Capt. William Smith

William Smith

• Birth: 1680 Gloucester County Virginia, USA
• Death: Jun., 1734 Spotsylvania County Virginia, USA

Disputed Origins

Col. Lawrence Smith & Mary Smith

His parents were NOT Major Lawrence Smith and Mary Dedman of Virginia

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-12082

William Smith was born about 1680 and died in June 1734.[1]

He married Elizabeth Ballard and they had six children:[2]

1. Thomas Ballard/ m. Anne Meriwether[2]
2. Susanna (Mrs Joseph Fox)[2]
3. Katherine (Mrs Richard Philips)[2]
4. John[2]
5. Francis/ m. Elizabeth Waddy[2]
6. William[3][4][5]

Research Notes

1708/9/24, Smith, William of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester to Honble John Smith, his brother of same, in consideration of a tract of land surveyed in 2 parts for Robert Todd & Francis Simmons by Lawrence Smith dc’d the surveyor on 20 Mar 1883/4 [1683/4?] containing 240 A at Tindall’s point...p.303. Records of Colonial Gloucester, pg 117.

Estimated Birth Year: Had been 1687, perhaps based on the 1708 land transaction (he would have had to be "of age", i.e., 21). His FindAGrave memorial has 1680, but no source, and no apparent source for wife born 1687 and son Francis born 1705.

From Spotsylvania County Records[6]

• 2 Jul 1734, £500 Richard Phillips, admr. of William Smith, gent., decd., with Edwin Hickman and John Holloday, securities.[6]
• 6 Aug 1734, Thomas Ballard Smith, son and heir of William Smith, Gent ., of Spotsylvania Co., Dec'd., to Richard Phillips of afsd. Co. £20 curr., interest in plantation in St. George's Par., Spotsylvania Co.— pat. by Wm. Smith, Dec'd., afsd., Oct. 31, 1726, and conveyed by him to Phillips as by Deeds, etc. witnesses: Edwin Hickman, Wm. Waller, Edward Blackley.[6]
• 3 Aug 1767, John Davenport of Spotsylvania Co. and Mary, his wife, and George Lumsden of Louisa, to Andrew Cochrane, Wm. Cunninghame, John Stewart & Co. of City of Glasgow, Merchants, £120 curr. to sd. Davenport and wife and £0/5 to sd. Lumsden, 320 acres in Spotsylvania Co., first granted Wm. Smith by pat. and the sd. Smith, dying intestate the tract descended to Thomas Ballard Smith, his eldest son and heir at law, who, together with Richard Phillips, conveyed the sd. land, by Deeds, 24 Sep 1734, to George Woodruff, and by the sd. Woodruff conveyed to Henry Pendleton, who conveyed the same to John Davenport. No witnesses.[6]

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References

• http://www.smithsworldwide.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I42763&tr...
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ja7smith/family/1600s_Direct.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61410114 "His parents were Major Lawrence Smith and Mary Dedman of Virginia. Spouse Elizabeth Ballard Smith 1687–1745 (m. 1704) (unsourced data)
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2658...
• Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. V, from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
• WikiTree contributors, "William Smith Sr. (1680-1734)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-12082 : accessed 04 February 2025).
• Thomas Ballard (born c. 1695) of York County who took a patent on 28 September 1728 for 330 acres of new land in Spotylsvania County in St. George’s Parish, on the North side of the Northanna River & on the South side of the Main Road; adjacent Mr. Augustin Moore, in the County line. Patent Book No. 13, p. 452. It’s worth noting that the very next patent recorded after this one was by a “William Smith, Jr” of Spotylvania County, who may have been a relation of Elizabeth Ballard’s husband.
• ↑ Septr. 3, 1759. Henry Lyne, of King and Queen Co., Gent., and Lucy, his wife, to William Smith of Spts. Co., Gent. £215 curr. 1075 a. in Spts. Co. William Harris, Robt. Harris, Miles Kanty. Octr. 1, 1759. https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books20...
• ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania County, 1721-1800: being transcriptions, from the original files at the county court house, of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of Revolutionary pensioners, William Armstrong Crozier ed., Fox, Duffield, & Co., New York, 1905.
• p. 56: Administrator bond of Phillips for William Smith estate
• p. 134: Deed Book C, Thomas Smith to Richard Phillips
• p. 257: Deed Book G, John Davenport et al. to Glasgow merchants
• Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1 By Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneological Magazine pg 726
• The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 9, "Families of Smith." ref page 42 (Published 1900-07-01; accessed 4 Jan 2018 by H. Kleine). https://archive.org/details/jstor-1914845
• "The Wyatt Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Ser. 1, Vol. 10, No. 4 (July 1903). See Thomas Ballard Smith's will abstract at Note a, pp 263-264; see also page 261 (archive.org copy, accessed 12 February 2022)