Smith

♀Elizabeth Smith

Born 1726, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America.

Elizabeth Smith (born 25 February 1726) was one of thirteen children of Jonathan Smith and Bridget Keniston of Exeter, in the Province of New Hampshire^W. She was the fifth great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Obadiah Smith (born 1731), Nancy Jane’s fifth great-grandfather.

She was a twin, born on the same day as her sister Abigail Smith. The Exeter town register enters the two girls together as “Daughters” of Jonathan and Bridget, born 25 February 1725/6. The double year is the Old Style^W reckoning, in which the year began on 25 March, so a February birth carries two years.

The twins were the fourth and fifth children of the marriage, after Abraham (1720), Lydia (1722) and Isaac (1724), and were followed by Hephzibah in 1727 and Jacob in 1729. Obadiah was born five years after them, in 1731. Their father had been married before, to Mary Ames, who died in 1717, and two children of that first marriage were entered in the same register. No marriage or death is recorded for her.

Family time line

◉ Jonathan Smith –1741/1742 ⚭

◉ Bridget Keniston –bef 1771

Married 11 Aug 1719, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, Exeter, New Hampshire

○ Abraham Smith 1720–

○ Lydia Smith 1722–

○ Isaac Smith 1724–

○ Elizabeth Smith 1726–

○ Abigail Smith 1726–

○ Hephzibah Smith 1727–

○ Jacob Smith 1729–1755

◉ Obadiah Smith 1731– ☘

○ Deborah Smith 1733–

○ John Waldron Smith 1735–

○ Caleb Smith 1737–

○ Bridget Smith 1738–

○ Nathan Smith 1741–

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth	25 Feb 1726	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America	on record

Sources

Exeter, New Hampshire, town records of births, marriages and deaths, 1657-1919, in 'New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947' — Birth, about this person
Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, vol. 3, 1741-1749 (State Papers Series vol. 33, Concord, 1915) — about this person

Borders as they stood about 1715, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Jonathan Smith –1741/1742 ⚭
1. Jonathan Smith 1640–1725
  1. Robert Smith
  2. Susanna (surname unknown) –1680
2. Mehitable Holdridge 1652–1689
  1. William Holdridge 1610–1680
  2. Isabella (surname unknown) 1612–1689
Bridget Keniston –bef 1771
1. George Kenniston –1718
  1. John Kenniston –1677 ⚖
    1. Henry Kenison 1575–1623
    2. Elizabeth Leeze 1573–1623
  2. Agnes (surname unknown) ⚠
2. Bridget (surname unknown)