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=I85368352


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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