Col. James Smith

Biography

From http://kentuckyancestors.org/colonel-james-smiths-death-verified/

James Smith (November 26, 1737 – April 11, 1813[1]%29 was a frontiersman, farmer and soldier in British North America. In 1765, he led the "Black Boys", a group of Pennsylvania men, in a nine-month rebellion against British rule ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. He participated in the war as a colonel of the Pennsylvania militia and was a legislator in the Kentucky General Assembly. Smith was also an author, publishing his analysis of Native American methods of fighting in his Narrative[2] in 1799.

According to the May 8, 1813, edition of the Kentucky newspaper The Reporter, "DIED, at the house of Mr. John Rodgers, Green County, on Sunday, the 11th of April, Colonel JAMES SMITH, late of Bourbon County ... after an illness of four weeks" from an unspecified "disease"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Smith_(frontiersman)_

Parents Added From: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-276437791-3-501115/jam...

Marriage in May of 1763. Unsourced.

When the American War of Independence broke out, James Smith joined the Pennsylvania militia and was made a colonel in 1777. He also represented Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania at the 1776 Constitutional Convention.

Sources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Smith_%28frontiersman%29#America...

Familysearch:

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KCRN-Y9F

Findagrave:

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110681318/james-smith