John ‘Farmer’ Smith, of Taunton

Not the same as John Smith, Sr.

John Smith

• b.Ab 1637 Norfolk, England
• d.Bef 16 Dec 1691 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
• F. Henry Smith (1607 - 1683) & M. Elizabeth _ (1603 - 1670) m. 31 Jan 1630
• married 1) Lydia Eliot 2) Jael Packard

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The names of the children of John Smith, Sen.:

1. Elizabeth, 1658 - Bef 1663
2. Lydia, 1660 - 1720

John Smith, Senior, mar. Jael Parker of Bridgewater, Nov. 15, 1672.

• (3) Deborah, born March 7, 1676.
• (4) Homer, born March 22, 1678.
• (5) John, born Dec. 6, 1680.

Will

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Smith_%28286%29

Bristol County Probate Records, in Greenlaw, Lucy Hall. The genealogical advertiser : a quarterly magazine of family history. (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States: Lucy Hall Greenlaw) 4:124-5.

• John Smith of Taunton "being mindfull of my mortallitie", made his will June 3, 1690, proved Jan. 12, 1691-2.
• My estate to be appraised, except either 10 or 12 acres, as he shall choose, which I give to Nicholas Jones, my wife's son, estate then to be divided;
• to son John £30 more than an equal share with the rest;
• son Seth and my four daughters to share equally;
• sons John and Seth are to have all lands and buildings, of which John shall have a choice,
• my sons to pay their sisters what the lands and buildings shall amount to more than their part;
• estate to be divided when son John is 21.
• Capt. Thomas Leonard of this town, and my loving brother Samuel Smith of Medfield to be executors.

Inventory of the estate of John Smith Sen'r of Taunton taken Dec. 16, 1691 by Henry Hodges and Shadrack Wilbor.

!SOURCE: New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol. 59 [1905], 107-8. Bristol Co. Deeds, vol. 4, 143. Chaffin, History of Easton, MA, 73-4. FOOTNOTE:1*Bowling, Alice Christine, The Ancestors and Family of John Lawson Packard

Died in 1690's.

PIEMD & GDFSNE say "John Smith m. Jael Packard 15 Nov 1672".

HESB says "John Smith m. Jael Packard".

UMP says "John Smith, p. Henry Smith, m. Jael Packard 1672".

PAFA says "John Smith m. Lydia Eliot, m. Jael Packard 15 Nov 1672, will 6 Jun

1690, prob. 1 Jan 1691/2".

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-38036
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Smith_%28286%29
• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of ..., Volume 4. By William Richard Cutter. Page 2127. GoogleBooks