Re: Edward Smalley's fm Bideford, Devonshire
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In reply to:
Re: Edward Smalley's fm Bideford, Devonshire
1/22/02
Hi- better late than never--- the problem here is that Small's in the States can either go by the surname Small or Smalley--- seems like that the original spelling was Smale.Hence your ancestor and mine is known as Francis Small/ Smalley and their are many documents on him through colonial Maine, New Hampshire and that Cape Cod area of Mass.
For starter - you may check out Jim Small's website --
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smalljd/http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smalljd/
Descendants of Edward and Elizabeth Small
James D. Small
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All Rights Reserved
And in reading,collections from the Maine Historical Society, etc.you will learn such facts on Francis Small (Smalley) as ---(FALMOUTH IS THE PRESENT PORTLAND, MAINE)
" distribution of the inhabitants of Falmouth, in the several parts of the town is as follows : On the east side of Presumpscot river, lived James Andrews, Jane Macworth, Francis Neale, and Nathaniel Wharff; on the west side of that river, Robert Corbin, John Phillips, Richard Martin,* the settler at Martin's Point, opposide Macworth's Point; at Back Cove, George Ingersoll, George Lewis, John Lewis, and Nathaniel Wallis; on the Neck, lived George Clcevcs, Michael Mitton, and Richard Tucker; at Purpooduck, Joseph Phippen, Sampson Penlcy, Thomas Stamford, Nicholas White, and probably John Wallis; Robert Jordan is the only name we meet with from Spurwink ; Francis Small lived at Capisic, on a tract of land he purchased of the Indians."