Early settler of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His ancestors said he had come "to this country from the Island of Jersey, on the coast of Normandy, sometime previous to 1684" (as stated in the book "Descendants of Edward Small of New England and the allied families with tracings of English Ancestry") http://books.google.com/books?id=FYZRAAAAMAAJ&dq=descendants%20of%20edward%20small%20of%20new%20england%20volume%201&pg=PA317#v=onepage&q&f=false)