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Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Ephraim Smith

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 100 
  • Father:
  • John Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Oct 1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Preston City Cemetery, Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Witter
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 20 Apr 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Seth Smith (Ahnentafel No:50 )

  Zipporah Smith

• Additional marriages for Ephraim Smith

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucy Stevens
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1743/1744
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Ephraim Smith

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 234, Birth record for daughter Zypporah Smith.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 233, Birth record for son Seth Smith.
  • ³ Early Connecticut Marriages, Marriage record for Ephraim Smith and Lucy Stevens.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/19/2013).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton Births, Vol. 1, Page 176, Birth record for Ephraim Smith.
  • ⁶ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁷ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #15178, Membership application for J. Lewis Hartsock.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #51439, Membership application for Frank Irwin Lewis.
  • ⁹ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/23/2023).
  • ¹⁰ Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 123.
  • ¹¹ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 252.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 462.
  • ¹⁴ Stevens, Plowdon, Stephens-Stevens Genealogy, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1909), 300, [Death].
  • ¹⁵ Stevens, Plowdon, Stephens-Stevens Genealogy, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1909), 37.
  • ¹⁶ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 571, [Birth].