Henry Smith

Not the son of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield.

Henry Smith

• Born by 1610 in Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England
• Son of (unknown Smith) and Frances (Unknown) Pynchon
• Husband of Anne (Pynchon) Smith — married about 1639 in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, America
• Father of Ann (Smith) Allyn, Mary Smith, Maria (Smith) Hooker II, Martha Smith, Margaret Smith, Sarah Smith, Margaret Smith, Elisha Smith, Rebecca (Smith) Lee, Samuel Smith, Abigail Smith and Elizabeth (Smith) Galpin
• Died before 24 Oct 1682 in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England

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Disambiguation

These are different and unrelated men.

• Henry Smith of Medfield married Elizabeth
• Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield married 1) unknown 2) Dorothy
• Henry Smith of Rehoboth married Judith Ray
• Henry Smith married Ann Pynchon [This profile]

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Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-11646

Origins

Henry was born in England about 1610, a son of Frances (Unknown) Smith Sanford Pynchon and her first husband, Unknown Smith.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Immigration

Henry and his widowed mother, Frances (Unknown) Smith, sailed to Boston from England in 1630 on the Mary & John.[3] Frances was described as "a grave matron of the church at Dorchester."[5] She was the widow of 1) Unknown Smith, 2) Dr. Tobiah Sandford.[5]

William Pynchon sailed, with his first wife, in 1630 on the Arabella, the flagship of the Winthrop fleet. He was "one of the Patentees of the Charter granted by King Charles I to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 18 Mar. 1628/9." [6]

"Henry Smith living in New England" was in the 1634 list compiled by Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England [NEHGR 61:280].[1]

Family

Marriage

Henry Smith married c. 1635 his step-sister, Anne Pynchon, the daughter of William Pynchon and his first wife, Ann (Andrew) Pynchon.[2] Anne's father, William Pynchon, married as his 2nd, and as her third, to Frances (Unknown) Smith Sanford who was Henry's mother.[2]

Children

The 12 children of Henry Smith and Anne Pynchon, per Anderson:[1]. Born in New England.

• Anne/Hannah Smith, b say 1635; m John Allyn, of Hartford
• Elisha Smith, b say 1637
• Mary Smith, b say 1639, bur 15 Nov 1641 Springfield
• Martha Smith, b 31 Jul 1641; m by 1681 to Unknown Cammock
• Mary Smith, b 7 Mar 1642/3; m 1) Richard Lord, 2) Thomas Hooker
• Elizabeth Smith, b 22 Oct 1644; unmar. 1681
• Margaret Smith, b 26 Apr 1646, d 24 Jun 1648
• Sarah Smith, b 8 Aug 1647, d 30 Jun 1648
• Margaret Smith, b 1 Nov 1648, no further record
• Rebecca Smith, b 1 Apr 1650; m Unknown Lee of Wraysbury, England
• Samuel Smith, b 23 Jun 1651, d 14 Jun 1652
• Abigail Smith, b 10 Feb 1652/3, no further record

Elizabeth, Mary, and Rebecca Smith were mentioned in the will (4 Oct 1662) of their grandfather, William Pynchon.[8]

Note: Winthrop Society reports only eight children: Anna, Elisha, Martha, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Rebecca, Abigail.[3]

1652 - Returned to England

Henry Smith returned to England in 1652 with his wife Ann and her father, William Pynchon and Henry's mother Frances, William Pynchon's wife.[6]

Death and Legacy

Henry died in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England between 1 August 1681 and 24 October 1682.[1]

Henry made his will August 1, 1681, and the will was proved October 24, 1682. His wife, Ann, survived him.[6]

Henry Smith of Wraysbury, Bucss., 1 August 1G81, proved 24 October 1682. My body to be buried in a decent manner. I do give unto my daughter Martha Cairiock five shillings. To my daughter Mary Lord in New England five shillings. To my daughter Rebecca Lee five shillings. To my son Elisha Smith five shillings. To my daughter Elizabeth Smith not yet disposed of in marriage, I do give fifty pounds, to be paid at the time of her marriage, if she survive after her mother. I do, out of that dear and tender love I bear unto my beloved wife, Mrs. Anna Smith, give and bequeath all and singular my goods, chattels, leases, debts, ready money, plate, rings, household stuff, apparel, brass, pewter, bedding and all other my substance whatsoever, movable or immovable, quick and dead, of what nature, quality or condition the same are or be, as well in my own possession as in the hands and possession of any other person whatsoever, to her own proper use and liehoof, whom I do hereby ordain and appoint to be my only executrix.[7]
xxiv° Octobris 1682. Which day appeared personally Cuthbert Walker of the parish of St. Gregories' London, haberdasher, aged about fifty, and Rebecca Lee, of Wraysbury in the County of Bucks., widow, aged about thirty years, one of the daughters of the deceased, being severally sworn upon the Holy Evangelists deposed that they were well acquainted with the within named Henry Smith, the testator deceased, and with his manner or character of handwriting, and having perused the will within written and the name Henry Smith thereto subscribed believe the same to be all wrote with the proper handwriting of the said deceased. Jurati coram Rich Lloyd Surr. Cottle, 123.[7]

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St Andrew's Church

The parish church of St Andrew is a Gothic structure, intermediate between Norman and Early English, supposed to have been built by King John.[11] The parish registers date from the year 1734.[7. William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, died in Wraysbury in 1662 and was buried at St Andrew's Church. (Presume other family members buried there also.)

References

• Anderson, Robert Charles, (1995) "Henry Smith," Featured name. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. AmericanAncestors.org NEHGS (Volumes I-III, Page 2386). AmericanAncestors
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~alford/genealogy/tsmithd.pdf has errors