William ‘Wilberfoss’ Smith, Jr.

William ‘Wilberfoss’ Smith

• Born 22 Jan 1669 in Wighton, Hull Parish, Yorkshire, England
• Died 20 Apr 1743 at age 74 in Wrightstown, Bucks, Pennsylvania
• Son of William Smith and Jane Wilberfoss
• Husband of Mary Agnes (Croasdale) Smith — married 20 Sep 1690 in Wrightstown, Bucks, Pennsylvania
• Husband of Mercy (Brock) Smith — married 1720 in Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-3758

William Smith (Jr.) was born on 22 Jan 1668/69 in Wighton, Hull Parish, Burt, Yorkshire, England and his parents were Jane (Wilberfoss) and William Smith (Sr.)

He was baptized on 21 May 1671 at Bramham, Yorkshire, England. [1]

He was a Quaker who emigrated from England to America accompanied by William Penn, [2] arriving at Pennsylvania on the ship "Welcome" in 1682. [3]

In 1684 he was the second "white man" to settle in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania.

William Smith (Jr.) first married on 20 Sep 1690 in Wrightstown Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Mary Croasdale [2] and they had 9 children born there including ...

1. Margaret Smith, b: 20 Aug 1691; d: 04 Aug 1770 Solebury Twp, Bucks Co, PA; m1: 25 Sep 1712 Enoch Pearson; m2: 14 Jan 1753 William Oglesby
2. Elizabeth Smith, b: 1694; d: 1729, Buckingham Twp, Bucks Co, PA; m: 08 Feb 1717/18 Thomas Watson
3. Mary Smith, b: 09 Feb 1695/96; d: 04 Jul 1756 Upper Makefield, Bucks, PA
4. William Smith, b: 02 Nov 1697; d: 29 Sep 1777
5. Hannah Smith, b: 1698
6. Sarah Smith, b: 26 Nov 1700; d: 15 Jun 1781; m: 1721 Samuel Blaker
7. Lydia Smith, b: 1707; m: c1725 Joseph Heaton
8. Thomas Smith, b: 16 Jun 1699; d: 1750 Windy Bush Farm, Bucks Co, PA.

His wife Mary died about 1716 and William married secondly about 1720 in Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania to Mercy Brock [2] and they had 7 children born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania including ...

1. Joseph Smith, b: 01 Jan 1721/22
2. John Smith, b: 15 Jan 1723/24
3. Ralph Smith, b: 28 Oct 1725; d: Apr 1784 Ninety Six District, SC
4. Esther Smith, b: 11 Nov 1727
5. Elizabeth Smith, b: 10 Sep 1730; d: 03 Aug 1769 Solebury Twp, Bucks Co, PA
6. Samuel Smith, b: 23 Aug 1733
7. David Smith, b: 25 Apr 1736; d: 1801 SC

William Smith's will dated 13th of the 10th month 1740. Proved 20 April 1743. Abstract names family. [4]

William Smith (Jr.) died on 30 Oct 1743 in Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [5]

DNA

Descendant of yDNA group NE52 William Smith (c1668 ENG-1743 PA) m1: Mary Croasdale. [6]

Note

The book "A friendly heritage along the Delaware; the Taylors of Washington Crossing and some allied families in Bucks County", pg. 262, [7] states that William arrived on the ship Welcome with William Penn. The Welcome Society has William and his wife Mary arriving on the ship Friends Adventure.

Biography

Came to America on The Friends Adventure

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be January 22, 1669 at Burt, Yorkshire (now Lancashire?), England. Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be October 13, 1740 at Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~haddockfamily/addington.htm:

Came with William Penn to Pennsylvania as indentured servant. Under the Media Tab above is a photograph found on Ancestry.com of William Smith's house.

William Smith originally built this cabin about 1686. It was maintained and updated in 1965. It is considered to be the oldest continuously occupied home in the United States. The home was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Located at Mud and Penn's Park Road in Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. NRIS Item No.: 77001131, Dates: 1686, 1690, 1965; Record No. 373280; National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service; Published: 04/13/1977; All Rights Reserved.

From Ancestry.com and Family Search.com: WILLIAM SMITH -- THE IMMIGRANT, came from Yorkshire England, in 1684, in a ship that landed him at New Castle, Delaware, from which point he traveled up the river to the home of Phineas Pemberton, a native of Yorkshire, who at that time, was one of the most prominent men of the little Quaker Colony on the Delaware, and who always looked after the immigrants from Yorkshire.

How long William Smith remained at the home of Phineas Pemberton is not known, and little is known of his activities until about six years later when he became twenty-one in 1690. In that year, he purchased from John Chapman 100 acres of land in Bucks County; a short time later, he purchased several hundred acres of land adjoining this tract on the south, which extended to and was bounded by the Neshaminy Creek. From this time onward, at intervals, he acquired additional lands which were offered to settlers at, "40 shillings the 100 acres, subject to a quit rent of the shilling a year."

John Chapman was the first settler in that part of Bucks County, and William Smith was the second, and soon, other settlers purchased lands adjoining that of these two pioneers, and together they organized Wrightstown Township. Shortly after his first marriage, William Smith established his homestead on the two tracts of land first purchased by him and this is where he raised his family and lived until his death in 1743.

William Smith of Wrightstown, Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania, was married twice and by his two wives had seventeen children, fifteen of whom lived to maturity and married. On September 20, 1690, he married (Agnes) Mary Croasdale, a daughter of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, formerly of Settle, Yorkshire, England, who with their six children had come to America in 1682 with William Penn on the ship "Welcome".

Mary's parents parents brought with them certificates of membership in the Settle Monthly Meeting of Yorkshire, England, dated April 7, 1682. Their marriage took place in the Middleton Meeting (Wrightstown Meeting was formed from Middleton Meeting in 1734) in the home of John Chapman. A full account of the wedding, which includes the names of the guests present, is preserved in the Quaker records.

Mary Croasdale Smith was born 1672 and died 1716, and was buried in the old graveyard at Logstown (Penn's Park). Among the witnesses of the marriage were William Croasdale, John Chapman, Jane Chapman and Ezra Croasdale. The parents of Mary, Thomas and Agnes Croasdale were then dead. The Croasdale Family became quite prominent in the colony and were the ancestors of some of America's best known families, notably that of President Theodore Roosevelt. William Smith married a second time in 1720, to Mercy, surname unknown. Some accounts state that Mercy was also a Croasdale, but no evidence exists to support that.

William Smith and Mary Croasdale Smith had eight children, 2 sons and 6 daughters:

1. Margaret, born August 20, 1691, married September 25, 1712, Enoch Pearson, son of Thomas and Mary Pearson. Their daughter, Mary, married John Hulme.

(Two children died in infancy between Margaret and Mary, according to an old chart.)

2. Mary, born February 9, 1696, married August 30, 1717, John Atkinson of Buckham Meeting.

3. Elizabeth married February 8, 1718, Thomas Watson Jr., son of Dr. Thomas Watson and Eleanor Pearson Watson.

4. William Jr., born November 2, 1697, died September 29, 1777; married February 8, 1722 or 1723, Rebecca Wilson, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Wilson. This William was a member of the Colonial Pennsylvania Assembly.

5. Sarah, born November 26, 1700, married 1721, Samuel Blakey.

6. Thomas born December 20, 1696, died 1750, married 1727, Elizabeth Sanders, daughter of Robert and Mary Large Sanders. She was born October 10, 1706; she died after 1750.

7. Hannah married William Lee

8. Lydia married Joseph Heaton

William Smith and his second wife, Mercy, had seven children, five sons and two daughters:

9. Joseph born November 1, 1721; married 1743, Rachel Wildman

10. John born November 15, 1723, married 1752, Martha Burgess

11. Ralph born August 28, 1725, married 1750, Mercy Penquite. He went to South Carolina. He was Justice of the Peace under George III. He resigned when the war broke out and he and his sons figured in the Revolutionary War.

12. Esther, born September 11, 1727, married 1748, Thomas Lacy

13. Elizabeth, born November 10, 1730, married Anthony Hartley

14. Samuel, born August 23, 1733, married 1760

15. David, born February 25, 1736, married 1768.

The will of William Smith, made October 30, 1740, probated April 20, 1743, names children and wife, Mercy.

Inventory, March 29, 1743. Executors, John Penquite and Joseph Chapman. Witness Rachel Penquite, Abraham Chapman and William Chapman.

Among William Smith's descendants was U.S. Senator Oliver H. Smith (1794-1859) of Indiana.

Sources: Bucks County Wills; "Genealogy of William Smith of Wrightstown" by Josiah B. Smith; Robert Smith and William Smith in "Bucks County History" by William W. H. Davis; Vol. I, Pennsylvania Archives, Marriages.

The above information was also posted on the Agnes Mary Croasdale (1669-1716) page of Ancestry.com, and states that it was taken from Genealogy.com: Historical Southern Families, Smith of Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Alabama, Vol., IV, pg. 224; Notable Southern Families, Zella Armstrong, Clearfield Publishing, Chattanooga, Tennessee., 1918, Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997.

Notes

The following information was found on another page of Ancestry.com:

From: "Mary" < bigmikek. earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [SMITH] William Smith, Quaker, 1669-1743
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:15:05 -0500
References: <20010221235011.38441. qmail@ web12107. .mail.yahoo.com> This willam smith
Name: William SMITH 1
Sex: M
Birth: 22 Jan 1668/1669 in Wighton, Hull Parish, Yorkshire, England 2
Death: 13 OCT 1743 in Frederick Co, Virginia, 3
Burial: Wrightstown, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania 4
Death: 1743 in Wrighstown, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania 5 1
Ancestral File #: 1DK0-1R
Note: 5

Note: Of the early life and family of William Smith there is but little known. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and came from Yorkshire, England, to the province of Pennsylvania a young man, unmarried, in 1684. The ship in which he crossed the ocean landed below Philadelphia. At that place he accepted an invitation to go upriver in a boat to the residence of Phineas Pemberton. At that place, it was said, "the new-comers were entertained with a great deal of hospitality." He remained there long enough to obtain a general knowledge of the character of the country, its settlements and vacant land, and then pushed his way back through the wilderness to Wrightstown.

His first purchase of land was one hundred acres of John Chapman, who had just settled at the place. At that time he was one of the only two white men living it what is now Wrightstown Township. The Indians, however, were numerous and very friendly. On a re-survey of his purchase it was found to contain one hundred and fifty acres. He subsequently made another purchase of one hundred and fifty acres adjoining his other land. It was situated on the southeast side of the Park, extending to the Newtown line, and bounded a short distance on Neshaminy. A certain percentage of his land was in the town square, undivided, and held in common with others who owned land in the Park. In 1717, the owners of the property, finding they had house for a Park, became dissatisfied and mutually agreed to have it surveyed and laid out, giving each person the boundary lines of the land to which he was entitled. This was the last of the Park, at Wrightstown, except in history.

Another purchase of land is described in the original warrant, found among the old musty papers in the Land Office, at Harrisburg, of which the following is a copy:

"Warrant to William Smith for 200 acres in Highlands, in Pennsylvania" By the Commissioners of Property. Upon an agreement made with William Smith, of Wrightstown, in the Co, of Bucks, for two hundred acres of vacant land at Windybush Hill, Near the said Twp, sold to him by us for fifty pounds, money of this Province, of the present currency, to be forthwith paid. These are to authorize and require thee to survey and lay out unto the said Williams the said quantity of 200 acres, or thereabouts, in a regular tract, bounding on the lines of the neighboring lands in the place aforesaid, and make return thereof into the Secretary's office. Which survey, in case the said William complies with the agreement aforesaid, shall be valid, otherwise shall be void and of no effect. Given under our hands and the seal of the Province at Philadelphia, the 28th day of the second month, 1709 (28 Apr1709).

EDW'D SHIPPEN

JAMES LOGAN

To Jacob Taylor Surveyor General

The hill was windy because it was high and bleak, and covered with scrub-Oak bushes on which the leaves hung all winter. The peculiarity of the hill was made known to the pioneer settlers by the Indians as Windy Bush.

Note: 5

Note: In his last will, dated 30th of 10th month, 1740, he gave his "great Bible to his daughter, Margaret Pearson, during her natural life, and then to her daughter, Mary Pearson." Mary Pearson married John Hulme a year after the death of her grandfather, and carried the Bible into that family, where it was the family Bible for many years, and is still owned by one of the family, in Hulmeville, of the sixth generation.

Note: 2

Note: William SMITH was born 22 1st month 1669 at Wighton, Hull Parish, Yorkshire, England. He is said to be the William Smith who arrived in 1682 on the ship "Friends Adventure" and resided with Phineas Pemberton, also from Yorkshire. This has not been positively proven. William SMITH is also stated to have been the second settler in Wrightstown Township, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania having arrived soon after John Chapman. William purchased 100 acres as a part of the original 500 acre Wrightstown tract. He also took up a patent for150 acres adjoining the original purchase extending his lands from the park to the Newtown line and partly into Neshaminy. His will was made 13 10th month 1740 and proved 20 Apr 1743 in Bucks Co, John Penquite and Joseph Chapman were named executors. His will divided his land among his sons, several of which sold their shares and in 1768 moved to Virginia and South Carolina.

William married first to Mary CROASDALE 20 9th month 1690 at the Home of John Chapman of Wrightstown, Pennsylvania She was born 1669 in Yorkshire, the daughter of Thomas Croasdale and Agnes Hathornthwaite. She died 1716 and William married next about1720 to a woman named Mercy.

Note: 3

Note: When a man becomes a Quaker he lays aside all pomp and glory, as well as pride of ancestry or achievement. However, our William must have been the descendant of well-to-do people, perhaps of the earlier landed gentry, as he came to these shores with considerable money for a Quaker. In 1650 George Gox and associates, the English converts to the Quaker religion were spreading propaganda all over the entire continent. T his new form of religion was taking root in spite of the drastic opposition by the Church of England, not among the peasants classes especially, but also among the landed gentry. William Penn,son of a wealthy and distinguished father, became an ardent convert. Because of violent objection to this "Society of Friends" by the citizens in general resulting in persecution, William Penn conceived the idea of locating a large colony of English Quakers in the new country of America. He named the settlement Pennsylvania not for himself, but for Penn's father; the old Admiral, at the King's request. Pennsylvania was the only Royal Grant in America that was purchased with money.

A large number of Smith's came into the colony from various localities, some as early as 1682. By 1700 there were almost as many Smiths in the woods of Pennsylvania as there were Indians and a William behind every tree, metaphorically speaking. William Smith seems to have been a surveyor. William came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Ship "Welcome" with Master Robert Greenway, from London, Middlesex, England. They arrived at upland Pennsylvania about the end of the 8th month 1682 with William Penn.

According to the late C. Arthur Smith of Bucks Co, Pennsylvania who spent over 60 years as a genealogist and historian for Bucks Co, and a descendant of this William Smith. "William Smith came to Pennsylvania as a servant of Phineas Pembleton and after freedom he purchased land in Wrightstown where he later married Agnes Crossdale daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Hathornthwait) Crossdale that came to America on the "Lamb". William Smith was the son of William Smith and his wife Jane Wilberfoss who married Nov. 1, 1660 at Kingston Hall upon Hull, Yorkshire, England.

Records

Posted at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83028782/william-wilberfoss-smith

Genealogy of William Smith of Wrightstown Bucks County Pa 1684

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83028782/william-wilberfoss-smith
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-3758 cites

1. England & Wales Christening Records 1530-1906 on ancestry.com
2. Smith Excursus by Hubert Wayne Boyd; Origins in England for William Smith w/ Jane Wilberfoss
3. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s on ancestry.com
4. ↑ Bucks Co, PA Will Abstracts by subscription https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8802/images/005534...
5. Find A Grave: Memorial #83028782 for William Wilberfoss Smith
6. See SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project, haplogroup Rb1 NE52 William Smith
7. https://archive.org/details/friendlyheritage00byea/page/244/mode/2u...

• "Descendents of William Smith" by Philetus Smith in 1924
• "Genealogy of William Smith, of Wrightstown, Bucks County, PA 1684" by Josiah B. Smith of Newtown, PA in 1883 on ancestry.com page 1
• Family Data Collection - Births compiled by Edmund West on ancestry.com
• Family Data Collection - Marriages compiled by Edmund West on ancestry.com
• U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900 compiled by Yates Publishing on ancestry.com
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=58292382&pid=41 Ancestry Family Tree submitted by ancestry.com member