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Author: abroberts136
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I was able to share with Laura that one brother is in MS and one in FL in December of 2014. The families are working to get to know each other. Don't give up on these old messages, they do bring results.~~~ Angie R.
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Author: tunnelm1
Surnames: Smith, Chew, Waller, Dunn, Byrd, Bird, Cock, Jones
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The referenced John Smith (died in the 1760s in King and Queen Co., VA) who married Mary Beverly Chew was a son of Maurice Smith and Elizabeth (apparently Elizabeth Byrd/Bird). That Maurice Smith was a son of Lt. John Smith and the widow Mrs. Jane (Cock) Jones. and that Maurice Smith was also a grandson of the Alexander Smith who died in the 1690s in Middlesex Co., VA (Alexander Smith had been in Lancaster Co., VA by at least the 1650s). The referenced Maurice Smith moved from Middlesex Co., VA to K & Q by the 1720s or so.
John and Mary Beverly (Chew) Smith had several sons (including the well-known Larkin Smith) and daughters, and two of the sons were yet another John Smith and another Maurice Smith. No one seems to have published anything about those two particular sons. As I recall, there was a John Smith on the 1810 K & Q census, but no Maurice Smith appeared on that census (nor can I seem to find that Maurice Smith on any census anywhere else....so MAYBE he died by 1810). Does anyone know if the John Smith who was on the 1810 K & Q census (or any later census)was the son of John and Mary Beverly (Chew) Smith? In any case, does anyone know if either of those two sons named John Smith and Maurice Smith married and/or fathered any children of their own?
Y chromosome DNA testing on one of my mother's male cousins proves that my mother's paternal family was part of the above Alexander Smith family, and it appears that my mother's great-grandfather was a "Smith infant/toddler" from this family who was taken-in, named and reared by a Brown family of Essex and Middlesex Co., VA around 1817. There were three John Smiths in the Essex/Middlesex Co., VA area in the 1800s who are possibilities to have been the biological father (or possibly grandfather) of my mother's "Smith great-grandfather," and they are:
1) The John Smith who married Mary Dunn (a daughter of John Dunn and Judith Edmondson). This John Smith was very possibly a member of my Alexander Smith family....and my own Family Finder (FF) DNA test at Family Tree DNA shows that I have some "matching donors" whose ancestries include members of this Dunn family. This John Smith bought land in Essex Co., VA from his wife's parents in 1802. Several clues seem to make this particular John Smith as my mother's most likely ancestor....but certainly no proof.
2) The John Smith (apparently born in the late-1780s or so) who appeared on the 1830-1870 Middlesex Co., VA censuses and who apparently married Fanny M. Stiff and Sarah Barrick. This John Smith (whose middle initial was apparently "R") was very possibly a member of my Alexander Smith family, especially since this John Smith family was very closely associated with the family that took-in, named and reared my mother's great-grandfather. I do not know where this John Smith was before he appeared on a record in Middlesex Co., VA by the 1820s.
3) The John Smith who married Sarah Waller in 1788. Unlike the other two John Smiths in this list of three, I know for a fact that this John Smith was a member of my Alexander Smith family, per available documentation. This "branch" of the Alexander Smith family did NOT move to K & Q. My FF test also shows some "matching donors" who show the Waller family in their ancestries.
I am wondering if one or both of the above John Smiths in bullets 1 and 2 were perhaps out of John and Mary Beverly (Chew) Smith. If anyone has any comments on the above, please post them here. Thanks. I realize that K & Q being a "badly burned county" makes research there very difficult.
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