Lt. Nehemiah Smith

• SMITH, NEHEMIAH
• - DAR Ancestor #: A106545
• Service:
• CONNECTICUT Rank: LIEUTENANT
• Birth:
• 10-30-1733 GROTON CONNECTICUT
• Death:
• 5-4-1810 GROTON CONNECTICUT
• Service Description:
• 1) CAPT WHITING, COL MCCLELLAN -tcd

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Page 187.

Nehemiah served under Capt. Robert Denison, third company, first regiment, Conn, troops, in Johnson's fight at Lake George in 1755 (French and Indian War Rolls, 1:10). For an account of this fight, see Avery's History of the United States and Its People, volume 4, pages 80 to 90.

Nehemiah Smith also served in the Revolutionary war as lieutenant in Samuel McClellan's reg't (Conn. Men in the Rev'n, p. 543). His wife d. Aug. 8, 1797; he d. May 4, 1810, 1755. both at Ledyard.

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Lieut. Nehemiah Smith's house stood on a lot east of the Bill parsonage, only the cellar now remains to locate the place. He was son of John and Temperance (Holmes) Smith, of Groton, and was born Oct. 30, 1733. He married May 3, 1758, Abigail Avery, daughter of Benjamin and Thankful Avery and died May 4, 1810. He served in the Revolutionary War as first lieutenant in Capt. William Whitney's Company in Col. Samuel Mc- Clellan's regiment, which was raised for one year's service from March, 1778. They served in Tyler's brigade under Sullivan in Rhode Island, August and September, 1778. He had eight children of whom one died young.

source: History of the town of Ledyard, 1650-1900

By John Avery

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