Smith Family History

OUR MAYFLOWER CONNECTIONS

Note: This chapter is specifically written for my descendants and includes ancestors of both my wife Nancy and I. Smith ancestors are specifically identified in Pedigree Chart #26 and should...

CHAPTER 12: OUR APPALACHIAN HIGHLAND KINFOLK

Pedigree Chart 21 spans two centuries. To the right on this chart we have James Montgomery and to the far left, the incomparable Matilda (b 1806). We have met the...

Former Slave, Edward Tarr, Emerges in the Family Tree

Former Slave, Edward Tarr, Emerges in the Family Tree

Captain James Montgomery (1695-1756) and Anne Thomson James Montgomery, my father’s 5x great grandfather, was titled ‘Gentleman’ and was a member of a prominent Scottish clan in Northern Ireland. He...

CHAPTER 11: THE MONTGOMERY CLAN

The Davis family provided a wealth of information and constitutes one of the largest and deepest branches of our family tree. A second and even more prodigious allied family emerges...

Chapter 10: OUR MANY QUAKER CONNECTIONS

The Swofford Lineage  Jane Stilley was my grandfather Leb’s mother. We met her father’s illustrious Stille family. Jane’s mother was Nancy Swofford. Nancy was the daughter of Sarah Jane Fixes...

DESCENDANTS

The Descendants of James and Rachell Keyes Davis From the south side of the James River in 1623 to the pocosin swampland of the Pungo River in Hyde County in...

OUR JAMESTOWN VA ANCESTORS

Where to go Next in This Collection of Stories? Days later I returned to my desk. I shuffled through the papers looking for a cigar I had smuggled in from...

GETTING LOST IN A FAMILY TREE

GETTING LOST IN A FAMILY TREE

Do Ancestors Rise from the Dead? There are times when it seems my ancestors are tugging at me. Or: Am I tugging at them, as if they were a security...

CHAPTER 9: THE WELSH EXPLORERS AND DAVIS CLAN

The Welsh Explorers and Immigrants: 1575-1803 An exploration of the Smith family name led to the family of Peter Smith of Westmoreland VA and the latter half of the 17th Century....

CHAPTER 8: OUR DUTCH EMPIRE BUILDERS

A Preface to our Dutch Ancestors Shortly after the Dutch took possession of Manhattan Island in 1625, the corporate authorities (West India Company) created 9 bowerijs (farms); three along the...