The Smiths of Virginia; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 4, No. 3, Pages 183-185; Jan. 1986

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                            THE SMITHS OF VIRGINIA.

                           I. JOHN SMITH, OF PRUTON.

                           (Continued from page 96).

   The following letter is from Mr. Edward Jaquelin Davison, in correction of the preceding
papers on this family:

                                        KANSAS CITY, MO., Ocotber 25, 1895.
Editor William and Mary College Quarterly, Williamsburg, Va.

   MY DEAR SIR:  Since the publication of my article on the Smith family, of Purton, I have
received some corrections which appear to me to be satisfactory.  This correspondence states
that "Shooter's Hill" was on the Pianketank River instead of the Rappahannock, and I incline
to this belief, also, from the appearance of the former name in old deeds and documents
amongst the Smith papers(1).

   Augustine Smith, son of John Smith and Mary Jaquelin, record 17, p. 95, Vol. IV. 2, the
following may be accepted:

   Married, first, Mildred Rootes, not Booker(2); second, Margaret Boyd, daugher of David (not
John) Boyd and Margaret Ball, widow of John Ball and daughter of Thomas Pinkard and Elizabeth
Downman.  Augustine Smith (17) died at "Shooter's Hill", was never lived at West Grove, near
Alexandria.  His will is dated May 31, 1774, and he died June 13, 1774.  He was not an
Episcopal clergyman as stated on p. 51, Vol. IV., No. 1 (3).

Page 184.

   Regarding the relationship existing between the Smiths and Robinsons, the same corres-
pondent gives it as follows:

   Augustine Smith, of "Shooter's Hill", married, first, Mildred Rootes.  Their daughter,
Mildred Smith, married a son of Speaker Robinson.

   (The register I have gives the date of birth of this daughter, "Feby 7th at 12 o'clock
1763, and died Sept. 14, 1768".  I gave you the first year as 1768.  Just how to harmonize
these dates I do not know.)

   General John Smith and his wife are both buried in the old family burying ground at
"Hackwood", although neither died on that place.  A few years ago I purchased a lot in 
"Mount Hebron" cemetery, Winchester, to which I removed the remains of General and Mrs.
Smith, my grandparents, and others buried at "Hackwood", as that "graveyard" was fast losing
any semblance of the purpose for which it was intended.

   Perhaps a fuller account of Mrs. Anna Bull Smith, wife of 23, VII., John Smith, might be
interesting to some of your readers.  Mrs. Anna Smith was a daughter of Col. John Bull, of
Northumberland, Pa., whose other daughter married Joseph Nourse, for fifty years registrar
of the United States treasury.  In fact, the first loans of the government were signed by him.

   Elizabeth Bull married Benjamin Rittenhouse, of Philadelphia.
   Quinnis Bull married John Smith, of "Hackwood".
   Ezekiel W. Bull, surgeon United States army 1813 to 1815.
   Maria Louisa married Joseph Nourse.
   Sarah Harriet married first, Joseph Haines; second, B.J. Young; third, William Lloyd.
   Rebecca Boyd married John Boyd.
   John Bull married Mary Phillips, 1752.  He died, 1824, aged ninety-four.  She died, 1811,
at advanced age.  I have a copy of John Bull's will, also two letters written by him.
                   Very truly yours,
                                       E. J. Davison.

   15. VII. SUSANNA SMITH (p. 49), daughter of Augustine Smith and Sarah Carver, married
William Langbourne (born 1723), son of Robert and Mary Dandridge Langbourne, of Fetter Lane,
London (tombstone in King William county bearing the Langbourne arms impaling Dandridge).
Issue:

   47.  William Langbourne, ensign 6th Va., 27th April, 1777.  By the act of 6th October,
1783, it was "Resolved, whereas William Lanburn hath served from the commencement of the war
in the Army of the United States, with equal disinterestedness and reputation, that a brevet
commission of Lieutenant-colonel be given him".  (Heitman's Historical Register of the
Revolution).  He was aid-de-camp to Gen. La Fayette, whom he visited in France at his own
home, "La Grange".  He married Miss Claiborne, of King William; and his shattered tombstone
on the Pamunkey River records his death in 1814.  He left an only son, William,

Page 185.

who died at twenty-two years, when the name Langbourne became extinct in Virginia (Mrs.
Page's Family Record).

   48.  Mary4 married Warner Throckmorton, son of Philip Throckmorton, of "Church Hill",
Gloucester county.  Issue (see page 193 of Vol. III.)  From this issue were descended Gen.
William Booth Taliaferro, Maj. Thomas S. Taliaferro, Judge Beverley R. Wellford, Jr., and
Judge Warner T. Jones, who lately died.  (See Richmond Critic, January 11, 1890).

   From the register, 8, PHILIP SMITH, son of Capt. John Smith, of Purton, married Mary
Mathews on Feb. 9th, 1711.  She was the daughter of Baldwin Mathews, Justice of the Peace
for York Co., the great-grandson of Gov. Samuel Mathews.  There is a marriage contract on
record in Northumberland county between Philip Smith and Mrs. Hannah Shapleigh, dated Sept.
16, 1742.  On July 11, 1743, the will of Philip Smith was proved, by which it appears he
had issue:  49, Mary, married Jesse Ball; 50, Mildred; 51, Elizabeth; 52, Sarah; 53, Jane;
54, Susannah; 55, Baldwin Mathews.  He gave L200 to each of his daughters and the residue of
his estate to his son, Baldwin Mathews.  He made his brother Mr. Augustine Smith, nephew
James Smith, and his son Baldwin Mathews Smith, executors.

   55. BALDWIN MATHEWS SMITH married Fanny Burgess (bond in Middlesex county dated December,
1743), and there is a bond of John Smith, dated 1762, as guardian of Burgess and Philip 
Smith, orphans of Baldwin Mathews Smith.

                                   NOTES.

   1.  The deeds and wills at Saluda, Middlesex county, show that the "Shooter's Hill"
estate was on the Pianketank. - EDITOR.

   2.  "I have it Booker from several sources.  The following appeared as one of them: 'The
following was copied by mrs. Rosalie Locke from the old "Shooter's Hill" Bible in possession
of Capt. Boyd Smith, of Alexandria'.  Of course the name Rootes, written by some one, might
have been misread Booker.  It is a reasonable solution, I think, for the error". - E. J.
Davison.

   3.  Augustine Smith's will is on record at Saluda:  Wife Margaret; his newborn son to be
hereafter called Augustine Jaquelin; daughters Mary Jaquelin Smith and Mildred Smith; 
directs his executors, Charles Tomkies, Jr., and John Howlet, to settle with Mr. David Boyd
on account of L1,000 promised by him on the marriage between his daughter Margaret and
myself.  Brothers John and Edward Smith guardians to children, Augustine Jaquelin and Mary
Jaquelin, dated 31st May, 1774, proved 24th October, 1774. - EDITOR.

   4.  Mr. Stanard gives the name by mistake as Julia.