SMITH, Silas

Abt 1735 - 1777  (42 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	SMITH, Silas
  Birth	Abt 1735	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jan 1777	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Death	8 Jan 1777	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	17 Apr 1957	LANGE
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  Person ID	I64119	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	GEE, Deborah ,   b. Abt 1735, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesd. Sep 1820, Marlow, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	1752	Lyme, New London, Conn
  Family ID	F26051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  From Benjamin "Descendants of Solomon Gee of Lyme, Connecticut" Silas Smith was a fifth generation descendant of John Smith of Lancaster, Massachusetts, who emigrated from England before 1639. From Alven M. Smith's record of the John Smith line, we learn that Silas Sr. was a deacon in Elder Lee's Baptist church at Lyme, Connecticut. Also, that he caught the camp-fever, or dysentery, of his son Abner who was in the battle of White Plains, which brought about his death. The same source reports that Silas, Jr. owned a farm in Goshen, N.H. (northeast of Lempster) a mile or so southerly of Goshen Hill or church. He was a bachelor, a roving, shrewd, money-maker. He went to New Orleans via Mississippi River in the days of river boatmen. He was supposed to have left some money with his brother-in-law, Bebee. He was for some time supposed to have been murdered by the river boatmen but Hon. Daniel M. Smith, his nephew, went to Lyme, Connecticut and obtained the following facts: About the time Silas was expected back a tavern-keeper a few miles from Lyme stated that a man mounted on a good horse but shabbily dressed stopped at his house one night; in the morning he took his saddle-bags, went out to a brook, or pond, to bathe and came back with a good suit of clothes on; he explained by saying that he had been among a rough set of people and did not dare to dress well but had some relatives a few miles from there and thought he would fix up before visiting them. He said this man had one black eye and one blue eye and chewed tobacco, the quid he carried between his lower lip and his teeth, and this description applied to Silas Smith. A few weeks or months afterwards a horse was found in a pond in that vicinity near Lyme, or in that town. The tavern keeper could not positively identify it as it was partially decomposed, but said it resembled it. (Then follows these words with a line drawn lengthwise thru them: Suspicion pointed to the Bebee's, but without further proof except they were not called very good people.) His farm was carried on by his brother Abner before his estate was settled and the farm sold. At his death, the estate of Silas, Sr. was quite sizeable for the times. The following paragraphs are taken from his will: "1st I give and Bequeave to my Loving wife Deborah ye use of ye one third part of my Lands and Buildings As Long As she remains my widow And the one third of All my personal Estate to Be hers forever. "Item My will is that All my Real Estate Be Equally Divided Between my five Sons (viz) John, Abner, Israel, Russel and Silas. "Item give and Bequeave [bequeath] to my four Daughters (viz) Molley, Amey, Elizabeth and Jemima all the remainder of my personal estate after the debts, expenses and my widow dower are paid out to be equally divided Among them."