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I. Thomas Smith2, second Landgrave.
II. George Smith2, M. D.
After the death of Barbara, Thomas Smith married, second, Sabina de Vignon, widow of John D'Arssens, Sieur of Warnhout, Belgium, Cacique of Carolina. There were no children from this last marriage.
In 1686 D'Arssens was living and had assigned to him a Cacique or Barony of 12,000 acres of land by the Lord Proprietors, because he was the first colonist of his nation. It appears from the records that in 1689 D'Arssens had died and Thomas Smith had married his widow, as the rights of the D'Arssens Barony were at that time transferred to him. (See Lords Proprietors to Jas. Coelor, Gov., Sept. 29, 1686, Volume I, p. 117, and the transfer to Thomas Smith, Volume I, p. 123.)
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Thomas Smith1 and Barbara Shenking had issue :
I. Thomas Smith2, b. Exeter, England, 1672; d. Charleston, S. C., 1738. Married, first (1690), Sarah, daughter of Gov. James Blake; married, second, Mary Hyrne, of England, b. 1697; d. 1777.
II. George Smith2, M. D., b. 1672; d. after 1750. Married (in Bermuda) Dorothy Archer, d. Jan. 24, 1732.
Thomas Smith2 (Thomas1), second Landgrave, married, first, Sarah, eldest daughter of Gov. James Blake. They had issue :
I. Thomas Smith3, b. June 3, 1691. Married (1709) Doro- thy Dry.
II. George Smith3, b. Aug. 22, 1693. Married (Dec. 13, 1723) Elizabeth Allen, b. April 13, 1707.
George Smith3 married, second, Rebecca Blake. Issue :
III. Ann Axtell Smith3, b. Oct. 9, 1695; d. Oct., 1738. Mar- ried Benjamin Waring, b. 1692; d. July, 1739.
IV. Barbara Smith3, b. July 9, 1697. Married Edward Hyrne.
V. Sabina Smith3, b. May 10, 1699; d. Dec. 15, 1734. Mar- ried, first (May 27, 1714), Thomas Smith, b. April 22. 1691; d. March 3, 1723. Married, second (Jan. 10. 1733), Peter Taylor, b. 1698; d. 1757.
VI. Justinian Smith3, b. April 20, 1701. Married John Moore.
VII. Sarah Smith3, b. June 7, 1702. Married John Boone.
VIII. Rebecca Moore Smith3 (No. 1), b. 1704; d. an infant.
IX. Rebecca Moore Smith3 (No. 2), b. 1705; d. an infant.
X. Joseph Blake Smith3, b. Nov., 1707; d an infant.
Thomas Smith2 (second Landgrave) married, second, Mary Hyrne about 1712. This lady came to Carolina in the same ship as companion of the first wife of Thomas Smith. They had issue :
I. Edward Hyrne Smith3, b. Aug. 24, 1714; d. an infant.
II. James Smith3, b. Aug. 13, 1715; d. unmarried.
III. Mary Hyrne Smith3, b. Oct. 9, 1717; d. 1758. Married (1736) James Screven.
IV. Margaret Smith3, b. April 1, 1720. Married Benj. Coach- man.
V. Elizabeth Hyrne Smith3, b. Jan. 6, 1722. Married (March 21, 1745) Thomas Dixon.
VI. Josiah Smith3, b. July 10, 1725; d. an infant.
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SECOND LANDGRAVE THOMAS SMITH, OF SOUTH CAROLINA From an oil painting dated 1691
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VII. Henry Smith", third Landgrave Smith, b. Aug. 6, 1727: d. Dec. 8. 1730. Married, first (Sept. 27, 1753), Ann Filbein, b. Aug. 24, 1736; d. Nov. 30, 1762. Married, second (Dec. 13, 1764), Elizabeth Ball, b. Feb. 6, 1746; d. April 30, 1787.
VIII. Thomas Smith3, b. Jan. 26, 1729; d. 1782. Married (1751) Susannah Walker.
IX. George Smith3, b. Aug. 30, 1732; d. an infant.
X. Benjamin Smith3, b. Sept. 15, 1736; d. July 22, 1790. Married. first, Elizabeth Ann Hasleston, b. 1742; d. March 26, 1769. Married, second (April 8, 1773), Catherine Ball, d. Feb. 23, 1774. Married, third (Aug. 8, 1775). Sarah Smith, d. Aug. 15, 1785. Married, fourth, Rebecca Coachman.
A strange peculiarity may be noticed about the children of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave, that by his first marriage he had ten children-three sons and seven daughters; and by the second, ten children-three daughters and seven sons. The twen- tieth child married four times.
Sabina Smith3, fifth child of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave, and Sarah Blake, married Peter Taylor and had issue :
I. Sabina Taylor+, b. Sept. 27, 1734; d. Oct. 24, 1772. Mar- ried (Aug. 19, 1752) Andrew Taylor, b. 1728; d. March 28, 1786. Issue :
I. Elizabeth Taylor", b. Oct. 4, 1754; d. in infancy.
II. Ann Taylor5, b. Dec. 4, 1755; d. June 9, 1790. Married (Sept. 24, 1772) William Mills, b. March 2, 1750; d. April 2, 1802. Issue :
I. Thomas Griffith Mills6, b. June 4, 1774. Married, first (Jan. 1, 1799), Hays Bennett; d. May, 1800. Married, second (Jan. 11, 1805), Eliza Diana Humphreys.
II. Henry Mills6, b. Feb. 8, 1777; d. July 15, 1806. Married (1801) Mary Powell Philips.
III. Sabina Ann Mills6, b. March 7, 1:29: d. July 14. 1780.
IV. Robert Mills6, b. August 12, 1781; d. March 3, 1855. Married (Oct. 15. 1806) Eliza Barnwell Smith. daughter of Gen'l John Smith of Hackwood Park, Frederick County, Va., b. Feb. 10, 1:84: d. Sept. 12. 1862, in Washington, D. C.
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V. Sarah Mills6, b. Nov. 30, 1787; d. July 6, 1846. Mar- ried (Dec. 7, 1805) George Lusher of Bermuda, b. 1781; d. April 14, 1820.
VI. Isabella Mills6, b. Nov. 9, 1789; d. June 18, 1791.
(The account of Robert Mills is given in Vol. III, Chapter IV.)
ROBERT MILLS, THE ARCHITECT
Peter Taylor was a native of England, b. 1698; d. Oct. 1, 1765. He was married three times. Married, first, Amarentia, sister of Thomas Smith, the planter, and daughter of Thomas Smith of Nevis, West Indies. The inscription on the tablet in St. James Church, Goose Creek, S. C., where Peter Taylor was buried, reads thus :
He departed this life Ist October, 1765, and by him lie his first wife. Mrs. Amarentia Taylor, and their son Joseph.
Peter Taylor married, second (Jan. 10, 1733), Sabina Smith. b. May 10, 1699 ; d. Dec. 15, 1734 ; widow of Thomas Smith of Nevis, W. I., daughter of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave, and Sarah Blake, d. 1708, eldest daughter of Col. and Governor Joseph Blake.
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Josiah Smith, the banker, in 1808, when he was seventy-seven years old, wrote as follows :
And from a paper put in my hands by General Benjamin Smith, of Cape Fear, N. C., it is there said that two brothers of the name of Smith, came from Exeter, in England, to New England, and were among its first settlers.
Now Sabina, 5th child and third daughter of Second Landgrave, Thomas Smith, and Sarah Blake, married (in 1716) Thomas Smith, the planter, son of one of the two brothers who emigrated from Exeter, England, to Massachusetts, one of whom went to Nevis, West Indies, and his son to Charleston, South Carolina. This Thomas went by the nickname of "Long Tom." He was a man of most estimable character, universally loved and respected, and was a wealthy merchant.
In "Wyman's Generations of Charlestown, Massachusetts" there is noted the record of a deed of trust from Thomas Smith of St. James Parish, Berkley County, Carolina, to his uncle William Smith, of Boston, Massachusetts, of all his right and title in the estate of his grandfather Thomas Smith and his grandmother Sarah, dated 1715.
Now Thomas and Sabina Smith had two children :
I. Benjamin Smith. Married Ann Laughton.
II. Thomas Smith. Married Sarah Moore.
This Sarah Moore was a descendant of Roger Moore, the famous Irish Catholic of 1641. He descended from a very ancient Irish family. the Marquisate of Drougheda.
Roger Moore's son James came from Kendall, in Westmoreland. He married Ann, daughter of Sir John Yeomans, created Land- grave and appointed Governor, Dec. 28, 1671. Sir John was eldest son of Robert Yeomans of Bristol, England, who was executed in 1643 for political crimes. The son Sir John was, as a recompense, made a baronet by Charles II.
He emigrated to Barbadoes and thence removed to Charleston. He built a fine residence called "Yeoman's Hall," which later was bought by Thomas Smith and became the residence of the direct male line. Sir John Yeomans became dissatisfied with the position of Governor of the Carolina Colony, to which he had been appointed in 1671, resigned it and returned to Barbadoes. He left a son. who inherited his title and property. In 1700, James Moore, Sr., got himself appointed governor by the Colonial Council, but died shortly after.
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After 1:19 the Colonists threw off the proprietary government, and the Convention invited James Moore, son of the preceding, and brother of the Sarah Moore, who married Thomas Smith, to take the place formerly held by the father, and he became the first Royal governor. James Moore, the son, died March 3, 1723. This was the Col. Moore who conquered the Tuscarora Indians in 1:13.
Thomas Smith+ married Sarah, daughter of Gov. James Moore. Issue :
I. Roger Moore Smith5, b. Aug. 4, 1745. Married Mary Rutledge.
II. Thomas Smith5, b. July 5, 1748; d. an infant.
III. Benjamin Smith5, b. Nov. 23, 1749; d. an infant.
IV. William Smith5, b. March 26, 1751; d. an infant. Sarah Smith5, b. Aug. 22, 1752. Married Chancellor Hugh Rutledge, of South Carolina.
VI. Peter Smith5. b. Nov. 14, 1754. Married Ann Middleton. General Benjamin Smith5, Governor of North Carolina,
VII.
b. Jan. 10, 1757. Married Sarah Dry.
VIII. Rhett Smith5 (1), b. Aug. 13, 1759; d. an infant.
IX. James Smith5, b. Nov. 2, 1761. Married Sarah Gough. Y. Mary Smith5, b. Feb. 2, 1764. Married Johi Jucherand Grimke.
XI. Ann Smith5, b. Sept. 20, 1765. Married Thomas Bec.
XII. Rhett Smith5 (2), b. Aug. 23, 1767.
James Smith3, the ninth child and eighth son of Thomas Smith and Sarah Moore, was born in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 2, 1761, and privately baptized by his cousin, Rev. Robert Smith, afterwards Bishop. His sponsors were his uncle Benjamin Smith, with his second wife, Mary Wragg Smith. and his cousin William Laughton Smith, who was the first representative for the Charleston district in the United States Congress. This William Laughton Smith was also Minister to Portugal, and Speaker of the Senate of South Carolina.
The father of James Smith3, Thomas Smith the banker, was an importer and merchant, and had accumulated a large fortune. He had just set up his eldest son, Roger Moore Smith5, in business as a banker, with a capital of $40.000, when the Revolutionary War commenced.
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Roger Moore Smith" commanded a company of light infantry, and in this company James Smith5 served at the siege of Savannah, October, 1779, and witnessed the fall of Fort Pulaski. He was one of the prisoners who surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton at the fall of Charleston, in May, 1780. He was paroled and went to Europe for education, remaining abroad seven years.
While he was in London, John Adams was serving as the first United States Minister to England. John Adams' wife, Abigail Smith, was a descendant of the same family of Smiths as James. and a relative, though a common ancestor in England, of Land- grave and Governor Thomas Smith. Mrs. Adams recalled the relationship when she learned that young James Smith5 was in London, and told him a plate at her table was always ready for him. and that he was to dine with her every Sunday. Under her auspices James Smith5 was presented at Court.
From 1837 to 1846, her son John Quincy Adams and James Smith's son, R. Barnwell Rhett6, served in the United States Con- gress, the one representing Massachusetts and the other South Carolina. James Smith5 returned home in 1787, and in August, 1790, his father died.
Mr. E. Lowndes Rhett of South Carolina gives the following statement :
I would call attention to the rise of the Smith family of South Carolina just after the restoration of the royal families of England, which tends to show that they were related to the Smiths of Exeter, England, and that their rise was due to the power and position of the Duke of Albemarle, who was one of the Lords Proprietors. George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, Honest George, as Charles II called him, was the most powerful subject England ever had. There is no doubt Charles II owed his crown to him. It is not surprising therefore that he, being one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, should encourage his relatives to emigrate to that country and aid them to establish themselves there.
The Carter-Smiths allege that their ancestor, Thomas Smith of Boston, who had the same coat-of-arms, erest and motto as the Smith of Exeter, came to America with a brother who had been wounded in the "Dutch War," and they also claim that the Smiths of South Carolina are of the same family. This brother, who was wounded in the Dutch War. is supposed to be identical with that John Smith of Charleston. S. C .. who came to America in 1630,
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in a vessel called the "Mary and John," because it is a fact that he was in the "Dutch War," and was commonly called the Quarter- master, because that was the position he occupied in the English army in Holland. Probably some of the Carters were in the same ship, as they came to America about the same time.
This John Smith, the Quartermaster, was a "Cacique" of Caro- lina, corresponding with "Baron" in the English nobility. He first recorded a grant of 1800 acres of land on Ashley River, Nov. 25, 1675.
In 1670 Thomas Smith, son of John Smith, the Quartermaster, was a member of the Colonial Council. Paul, brother of Thomas, was in the Council the same year. These two sons made more than one trip over the ocean in bettering their fortunes. They left England Aug. 10, 1669, after completing an educational course of study.
Thomas and James Smith of the Exeter family are noted as "two respectable writers during the time of the Commonwealth of England."
In the "Calendar of State Papers of Colonial America and the West Indies," 1669 to 1674, page 36, is recorded a list of the masters and free passengers aboard the "Carolina." Among others are given "Thomas and Paul Smith and seven servants."
On April 23, 1672, the old town site of Charleston was divided into 62 lots, of which Thomas Smith received lot 41 and James Smith lot 57. This James Smith was probably the Sir James Smith of the Exeter family, d. Nov. 18, 1681, uncle of Thomas.
Thomas Smith1 emigrated from Exeter, England, to Boston, Mass., about 1640; d. 1670. Married (1642) Sarah Boyleston ; d. 1716. Issue :
I. Thomas Smith2, d. 1698.
II. William Smith2, b. 1670; d. 1730.
Thomas Smith moved to Nevis, W. I. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Shenking. Issue:
I. Thomas Smith3. Married Sabina Smith3 of the family of Landgrave and Governor Thomas Smith of Carolina.
II. William Smith2, of Boston, Mass. Married Abigail Fowle, b. 1679; d. 1760. Issue :
I. Abigail Smith3. Married Simon Tufts.
II. Sarah Smith3.
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III. Rev. William Smith3, D. D., of Weymouth, Mass. Mar- ried Elizabeth Quincy.
IV. Anna Smith3. Married Ebenezer Kent.
V. Mary Smith3. Married Ebenezer Austin.
VI. Isaac Smith3. Married Elizabeth Storer.
Of this last, Rev. Isaac Smith, D. D., it is recorded that he was a Harvard graduate in 1767, was tutor in 1774-'75: Left for England at the time of the Revolution, being a Royalist. Returned to New England after the war and became preceptor of Dunmore Academy at Byfield, near Newberry, Mass.
William Smith3, D. D., married Elizabeth Quincy. Issue :
I. Mary Smith4, b. 1739; d. 1811. Married Richard Cranch, b. 1726; d. 1811.
II. Abigail Smith4, b. 1744; d. 1818. Married John Adams, Minister to England, President of the United States, b. 1735; d. 1821.
III. Elizabeth Smith4, d. 1815. Married John Shaw.
IV. William Smith+, d. 1785. Married Catherine Louise Salmon.
The coat-of-arms brought over by Thomas Smith, of Boston, is described as follows :
Field black, bars and birds (3 martens) silver.
Crest-Greyhound, red and gold collar, and chain reflexed over body.
The English branch of the family now called "Smith-Marriott" has the same coat of arms and crest, except that with the English family the bars and birds are gold instead of silver. Motto: "Semper fidelis."
It is but fair to say that Mr. Burwell Rhett Heyward, par excellence the antiquarian of the family, maintains that this supposed connection of the South Carolina Smiths, and those of New England, and Exeter, England, is without documentary proof. He says the use of the same coat of arms is the only definite link and that is not sufficient. He says :
While the facts of John Smith's immigration to Carolina and the pur- chase of land there, and his sons, Thomas and Paul, being members of the Colonial Council may be true, there is no authority for connecting them with the Landgrave.
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He says further :
Much help might be given by the Landgrave's descendants in the direct male line, who still reside at Summerville, a small town near Charleston, and in the immediate neighborhood of "Yeomans Hall," which was bought by the Landgrave from Sir John Yeomans, governor, and is still owned by the family. But they will help no one, either from a selfish, unac- countable reluctance to satisfy interested inquirers or from ignorance of the facts. Mr. McCready, while writing his recent history, tried to get information from them, but got nothing more than a Bible record that the Landgrave came to South Carolina subsequent to 1680. No one else has been allowed to know or see anything, even first cousins.
My impression is, and I thing I have so written you, that the Landgrave was a physician, that he came to South Carolina from Bermuda. His son, Dr. George, married Dorothy Archer, of Bermuda. Dr. G.'s son, the Rev. Josiah, entered on his ministerial labors there as a pastor and, I believe, married his cousin, Elizabeth Danell, there. Several of Dr. G.'s grandsons returned to the West Indies and have disappeared. [Signed]
R. B. HEYWARD.
It appears to the writer that there is even less proof of Land- grave Smith's West India origin than there is of his Exeter origin, and I should say it is best when between two horns of a dilemma to take the gilded one.
The following list of the Colonial Governors of Carolina is interesting in connection with this gencalogy.
[The first charter was granted March 20, 1662-'63. The second charter, June 30, 1665.]
1. Hon. Col. William Sayle, July, 1669.
2. Joseph West, Aug. 28, 1671.
3. Sir George Yeomans, Dec. 28, 1671.
4. Joseph West (second time), Aug. 13. 1674.
5. Joseph Morton, Sept. 26, 1682. This governor married Elizabeth, sister of subsequent governor, Joseph Blake.
6. Joseph West (third time), 1684.
7. Sir Kirk White, 6 months, and died.
8. Col. Robert Quarry, as deputy of Thomas Amy, one of the Lords Proprietors, June 8, 1685.
9. Joseph Morton (second time), 1685.
10. James Coleton, 1686. He was expelled by act of the Colonial Assembly, and gave bond never to return to the Colony, Dec. 22, 1690.
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11. £ Seth Southel, 1690.
12. Philip Ludwell, 1692.
13. Thomas Smith, first Landgrave, 1693.
14 Joseph Blake, 1694.
15. John Archdale, 1695.
16. Joseph Blake (second time), 1696. Died in office.
17. James Moore, Sr., 1:00.
18. Brig. Gen. Sir Nathaniel Johnson, 1703.
19. Edward Jinte, 1709.
20. Robert Gibbes, 110.
21. Charles Craven, 1712.
22. Robert Daniel, Deputy Governor, 1716.
23. Robert Johnson, 1717. He was the last proprietary gov- ernor, and was deposed.
24. Col. James Moore, Jr., first Royal Governor, Dec. 19, 1719.
25. His Ex. Francis Nicholson, May 26, 1721.
26. Honorable Arthur Middleton, May 25, 1725.
His Ex. Robert Johnson (second time), 1730.
27. 28. Lieut. Gov. the Hon. Thomas Broughton, 1735.
29. Lieut. Gov. the Hon. William Bull, 1937.
30. His Ex. James Glenn, Dec. 17, 1743.
31. His Ex. William Henry Littleton, 1756.
32. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. William Bull, Jr., 1760.
33. His Ex. Thomas Boone, 1762.
34. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. William Bull, Jr., 1764.
35. His Ex. Lord Charles Grenville Montague, 1766.
HISTORY.
In 1663-'65, Charles II made a grant of all the territory between 29° and 36°, 30' North Latitude, extending westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. to eight Lords Proprietors, namely :
Edward, Earl of Clarendon. George, Duke of Albemarle. William, Lord Craven. John, Lord Berkeley. Anthony, Lord Ashley. Sir George Casteret. Sir William Berkeley. Sir John Coleton.
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Thomas Smith. Landgrave, Cacique, Governor, born in Exeter, England, 1648, married (in Exeter, 1668) Barbara, daughter of Bernard Shenking. On August 10, 1669, when their first child, Thomas, was "a few months old," they left England on the ship "Caroline" for Carolina. In Old Town on the Ashley, 1672, Mrs. Barbara Smith gave birth to her second son, George, who was sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, for his education, and took there the degree of M. D. in the year 1700. He was the first practicing physician in South Carolina, a native of that Colony.
George Smith was twenty-eight years old when he returned to Carolina. He had married while in Edinburgh, and his wife had died. They had one son, Thomas, who died in Bermuda after his marriage there, and left two daughters, one of whom married Dr. Hutchinson, who with his wife removed to New Providence, where they died, leaving a son, Robert, and a daughter, Hester, who passed through Charleston on her way to Bermuda in 1747. The son, Robert, was sent to Scotland for education, and became a British officer in 1780, and was a captain in the Seventy-first Regiment at the siege of Charleston. The daughter married a Captain Bell in Bermuda.
In the Charleston, S. C., Probate Court Will Book, page 311, 1692-3, is recorded that George Smith married Dorothy, daughter of John Archer, of Jamaica, W. I. George Smith, M. D., died in 1747, aged 79 years. George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer, his wife, had issue :
I. Archer Smith, b. 1702.
II. Rev. Josiah Smith, b. in Charleston, S. C., 1704.
At the age of twenty-seven, Rev. Josiah Smith graduated at Cambridge, Harvard University, Mass., whereupon he commenced a period of fifty years as a preacher and forty-five years as an author, the only theological author in South Carolina prior to the Revolution.
The Rev. Josiah Smith died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1781, aged seventy-seven years. He started his ministerial labors in Bermuda, and married there his cousin, Elizabeth Darnell.
On account of the long and wearisome sailing trip across the Atlantic and the equal if not superior advancement of the West Indian colonists compared with those on the main land, the inter- course between the latter was much more frequent and intimate
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than with the mother country. All being under the same govern- ment and speaking the same language, worshiping, in the main, the same God, and in the same manner, intimate business relations and intermarriages caused frequent trips, interrupted residences, and scattered families.
Rev. Josiah Smith and Elizabeth Danell, his wife, had issue: I. Josiah Smith (known as the banker). He was a cashier of the Branch National Bank, of Charleston, up to eighty years of age. He d. Feb. 19, 1826. This Josiah was born at Cainhoy, St. Thomas Parish, S. C., Sept. 15, 1731.
II. George Smith.
III. Ann Smith.
IV. Martha Smith.
Mary Smith (daughter of George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer) married Rev. Mathew Bassett, pastor of the Independent Church of Charleston, and died with her infant, at its birth, 1756.
Archer Smith (second son of George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer), b. 1702, married, and had five sons, George, John, Thomas, Archer, and Danell, and two daughters, Sarah and Susannah.
The third wife of Peter Taylor, whom he married after the death of Sabina Smith, was Ann Moore (widow Savarose). They were married October 21, 1762. By this third marriage Peter Taylor had one son, of whom there is no further record.
George Smith3, son of second Landgrave Thomas Smith, mar- ried (Dec. 13, 1723) Rebecca Blake, daughter of Gov. Joseph Blake and Elizabeth Axtell (widow Turgis). The marriage settle- ment is dated June 10, 1717. In an indenture by Elizabeth Blake, Rebecca Blake, Thomas Smith, and Mary, his wife (Mis- cellaneous Records, Probate Office, page 537), Rebecca is spelled Rebakah.
Elizabeth Axtell married, first, Francis Turgis; married, second, Governor Joseph Blake.
Joseph Boone married Ann Alexander, born Axtell, widow of John Alexander and daughter of Landgrave Daniel Axtell and Rebekah, his wife, who was sister to Elizabeth Axtell, who mar- ried, first, Francis Turgis, and married, second, Governor Joseph Blake.
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The high standing of members of the family in the community is shown by the number of them selected to guarantee. the solvency of the paper money issued by the government. Among them we may name :
Roger Moore Smith, eldest son of Thomas Smith and Sarah Moore. He was a merchant of high standing and credit, living in handsome style. He married Miss Mary Rutledge, sister of Gov. John Rutledge, who married his sister, Sarah Smith. He was the father of a large family, including the talented Thomas Rhett Smith.
John Ernest Poyas, M. D., was another signer. He married a daughter of Henry Smith, third Landgrave, Catherine Smith.
Benjamin Waring, another signer, was a cousin and connection of the family. He was a planter in the neighborhood of St. George, Dorchester; one of the first settlers of Columbia, S. C. He married a daughter of Archer Smith and Edith Waring. Archer was a grandson of first Landgrave Smith.
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