Smith

♂Nathan Smith

Born 1741, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America.

Nathan Smith (born 7 May 1741) was the youngest of the thirteen children of Jonathan Smith and Bridget Keniston of Exeter, in the Province of New Hampshire^W. He was the fifth great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Obadiah Smith (born 1731), Nancy Jane’s fifth great-grandfather.

Birth and family

Nathan was born at Exeter. The town register gives the day as 7 May but writes the year partly into the binding margin; a FamilySearch index of the same register supplies 1741. His birth closes the run of children entered for his parents, which opens with Abraham in 1720. Obadiah, the eighth of the thirteen, was ten years older than Nathan, and the twins Elizabeth and Abigail were fifteen. Two older half-siblings, Jonathan and Mary, were children of his father’s first marriage, to Mary Ames, who died in 1717.

Marriage

Two New Hampshire marriage indexes give a Nathan Smith, son of Jonathan Smith and Bridget, marrying Elizabeth Harper at Brentwood on 9 November 1762, when he would have been twenty-one. The indexes name his mother by her first name only.

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	7 May 1741	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 1763, 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)