Bill
 
You may want to get your hands of the book, "Ancestors & Descendants of  
Smith's
By Linda G. Cheek. It discusses many Smith family and you may be able  to 
find the connection you are looking for. Try google book search first.
 
Janice
 
 
In a message dated 7/19/2012 10:18:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Janice,

There was an Edward Smith who was a witness on the  1723 Will of the Thomas 
Smith who apparently married Anne Gregory.  I  believe that was in 
Lancaster/Middlesex Co., VA, but I would have to check  my notes to be sure 
(could have been Gloucester Co., VA).  There was  also an Edward Smith who 
was a witness on the 1727 Will of a John Smith of  Middlesex Co., VA.  That 
John Smith was a son of an older John Smith  (who died in the 1660s, as I 
recall) who was married to a Maragret  Unknown.  That John Smith was a 
neighbor of "my" Alexander Smith (my  maternal line; Alexander Smith died 
around 1696 in Middlesex Co., VA), but  we have no proof as to whether or 
not 
those two neighboring Smith families  were "blood related" to one 
another....though those two neighboring Smith  families eventually 
intermarried.

Note: Alexander Smith and his  unknown wife (though some claim that she was 
a 
Miss Cock/Cocke) had a son  who was also named John Smith.  That son was 
typically "styled" as  Lt. John Smith, and he married the widow Mrs. Jane 
(Cock/Cocke)  Jones.  His neighbor who was also named John Smith (i.e., the 
son of  John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith) was typically "styled" as 
Captain 
John  Smith....and he was the above John Smith who left his Will in 1727 
(which  was witnessed by an Edward Smith).

While John and Margaret (Unknown)  Smith had another son who was  named 
Thomas Smith (who married Ann  Petty), the Thomas Smith mentioned above who 
married Anne Gregory was  apparently a son of a different (and PROBABLY 
unrelated) John Smith who  married Elizabeth Berry....and there is little 
to 
suggest that this John  Smith/Elizabeth Berry family was related to the 
Middlesex Co., VA  neighbors Alexander Smith and the John Smith who was 
married to a Margaret  Unknown (but no proof).  Do you have any idea if the 
above witnesses  on those two Wills were the SAME Edward Smith, or was that 
more likely two  different Edward Smiths?  Was at least one of those 
witnesses "your"  Edward Smith who married Lettice Green, or is that not 
likely?

I  see from some posts on GenForum that some researchers have shown that  
"your" Edward Smith was a son of a Joseph Smith who left his Will in Essex  
Co., VA in the 1720s, as I recall.  Do you agree with that?  If  I remember 
correctly, that Will showed that "your" Edward Smith had a  brother who was 
yet another John Smith.  Some have also claimed that  "my" Alexander Smith, 
who was in Lancaster/Middlesex Co., VA by at least  the 1650s, was also a 
son 
of a Joseph Smith, but I have never found any  strong evidence to support 
that.

Comments on any of the  above?

Thanks, Bill 

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