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Jane Houston (Smith)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: St. George, Richmond County, New York
Death: September 19, 1796 (40)
Lawrenceville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States
Place of Burial: Lawrenceville, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Rev. Caleb Smith and Martha Smith
Wife of William C. Houston, Continental Congressman
Mother of Margaret McAdoo; George Smith Houston; Louisa Anna Van Cleve; Eliza Smith Phillips; Churchill Houston and 2 others
Sister of Ann Dickinson Van Cleve; Apollos Smith; Elizabeth Smith and Fanny E. Weikart
Half sister of Appollos Smith

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About Jane Houston

Churchill Houston was a son of New Jersey Continental Congress member and the distinguished patriot of the American Revolution, William Churchill Houston (1740-1788), and his wife Jane Smith (d. 1796) whose father was Rev. Caleb Smith, of St. George's Manor, Long Island, by his wife Martha, daughter of Jonathan Dickinson, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, the first president of the College of New Jersey.

William Churchill and Jane (Smith) Houston had five children, viz: two sons, George Smith Houston married to Mary Forman;, William Churchill Houston, Jr., who settled in Philadelphia, and was prominently identified with the business interests of that city until his death and married to Susan Somers; and three daughters, Elizabeth married Horace G. Phillips, who removed to Dayton Ohio, about 1804; Louisa Ann married to Dr. John Vancleve of Princeton; and Mary. [Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III and New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800].


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Jane Houston's Timeline

1755
September 28, 1755
St. George, Richmond County, New York
1761
June 11, 1761
Guilford County, North Carolina
1780
1780
1782
January 5, 1782
St. George's Manor, Setauket, Suffolk County, New York, United States
1783
1783
1785
1785
New Jersey, United States
1785
Probably Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1796
September 19, 1796
Age 40
Lawrenceville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States
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