Jacobus in The American Genealogist (hereinafter TAG) 25:126-139 had an article on Richard Smith who was in Withersfield, Conn., by 1669 and died there about 1670 aged about 80. It gives many of his decedents but nothing on his ancestry. The facts given herein tend to show that he was the grandson of Alderman William Smith of Stratford on Avon, co. Warwick, England, and his wife, sister of the Bishop of Winchester.

Master William Smith, the mercer, was called alderman, an office next below Bailiff (Mayor) and members of the Corporation in the royal charter given to Stratford on Avon in 1553. The references now hold that he was the William Smith that in 1553 was the Bridge Warden, maintaining the bridge over the Avon, and was that William Smith who in 1542 was made by Thomas Atwood a trustee of Atwoods house in "Corn Street" along with Master Richard Quiney, son of Adrian who died in 1534, and Master Thomas Whately.

The alderman must not be confused with William Smith, the haberdasher, who lived "in" Henley street, also named in the charter as corporation member, but who was not an alderman and not called "Master." The haberdasher died in 1600. There is no known blood or other relationship between the two William Smiths or their families. The family of the alderman appears to have been in Stratford for a least a generation before the family of the haberdasher. However inasmuch as both families had many Williams, many mercers and aldermen and gentlemen, one cannot escape the feeling that both, perhaps a generation before had a common origin.

In 1552 Sir Richard Catesby, Master William Smith, and two other freeholders were fined four pence each for not attending the local court.

The minute book of the Stratford corporation shows the signature of William Smith, the alderman, written 27 Sept, 1564. As early as 1548 the Alderman owned and lived in "The New House", High Street. There it still stands, numbered 34.

He was a widower with a daughter when he married, as his second wife, Mistress Alice Savage, widow of Richard Savage of Evesham, co Worchester, who died in 1551, and mother of two daughters. She was the daughter of Master Thomas Watson and his wife Agnes Weeks of Bengeworth. Co. Worchester, a few miles west of Stratford, and sister of John Watson, later Bishop of Winchester, and grand-daughter of John Watson and his wife Agnes Young. For these armigetons Watsons see the Visitations of Worchestershire and Gloucestersire.

The Alderman owned seven houses and much other property. His daughter by his first wife married, probably by 1568, and esquire Richard Palmer. Between May and October 1577, the alderman moved to Worchester, leaving his son John, the ironmonger, in The New House. His will was dated 6 December 1578; in 1579 he was buried in Worchester cathedral. His widow's will of 28 April was proved 28 May 1585. (See Water's Gleanings).

Master William Smith employed a tutor to his children, John Bretchgirdle, sometimes written Brace girdle, who in his 1565 will bequeathed books "to William, eldest of Master William Smith." and ti "his brothers Richard, Robert, Thomas and John" (later the ironmonger) who was to have his Latin Sallust.

Child of William Smith, Alderman, and his first wife:

1. A daughter; mar. Richard Palmer, Esq. Of Compton, an overseer of his father-in-law's will of 1578.

Children of William Smith and Alice (Watson) (Savage) Smith.

1. William, "the elder" and eldest son, b. ca. 1553 and so named in the wills of his mother and his uncle, the Bishop.
2. Richard, graduated by Christ Church, Oxford in 1570; Vicar of Warcombe, Isle of Wight. He had a son William. (See Compton Reade's Smith Family, 1902, Bristol, for descendants of William.}
3. Robert, bur. 11 July 1579, Stratford. Probably ill at the date of his father's will in which he is not named.
4. 2. v. John, the ironmonger, b. ca 1557.
5. vi Thomas, Bapt. 11 Nov. 1563; father of a Richard Bapt. 1583/4.
6. vii William, "the younger" called a student in Winchester College in the 1583 will of his uncle, the Bishop of Winchester.
7. viii A daughter, referred to in the Bretchgirdle will.
8. ix A daughter, posthumous, b. ca, 6 April 1579.

References for the above are found in the following works by Edgar I. Ripp, Life Trustee of Shakespeares Birthplace: Shakespeares Stratford, 1928, 85pp., Oxford University Press; Shakespeare's Studies, 1930, 176 pp. (Ibid); Shakespeare, Man and Artist, 1938, 938 pp. (Ibid); and in the Parish Registry of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford.

2. John Smith, the ironmonger, born ca. 1557 in Stratford, co. Warwick. Chamberlain, then Alderman (1600), and Bailiff by 1605 of Stratford on Avon, he lived after his father had moved away, in The New House, High Street, which his father had owned and lived in.

He married 16, January 1591, Alice Walker, bur. 20 April 1633, sister of Henry Walker, Shakespeares friend, mercer of Stratford, church-warden, three times mayor and finally "gentleman", and perhaps granddaughter of Henry Walker of Snittfield, co. Warwick, whose 1558 will was witnessed by Shakespeare's grandfather, Richard Shakespeare. Shakespeare was godfather to Henry Walker's son William.

John's will of 1612, cited in Waters's Gleanings, directed that he be furried in the parish church next to his son Henry. He was buried 27 Dec. 1612.

Children of John and Alice (Walker) Smith, all named in his will:

1. Henry, bapt. 1593; bur. By 1612 in Holy Trinity, Stratford.
2. Thomas, bapt. In October 1594; "my eldest son" in the will.
3. 3. Richard, bapt. 16 Nov. 1595.
4. Alice, bapt. In May 1597.
5. William, bapt. In September 1598.
6. John, bapt. 1599/1600.
7. Margaret, bapt. in January 1601/02
8. Robert, bapt. in August 1604
9. Eliner.

3. Richard Smith was in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1669. Winthrop saw him there and entered in his Journal that Smith was "come 80 years". Eighty is such a round number that Smith must have been somewhere in his seventies. The Richard Smith baptized 16 Nov. 1595 would have entered his seventy-fifth year in November 1669. There was a contempory Richard Smith, baptized 9 Nov. 1593 in Stratford, son of Francis Smith of another family, probably the Richard buried 4 Nov., 1614, as he is not mentioned in the 1623 will of Francis nor the 1633 will of Alice, widow of Francis. (See Walter's Gleanings).

It is here suggested that Richard Smith of Wethersfield was one of the twenty men that George Wyllys, esq., lord of the manor of Fenny Compton, 13 miles east of Stratford, sent ahead to set up his seat in Hartford, Conn. (He himself came in 1636) Both of Wyllys' wives were born in Stratford, the last one, who came with him from Hartford, having been born a Smith. He must have known well the men of little Stratford and their abilities. Reasons were given in 46 TAG, 136-7 for believing that a daughter of Richard Smith of Wethersfield married a half nephew of Governor Wyllys, Richard Harris of Hartford.

All of the eight children of John Smith, the ironmonger, were in their teens or younger when he died. In his will was "Thomas, my eldest son", who received his dwelling house. The younger Richard, born in 1595, was to get only a piece of land, "which I BOUGHT OF Cousin William Smith, son of my brother Richard Smith." Henry Walker, mercer, overseer of the will of Richard's father, may have taken Richard into his home and shop and taught him the arts of a mercer as Richard is called "mercer" some seven or eight years later in the parish register at the baptism of his son "Richard, son of Richard Smith, mercer, --1621".

Jacobus listed the approximate date of birth of the children of Richard Smith of Wethersfield. The baptisms in Stratford of the children of Richard, beginning with Richard baptized in 1621 above, agree with Jocobus to the limits of tolerance allowed by Jocobus "about".

In the 1660's in Wethersfield the wife of Richard Smith was Rebecca (probably Bushwell or Boswell). Note that Winthrop wrote that Samuel Buswell of Salisbury, Mass. Was kin to Rebecca Smith of Hockanum, Conn. This was the above Rebecca. Richard and Rebecca named a son "Samuel" as did their son Richard and Joseph.

Children of Richard Smith of Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, England and Wethersfield, Conn.:

• A daughter b. say 1619; mar. Richard Harris of Hartford who d. There in 1666.
• Richard "born about 1617" (Jacobus) The parish register of the Church of The Holy Trinity, Stratford-on-Avon, records the baptism in 1621 of "Richard, son of Richard Smith the mercer". Richard Smith, weaver, bought land in Pequot (New London), Weaver", was admitted an inhabitant of Wethersfield where his father had been living for years. A man born into a family of mercers, having to do with all aspects of silks and other fine fabrics, might well limit the scope of his calling to weaving in the New England wilderness.
• Samuel, bapt. in Stratford, son of Richard (Parish Register). Nothing further is known of him.
• Susannah, born ca. 1624 (Jacobus).
• Mary, b. ca 1624
• Joseph, bapt. in Stratford in April 1627 "son of Richard Smith, mercer;" bur. 30 May, 1630. (Parish Register)
• Benjamin, bapt. in Nov. 1629 "son of Richard Smith" (Parish Registry); Richard Smith of Wethersfield named a son "Benjamin".
• Joseph , born in say 1629" (Jacobus) Joseph "son of Richard Smith, mercer" was bapt. June 1632 in Stratford-on-Avon . (Parish Register) James Boswell (Buzzell) willed land to his "cousins" Richard and Joseph Smith.

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Born about 1583 in Leicester, England

Died after June 3, 1669 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

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Who was Richard Smith that died c1644?

Biography

I am disconnecting the parents John Smith-3649 and Alice Walker-950 for lack of documentation. Please provide a substantial source before reconnecting these parents.

Revolutionary War descendants:
Asa Smith (1761 CT-1834 IN) m Sarah/Abigail Goodrich (Pension S32528)
Daniel Smith (1722-1814 NY) m Mary & Liz Rich,Mary Blinn
David Smith (1764 CT-1837 VT) m Olive Talcott
Isaac Smith (1735 -1796 CT) m Ruth Hollister

Birth

Born abt 1583.[1][2]

Born abt. 1589, per Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist, Vol. 25, 1949: pg. 126.

'... Richard Smith, b. say 1583 [footnote: Aged "about 84 years" on 2 February 1666/7 ("Medical Records of John Winthrop," Manuscript, 701, ... cited by Harris, "Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith", Register 143:243)], living Wethersfield in 1669 [footnote: See Jacobus, "Richard Smith of Wethersfield", The American Genealogist 25:126, for the 1669 reference to him "come 80 years."].'[3]

Harris, in the Register article cited, indicates that the 1669 entry actually reads 'above 80 y', and uses a birth year of about 1583, based on the 1666/7 reference giving his age as 84.[4]

Rebecca Buswell, christening 23 Apr 1595, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.[5]

Family

In 1949 Donald Lines Jacobus identified the wife of Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut as Rebecca Buswell (TAG 25:126-139). Roderick Bissell Jones, "The English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield," published in NEHGR 128:136-139, identified Richard Smith as the man baptized 16 November 1585 at Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, and traced family relationships for that man. Later Dr. Gale Ion Harris cast doubt on this identification in "The Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut," NEHGR 143:240-246. Thompson's research has confirmed that Richard Smith of Wethersfield was married and had children baptized not at Stratford-on-Avon, but in Husbands Bosworth, co. Leicester, where his wife's family lived. Richard Smith's ancestry remains to be established.[6]

Richard married Rebecca Buswell,[7] daughter of Roger Buswell and Margaret Unknown (Buswell), on 13 Feb 1614/15 in Leicester, Eng.[8][9] (Rebecca Buswell was born in 1593 in Leicester, Eng.[10][11] and died about 1667 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[12])

Marriage 13 Feb 1615/16, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England to Rebecca Buswell.

Smith, Richard (ca 1589-1669+) & Rebecca [?Buswell] (-1667+); b 1617; Wethersfield, CT.[13]

1. Richard Smith, (1616/17 - 1690), c: 1 JAN 1616/1617 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
2. Susanna Smith, (1619 -), c: 30 MAY 1619 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
3. Anne Smith, (1621/22 -), c: 24 FEB 1621/1622 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
4. Joseph Smith, (1625 - abt 1673), c: 25 DEC 1625 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
5. Mary Smith, (1630 - aft 1684), c: 11 DEC 1630 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
6. Rebecca Smith, (1630 -), c: 11 DEC 1630 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
7. Jonathan Smith, (1635 - 1711), c: 4 OCT 1635 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.
8. Abigail Smith, (1637/38 - aft 1683), c: 21 JAN 1637/1638 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England.

Documented events in his life were:

Emigrant Ancestor; 1648; Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[14]

Jury Duty; 15 May 1650; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.[15]

Jury Duty; 5 Sep 1650; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.[16]

Donald Lines Jacobus, “Richard Smith of Wethersfield,” The American Genealogist 25 (1949):126–39, at 128. On 21 February 1652[/3], Richard Smith wrote from Wethersfield to John Winthrop Jr. in New London describing the strange symptoms of “[m]y sons wife Lidia Wright,” who was suffering from an ailment modernly diagnosed as pulmonary echinococcosis (Malcolm Freiberg, ed., Winthrop Papers, Volume VI, 1650–1654 [Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1992], 251–52, note 3). The editor unfortunately followed confused and superseded accounts in Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, 2 vols. (New York: Grafton Press, 1904; repr. Somersworth, N.H.: New England History Press, 1987), 1:299, 2:645, for remarks about the identity of this Richard Smith.

Lawsuit; 14 May 1652; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.[17] Richard Smith plt Contra Georg Woollcott and his wife defendts in an Action of Slaunder to the damage of 100£. In the Action betweene Rich: Smith plt and Geo: Woolcott and his wife defendts the Jury findes for the plt damages 28£ and Costs of Courte: Execution dd the 22th of July 1651.

Marriage - Granted Permission; 26 Aug 1657; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.[18] A Coppy of a Certificate vndr the names of these subscribed: These are to certify to any to whom it may come, that our children John Addams & Abigail Smith haue our full consent to be marryed together, & wee know not engagemt of either party to any other, as wittnesse our hands. Rich: Smith Jer: Addams

Aug 1658, A Petition from several of the inhabitants of Wethersfeild*

• Richd Smith Sen.[19]

Medical; 5 Dec 1658; Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[20] Treated by John Winthrop Jr.: Smith, Richard Sen.

Living

Rebecca Buswell, living Oct 1668, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.[21]

Richard Smith, living 1669, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.[22]

Death: AFT. 3 JUN 1669 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.[23]

Died after 1669 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[24][25]

Sources

George Lathrop Cooley and Clara Elizabeth Hall : their ancestors and descendants by Harl Preslar Aldrich, Jr., 2001. Page 204 on slide; 191 on "paper" page.

The American Geneaolgist Vol 25 Page 126 Article "Richard Smith of Wethersfield"

• Genealogies of Massachusetts Families Vol IV by William Richard Cutter; Page 2349 (This book lists Joseph m Rebecca Dickinson as a descendant. DNA has proven this Joseph was a son of Joseph Smith m Lydia Huit, resided in Hartford, CT.)

• George Lathrop Cooley & Clara Elizabeth Hall. . . Allied Lines from Immgrants Richard Seymour, Richard Smith allied family by Harl Preslar Aldrich, Jr

• The English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Conn., By Roderick Bissel Jones. Article from "The New England Historic Genealogical Register, April 1974, pp. 136-139

• NEHGR Vol. 164, July 2010

Notes

This family is mentioned in "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 4" by William Richard Cutter (Page 2349 & 50).

Also see:
Amer. Genealogist Vol 25 (1949) p.126-139 and Vol 34 (1958) p.159-160
History of MA (post 1904) p. 817-818 online

Images & Documents

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Page 687
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, NEHGS, 2004 - New England, Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters. Page 38, Page 38b, Page 38c.
• Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, Volumes 25-26, D.L. Jacobus, 1949 - Genealogy, pg 126a, pg 126c.

Research Links

• A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford district, 1635-1700, Vol I edited by Charles William Manwaring; page 362

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the ..., Volume 4 page 2349 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams

• History of Ancient Wethersfield, CT Vol I by Sherman W. Adams and Henry R. Stiles; Page 298

• History of Ancient Wethersfield, CT Vol II Sherman W. Adams and Henry R. Stiles

• Thompson, Neil D., "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," NEHGR 158:1 (Jan 2004) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 38.

• Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before 1692 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-62.), 4:129-130.

• Adams, Arthur, "Jeremy Adams of Hartford, Conn., and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR 59:3 (Jul 1905) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 316.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978.), p. 459, Family History Library, 929.273 H135j 1978.

• Harris, Gale Ion, "The Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut," NEHGR 143:3 (Jul 1989) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 244.

• Jones, Roderick Bissell, "Harris-Hamlin-Smith," The American Genealogist 46:3 (Jul 1970), p. 137.

• Harris, Gale Ion, "The First Wife of Ralph Keeler of Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 80:3 (Jul 2005), p. 178.

• Jones, R., TAG 46:3, p. 135.

• Source: S01 Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," Genealogical Publishing Com, Jan 1, 1985 - Reference - 1009 pages, (Google eBook)
• Source: S02 Harris, Gale Ion. The Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul1989), 143:244.
• Source: S03 Thompson, Neil D. Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 2004), 158:38.
• Source: S04 Evelyn Beran, "Sanford-Shulsen Family," 7 NOV 2012, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-shulsen&id=I38819
• Source: S05 J. Devlin, "Descendants of Richard Smith," http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/smith_3.htm
• Source: S06 Ancestors of Harold Monroe Jr. Walden, (Harold Monroe Walden, 30214 Briarcrest Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628-1149, ). Cited by #S05
• Source: S07 Edgar Waterman, Richard Smith of Wethersfield, (The American Genealogist, Vol 25, No 1, Jan 1949, p 126-139). Cited by #S05
• Source: S08 Records of The Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, 1928). Cited by #S05
• Source: S09 John Winthrop, Jr., Winthrop Medical Journal, (Transcribed from microfilms of the original by Pam; on line at http://www.pamsgenealogy.net/SS/Winthrop.htm [9 Nov 2000, link updated 23 Aug 2013]). p 334. Cited by #S05
• Source: S10 Ancestors of Corey Ryan Spangler, (David Christian Beck~ 10445 Bonneville Street~ Riverside, California 92505 ). Cited by #S05
• Source: S11 John Winthrop, Jr., Winthrop Medical Journal, (Transcribed from microfilms of the original by Pam; on line at http://www.pamsgenealogy.net/SS/Winthrop.htm [9 Nov 2000, link updated 23 Aug 2013]). p 326. Cited by #S05
• Source: S12 Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 25 [1949], Page: 126
• Source: S13 The public records of the Colony of Connecticut ... transcribed and published, (in accordance with a resolution of the General assembly) ... Published 1850 by Brown & Parsons. in Hartford. Covers years 1636-1776. Vols. 1-3 edited by J. H. Trumbull; v. 4-15, by C. J. Hoadly. archive.org

Foot Notes

1. ↑ Source: #S02 Harris, Gale Ion. "The Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield," (NEHGS, Jul 1989), 143:244. mrl
2. ↑ Source: #S03 Thompson, Neil D. "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," (NEHGS, Jan 2004), 158:38. mrl
3. ↑ Source: #S03 Thompson, Neil D. "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," (NEHGS, Jan 2004), 158:38. mrl
4. ↑ Source: #S03 Thompson, Neil D. "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," (NEHGS, Jan 2004), 158:38. mrl
5. ↑ Source: #S03 Thompson, Neil D. "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," (NEHGS, Jan 2004), 158:38. mrl
6. ↑ Source: #S04 Evelyn Beran, "Sanford-Shulsen Family". mrl
7. ↑ Source: #S10 Ancestors of Corey Ryan Spangler, (David Christian Beck~ 10445 Bonneville Street~ Riverside, California 92505 ). mrl
8. ↑ Source: #S06 Ancestors of Harold Monroe Jr. Walden, (Harold Monroe Walden, 30214 Briarcrest Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628-1149, ). mrl
9. ↑ Source: #S07 Edgar Waterman, Richard Smith of Wethersfield, (The American Genealogist, Vol 25, No 1, Jan 1949, p 126-139). mrl
10. ↑ Source: #S06 Ancestors of Harold Monroe Jr. Walden, (Harold Monroe Walden, 30214 Briarcrest Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628-1149, ). mrl
11. ↑ Source: #S10 Ancestors of Corey Ryan Spangler, (David Christian Beck~ 10445 Bonneville Street~ Riverside, California 92505 ). mrl
12. ↑ Source: #S10 Ancestors of Corey Ryan Spangler, (David Christian Beck~ 10445 Bonneville Street~ Riverside, California 92505 ). mrl
13. ↑ Source: #S01 "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," pg 687. mrl
14. ↑ Source: #S05 J. Devlin, "Descendants of Richard Smith," http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/smith_3.htm mrl
15. ↑ Source: #S08 Records of The Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, 1928). p 82. mrl
16. ↑ Source: #S08 Records of The Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, 1928). p 86. mrl
17. ↑ Source: #S08 Records of The Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, 1928). p 99-100. mrl
18. ↑ Source: #S08 Records of The Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, 1928). p 182. mrl
19. ↑ Source: #S13 "The public records of the Colony of Connecticut ... " page 319. mrl
20. ↑ Source: #S09 John Winthrop, Jr., Winthrop Medical Journal, (Transcribed from microfilms of the original by Pam; on line at http://www.pamsgenealogy.net/SS/Winthrop.htm [9 Nov 2000]). p 334. mrl
21. ↑ Source: #S03 Thompson, Neil D. "Isaac Buswell and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Husbands Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and New England," (NEHGS, Jan 2004), 158:38. mrl
22. ↑ Source: #S02 Harris, Gale Ion. "The Doubtful English Ancestry of Richard Smith of Wethersfield," (NEHGS, Jul 1989), 143:244. mrl
23. ↑ Source: #S12 Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 25 [1949], Page: 126. mrl
24. ↑ Source: #S06 Ancestors of Harold Monroe Jr. Walden, (Harold Monroe Walden, 30214 Briarcrest Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628-1149, ). mrl
25. ↑ Source: #S07 Edgar Waterman, Richard Smith of Wethersfield, (The American Genealogist, Vol 25, No 1, Jan 1949, p 126-139). mrl