Thomas Smith

The above photo from Ancestry.com may depict the Smith Farmstead at Windy Bush, Bucks County, PA., and the source mentioned on Ancestry was the National Register Nomination Form at http://www.arch.state.pa.us.

Thomas Croasdale Smith was the son of William Wilberfoss Smith, the immigrant, and Mary Croasdale Smith. He was born in Wrightstown Township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1696. He died February 27, 1750, on Windy Bush Farm, in Upper Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married in 1727 Elizabeth Sanders, the daughter of Robert and Mary Large Sanders. Elizabeth was born October 20, 1706. She died sometime after 1750.

After his marriage, Thomas Smith took up his residence at Windy Bush in Upper Makefield Township near the point where the four townships of Buckingham, Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join. This was on a track surveyed to his father in 1706 by Penns' land commissioners.

Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Sanders Smith had the following children:

Thomas Sanders Smith, born June 18, 1728, married Marry Ross

Samuel (Captain) born January 17, 1729/30, died February 14, 1812, married 1750 at Buckingham Meeting, Jane, daughter of John and Ann Lenoir Schofield of Solebury. She died October 19, 1815, aged 89 years.

William B., born January 6, 1731/32, married December 25, 1754, Ann Williamson

Elizabeth, born 1734, married October 29, 1755 at Buckingham Meeting, Anthony Hartley, died 1769

Mary, born May 11, 1738, married James Wood November 23, 1752, died 1771, London Grove, PA

Margaret, born May 11, 1738, died October 13, 1817, married November 28, 1758, Thomas Kinsey at Buckingham Meeting, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Crew Kinsey. He was born about 1734/5, died 1816 at London Grove, Chester county, Pennsylvania.

Ephraim, born September 16, 1739, Upper Makefield, Bucks, PA, married June 12, 1765, Rachel Hartley, died July 7, 1813.

Jacob, born January 29,1744, Upper Makefield, Bucks, PA, married Phebe Collins, daughter of Jonathan and Ann Collins, died 1827, in Preble, Ohio.

The abstract of the will of Thomas Smith of Upper Makefield, made April 21, 1750, proved May 18, 1750, is as follows:

Son, Thomas, part of tract whereon I now live, on the road leading from Canby's Ferry to Wrightstown, adjoining John Trego.

Son, Samuel, remainder of the tract. These two sons were to do certain things for their mother, Elizabeth Smith.

Son, Ephraim, two youngest sons, and under age.

Son, William, two youngest sons, and under age.

Elizabeth

Mary

Margaret

Executors -- My sons, Thomas and Samuel, and to be advised by my brother, William Smith, as trustee.

Witnesses--Thomas Atkinson, William Lee, Jr., Ezekiel Atkinson.

Sources: Bucks County Wills; "History of Bucks County, PA," by William W.H. Davis; "Genealogy of William Smith of Wrightstown" by Josiah B. Smith; Friends' Meeting Records in Bucks County, PA; Pennsylvania Archives, Marriages.

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Geni World Family Tree MyHeritage The Geni World Family Tree is found on <A href="http://www.geni.com" target="_blank">www.Geni.com</a>. Geni is owned and operated by MyHeritage. https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-56636126/thomas-sm... Event: Record Role: 40000:56636126: Thomas Smith&lt;br&gt;Gender: Male&lt;br&gt;Birth: Dec 20 1696 - Wrightstown, Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania&lt;br&gt;Marriage: Spouse: Elizabeth Smith (born Sanders) - June 1727 - Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania&lt;br&gt;Death: Feb 27 1750 - WIndy Bush Farm, Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania&lt;br&gt;Father: <a>William Wilberfoss Smith</a>&lt;br&gt;Mother: <a>Agnes Mary Smith (born Croasdale)</a>&lt;br&gt;Wife: <a>Elizabeth Smith (born Sanders)</a>&lt;br&gt;Children: <a>Thomas Sanders Smith</a>, <a>Hannah Richmond (born Smith)</a>, <a>Samuel Smith</a>, <a>William B. Smith</a>, <a>Elizabeth Toland (born Smith)</a>, <a>Mary Smith</a>, <a>Margaret Kinsey (born Smith)</a>, <a>Ephriam Smith</a>, <a>Ephraim Smith</a>, <a>Jacob Smith</a>&lt;br&gt;Siblings: <a>Margaret Oglesby (born Smith)</a>, <a>Elizabeth Watson (born Smith)</a>, <a>Mary Atkinson (born Smith)</a>, <a>William Smith</a>, <a>Hannah Lee (born Smith)</a>, <a>Lydia Heaton (born Smith)</a>

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Biography

Death ===1750<ref>Source: #S73 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page Data: Text: Ofthe eight children of the first marriage,Thomas Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.  He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders,and took up his residence at “Windy Bush,” in Upper Makefield township, near the point where the four townships of Buckingham,Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn’s land commissioners.  He diedin 1750. </ref>

Note ===Samuel Smith, the second of the eight children of Thomas and Elizabeth(Sanders) Smith, was born at Windy Bush, 1 mo. 17, 1729-30.  (March 17, 1730), and died there 2 mo. 14, 1812.  He married in 1750, at Buckingham Friends’ Meeting, Jane, the daughter of John and Ann (Lenoir) Schofield, of Solebury, who died 10 mo. 29, 1815, at the age of eighty-nine years. 

:: Page 634 DAVIS

Event ===DAVIS: CHARLES J. SMITH, of Buckingham, one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of that vicinity, is a representative of two of the oldest families of Buckingham.  He is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Johnson) Smith, and was born in Buckingham, on the farm on which he now resides, September 15, 1865.

:::  ::: The pioneer ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Robert and William Smith, both natives of Yorkshire, England, though not knownto be of common ancestry, both of whom settled near Wrightstown, Bucks county.  William Smith was the first to arrive, coming in 1684 in aship which landed its passengers at New Castle, now Delaware, from which point William Smith, then a young and unmarried man, engaged passage on a boat up the river, and was entertained for some time at the house of Phinehas Pemberton, a native of Yorkshire, who was at that timeone of the most prominent men of the little Quaker colony on the Delaware.  On 9 mo. 20, 1690, William Smith married Mary Croasdale, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, who had come from Settle, in Yorkshire, in 1682, in the “Welcome.” They were married at the house ofJohn Chapman, the pioneer settler of Wrightstown, from whom William Smith made his first purchase of land, adjoining Penn’s Park.  Mary (Croasdale) Smith died in 1716, and in 1720 William Smith married a second wife, Mercy, by whom he had seven children.  He died in 1743.  Of the eight children of the first marriage, Thomas Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.  He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders,and took up his residence at “Windy Bush,” in Upper Makefield township, near the point where the four townships of Buckingham, Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of landsurveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn’s land commissioners.  He died in 1750.  :::  ::: Samuel Smith, the second of the eight children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sanders) Smith, was born at Windy Bush, 1 mo. 17, 1729-30.  (March 17, 1730), and died there 2 mo. 14,1812.  He married in 1750, atBuckingham Friends’ Meeting, Jane, the daughter of John and Ann (Lenoir) Schofield, of Solebury, who died 10 mo. 29, 1815, at the age of eighty-nine years.  Ann Smith, the third of the ten children of Samuel and Jane, was born 11 mo. 15, 1754, and died in 1854 at the age of ninety-nine years, ten months and twenty-seven days.  She married at Wrightstown Meeting, 11 mo. 19, 1774, Joseph Smith, a grandson of Robert Smith, the other pioneer of the name.  :::  ::: Robert Smith is said to have come from England with a brother Timothy and two or three sisters, the parents dying on the passage to America.  He was a resident of Makefield in 1710, when he witnessed the marriage of his sister Ruth to Joshua Cheesman.  His brother Timothy married Rachel Milnor in 1716, and became a prominent man in the community.  Robert Smith married, 7 mo. 30, 1719, Phebe Canby, daughter ofThomas Canby, one of the most prominent men of his time, a preacher among Friends, and many years a member of colonial assembly.  Robert Smith settled on a farm in Buckingham, adjoining the Makefield farm of William Smith, and died there 6 mo. 26, 1745.  The house built by himon this tract in 1738 was the home of his descendants for six generations.  He was an overseer of Buckingham Meeting, and his wife was an approved minister among Friends.  She married in 1753, Hugh Ely, of Buckingham, and died 1 mo. 19, 1774.  :::  ::: Timothy Smith, the second of the nine children of Robert and Phebe (Canby) Smith, was born 1 mo. 29, 1722, and died 5 mo. 14, 1798.  He married at Buckingham Meeting, 2 mo. 17, 1745, Sarah Kinsey, daughter of Edmund and Sarah Ogburn Kinsey, early settlers at the site of Buckingham meeting house, where Edmund was an approved minister.  Sarah Kinsey Smith died 5 mo. 17, 1812. :::  ::: Joseph Smith, fourth of the seven children of Timothy and Sarah (Kinsey) Smith, was born in Buckingham, 7 mo. 7, 1753, and died at Smithtown, in Tinicum township, Bucks county, 9 mo. 28, 1826.  He was theinventor and patentee of the first plow with an iron mouldboard, and in connection with his brother Robert engaged in their manufacture in 1800.  In 1802 he removed to Smithtown and erected dwellings and shops, and carried on the manufacture of plows until his death in 1826.  It was in these shops that anthracite coal was first successfully usedfor fuel about 1812.  He married, as above stated, Ann Smith, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Schofield) Smith, of the other branch of the family. :::  ::: William Smith, the third of the twelve children of Joseph and AnnSmith, was born in Buckingham, 6 mo. 3, 1779, and married, in 1804, Margaret Worthington, daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Paxson) Worthington,and granddaughter of Richard Worthington, one of the earliest settlers in lower Buckingham, where Mahlon was born 12 mo. 19, 1750. ::: (Followed by a sketch of Jonathan SMITH, father of Charles J. SMITH) 

Residence

:: Upper Makefield Twp., Bucks, Pennsylvania, British North America :: <ref>Source: #S73 :: Of the eight children of the first marriage,Thomas Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.  He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders,and took up his residence at “Windy Bush,” in Upper Makefield township, near the point where the four townships of Buckingham, Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn’s land commissioners.  He died in 1750. </ref>

Marriage

:: 1727<ref>Source: #S73 :: Of the eight children of the first marriage,Thomas Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.  He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders,and took up his residence at “Windy Bush,” in Upper Makefield township, near the point where the four townships of Buckingham, Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn’s land commissioners.  He died in 1750. </ref>

:: 1690<ref>Source: #S73 :: The pioneer ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Robert and William Smith, both natives of Yorkshire, England, though not knownto be of common ancestry, both of whom settled near Wrightstown, Bucks county.  William Smith was the first to arrive, coming in 1684 in aship which landed its passengers at New Castle, now Delaware, from which point William Smith, then a young and unmarried man, engaged passage on a boat up the river, and was entertained for some time at the house of Phinehas Pemberton, a native of Yorkshire, who was at that timeone of the most prominent men of the little Quaker colony on the Delaware.  On 9 mo. 20, 1690, William Smith married Mary Croasdale, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, who had come from Settle, in Yorkshire, in 1682, in the “Welcome.” They were married at the house ofJohn Chapman, the pioneer settler of Wrightstown, from whom William Smith made his first purchase of land, adjoining Penn’s Park.  Mary (Croasdale) Smith died in 1716, and in 1720 William Smith married a second wife, Mercy, by whom he had seven children.  He died in 1743.  Of the eight children of the first marriage,Thomas Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.  He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders,and took up his residence at “Windy Bush,” in Upper Makefield township, near the point where the four townships of Buckingham, Wrightstown, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn’s land commissioners.  He died in 1750. </ref><ref>Source: #S73 :: On 9 mo. 20, 1690, William Smith married Mary Croasdale, daughterof Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, who had come from Settle, in Yorkshire, in 1682, in the “Welcome.” They were married at the house of John Chapman, the pioneer settler of Wrightstown, from whom William Smith made his first purchase of land, adjoining Penn’s Park. </ref>

DNA ===Descendant of yDNA group NE52 William Smith (c1668 ENG-1743 PA) m m(1)Mary Croasdale. See SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project.<ref>SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project, haplogroup Rb1 NE52 William Smith.</ref>

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• http://members.home.net/leofoss/Genealogy/index.htm * Source: S73 William W. H. Davis, <i>History ofBucks County, Pennsylvania: Second Edition</i> (New York-Chicago: TheLewis Publishing Company, 1905). :: Note: Free online access to the book (scanned images of the book's actual pages) available at openlibrary.org :: Also, a transcription of the text was published May 2007 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/

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