Bill
 
I did check out the website you listed below and the information looks like 
 the information I have on my database which I have shared to people in the 
 past.
 
Janice
 
 
In a message dated 7/19/2012 10:17:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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I also  show that Francis Smith married Letty Nuphus/Nuphis and that Edward 
Smith  married Lettice Green.  I have also wondered, however, if  
Nuphus/Nuphis was TRULY the correct spelling of the name (but who  knows)?  
I 
suspect that this was the same Francis Smith who appeared  on the 1810 
Essex 
Co., VA census.  Below is a link to what APPEARS to  be a pretty good file 
on 
Edward Smith and Lettice Green (though I do not  know how accurate this 
file  
is):


http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1826179&id=I85368
352


I  believe that the above-mentioned Francis Smith in Essex Co., VA was a  
descendant of the Colonel Francis Smith (son of a Nicholas Smith, as I  
recall) who married first to Lucy Meriwether and second to Ann/Anne Adams.  
DNA testing on living male Smith descendants shows that Colonel Francis  
Smith....who had a daughter who married a Mr. Webb in Essex Co., VA....was  
NOT related to the Samuel Smith who married a SISTER of that Mr.  Webb.  
That 
Samuel Smith was a known/proven descendant of the  Alexander Smith who was 
in 
Lancaster Co., VA by at least the 1650s, and  there are four male Smiths 
from 
that overall family who have taken the DNA  test....and all four men have 
"matching" DNA.  The lone (the last  time that I checked, anyway) DNA donor 
who "traces back" to Colonel  Francis Smith, however, has DNA that is quite 
different from the above  four descendants of Alexander Smith (and there is 
also nothing in any  "conventional documentation"....other than the 
above-mentioned "common  marriage" into the same Webb family....that seems 
to 
suggest that those  two Smith families were/are "blood related").  I have 
no 
strong  reason to believe that the above Edward Smith was related to either 
 
Alexander Smith or Colonel Francis Smith, and I have not attempted to  
determine if any male Smith descendant of that Edward Smith has ever taken  
the Y chromosome DNA test.

There was a Mary Smith (age 45 or older)  who was also on the 1810 Essex 
Co., 
VA census (she was listed as the head  of the household, though that census 
also showed that a male age 45 or  older also lived there).  Does anyone 
know 
just who that Mary Smith  was (and/or what her maiden name was, assuming 
that 
"Smith" was her  married name)?

There were also a couple of John Smiths on the Essex  Co., VA census in 
1810 
and/or in 1820 (one of them was one "age range"  older than the other, per 
the 1820 census, as I recall).  I have  reasons to believe that both of 
them 
were PROBABLY also descendants of the  above Alexander Smith.  A John Smith 
was mentioned in a chancery  court decree in January 1822, and he was 
deceased at that time.  That  decree was providing the specific directions 
on 

how the heirs of that  John Smith were to be given the remnants of the 
estate 
of John Smith's  deceased father (who was Major Maurice Smith, who had 
married the widow  Mrs. Catherine (Carter) Jones; the Major had left his 
Will 
in Middlesex  Co., VA in 1795).  The referenced John Smith had married 
Sarah  
Waller, and Sarah was a daughter of Judge Benjamin Waller of "Williamsburg  
fame."  Major Maurice Smith was a known/proven descendant of the  
referenced 
Alexander Smith, and two of the Major's daughters also married  into the 
Webb 
family (a William Crittenden Webb), as I recall.

The  other/younger John Smith in Essex Co., VA in 1810 and 1820 MIGHT have 
been  the John Smith who married Mary Dunn, a daughter of John and Judith  
(Edmondson) Dunn (though that John Smith and Mary Dunn had a son of their  
own who was also named John Smith....actually John Hancock Smith).   If 
anyone has any informmation on that John Smith and Mary Dunn and their  
family, please let me know.  That John Smith COULD have been the  
biological 
father of my maternal gg-grandfather named Smith W. Brown (born  about 
1817). 
DNA testing, combined with "conventional research," show that  Smith W. 
Brown 
was actually a "blood Smith infant/toddler" who was  taken-in, named and 
reared by John and Mary (Bennett) Brown (and the DNA  from a male "Brown" 
descendant of Smith W. Brown is a "match" to the DNA  from the known 
descendants of Alexander Smith).  By the way, this  Mrs. Mary (Bennett) 
Brown 
had a brother who was named SMITH Bennett, so  this Bennett family 
apparently 
had some "close connection" to the Smith  family....and that "connection" 
apparently was the reason that they  ultimately took-in a Smith 
infant/toddler.  No proof whatsoever, but  I think that it is at least 
possible that Mary Bennett's mother Mrs.  Winifred "Winnie" (Unknown....but 
MAYBE "Dunn") Bennett was a member of  the same overall Dunn family as the 
Mary Dunn who married John  Smith.  "Winifred" was a VERY common given name 
in that Dunn family  (going back to the Miss Winifred Waters who married 
William Dunn  "II").

Comments on any of the above?

Bill 

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