Smith

compiled and copyright by MJP Grundy, 2002
Nicotiana tabacum, from Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People
(Phila.: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885), 9:462.

Among the multiplicity of Smiths, this web page seeks only to explore the history of the Smith ancestors of Eleanor Addison Smith (1752-1798) who married John Robert Holliday in ca. 1778. She was a fifth generation Marylander.

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To see the sources click on the bracketted number that is linked to the note. Citations and notes can be found at the bottom of this page.

Immigrant Generation

Richard Smith ¹, Gent., was born in England and trained at the Inns of Court in London.[1] He emigrated to Maryland in February 1649, the year Charles I lost his head and the royalist cause seemed lost. He brought his wife Elinor over in August 1651, and died probably around 1690.[2] Richard first appeared in the real estate records of Maryland on 7 October 1662 when he entered rights for himself as of February 1649, and his wife Elinor for August 1651.[3]

The dwelling plantation of Richard and Elinor, "St. Leonard's" was on St. Leonard's Creek where it meets the Patuxent, in Calvert County. The area is now the Jefferson Patterson Park, and this air view is from their web page. The Patuxent is across the bottom of the photo. Richard purchased the land from Governor William STONE in 1658. It is one of the finest sites in Maryland. Richard also owned land in the neighborhood of Lyon's Creek.[4]

He and Elinor appeared again in the records when they conveyed some land in 1665. On 18 February 1671 Richard sued James VEITCH about a tract of land called "Smith's Joy" which Richard and Elinor had conveyed to James 18 January 1664/5.[5]

By 1666 Richard owned about 1,125 acres in Calvert County. By 1690 he had at least 1,690 acres, and probably a great deal more.[6]

Richard was a lawyer as well as a planter, and his name frequently appeared in the Provincial Court records. He was commissioned Attorney General of the Province 28 September 1657, holding office under Fendall's administration until 1660. This made him the first Attorney General, because before that the Attorney General's function was performed by the Secretary of the Province. Cecil CALVERT, the Lord Proprietor, wrote that any councillor guilty of excessive drunkenness should be suspended from office. As Attorney General, Richard brought an accusation that Thomas GERRARD, Lord of St. Clement's Manor, "to the great offense of Almighty God, dishonor to his Lordship and the whole Council, hath divers times misbehaved himself and offended in drunkenness and lewd behavior." Witnesses were brought to attest to an incident on board a vessel in the St. George's River [now the St. Mary's River]. Gerrard asked for permission to answer the charges at the next meeting, which was granted. He then submitted "a long declaration of his former merits and sufferings". The issue was tabled quietly and Gerrard resumed his seat. However, his precious honor had been impugned, so Gerrard appealed to Calvert that it was unsatisfactory to sit while a "blemish" appeared on his reputation, and he wanted "some reparation to his honour." Calvert agreed that there should be a full investigation and he should either be acquitted or censured. The investigation was never completed, however, because Gerrard became involved in the rebellion of Josias FENDALL. In the end the Proprietor did not demand the death penalty, and the old boy network over-ruled the confiscation of Gerrard's estates and his banishment from the province. Instead he was barred from holding office and giving "a recognizance for his good behaviour".[7]

Since he was called "Lieutenant Richard Smith", he was apparently in the Provincial or County militia, as were most gentlemen in the colonial period.[7a]

Richard was of the Cavalier class, and the family he established was among the most aristocratic of Calvert County. He was always loyal to Lord Baltimore against the Puritans. He was among 43 men from the puritan settlement who, along with Governor William STONE, three Councilmen (including Thomas HATTON) and eight Burgesses, signed a declaration that Protestant inhabitants did in fact enjoy freedom and liberty in the Province and none were troubled or molested. On 10 April 1658 Richard was elected one of the Burgesses for Calvert County. He wasn't returned the next year, probably reflecting the political turmoil back in England as the Commonwealth unravelled, but did represent the County from April 1661 until 1667, mirroring the sea change in politics in England following the restoration of the Stuart monarchy.[8]

In 1665 he served as Foreman of the Grand Jury of the Province. But when he was summoned as a juror in February 1671 he did not appear and was fined 500 lbs. of tobacco.[9]

Elinor was one of the women of Calvert County who petitioned the Provincial Court on 18 December 1669 for a respite of the sentence of a woman convicted of child murder for concealing the birth of her child. The petition was granted until the following 18 October.[10] This is the only instance I have found of one of our colonial Maryland female ancestors involving herself in "public" affairs. I would like to know more about the case.

In November 1683 an act was passed establishing a port on Richard's land at St. Leonard's Creek.[11] Most large planters had their own wharves for shipping casks of tobacco and receiving imported goods from Great Britain. But to have his wharf elevated into a port indicated both considerable economic and political clout, and the opportunity to acquire more. It also points to the favorable geographic position he held.

Richard probably died not long after 1689, when his son was referred to as Richard Smith, Junior. From 13 July 1689 through 14 June 1692 there are no testamentary records, due to the repercussions in Maryland of the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain. It is also possible that Richard died suddenly and left no will.[12]

Children of Richard and his wife Elinor Smith (probably incomplete, order uncertain):

1. Capt. Richard Smith², d. 1714; m (1) Elizabeth BROOKE (b. 1655), daughter of Robert Brooke (1602-1655); m (2) 1686 Barbara MORGAN, daughter of Henry Morgan (ca. 1611-1663) and widow of John ROUSBY (d. 1685/6) of Calvert Co.; m (3) 1697 Maria Johanna (Somerset) LOWTHER, daughter of Charles SOMERSET, Esq. of Acton Park, Middlesex, Eng., and widow of Col. Lowther. Richard was Capt. of the Calvert Co. Militia; he was nearly the only Protestant Militia officer to support Lord Baltimore during the Revolution of 1689. Taken prisoner and held a long time, he was released through the efforts of his second wife Barbara, who went to England on his behalf and gave testimony in London. Richard was Surveyor-General of Maryland 1693-97 or 1695-99. Lord Baltimore gave him land, including 2,500 ac. "The Valley of Jehoshaphat", now known as Dulany Valley, north of Baltimore City. He had 5,000 ac. "The Remain of My Lord's Gracious Grant" surveyed on 11 Jan. 1696, and 408 ac. "Smith's Purchase" on 26 June 1696, both in Calvert Co. In Balt. Co. tax lists of 1700, 1701 and 1702 he is enumerated on the North side of Gunpowder Hundred. Richard had children by all 3 wives.[13]


2. Col. Walter Smith, d. 1711; m. 1686 Rachel Hall.

Second Generation

Walter Smith² was the younger son of Richard and Elinor. He died in 1711. In 1686 he married the 16-year old Rachel HALL, the daughter of Richard Hall of Calvert County, Maryland, born in 1670. They lived at "Hall's Croft", or "Craft", a very large plantation near Lower Marlborough in Calvert County. Some sources think that it probably was Rachel's dowry. Effie Gwynn Bowie, however, seems to have documents showing that "Hall's Craft" was originally patented to Richard Hall, who sold it to Richard Smith, Attorney General. He, in turn, willed or gave it to his son, Col. William Smith, who married Rachel, daughter of Richard Hall. Rachel inherited a 300-acre tract named "Aldermason" from her father.[14]]

Rachel was raised a Quaker; Walter was Anglican. He was a member of All Saints' Parish, Calvert County, from the time of its formation in 1692. That was the year of the Protestant coup in Maryland. The parish was established by authority of the British crown, one of the first Anglican churches in Maryland. A baptismal font was sent over from England in 1735. The present All Saints Church was built in 1774, at the intersection of routes 2 and 4, at 100 Lower Marlboro Road in Sunderland. It is not the building that our ancestors would have known.[15]]

Walter, like most wealthy young men, was commissioned an officer in the local militia. In 1689 he was Captain of the "foot cavalry" in the Calvert County militia. Much later, he became Major, and in 1706 was made a Colonel.[16] But first, politics interfered with the smooth ascent of his career.

The "Glorious Revolution" of 1689 swept the Stuarts off the throne of England and replaced them with William and Mary, by grace of Parliament. Since the Catholic Calvert family was closely identified with James II, events in England provided the excuse for Protestants to move against the Proprietary of Maryland. Those whose political fortunes were tied to Lord Baltimore, were voluntarily or involuntarily retired and eclipsed. Capt. John COODE and Col. JOWLES of the Protestant Associators, arrived in the Smith's neighborhood with an armed group, seized the local magazine and arsenal, then went on to capture St. Mary's City and the government records. When Calvert County refused to participate in the elections Coode tried to hold, Col Jowles finally held his own fraudulent election, returning Jowles and Maj. Ninian BEALE as delegates to the Assembly. Walter's brother, Capt. Richard Smith, was arrested when he protested, and to prevent him from going to England to report on events. Richard's wife Barbara then sailed to England where 30 December 1689 she testified to the situation in Maryland and eventually secured her husband's release. [17]

The situation had calmed down sufficiently by 16 May 1694 for Walter to be commissioned one of the Justices for Calvert County. It was renewed 16 October. He was added to the Quorum 10 July 1696, and was named Presiding Justice of the County 10 May 1699.[18]]

Walter's political career advanced in 1696 when he was elected to the Assembly from Calvert County. He served as a representative until 1704 and again from 1708 to 1711. In June 1697 he was named by the Assembly as one of the commissioners to treat with the Piscataway Indians.[19]

His political leaning was presumably Jacobite, and one day at his home he, his brother Richard, and Benjamin HALL proposed a toast to the health of James II, whom Parliament had replaced with William and Mary in 1689. Two guests refused to join in, and expressed their displeasure "by telling those persons that did so that they were a parcell of Rogues and deserting their Company." Complaint was made against the hosts, and the three were brought before the Council Board in July 1698. Each Smith brother was ordered to give £2,000 security, and Benjamin Hall £1,000 to appear at the next Provincial Court "to answer what should be objected against them."[20] I have not learned what happened next; it seems likely that the charge was dropped.

After 1706 Walter styled himself Colonel. The Assembly appointed Col. Walter Smith and his brother Capt. Richard Smith in April 1706 to a commission to lay out towns and ports in Calvert County.[21]

Walter had 500 acre "Bear Neck" surveyed on 10 October 1694 in Baltimore County.[22] He and Rachel owned at least 3,500 acres in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Calvert Counties by 1696, of which 700 may have been Rachel's dowry, and another 300 her inheritance from her father.[23]

Walter was a member of the established Church of England, as mentioned above. He was elected a vestryman of All Saints parish in Calvert County when the parish was organized on 7 February 1692/3. He held the position for the rest of his life. The last vestry meeting he attended was 2 April 1711.[24]

Walter Smith died shortly after that last meeting. His will had been signed 16 February 1710/1 and was proved 4 June 1711. His estate was inventoried with a value of £1,612.5.8, including 19 slaves, a sloop, and more than 2,600 acres in three counties. He also had some outstanding debts, so the final balance came to £1,439.2.8. The home plantation, "Hall's Craft", was divided between his sons Walter and Richard, with the latter getting 550 acres of it, and the former getting the residue of all the land. Daughters Rebecca and Elizabeth divided 300 acre "Aldermason" and 113 acre "The Addition". Daughter Mary received 250 acres of "The Three Sisters" in Prince George's County while daughters Elinor and Ann evenly divided the 500 acre "Bare [sic] Neck" on the falls of the Gunpowder River in Baltimore County. Daughter Lucy was left only £8 because she had already received her portion. His wife Rachel was named executrix, and received one third of the personalty. She was put in charge of the minor children, the boys to be considered adult at 20 and the girls at 16.[25]

Although Walter did not live long enough to oversee the marriages of all his daughters, they did very well. The daughters connected many of the wealthy families of Maryland. They were all Anglican, representing the establishment. The eldest, Lucy, married Thomas Brooke (1683-1744), son of our Thomas Brooke (ca. 1659-1730/1), Anglican, who represented the dominant family in Calvert County. Second daughter, Elinor, became the second wife of our Col. Thomas Addison, Anglican and rising power in Prince George's County. Third daughter, Anne, married first Francis Wilkinson, and second, Thomas Truman GREENFIELD, of a rising family in Prince George's County. Fourth daughter, Rebecca, was the second wife of Daniel DULANY, raised Catholic but became Anglican; he was a planter, moneylender, slave trader and invested in iron works. By 1722 sons-in-law Addison, Brooke, Dulany along with Col. William HOLLAND were land commissioners for Prince George's County which gave them considerable power as well as unusual opportunities for land speculation and investment.[26]

Rachel died 28 October 1730, in the sixtieth year of her age, and was buried 6 November. Her will was dated 28 October 1730 and proved 3 February 1730/1.[27]

Children of Walter and his wife Rachel (Hall) Smith (order uncertain):

1. Lucy Smith³, b. 1688; d. 15 Apr. 1770; m. 9 May 1705 Thomas BROOKE⁴ (1683-1744), son of Thomas³ and his first wife, Ann. We are descended from Thomas⁴'s half-sister Mary who m. Patrick Sim. See Brooke Line.


2. Elinor Smith, b. 1690; d. 19 Jan. 1761; m. 7 June 1709, as the second wife of Col. Thomas ADDISON of Prince George's Co. We are descended from him and his first wife, Elizabeth (TASKER) Addison. In her will dated 17/12/1759 she left her son Thomas Addison land and Negroes; she bequeathed a mourning ring and a guinea to each of her grandson Addison MURDOCK, her daughter Eleanor HALL, and her daughter Catherine [sic: Christian] SIM; a silver tea pot went to daughter Ann MURDOCK; Negro human beings to sons John and Henry Addison. She also mentioned grand children Eleanor Addison, Ann Addision, Anthony Addison, Daniel Dulany Addison, and Eleanor Addison daughter of Henry; and also her sister Elizabeth BALL. Her three sons were named executors. Elinor's son Henry married his first cousin, Elinor's sister Rebecca's daughter, Rachel DULANY.[28]


3. Walter Smith of Hall's Croft, b. ca. 1692; d. 1734; m. Susanna BROOKE, daughter of Clement Brooke and Jane (SEWALL) Brooke. He refused to take the oath required of vestrymen (All Saints' Parish) 16 Apr. 1716, but did so on 6 May 1729. He was elected to the lower house of the Md. Assembly; served as High Sheriff of Calvert Co. 1725; justice of Calvert Co. from 1725 until his death. In his will (signed 22 Mar. 1731, pr. 13 Mar. 1733) he passed "Hall's Craft" that had been his mother's to his son Walter.[29] Susanna m(2) Hyde HOXTON, whom she outlived, dying in 1767.[30]


4. Ann or Anne Smith, b. ca. 1694; d. 1759; m. (1) Francis WILKINSON (he d. 22 Feb. 1724/5); m. (2) 5 Aug. 1725 as his second wife, Col. Thomas Truman GREENFIELD (1682-1733) of Prince George's Co. Francis was the son of William (d. 1726) and Rebecca, who had emigrated by 1696 to Charles Co. William Wilkinson was Protestant, a justice, planter, mill owner, factor, and merchant who served in the Md. Assembly. William's estate was valued at £1,197.11.0 including 15 enslaved people, 32 books, and about 900 acres. [31] T. T. Greenfield was a justice and sheriff in St. Mary's Co., Capt. in the militia by 1708 and Col. by 1723; served in the Md. legis. He res. first in Calvert Co., then Prince George's Co. after 1695, and St. Mary's Co. by 1708. Thomas m (1) Susannah CHESELDYNE. His estate was valued at £194.14.0 sterling and £1,896.14.2 current money, and included 24 enslaved individuals. He owned 6,194 acres plus 5 additional tracts. [32]


5. Rebecca Smith, b. 1696; d. 18 Mar. 1737; m. 1717 as his second wife Daniel DULANY (1685-1753) of Annapolis, who served in the Md. legis. Rebecca and Daniel were bur. at St. Anne's Church cemetery in Annapolis. Daniel's estate inventory was valued at £10,921.9.8 current money and included 187 enslaved people, 98 books, 2,594 oz. of silver "plate", more than 563 gal. of wine plus money out on loan. He owned about 10,000 acres. They had 5 sons and 4 daughters. Daughter Rachel Dulany m. her first cousin, Henry ADDISON, the son of Elinor (Smith). Daughter Margaret was the second wife of William MURDOCK.[33]


6. Richard Smith of Lower Marlboro, b. ca. 1698; d. 1732; m. Eleanor ADDISON. See below.


7. Elizabeth Smith, m (1) Thomas JENNINGS of Prince George's Co.; m. (2) Humphrey BATT of the same Co.[34]


8. Mary Smith.

Third Generation

Richard Smith³, son of Walter and Rachel, born about 1698 and died in 1732. He married Elinor ADDISON, daughter of Col. Thomas Addison of Prince George's County and his first wife, Elizabeth TASKER. Elinor was born 20 March 1705. She was the widow of Bennett LOWE, who had died in 1722. The Smiths lived in Lower Marlboro, Calvert County.[35]

Richard built his plantation house in 1711, the year his father died, on his grandfather's plantation at the junction of the Patuxent River and St. Leonard's Creek. On the gable end of the house, set in brick, was written the date.[36]

Many years, later sometime in the 1770s, the Smith's plantation was involved in a court case, so that a plat map was drawn showing the locations of a number of buildings on the property. In 1932 the land was bought by Jefferson Patterson (son of the founder of the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio) and his wife, Mary Marvin (daughter of John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky). In 1983 his widow donated it to the state of Maryland. It is now the 560-acre Jefferson Patterson State Park, dedicated to history and archaeology. A Public Archaelogy project in 2002 turned its attention to the area that formed the heart of Richard Smith Jr's plantation, namely the plantation owner's house, his storehouse, a detached kitchen, quarters for enslaved workers, and barns. Probate inventories in 1715 and 1749 reveal the contents of each room in the main house. Excerpts of the inventory, listed on the web page, include "In the Porch Chamber: 1 Chest of Drawers, 1 Table, 4 old Chairs, A Small Looking Glass, A Picture; In the Parlour Chamber: A feather bed and Furniture, 1 Cupboard, 1 Chest, 5 old Chairs, One Looking Glass; In the Hall Chamber: One old Flock bed and Furniture. One old Feather bed and Furniture. One old Chest of Drawers, Two old Trunks and one Chest, 4 old Chairs and 2 old pictures."[37] The "furniture" referred to in connection with the feather or flock beds included everything connected with it, such as the bedstead itself, curtains, etc.

Richard was a merchant, although like most wealthy men of that time and place he also grew tobacco. Archaeologists have found the foundations of "a large tobacco barn, measuring 50 by 25 feet. The massive posts supporting [it] were over one foot in diameter, and portions of them are still intact despite nearly 3 centuries in the earth."[38]

Archaeologists have excavated the foundations of several buildings near the main plantation house. They are assumed to be quarters for the enslaved laborers. One building, 20 by 40 feet, was "erected on small posts set into a trench at intervals of 2.5 feet. This type of flimsy structure is most often associated with very early settlements, when buildings had to be hastily erected. Smith's plantation was nearly 40 years old, and thus well established, by 1690. However, a shed attached to his house was constructed in the same style, so perhaps" this was "just a simple storage building. Alternatively, 18th-century slave quarters found in the deep South have a similar architecture, so the possibility that . . . [it] has an African origin cannot be ignored. Nevertheless, because the trench building doesn't appear to have a fireplace, we feel that an adjacent structure, portions of which we have uncovered, is a more likely quarter candidate."[39] The contrast between the strong construction of the tobacco barn and the flimsy construction of housing for enslaved people offers striking evidence of the priorities of the owners of the plantation and the culture of which they were a part.

Like other planters Richard was involved in a variety of economic schemes. For example, he organized a syndicate to underwrite construction of a sea-going ship capable of carrying 900 hogsheads of tobacco. The use of Maryland-owned vessels, of course, avoided the heavy freight charges paid to British ship owners. But the initial subscription of £1000 had not completed the ship, and another £800 was needed. Daniel DULANY, Charles CARROLL of Annapolis, Amos GARRETT, and Robert GORDON each invested £50, with 16 other subscribers paying £30 to raise ¢680. The rest was borrowed with a mortgagte on ten "prime" slaves and 900 acres of "the best" Prince George's County land.[39a]

Richard and Elinor were members of All Saints' Anglican Church. In October 1722 the interior of the church was changed, with the pulpit moved into, and dislodging, one of the pews. The vestry directed that the members whose pew it was could choose another in the new porch. On 30 October the vestry decided that Richard should have a quarter of the minister's pew, for which he paid the vestry 200 pounds of tobacco.[40] Richard was elected to the All Saints Parish Vestry on 15 April 1723, to serve till 7 April 1729. He was reelected 4 April 1732.[41]

Richard signed his will 23 October 1732, and it was proved 29 December. He named Elinor his executrix, giving her the dwelling house on fifteen acres of "Hardisty's Choice". In addition he gave her "Bell" which adjoined it; two other parts of "Hardisty's Choice" purchased from Caleb Hardisty and Richard Hall with the marsh adjoining it called "Black Wall"; part of "Hall's Craft" given to Richard by his father (who got it as part of his wife's dowery). All of this was given to Elinor in lieu of her one third interest in Richard's real estate during her life. After her death all the land was to go to their son Walter. Without having to wait for his mother's death, Walter was given 400 acres of "Park Hall" on the west branch of the Patuxent River in Prince George's County, to be laid out at the end of the land where the tree called "Brooke Tree" stood. Son Richard got the residue of "Park Hall". Son John Addision got his father's part of the lands on Swan Creek, Prince George's County, after it was divided between his father and George Plater. If John A. died without heirs, 400 acres of it was to go to his brother Richard and the rest to be equally divided between his sisters Rebecca and Rachel. Rebecca received 250 acre "Bare [sic] Neck", and Rachel got a similarly sized "Tasker's Camp", both in Baltimore County.[42]

Somewhere there is a painting of Elinor, a small reproduction of which appears in a publication of old Bible records. A low resolution xerox copy of it was given to me by Charlotte Price Curlin. If any reader knows where the original is, or has a better copy of it, I would be delighted to hear from you.

Elinor married Captain Posthumous Thornton, who died in 1738. She then married for a fourth and final time on 31 January 1754 Corbin Lee, who died in 1774.[43]

Children of Richard and Elinor (Addison) Smith (order uncertain):[44]

1. Walter Smith⁴, m. Christian SIM; d. Jan. 1755. See below.


2. Richard Smith


3. John Addison Smith, d. 8 May 1776; m. 17 Oct. 1765 Sarah Rogers, daughter of William.[45] In 1753 he owned "Hall's Craft" that had belonged to his grandmother's family. Later he removed to Baltimore Town. His obit. in the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, 7 Aug. 1776, mentions Sarah Smith as executrix.[46]]


4. Rebecca Smith, m. Roger Boyce (d. 1772); she d. 1775.


5. Rachel Smith

Fourth Generation

Walter Smith⁴, the eldest son of Richard and Elinor (Addison) Smith, died in 1755. He married Christian (SIM) Lee, the widow of Thomas LEE (d. 1749). She was the daughter of Dr. Patrick Sim and his wife Mary (Brooke). Walter helped raise his step-son, Thomas. He and Christian also had a daughter, Eleanor Addision Smith, named for his mother, Elinor (Addison) Smith.[47]

Walter inherited from his father 400 acres of "Park Hall" on the west branch of the Patuxent River in Prince George's County. He was also to receive all the land left to his mother after her death.[48]] But it appears that Walter and Christian lived in his father's house at "St. Leonard's". An inventory made of his possessions in 1749 shows some of the same things in the rooms where they were found during his grandfather's inventory in 1711. In the "Porch chamber: 2 feather bed and furniture, 1 Table Looking Glass & Chair"; in the "Parlor Chamber: 1 feather bed and furniture, 1 ditto very old, 6 Chairs 1 Table and Looking Glass"; in the "Plank Hall Chamber: 3 feather beds and furniture, 3 Chests Drawers 5 Chests, and 6 Chairs 1 Table and 1 Box."[49]

Walter signed his will 3 January 1755, and it was proved 18 February in Calvert County. The estate was appraised at £510.2.11, and approval was given on 6 February 1756 by major creditor John SMITH and next of kin Clement Smith, Walter DULANY, and Robert SWAN. Christian was named executrix.[50]

Christian signed her will 12 February 1762, and it was proved 24 March in Prince George's County. Her estate was appraised at £755.5.7, slightly larger than her husband's had been. The valuation was approved 24 March 1763 by major creditors Nathaniel SHUR, and Thomas CAMPBELL, attorney for Shortridge Gordon & Co., and by next of kin Thomas Sim LEE and Patrick Sim SMITH. Christian named her brother Joseph SIM to serve as executor.[51]

Child of Walter and Christian (Sim) Lee Smith:

1. Eleanor Addison Smith⁵, b. 1752; d. 8 July 1798; m. ca. 1778 John Robert Holliday of "Epsom", Baltimore County.[52]

Fifth Generation

Eleanor Addison Smith⁵, daughter of Walter and Christian (Sim) Lee Smith, was born in 1752, and died 8 July 1798. She married about 1778 John Robert Holliday, posthumous son of Robert Holliday. They resided at his estate "Epsom", in Baltimore County.

The family was wealthy and presumably moved in socially prominent circles. A newspaper reported that on "Monday, 19 March 1790 the seat of John Robert Holliday was the scene of a marriage between Robert Turnbull of Petersburg, Virginia and Mrs. Sarah Buchanan."[53] Barbara Sikora of Darnall's Chance House Museum in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, has kindly pointed out to me that Sarah Brooke (Lee) Buchanan was the widowed half-sister of Eleanor.

Eleanor and John were members of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Baltimore, and four of their daughters' births and one daughter's marriage were recorded there.[54] John Robert died in 1800, two years after Eleanor.

Children of John Robert and his wife Eleanor Addison (Smith) Holliday:[55]

1. John Robert Holliday⁶, b. 12 April 1779; d. 21 Aug. 1826 in Louisiana; m. 17 Feb. 1802 Mary Burrows STONE.


2. Daniel Chalmers Holliday, b. ca. 1781; d. 24 Mar. 1819 in Richland, Miss. Not in the 1810 Mississippi census.


3. Christiana S. Holliday, m. Christopher CARNAN. He was perhaps related to her paternal grandmother's second husband.


4. Eleanor A. Holliday, b. in Baltimore Co.; d. 27 May 1802; m. 27 May 1802 in St. James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Balt. Co., John YEISER.


5. Prudence Gough Holliday, b. 1 Aug. 1785 in St. James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Balt. Co.; m. 27 Sept. 1802 James CHALMERS.


6. Elizabeth Carnan Holliday, b. 22 Dec. 1786 in St. James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Balt.;


7. Mary Lee Holliday, b. 15 Aug. 1788 in St. James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Balt.; d. 8 July 1845; m. 2 Oct. 1809 William LEE.


8. Rebecca Ridgely Holliday, b. 1790 in St. James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Balt.; d. before 1800.


9. Henry Gough Holliday, "Harry", b. 15 July 1791; d. 31 Oct. 1801.

Continue the story of this family with the Holliday Line.

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See some other colonial Maryland families that link one way or another with these Smiths:
Addison,  Bale,  Brooke,  Browne,  Dent,  Dorsey,  Ely,   Hall,  Hatton,  Holliday,  Howard,  Isaac,  Molton,  Norwood,  Owings,  Randall,  Ridgely,  Sim,  Smith,  Stone,  Tasker.  Warfield.  and Wilkinson. 






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Citations and Notes

The full bibliographical citation is given the first time a source is mentioned, but is not repeated each time that source is cited. Scroll up til you find the first mention and there you will find the complete citation.

1. Charles Francis Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 3rd. ed. (Balt.: published by the author in cooperation with the Calvert County Historical Society, 1976), 313.


2. Gust Skordas, The Early Settlers of Maryland: An Index to Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968), 428, 424, citing Liber 5, folio 188. For a brief summary of his life, see Aubrey C. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland: A Biographical Study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1753) and Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797) Studies in Maryland History, No. 3, (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1955), 26.



3. Christopher Johnston, "Smith Family of Calvert County", in Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, indexed by Thomas L. Hollowick, 2 vols. 2:373, citing Land Office, Lib. 5, fol. 188.



4. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 313. It was perhaps another man named Richard Smith who had 100 ac. "Smith" surveyed in Charles Co. 25 Oct. 1649. Lord Baltimore's Rent Rolls, as printed in Hester Dorsey Richardson, Side-Lights on Maryland History with Sketches of Early Maryland Families, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913), 1:308. Another source says Richard's first acquisition 7 Oct. 1662 was 100 acres with a dwelling house on the west side of Solomon's Creek. Biographical Record of Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, (reprinted by Family Lines Publications in collaboration with the Harford County Genealogical Society, 1989, from Portrait and Biographical Record of Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, Chapman Publishing Co., 1897), 571.



5. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:374, citing Lib. JJ, fol. 280.



6. Edward C. Papenfuse, Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, and Gregory A. Stiverson, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979) 2 vols., 2:748.



7. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 312; Raphael Semmes, Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938), 145-46, citing Md. Arch., 3:354-58, 366, 375, 383, 384, 387, 396, 407-9.
   
   
         7a. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:373, citing Md. Arch., 10:542.



8. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 313-4; George Lynn-Lachlan Davis, The Day-Star of American Freedom, or the Birth and Early Growth of Toleration, in the Province of Maryland . . . (New York: C. Scribner, 1855), 71-72; Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:373, citing Lib. S, fol. 26, and Md. Arch., 1:382, 396, 426; 2:8.



9. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:373, citing Lib. FF, fol. 64; Lib. JJ, fol. 264.



10. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:374.



11. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:373-74, citing Md. Arch. 7:609, 611.



12. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:374, citing Md. Arch., 20:200; Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 312.



13. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 313; Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:748; Richardson, Side-Lights on Maryland History, 1:339. Lord Baltimore's Rent Rolls, as printed in Richardson, Side-Lights on Maryland History, 1:300, 304. Raymond B. Clark, Jr. and Sara Seth Clark, comps., Baltimore County, Maryland, Tax List, 1699-1706 (Washington, DC: Raymond B. Clark, Jr., 1964), 8, 16, 24. For a discussion of his will and estate inventory, see Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982), 234-35. In 1717 Sarah Clagett gave a depostion that she had witnessed the marriage "of Captain Richard Smith of Calvert County and the widow, Madam Johanna Lowther and attended the wedding reception." Effie Gwynn Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George’s County (Richmond VA: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1947), 119.



14. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:751. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 313. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:377, citing Baldwin's Calendar, 11, 32; Aubrey C. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland: A Biographical Study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1753) and Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797), Studies in Maryland History, No. 3 (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1955), 26; Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George’s County, 295.



15. www.allsaintssunderland.ang-org/id26.htm and the Calvert Co. historical web page.



16. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 313.



17. Testimony of Barbara Smith given 30 Dec. 1689 in London, in Percy G. Skirven, The First Parishes of the Province of Maryland, Wherein are given Historical Sketches of the Ten Counties & of the Thirty Parishes in the Province at the time of the Establishment of the Church of England in 1692 (Baltimore: The Norman Remington Company, 1923), 90-93.



18. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:377, citing Md. Arch., 20:64, 138, 465; 25:75, 108.



19. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:376, citing House Journals; 2:377, citing Md. Arch., 19:530.



20. Joseph H. Smith and Philip A. Crowl, eds., Court Records of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1699, American Legal Records, vol. 9 (Washington D.C.: The American Historical Association, 1964), xlix; Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:377, citing Md. Arch., 23:461, 468, 469; Land, The Dulanys of Maryland, 26.



21. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:376, citing Md. Arch. 26:638.



22. Lord Baltimore's Rent Roll, as printed in Richardson, Side-Lights on Maryland History, 1:335.



23. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:751.



24. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:376-77, citing Md. Arch. 8:473, and Vestry Book.



25. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:751; Jane Baldwin, comp. and ed., Maryland Calendar of Wills, 23 vols. (Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock, Publishers, 1904), 3:200; Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 314.



26. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland, 27, 59.



27. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:377, citing the Greenfield family Bible. The date of death is also in Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George’s County, 295. Perhaps the date of signing the will is incorrect? Perhaps not.



28. Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George's County, 33.



29. Stein, A History of Calvert County Maryland, 314; Biographical Record of Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, 572. For more on Walter, Jr.'s line, especially of his son Dr. Clement Smith (b. 1756), see Ibid., 572. Md. Calendar of Wills, 7:71-72.



30. Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George’s County, 296.



31. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:375-76.



32. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:889.



33. For more on Daniel Dulany, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1 284-86.



34. Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George’s County, has his name Humphrey Belt, p. 295.



35. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:380.



36. Information from the 1773 Plat key, giving the year Richard Smith, Jr. built his house, on www.Jefpat.org/3arch-public.html.



37. Jefferson Patterson Park web site at www.Jefpat.org/3arch-public.html



38. Jefferson Patterson Park web site at www.Jefpat.org/3arch-public.html



39. Jefferson Patterson Park web site at www.Jefpat.org/3arch-public.html
    
    
          39a. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland, 105.



40. Records of All Saints' Parish, Calvert Co., in Edward Ingle, "Parish Institutions of Maryland, with Illustrations from Parish Records", Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series i, No. 6 (Baltimore, April 1883), 43.



41. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:380, citing All Saints' Vestry Book.



42. Maryland Calendar of Wills, 6:254.



43. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:380; Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:101.



44. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:380.



45. The marriage was recorded in St. Paul's Parish, Balt. Co., see Robert Barnes, comp., Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976), 166.



46. Robert W. Barnes, Gleanings from Maryland Newspapers, 1776-1785 (Lutherville, Md.: Bettie Carothers, 1975), 44.



47. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:382.



48. Maryland Calendar of Wills, 6:254.



49. Jefferson Patterson Park web site at www.Jefpat.org/3arch-public.html



50. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:382. Skinner, Abstracts of the Inventories of the Prerogative Court of Maryland,23 vols. (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1992), vol. 48-60 (1751-1756):100, citing Lib. 60, fol. 338.



51. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:382. V. L. Skinner, Jr., comp., Abstracts of the Inventories of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, vol. 70-80 (1760-1763):96, citing Lib. 80, fol. 278.



52. Johnston, "Smith Family", 2:382.



53. Newspaper Gleanings 178_-1790 (Western Reserve Historical Society library). BMJ.



54. IGI.



55. Information from Charlotte Price Curlin, IGI, and John Robert Holliday's will.

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