 Abt 1635 - 1731 (96 years)
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| Name |
Smith, Chileab |
| Born |
Abt 1635 |
Wethersfield,Hartford,CT(?)  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
7 Mar 1731 |
Hadley,Hampshire,MA |
| Buried |
Hadley,Hampshire,MA |
| Notes |
- BIRTH: No birth rec found. Chileab is identified in the will of his father, Samuel Smith of Hadley, 23 Jun 1680, proved 29 Mar 1681, Hampshire Co. Probate, 1:213-24 (FHL #879184). Place of birth is an approximation based on family history and chronology. See James William Hook, LT. SAMUEL SMITH... (Privately Printed, 1953) 2, 22 (FHL #929.273 Sm51h). Chileab's gravestone in Hadley, below, indicates he was 96 yrs old in 1731. This was approximately the time of the family's removal from Watertown to Wethersfield. It is unknown whether Chileab was born before or after the family's removal to Wethersfield. Samuel Smith was still in Mass. as late as 3 Sep 1634, when he became a freeman (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed, RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 5 vols. [Boston, 1853-54], 1:369 [FHL #974.4 N2s]).
MAR: "Births, Marriages, and Deaths, [Hampshire] County Clerk," entries for Hadley, p. 70 (FHL #760648).
DEATH: From gravestone inscription, below.
BUR: Thomas Bridgman, ed, INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GRAVE STONES IN THE GRAVEYARDS OF NORTHAMPTON AND OTHER TOWNS (Northampton, MA, 1850), 131 (FHL #974.4 V3b).
~LDS ORDINANCES
BEPS: IGI
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| Person ID |
I5899 |
Our Generations Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
25 Nov 2003 |
| Father |
Smith, Samuel, b. Abt 1602, of Suffolk,Eng , d. (inv) 17 Jan 1680/1, Hadley,Hampshire,MA |
| Mother |
Smith, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1602, of Suffolk,Eng , d. 16 Mar 1685, Hadley,Hampshire,MA (Age 83 years) |
| Married |
6 Oct 1624 |
Whatfield,Suffolk,Eng |
| Family ID |
F2548 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Hitchcock, Hannah, b. 1644/1645, New Haven,New Haven,CT , d. 31 Aug 1733, Hadley,Hampshire,MA (Age 88 years) |
| Married |
2 Oct 1661 |
Hadley,Hampshire,MA |
| Family ID |
F2372 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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