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From: "C A Byers" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Re: NJHUNTER-D Digest V04 #39
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:49:57 -0800
References: <20040202.101715.1152.2.galls@juno.com>


Hi Susan,

I am very interested in finding out the "truth" of my ancestors, and
appreciate your comments and research efforts. I have not seen any credible
evidence to support any claims on the Andrew Smith descendants, and would
really like to know where I can see your sources. I have a completely open
mind, and am only interested in knowing the truth. There is much to learn
about my Smith family, and would love to learn as much information that is
available.

Please let me know what sources you have, and how I can get copies of them.
I think that primary sources and original records are the only way to truly
find the "truth".

The sources I have a not the best, and are:
1. An unpublished work by George W. Hart, "THE DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW SMITH",
1972
2. "Pioneers of Old Hopewell", by Ralph Ege, 1908
3. "Hopewell Valley Heritage", by Alice Blackwell Lewis, 1973.
4. "Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing "old Hunterdon County",
New Jersey", by Eli F. Cooley and William S. Colley.

I don't fully trust any of these sources, and would love to find out the
"Real" Family History. I think this could be a very interesting project,
and our ancestors deserve it.

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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Re: NJHUNTER-D Digest V04 #39


> I'm not sure whom you are addressing. I am a descendant of Andrew
> Smith of Hopewell also but not through his son Thomas but through his
> daughter Sarah who married John Parke and fled to Frederick Co. VA which
> became Hampshire Co. VA and then WV along with her brother Thomas Smith
> and brother-in-law Bartholemew Anderson after the "Coxe incident" when
> they burned their property rather than pay for it twice.
> There is some false information floating around on the internet about
> Sarah by the way - she did NOT marry John Fidler - he was mentioned in
> Andrew's will because he had been a faithful and loyal scribe for him for
> many years. John married someone else - named Sarah - and was having
> children etc. during the same time period that Sarah Smith was married to
> John Parke having children. Their being married is an impossibility.
> Nor did Sarah return to Hopewell Twp, Hunterdon Co. from Hampshire Co. VA
> to die in 1770 (which would have made her 105 years old) and be buried in
> the Hunt family graveyard - she died shortly after her husband John Parke
> was killed by indians in 1757 - we believe about 1759 at age 84 in
> Hampshire Co. VA.
> A Smith/Pitt Bible has been found and there is a wonderful article
> written by Gloria Padach and published in the Rowan Co. Register a few
> years back also that indicates that Andrew had a first wife Sarah Fostser
> before Olive Pitt and that Sarah was Sarah Foster Smith's child and there
> is the possibility as well that Thomas may also have been the only other
> of his children to have been born of Sarah Foster. That is not known and
> I myself have kept him listed as a child of Olive Pitt. However, Sarah
> Smith is not a child of Olive's.
> This may all be more than you wanted to know and you may not have been
> addressing me either. I do have information on Thomas and wife Rebecca
> Anderson and their migration from Hopewell, Hunterdon Co. NJ to Hampshire
> Co. VA to Rowan Co. NC (Jersey settlement) and their children that I'd be
> happy to share.
>
> Susan Gall
> Winston-Salem, NC near the "Jersey Settlement" area now in Davidson Co.
> NC
> former resident of Hunterdon Co. NJ
>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 06:56:08 -0800 "C A Byers" <>
> writes:
> > I'm a descendant of Andrew Smith of Hopewell, Hunterdon/Mercer, NJ
> >
> > Which Thomas Smith do you descend ?
> >
> > Carol
> > Elk Grove, CA
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