Elizabeth (Smith) Smith

Elizabeth Smith Smith BIRTH 1602, England DEATH 16 Mar 1686 (aged 83–84), South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 6651028

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Her surname has been identified as Smith(or Smyth) from parish registers of St.Margaret's, Whatfield, Co. Suffolk where her marriage to Samuel is recorded. Earlier resources indicating her surname to have been "Chileab" have been refuted. NEHGS has indicated that her origins will be detailed in upcoming issues of the Register in Summer and Fall 2020.

Spouse Samuel Smith, 1601–1680 (m. 1624)

Children Samuel Smith, 1625–1688 Elizabeth Smith Gull, 1627–1668 Mary Smith Graves, 1628–1668 Philip Smith, 1630–1631 Philip Smith, 1632–1685 Chileab Smith, 1636–1731 John Smith, 1637–1676

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Elizabeth Smith, the wife of Samuel Smith, has sometimes been named as Elizabeth Chileab. This probably occurred in one of the early genealogies of this family because they named one of their sons Chileab and then the error has been passed on through the years in subsequent genealogies. The following article documents that Samuel Smith's wife was Elizabeth Smith and not Elizabeth Chileab.

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Elizabeth SMITH - b. about 1602, England; d. Mar. 16, 1686, South Hadley, MA. To America in the 'Elizabeth' in April 1634 with husband and four children.

Article from The American Genealogist, Vol. 32, p. 195. THE WIFE OF LT. SAMUEL SMITH OF WETHERSFIELD, by Paul W. Prindle, B.S., of New York, N.Y.

The wife of Lieutenant Samuel Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut., has often been named erroneously as Elizabeth Chileab. The following article appeared in abbreviated form in "The Hartford Times, " 8 Jan 1956.

About one year after their arrival from England, Lt. Samuel Smith's wife gave birth to a son,1 to whom they gave the unusual name of Chileab. Someone, possibly Stiles (he must at least be charged with responsibility for passing on the fiction in his "History of Ancient Wethersfield 2:646), assumed that this unusual name must have been the surname of the mother.

It is unfortunate that Stiles failed to consult his Bible concordance. Had he done so, he would have learned that Lt. Smith, a devout man who made a bequest of a Bible in his will to each of his grandchildren gave biblical names to each one of his other sons, - Samuel, Philip and John, - and Chileab was no exception; the original Chileab was the son of King David by Abigail (II Samuel, 111;3). According to Rev. William Jenks, "Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible" (1836), Chileab signifies "like his father, or the father's picture."

Due to the unusual circumstances of Chileab"s birth, Abigail being the lawful wife of Nabal the Carmelite, we may reasonable ascribe the touching choice of the babe's name to Abigail rather than to David. In any event in the 7 Oct. 1929 issue of "The Boston Evening Transcript," one C.D.A. wrote, in answer to query 8072-15. If Lieutenant Smith had named the child Chedorlaomer, Jaazaniah, Yephibosneth, or Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( all biblical masculine names), there would have been as much ground for assuming the selected name was the family name of Elizabeth as there was that it was Chileab.

The identity of Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, has been determined within the bounds of probability acceptable to careful genealogists. As long ago as 14 Aug 1943, the late Dr. Ray G.Hulbert, in his answer to query A-2442-(6) in "The Hartford Times," gave the facts, which have been repeated on a number of occasions, once at least by the present contributor. Nevertheless, to bring all the known facts together, perhaps for the first time the following account is presented to lay the ghost of Elizabeth Chileab.

The parish registers of St. Margarets's, Whatfield, Co.,Suffolk, England, show the Oct 6, 1624 marriage of Samuel Smyth to Elizabeth Smyth, and the baptism of their son Samuel on Feb 8, 1625 (1625/6?). The young couple next appear at Hadleigh, co. Suffolk, three miles south of Whatfield where, at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, they baptized Elizabeth on Jan 28, 1627 (probably New Style); Mary, Oct. 9, 1628 and Philip, November1632.

The Smith, Smyth, Smithe (all interchangeable, of course) family embarked "the last of Aprill, 1634, for New England, in the "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, Mr. Wm. Andrews, "Master" (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, 14:329; Hotten' s "Original Lists," pp. 280, 282; Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; James William Hook , "Lieut. Samuel Smith (1953), p. 1.The ship's list shows the following ages for the members of the Smith family:"Samuell Smithe,"; 32; "Elizabeth his wife," 32; and children of "Sam. Smith:" Samuel, 9; Elizabeth, 7; Mary, 4; Philip, 1.

The ages of the children Samuel, Elizabeth, and Philip exactly correspond with their respective dates of baptism. Mary, however, was 5, not 4. Actually, this record represents a high degree of accuracy. Most ages taken from ships' lists (and from gravestones and census records as well) are questionable unless confirmed by other contemporary records.

There remains little room for doubt that the baptismal records shown above taken from the parish registers in Whatfield and Hadleigh, are of the children who sailed on the "Elizabeth" from Ipswich only ten miles east of Hadleigh, co. Suffolk and that Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, was a Smith before her marriage.

POSTED BY:

• Walter G. Ashworth 7th Great Grandson

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Children:

Samuel Smith was born on 6 Oct 1625 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died in 1712 in Northumberland, Virginia at age 87.

Elizabeth Smith was born on 28 Jan 1626 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died on 16 Dec 1668 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts at age 42.

Mary Smith was born in Oct 1628 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died on 16 Dec 1668 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts at age 40.

Phillip Smith was born on 25 Nov 1632 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England and died on 10 Jan 1685 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts at age 52.

Chileab Smith was born in 1635 in Wethersfield, Connecticut and died on 7 Mar 1731 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts at age 96.

John Smith was born in 1637 in Wethersfield, Connecticut and died on 30 May 1676 at age 39.

The wife of Lieutenant Samuel Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut., has often been named erroneously as Elizabeth Chileab. The following article appeared in abbreviated form in "The Hartford Times, " 8 Jan 1956.

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Her parentage and origins are unknown at this time, though her surname has been identified as Smith(or Smyth) from parish registers of St.Margaret's, Whatfield, Co. Suffolk where her marriage to Samuel is recorded. Earlier resources indicating her surname to have been "Chileab" have been refuted.

References

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