Simon Smith
Descendants of Simon (HADDAM FOUNDER) Smith
Generation No. 1
1. SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1 SMITH was born 1628, and died March 06, 1687/88 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT. He married ELIZABETH WELLS.
Notes
From Probate Records, Volume V, 1687 To 1695, On File, (Not found on Record.)
Smith, Simon, Haddam. Will dated 11 November, 1687: I Simon Smith senior of Haddam, being aged and being sensabell of myu maotalyty, and at This time being visited with sickness, doe give my body to the dust in hopes of a Glorias reserecktion, and my Spirit to God that gave it. Doe make this my Last will and Testament, being sound in meamorie: I give to my Loveing Wife The use of my dwelling houss and two rowes of Apples Trees in my horchard, she takeing her choyes, and five poundes per yeare during her Widowhood, to be paid by my sonns according to their proportions That they shall have of my Es'ate, and one Cowe to be kept yearly by my Sonns, and fowr Shepe to be kept yearly for her use, and fowr poundes in good marchantabell Corne, Rie and Indian, to be paid her the next spring, and as much of the househould stores as she hath need of. I give to my sonn john my Lott by his in the Comon fild, and five pounds out of my Estate as it shall be inventoried. I give to my son Simon my upper Lott in the upper meadow. I give to my son Joseph my Cow, meadow Lott, and my swamp on the east side of the great River, and my Lott in the equall deuishon, and all my right at Machamoodas. I give to my Sonn Benjamin my hows and barn and all my homested, and my meadow Lott in the hom medow, swamp and upland. I give to my daughter Elizabeth eaighten pounds, and to my daughter Susannah Sixten pounds, and to my daughter Mary Sixten pounds. And my Will is that my two Lottes in the upper medow be left for part of their portions. And if any of my Sonnes will take the above said Lotes as they shall be inventoried, and pay my daughters, they shall have Liberty; and the rest of their portions shall be paide out of my Estate as it shall be inventoried. And if their be any over pluss, it shall be equally disposed of amongest them. Also my Will is that my sonn benjamin be my Executor to se This my Will Full filed.
Test: George Gates, SIMON SMITH
John Bayle.
Hartford, 8 March, 1687-8: At a Court of Common pleas there held, George Gates & John Bayley, upon their Corporate oathes, Testified that Simon Smith in their prsence signed and declared the above written to be his Last will & Testament, and that he was of good memory when he did the same.
Children of Simon Smith and Elizabeth Wells are:
2. i. JOHN2 SMITH, b. 1660, Hartford, Hartford, CT; d. July 12, 1712, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.
3. ii. ELIZABETH SMITH, b. 1662, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. October 10, 1750.
iii. JOSEPH SMITH, d. 1693, Barbados, West Indies.
iv. BENJAMIN SMITH, b. 1665; d. 1764; m. (1) ELIZABETH WELLS; m. (2) HANNAH BENTON.
4. v. MARY SMITH.
vi. SIMON SMITH, d. 1746; m. ALICE.
5. vii. SUSANNAH SMITH, b. 1669; d. 1742.
Generation No. 2
2. JOHN2 SMITH (SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1) was born 1660 in Hartford, Hartford, CT, and died July 12, 1712 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT. He married SARAH WHITE in Haddam, Middlesex, CT, daughter of Nathanial White and Elizabeth Bunce.
Children of John Smith and Sarah White are:
i. ELIZABETH3 SMITH, b. 1699; d. March 13, 1790; m. ISAAC SAYRE.
ii. WILLIAM SMITH.
3. ELIZABETH2 SMITH (SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1) was born 1662 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT, and died October 10, 1750. She married WILLIAM (CAPT) (JUDGE) ELY May 24, 1681 in Lyme, New London, CT, son of Richard Ely and Joane Phillips.
Children of Elizabeth Smith and William Ely are:
i. DANIEL3 ELY.
ii. ANN ELY, b. March 12, 1681/82.
6. iii. ELIZABETH ELY, b. May 26, 1683.
iv. DEBORAH ELY, m. EBENEZER DENNIS, 1717.
v. RICHARD ELY.
vi. WILLIAM ELY.
4. MARY2 SMITH (SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1). She married EBENEZER PARKER.
Child of Mary Smith and Ebenezer Parker is:
i. ABNER3 PARKER.
5. SUSANNAH2 SMITH (SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1) was born 1669, and died 1742. She married JOSEPH (DEACON) ARNOLD, son of Joseph Arnold and Elizabeth Wakeman.
Child of Susannah Smith and Joseph Arnold is:
i. ANNE3 ARNOLD, m. NATHANIEL TYLER.
Generation No. 3
6. ELIZABETH3 ELY (ELIZABETH2 SMITH, SIMON (HADDAM FOUNDER)1) was born May 26, 1683. She married SAMUEL SMITH, son of Nehemiah Smith and Lydia Winchester.
Child of Elizabeth Ely and Samuel Smith is:
i. ELIZABETH4 SMITH, m. AMAZIAH BUSH.
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