes notes on Porter, Harris, Watkins families of Powhatan County, Virginia.
Genealogical notes on families: Bowens - New Jersey and Pennsylvannia; Watkins - Virginia; Hancocks - Virginia; Tygon - New Jersey and Pennsylvannia; Subletts -Pennsylvannia and Ohio; Maxeys - Tennessee; and Whitehills - Pennsylvannia and Ohio. An envelope containing notes and extracts on the Huguenots in the U.S.
Genealogical notes and correspondence relative to Gaddis and McKay families of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia.
Genealogical notes on families: Wormeley - Virginia; Lippincotts - New Jersey and New York; Porter - Virginia; Ridgeway - Pennsylvania and Ohio; Willoughby - General; and Stockton - Shattock - New Jersey.
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Extracts and Notes.
Extracts from printed sources.
Typed and handwritten pages, many from the book "Americans of Gentle Birth and their Ancestors" by Mrs H.D. Pittman published in St Louis 1903.
"A Few Notes on some Historic Ships that came to the New World bearing the People called Quakers to the Colony of New Jersey" with hand written and typed notes. Handwritten and typed pages on "Vermont, the Green Mountain State", "The Mayflower Compact", Governor WIlliam Bradford, Ethan Allen, Thomas Chittenden, and Forebears of Herbert Hoover.
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.