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James SMITH, UEL[1]

Male 1758 - 1822  (64 years)


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  • Name James SMITH  [2] 
    Suffix UEL 
    Born 5 Aug 1758  [3] 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aug 1822  [3] 
    Person ID I450  Jay Moore Family Tree
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2020 

    Father Capt. Austin SMITH, UEL
              d. Abt 1788 
    Mother Mehitable TUTHILL 
    Married Y  [4] 
    Family ID F1087  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah HAWKSWORTH
              b. 6 Jul 1764
              d. 17 Apr 1840, Malahide Twp., Oxford County, London District, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 1783  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth SMITH
              b. 18 Apr 1784, Wilmot Township, NS Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 Mar 1871, Rockford, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    Last Modified 3 Jun 2014 
    Family ID F163  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • F. K. Smith lists three children of Austin Smith and Mehitable Tuthill and James is not included. In the Moore Collection, however, there is a letter from Francis Smith of Wilmot NS, 30 Mar 1818 to his brother James Smith of Charlotteville, Upper Canada.

      James Smith named his grandson, James Moore, as the inheritor of his farm in Woodhouse Twp. at the south-west corner of Hwy # 24 and County Rd. 10, the Turkey Point Rd. It was clear that the Smiths didn't approve of their son-in-law, Enoch Moore, and passed over him in the will. The intersection where the farm stood became known as Moores Corners.

      James and Hanna Smith moved to Norfolk County, Upper Canada in 1815 after their daughter, Elizabeth, had moved there.
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      The Moore archives contain an original certificate signed by prominent citizens of Annapolis County attesting to the Loyalist attribute of James Smith which he carried with him when he and his wife relocated to Upper Canada in 1815. The transcription follows>

      "To All Whom It May Concern:

      We the undersigned Inhabitants of Wilmot in the County of Annapolis Province of Nova Scotia do hereby certify that the Bearer hereof Mr. James Smith is a Loyalist who Emigrated into this province in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty two from New York at the Cessation of Hostilities of the then Existing American War that he has ever supported an unimpeachable character and has been a useful settler and a good Member of Society, is now about to removed from this Country to Upper Canada to which place we are gratified in bearing testimony of his Loyalty and reputation during the span of thirty-three years, his stay in this Country.

      Nova Scotia
      1815

      P.M. Beardsley Lt. Col. 20th Batt. _ _ J.N. Ruggles Justice of the Peace
      G. R. Winniett Sheriff of Annapolis Nathan Barker Maj. 20th Batt.
      Thomas Millidge David Nichols Capt. 20th Batt. N.s. Militia
      Curtis Rutulorum County of Annapolis Beriah Bent, Capt.
      Aaron Gisner Maj. 9th Batt. N.S. Militia John Burbidg Lieut. 20th Batt.
      Caleb Slocomb
      Robert Stone Clerk 20th Batt." [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S18] Family History of Richard Smith, Frederick Kinsman Smith, CITED BY JAMES H. MOORE IN HIS DESCRIPTION OF RICHARD SMITH. (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S13] Moore - Moores in Early America, James Henry Moore, (Manuscript compiled and written by James Henry Moore, 1985).

    3. [S14] Moore - Personal files of James Henry Moore, James Henry Moore.

    4. [S226] Smith Family Genealogy, Frederick Kinsman Smith, (The Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, Long island NY 1967).