Ancestry of
Richard Smith

(c1596 - 1666)
Great Migration Immigrant 1637

Richard Smith

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1596 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 1 Jan 1666 to 22 Aug 1666 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Narragansett, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Notes: 

  • The parents of Richard Smith are unknown. There are claims that his parents are a John and Katherine Smith, or a John and Mary (Browning) Smith, but evidence is needed to determine if any of these claims are correct.

• Marriages for Richard Smith

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  • Spouse:
  • Joan Barton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 May 1621
  • Marriage Location:
  • Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England

• Sources for Richard Smith

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1951, Vol. 27, pp. 222-223.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2010, Vol. 84, pp. 257-264.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 311.
  • ⁴ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 185.
  • ⁵ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2005, Vol. 38,. pp. 186-187, gives second wife Elizabeth but dates overlap with first wife.
  • ⁶ Updike, Daniel Berkeley, Richard Smith: First English Settler of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island, Boston: The Merrymount Press (1937), 1-24.