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DNA evidence suggests William Smith was a son of Christopher Smith & Alice Gibbes. Married Elizabeth; perhaps her surname was Standley or Stanley.
1 William Smith married Elizabeth (_) in Hartford in 1644, consistent with the Willian1 Smith of Stratfordupon-Avon baptized March 23, 1617.'
William Smith (1650) / Elizabeth (Stanley) Smith
Name: William Smith
Birth: March 23, 1617 (Christening), Stratford on Avon, Warwick, England (Colonial Conn. Records, Vol. 1)
Emigration: In Wethersfield by 1644(SAV); in Middletown before November 1652(FFS); to Farmington after November 1656.(FFS)
Death: January 1669, Farmington, Conn.(SAV)
Occupation & Public Service: On November 8, 1652, William Smith was elected one of the Townsmen "for the south sid the rever." He was also Deputy to the General Court, and served as the first Recorder or Town Clerk, an office he held until about November 1656.(FFS)
Marriage: m. Elizabeth Stanley, August 16, 1644, Hartford, Conn. (b. about 1621, Kent, England; d. 1674, Farmington, Conn.) (Hartford Vital Records, Vol. D, pg. 21)
Children: 9 children between 1646-1664.(MVR, BCVR, Descendants of Joseph Loomis/Loomis, 1875/1908, and Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin/Starr, 1915) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)
DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM SMITH and ELIZABETH STANLEY < link >
1. WILLIAM1 SMITH, born say 1620, died 1669/70.1 He married in Aug 1644 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT, ELIZABETH STANLEY, died 1678 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT2
Children of WILLIAM SMITH and ELIZABETH STANLEY3
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March 23, 1617
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
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March 23, 1617
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
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March 23, 1617
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Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
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1646 |
June 20, 1646
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
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1648 |
January 20, 1648
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Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
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1650 |
March 20, 1650
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
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1653 |
May 20, 1653
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1655 |
August 25, 1655
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
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1656 |
1656
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Hartford, Hartford Co., CT
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1658 |
April 11, 1658
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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, America, British Colony
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