Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Such have been the changes which in the course of two hundred years have taken place, that this is the only known instance in which any one of Mr. Locke's "Carolina Nobility" can trace back his pedigree to the original founder. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The coat-of-arms given above was brought to America about 1640 by Thomas Smith, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. It is the same as that owned and used by Thomas Smith, Landgrave, Cacique, and Governor of Carolina, of Charlestown, S. C. It is also the same as that used by the Smiths of Exeter, England, except that the American arms have silver where the English arms have gold, showing that the American is the younger branch of the family. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In River's "History of South Carolina" we read: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In 1687, Thomas Smith was on the committee to correct existing laws and is supposed to have originated our present system of drawing jurors. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In "Notes on Cape Fear History," by James Sprink, October 15, 1692, the following appears: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The law for drawing the names of jurors indiscriminately from a box was passed by the Colonial Council. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In Carroll's "History of South Carolina," Volume I, page 109, we find: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith had followed the sea for some time, and among the places he visited was Madagasear, where he studied the cultivation of rice, which culture he first introduced into Carolina. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. For an account of Thomas Smith's administration as Governor of South Carolina, see "Archdale's South Carolina," Volume I, page 101. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The following is a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Landgrave and Governor Thomas Smith: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Here lyeth ye body of ye Right Honorable Thomas Smith, Esquire, one of ye Landgraves of Carolina, who departed this life ye 16th November, 1694, Governor of ye Province, in ye forty-sixth year of his age. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In the "Colonial Records of North Carolina," Volume I, page 382, we read: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Barbara, Thomas Smith's wife, was accompanied to Carolina by a relative, Bernard Shenking. This Bernard Shenking was Chief Justice and Sheriff of Berkeley County, Nov. 8, 1691. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In Hutton's list of Original Emigrants to America is included a list of the inhabitants of St. Nicholas, Barbadoes, which includes "Bernard Shenking, 10 acres," and mentions that he had had baptized in Christ Church, Barbadoes, on January 2, 1679, the following of his children: "Elizabeth, 8 years old; Catherine, 7 years old; Armaringia, 5 years old; Benjamin, 7 months old." There is also noted a burial "Sept. 25, 1678, Hannah, youngest daughter of Bernard Shenking." This must have been a child between Armaringia and Benjamin. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. It is mere speculation to try to fix the degree of relationship between Barbara Shenking and the Bernard Shenking who accompanied her to Virginia. He may have been her brother, who was present at the marriage of Barbara to Thomas Smith, in Exeter, England, and came over with her on the ship "Carolina" in 1669, married and went to the Barbadoes to reside, raised a family there, and returned to Carolina in 1691, and became Justice and Sheriff of Berkeley County, November 8, 1691. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. This Bernard Shenking who came over on the "Carolina" married Elizabeth Moore, tenth child of Governor James Moore, of South Carolina. Bernard Shenking was a resident of Barbadoes in 1680. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. There is a record in Berkeley County, North Carolina, of a contest of the will of Bernard Shenking, dated July 17, 1695. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith, of Boston, Mass., moved to Nevis, W. I., where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Shenking and Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Gov. James Moore, of South Carolina. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. James Moore, Sr., was not Governor of South Carolina until late in life, namely, the year 1700. He died September 7, 1700. His son, Col. James Moore, Jr., was Governor, December 19, 1719. He was the first "Royal" governor. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In another account I have read it is stated that: "The wife of Thomas Smith, of New England, the father of Thomas Smith, the Planter, of South Carolina, who married Sabina Smith, daughter of second Landgrave Thomas Smith, was named Elizabeth Shenking, the granddaughter of a nobleman of that name, and a relative of the Barbara Shenking who married the first Landgrave Thomas Smith." Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith, of Boston, Mass., married Elizabeth Shenking, of Barbadoes, and had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith. Married Sabina Smith, in 1716. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Amarentia Smith. Married Peter Taylor, of England. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((1)), born in Exeter, England, 1648, died in Charleston, S. C., November 16, 1694. First Landgrave of Carolina, Cacique of several Baronies, Governor of Carolina, member of Colonial Council. Married (at Exeter, England, in 1668) Barbara Shenking, daughter of Bernard Shenking, and had two sons: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith((2)), second Landgrave. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. George Smith((2)), M. D. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. After the death of Barbara, Thomas Smith married, second, Sabina de Vignon, widow of John D'Arssens, Sieur of Warnhout, Belgium, Cacique of Carolina. There were no children from this last marriage. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In 1686 D'Arssens was living and had assigned to him a Cacique or Barony of 12,000 acres of land by the Lord Proprietors, because he was the first colonist of his nation. It appears from the records that in 1689 D'Arssens had died and Thomas Smith had married his widow, as the rights of the D'Arssens Barony were at that time transferred to him. (See Lords Proprietors to Jas. Coelor, Gov., Sept. 29, 1686, Volume I, p. 117, and the transfer to Thomas Smith, Volume I, p. 123.) Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((1)) and Barbara Shenking had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith((2)), b. Exeter, England, 1672; d. Charleston, S. C., 1738. Married, first (1690), Sarah, daughter of Gov. James Blake; married, second, Mary Hyrne, of England, b. 1697; d. 1777. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. George Smith((2)), M. D., b. 1672; d. after 1750. Married (in Bermuda) Dorothy Archer, d. Jan. 24, 1732. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((2)) (Thomas((1))), second Landgrave, married, first, Sarah, eldest daughter of Gov. James Blake. They had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith((3)), b. June 3, 1691. Married (1709) Dorothy Dry. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. George Smith((3)), b. Aug. 22, 1693. Married (Dec. 13, 1723) Elizabeth Allen, b. April 13, 1707. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. George Smith((3)) married, second, Rebecca Blake. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Ann Axtell Smith((3)), b. Oct. 9, 1695; d. Oct., 1738. Married Benjamin Waring, b. 1692; d. July, 1739. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. Barbara Smith((3)), b. July 9, 1697. Married Edward Hyrne. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. V. Sabina Smith((3)), b. May 10, 1699; d. Dec. 15, 1734. Married, first (May 27, 1714), Thomas Smith, b. April 22, 1691; d. March 3, 1723. Married, second (Jan. 10, 1733), Peter Taylor, b. 1698; d. 1757. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VI. Justinian Smith((3)), b. April 20, 1701. Married John Moore. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VII. Sarah Smith((3)), b. June 7, 1702. Married John Boone. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VIII. Rebecca Moore Smith((3)) (No. 1), b. 1704; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IX. Rebecca Moore Smith((3)) (No. 2), b. 1705; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. X. Joseph Blake Smith((3)), b. Nov., 1707; d an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((2)) (second Landgrave) married, second, Mary Hyrne about 1712. This lady came to Carolina in the same ship as companion of the first wife of Thomas Smith. They had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Edward Hyrne Smith((3)), b. Aug. 24, 1714; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. James Smith((3)), b. Aug. 13, 1715; d. unmarried. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Mary Hyrne Smith((3)), b. Oct. 9, 1717; d. 1758. Married (1736) James Screven. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. Margaret Smith((3)), b. April 1, 1720. Married Benj. Coachman. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. V. Elizabeth Hyrne Smith((3)), b. Jan. 6, 1722. Married (March 21, 1745) Thomas Dixon. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VI. Josiah Smith((3)), b. July 10, 1725; d. an infant. Image Not Shown Second Landgrave Thomas Smith, of South Carolina From an oil painting dated 1691 Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VII. Henry Smith((3)), third Landgrave Smith, b. Aug. 6, 1727; d. Dec. 8, 1730. Married, first (Sept. 27, 1753), Ann Filbein, b. Aug. 24, 1736; d. Nov. 30, 1762. Married, second (Dec. 13, 1764), Elizabeth Ball, b. Feb. 6, 1746; d. April 30, 1787. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VIII. Thomas Smith((3)), b. Jan. 26, 1729; d. 1782. Married (1751) Susannah Walker. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IX. George Smith((3)), b. Aug. 30, 1732; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. X. Benjamin Smith((3)), b. Sept. 15, 1736; d. July 22, 1790. Married, first, Elizabeth Ann Hasleston, b. 1742; d. March 26, 1769. Married, second (April 8, 1773), Catherine Ball, d. Feb. 23, 1774. Married, third (Aug. 8, 1775), Sarah Smith, d. Aug. 15, 1785. Married, fourth, Rebecca Coachman. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. A strange peculiarity may be noticed about the children of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave that by his first marriage he had ten children-three sons and seven daughters; and by the second, ten children-three daughters and seven sons. The twentieth child married four times. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Sabina Smith((3)), fifth child of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave, and Sarah Blake, married Peter Taylor and had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Sabina Taylor((4)), b. Sept. 27, 1734; d. Oct. 24, 1772. Married (Aug. 19, 1752) Andrew Taylor, b. 1728; d. March 28, 1786. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Elizabeth Taylor((5)), b. Oct. 4, 1754; d. in infancy. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Ann Taylor((5)), b. Dec. 4, 1755; d. June 9, 1790. Married (Sept. 24, 1772) William Mills, b. March 2, 1750; d. April 2, 1802. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Griffith Mills((6)), b. June 4, 1774. Married, first (Jan. 1, 1799), Hays Bennett; d. May, 1800. Married, second (Jan. 11, 1805), Eliza Diana Humphreys. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Henry Mills((6)), b. Feb. 8, 1777; d. July 15, 1806. Married (1801) Mary Powell Philips. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Sabina Ann Mills((6)), b. March 7, 1779; d. July 14, 1780. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. Robert Mills((6)), b. August 12, 1781; d. March 3, 1855. Married (Oct. 15, 1806) Eliza Barnwell Smith, daughter of Gen'l John Smith of Hackwood Park, Frederick County, Va., b. Feb. 10, 1784; d. Sept. 17, 1862, in Washington, D. C. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. V. Sarah Mills((6)), b. Nov. 30, 1787; d. July 6, 1846. Married (Dec. 7, 1805) George Lusher of Bermuda, b. 1781; d. April 14, 1820. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VI. Isabella Mills((6)), b. Nov. 9, 1789; d. June 18, 1791. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. (The account of Robert Mills is given in Vol. III, Chapter IV.) Image Not Shown Robert Mills, the Architeot Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Peter Taylor was a native of England, b. 1698; d. Oct. 1, 1765. He was married three times. Married, first, Amarentia, sister of Thomas Smith, the planter, and daughter of Thomas Smith of Nevis, West Indies. The inscription on the tablet in St. James Church, Goose Creek, S. C., where Peter Taylor was buried, reads thus: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. He departed this life 1st October, 1765, and by him lie his first wife, Mrs. Amarentia Taylor, and their son Joseph. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Peter Taylor married, second (Jan. 10, 1733), Sabina Smith, b. May 10, 1699; d. Dec. 15, 1734; widow of Thomas Smith of Nevis, W. I., daughter of Thomas Smith, second Landgrave, and Sarah Blake, d. 1708, eldest daughter of Col. and Governor Joseph Blake. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Josiah Smith, the banker, in 1808, when he was seventy-seven years old, wrote as follows: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. And from a paper put in my hands by General Benjamin Smith, of Cape Fear, N. C., it is there said that two brothers of the name of Smith, came from Exeter, in England, to New England, and were among its first settlers. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Now Sabina, 5th child and third daughter of Second Landgrave, Thomas Smith, and Sarah Blake, married (in 1716) Thomas Smith, the planter, son of one of the two brothers who emigrated from Exeter, England, to Massachusetts, one of whom went to Nevis, West Indies, and his son to Charleston, South Carolina. This Thomas went by the nickname of "Long Tom." He was a man of most estimable character, universally loved and respected, and was a wealthy merchant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In "Wyman's Generations of Charlestown, Massachusetts" there is noted the record of a deed of trust from Thomas Smith of St. James Parish, Berkley County, Carolina, to his uncle William Smith, of Boston, Massachusetts, of all his right and title in the estate of his grandfather Thomas Smith and his grandmother Sarah, dated 1715. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Now Thomas and Sabina Smith had two children: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Benjamin Smith. Married Ann Laughton. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Thomas Smith. Married Sarah Moore. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. This Sarah Moore was a descendant of Roger Moore, the famous Irish Catholic of 1641. He descended from a very ancient Irish family, the Marquisate of Drougheda. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Roger Moore's son James came from Kendall, in Westmoreland. He married Ann, daughter of Sir John Yeomans, created Landgrave and appointed Governor, Dec. 28, 1671. Sir John was eldest son of Robert Yeomans of Bristol, England, who was executed in 1643 for political crimes. The son Sir John was, as a recompense, made a baronet by Charles II. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. He emigrated to Barbadoes and thence removed to Charleston. He built a fine residence called "Yeoman's Hall," which later was bought by Thomas Smith and became the residence of the direct male line. Sir John Yeomans became dissatisfied with the position of Governor of the Carolina Colony, to which he had been appointed in 1671, resigned it and returned to Barbadoes. He left a son, who inherited his title and property. In 1700, James Moore, Sr., got himself appointed governor by the Colonial Council, but died shortly after. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. After 1719 the Colonists threw off the proprietary government, and the Convention invited James Moore, son of the preceding, and brother of the Sarah Moore, who married Thomas Smith, to take the place formerly held by the father, and he became the first Royal governor. James Moore, the son, died March 3, 1723. This was the Col. Moore who conquered the Tuscarora Indians in 1713. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((4)) married Sarah, daughter of Gov. James Moore. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Roger Moore Smith((5)), b. Aug. 4, 1745. Married Mary Rutledge. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Thomas Smith((5)), b. July 5, 1748; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Benjamin Smith((5)), b. Nov. 23, 1749; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. William Smith((5)), b. March 26, 1751; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. V. Sarah Smith((5)), b. Aug. 22, 1752. Married Chancellor Hugh Rutledge, of South Carolina. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VI. Peter Smith((5)), b. Nov. 14, 1754. Married Ann Middleton. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VII. General Benjamin Smith((5)), Governor of North Carolina, b. Jan. 10, 1757. Married Sarah Dry. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VIII. Rhett Smith((5)) (1), b. Aug. 13, 1759; d. an infant. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IX. James Smith((5)), b. Nov. 2, 1761. Married Sarah Gough Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. X. Mary Smith((5)), b. Feb. 7, 1764. Married Johi Jucherand Grimke. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. XI. Ann Smith((5)), b. Sept. 20, 1765. Married Thomas Bee. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. XII. Rhett Smith((5)) (2), b. Aug. 23, 1767. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. James Smith((5)), the ninth child and eighth son of Thomas Smith and Sarah Moore, was born in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 2, 1761, and privately baptized by his cousin, Rev. Robert Smith, afterwards Bishop. His sponsors were his uncle Benjamin Smith, with his second wife, Mary Wragg Smith, and his cousin William Laughton Smith, who was the first representative for the Charleston district in the United States Congress. This William Laughton Smith was also Minister to Portugal, and Speaker of the Senate of South Carolina. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The father of James Smith((5)), Thomas Smith the banker, was an importer and merchant, and had accumulated a large fortune. He had just set up his eldest son, Roger Moore Smith((5)), in business as a banker, with a capital of $40,000, when the Revolutionary War commenced. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Roger Moore Smith((5)) commanded a company of light infantry, and in this company James Smith((5)) served at the siege of Savannah, October, 1779, and witnessed the fall of Fort Pulaski. He was one of the prisoners who surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton at the fall of Charleston, in May, 1780. He was paroled and went to Europe for education, remaining abroad seven years. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. While he was in London, John Adams was serving as the first United States Minister to England. John Adams' wife, Abigail Smith, was a descendant of the same family of Smiths as James, and a relative, though a common ancestor in England, of Landgrave and Governor Thomas Smith. Mrs. Adams recalled the relationship when she learned that young James Smith((5)) was in London, and told him a plate at her table was always ready for him, and that he was to dine with her every Sunday. Under her auspices James Smith((5)) was presented at Court. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. From 1837 to 1846, her son John Quincy Adams and James Smith's son, R. Barnwell Rhett((6)), served in the United States Congress, the one representing Massachusetts and the other South Carolina. James Smith((5)) returned home in 1787, and in August, 1790, his father died. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Mr. E. Lowndes Rhett of South Carolina gives the following statement: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I would call attention to the rise of the Smith family of South Carolina just after the restoration of the royal families of England, which tends to show that they were related to the Smiths of Exeter, England, and that their rise was due to the power and position of the Duke of Albemarle, who was one of the Lords Proprietors. George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, Honest George, as Charles II called him, was the most powerful subject England ever had. There is no doubt Charles II owed his crown to him. It is not surprising therefore that he, being one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, should encourage his relatives to emigrate to that country and aid them to establish themselves there. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Carter-Smiths allege that their ancestor, Thomas Smith of Boston, who had the same coat-of-arms, crest and motto as the Smith of Exeter, came to America with a brother who had been wounded in the "Dutch War," and they also claim that the Smiths of South Carolina are of the same family. This brother, who was wounded in the Dutch War, is supposed to be identical with that John Smith of Charleston, S. C., who came to America in 1630,in a vessel called the "Mary and John," because it is a fact that he was in the "Dutch War," and was commonly called the Quartermaster, because that was the position he occupied in the English army in Holland. Probably some of the Carters were in the same ship, as they came to America about the same time. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. This John Smith, the Quartermaster, was a "Cacique" of Carolina, corresponding with "Baron" in the English nobility. He first recorded a grant of 1800 acres of land on Ashley River, Nov. 25, 1675. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In 1670 Thomas Smith, son of John Smith, the Quartermaster, was a member of the Colonial Council. Paul, brother of Thomas, was in the Council the same year. These two sons made more than one trip over the ocean in bettering their fortunes. They left England Aug. 10, 1669, after completing an educational course of study. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas and James Smith of the Exeter family are noted as "two respectable writers during the time of the Commonwealth of England." Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. In the "Calendar of State Papers of Colonial America and the West Indies," 1669 to 1674, page 36, is recorded a list of the masters and free passengers aboard the "Carolina." Among others are given "Thomas and Paul Smith and seven servants." Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. On April 23, 1672, the old town site of Charleston was divided into 62 lots, of which Thomas Smith received lot 41 and James Smith lot 57. This James Smith was probably the Sir James Smith of the Exeter family, d. Nov. 18, 1681, uncle of Thomas. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith((1)) emigrated from Exeter, England, to Boston, Mass., about 1640; d. 1670. Married (1642) Sarah Boyleston; d. 1716. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith((2)), d. 1698. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. William Smith((2)), b. 1670; d. 1730. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Thomas Smith moved to Nevis, W. I. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Shenking. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Thomas Smith((3)). Married Sabina Smith((3)) of the family of Landgrave and Governor Thomas Smith of Carolina. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. William Smith((2)), of Boston, Mass. Married Abigail Fowle, b. 1679; d. 1760. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Abigail Smith((3)). Married Simon Tufts. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Sarah Smith((3)). Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Rev. William Smith((3)), D. D., of Weymouth, Mass. Married Elizabeth Quincy. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. Anna Smith((3)). Married Ebenezer Kent. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. V. Mary Smith((3)). Married Ebenezer Austin. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. VI. Isaac Smith((3)). Married Elizabeth Storer. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Of this last, Rev. Isaac Smith, D. D., it is recorded that he was a Harvard graduate in 1767, was tutor in 1774-'75. Left for England at the time of the Revolution, being a Royalist. Returned to New England after the war and became preceptor of Dunmore Academy at Byfield, near Newberry, Mass. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. William Smith((3)), D. D., married Elizabeth Quincy. Issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. I. Mary Smith((4)), b. 1739; d. 1811. Married Richard Cranch, b. 1726; d. 1811. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. II. Abigail Smith((4)), b. 1744; d. 1818. Married John Adams, Minister to England, President of the United States, b. 1735; d. 1821. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. III. Elizabeth Smith((4)), d. 1815. Married John Shaw. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. IV. William Smith((4)), d. 1785. Married Catherine Louise Salmon. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The coat-of-arms brought over by Thomas Smith, of Boston, is described as follows: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Field black, bars and birds (3 martens) silver. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Crest-Greyhound, red and gold collar, and chain reflexed over body. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The English branch of the family now called "Smith-Marriott" has the same coat of arms and crest, except that with the English family the bars and birds are gold instead of silver. Motto: "Semper fidelis." Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. It is but fair to say that Mr. Burwell Rhett Heyward, par excellence the antiquarian of the family, maintains that this supposed connection of the South Carolina Smiths, and those of New England, and Exeter, England, is without documentary proof. He says the use of the same coat of arms is the only definite link and that is not sufficient. He says: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. While the facts of John Smith's immigration to Carolina and the purchase of land there, and his sons, Thomas and Paul, being members of the Colonial Council may be true, there is no authority for connecting them with the Landgrave. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. He says further: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. Much help might be given by the Landgrave's descendants in the direet male line, who still reside at Summerville, a small town near Charleston, and in the immediate neighborhood of "Yeomans Hall," which was bought by the Landgrave from Sir John Yeomans, governor, and is still owned by the family. But they will help no one, either from a selfish, unaccountable reluctance to satisfy interested inquirers or from ignorance of the facts. Mr. McCready, while writing his recent history, tried to get information from them, but got nothing more than a Bible record that the Landgrave came to South Carolina subsequent to 1680. No one else has been allowed to know or see anything, even first cousins. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. My impression is, and I thing I have so written you, that the Landgrave was a physician, that he came to South Carolina from Bermuda. His son, Dr. George, married Dorothy Archer, of Bermuda. Dr. G.'s son, the Rev. Josiah, entered on his ministerial labors there as a pastor and, I believe, married his cousin, Elizabeth Danell, there. Several of Dr. G.'s grandsons returned to the West Indies and have disappeared. [Signed] Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. R. B. Heyward. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. It appears to the writer that there is even less proof of Landgrave Smith's West India origin than there is of his Exeter origin, and I should say it is best when between two horns of a dilemma to take the gilded one. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The following list of the Colonial Governors of Carolina is interesting in connection with this genealogy. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. [The first charter was granted March 20, 1662-'63. The second charter, June 30, 1665.] Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 1. Hon. Col. William Sayle, July, 1669. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 2. Joseph West, Aug. 28, 1671. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 3. Sir George Yeomans, Dec. 28, 1671 Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 4. Joseph West (second time), Aug. 13, 1674. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 5. Joseph Morton, Sept. 26, 1682. This governor married Elizabeth, sister of subsequent governor, Joseph Blake. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 6. Joseph West (third time), 1684. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 7. Sir Kirk White, 6 months, and died. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 8. Col. Robert Quarry, as deputy of Thomas Amy, one of the Lords Proprietors, June 8, 1685. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 9. Joseph Morton (second time), 1685. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 10. James Coleton, 1686. He was expelled by act of the Colonial Assembly, and gave bond never to return to the Colony, Dec. 22, 1690. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 11. Seth Southel, 1690. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 12. Philip Ludwell, 1692. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 13. Thomas Smith, first Landgrave, 1693. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 14. Joseph Blake, 1694. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 15. John Archdale, 1695. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 16. Joseph Blake (second time), 1696. Died in office. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 17. James Moore, Sr., 1700. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 18. Brig. Gen. Sir Nathaniel Johnson, 1703. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 19. Edward Jinte, 1709. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 20. Robert Gibbes, 1710. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 21. Charles Craven, 1712. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 22. Robert Daniel, Deputy Governor, 1716. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 23. Robert Johnson, 1717. He was the last proprietary governor, and was deposed. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 24. Col. James Moore, Jr., first Royal Governor, Dec. 19, 1719. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 25. His Ex. Francis Nicholson, May 26, 1721. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 26. Honorable Arthur Middleton, May 25, 1725. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 27. His Ex. Robert Johnson (second time), 1730. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 28. Lieut. Gov. the Hon. Thomas Broughton, 1735. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 29. Lieut. Gov. the Hon. William Bull, 1737. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 30. His Ex. James Glenn, Dec. 17, 1743. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 31. His Ex. William Henry Littleton, 1756. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 32. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. William Bull, Jr., 1760. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 33. His Ex. Thomas Boone, 1762. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 34. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. William Bull, Jr., 1764. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. 35. His Ex. Lord Charles Grenville Montague, 1766. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. History. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. In 1663-'65, Charles II made a grant of all the territory between 29§ and 36§, 30' North Latitude, extending westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, to eight Lords Proprietors, namely: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Edward, Earl of Clarendon. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. George, Duke of Albemarle. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. William, Lord Craven. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. John, Lord Berkeley. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Anthony, Lord Ashley. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Sir George Casteret. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Sir William Berkeley. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Sir John Coleton. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Thomas Smith, Landgrave, Cacique, Governor, born in Exeter, England, 1648, married (in Exeter, 1668) Barbara, daughter of Bernard Shenking. On August 10, 1669, when their first child, Thomas, was "a few months old," they left England on the ship "Caroline" for Carolina. In Old Town on the Ashley, 1672, Mrs. Barbara Smith gave birth to her second son, George, who was sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, for his education, and took there the degree of M. D. in the year 1700. He was the first practicing physician in South Carolina, a native of that Colony. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. George Smith was twenty-eight years old when he returned to Carolina. He had married while in Edinburgh, and his wife had died. They had one son, Thomas, who died in Bermuda after his marriage there, and left two daughters, one of whom married Dr. Hutchinson, who with his wife removed to New Providence, where they died, leaving a son, Robert, and a daughter, Hester, who passed through Charleston on her way to Bermuda in 1747. The son, Robert, was sent to Scotland for education, and became a British officer in 1780, and was a captain in the Seventy-first Regiment at the siege of Charleston. The daughter married a Captain Bell in Bermuda. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. In the Charleston, S. C., Probate Court Will Book, page 311, 1692-3, is recorded that George Smith married Dorothy, daughter of John Archer, of Jamaica, W. I. George Smith, M. D., died in 1747, aged 79 years. George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer, his wife, had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. I. Archer Smith, b. 1702. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. II. Rev. Josiah Smith, b. in Charleston, S. C., 1704. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. At the age of twenty-seven, Rev. Josiah Smith graduated at Cambridge, Harvard University, Mass., whereupon he commenced a period of fifty years as a preacher and forty-five years as an author, the only theological author in South Carolina prior to the Revolution. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. The Rev. Josiah Smith died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1781, aged seventy-seven years. He started his ministerial labors in Bermuda, and married there his cousin, Elizabeth Darnell. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. On account of the long and wearisome sailing trip across the Atlantic and the equal if not superior advancement of the West Indian colonists compared with those on the main land, the intercourse between the latter was much more frequent and intimate than with the mother country. All being under the same government and speaking the same language, worshiping, in the main, the same God, and in the same manner, intimate business relations and intermarriages caused frequent trips, interrupted residences, and scattered families. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Rev. Josiah Smith and Elizabeth Danell, his wife, had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. I. Josiah Smith (known as the banker). He was a cashier of the Branch National Bank, of Charleston, up to eighty years of age. He d. Feb. 19, 1826. This Josiah was born at Cainhoy, St. Thomas Parish, S. C., Sept. 15, 1731. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. II. George Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. III. Ann Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. IV. Martha Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Mary Smith (daughter of George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer) married Rev. Mathew Bassett, pastor of the Independent Church of Charleston, and died with her infant, at its birth, 1756. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Archer Smith (second son of George Smith, M. D., and Dorothy Archer), b. 1702, married, and had five sons, George, John, Thomas, Archer, and Danell, and two daughters, Sarah and Susannah. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. The third wife of Peter Taylor, whom he married after the death of Sabina Smith, was Ann Moore (widow Savarose). They were married October 21, 1762. By this third marriage Peter Taylor had one son, of whom there is no further record. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. George Smith((3)), son of second Landgrave Thomas Smith, married (Dec. 13, 1723) Rebecca Blake, daughter of Gov. Joseph Blake and Elizabeth Axtell (widow Turgis). The marriage settlement is dated June 10, 1717. In an indenture by Elizabeth Blake, Rebecca Blake, Thomas Smith, and Mary, his wife (Miscellaneous Records, Probate Office, page 537), Rebecca is spelled Rebakah. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Elizabeth Axtell married, first, Francis Turgis, married, second, Governor Joseph Blake. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Joseph Boone married Ann Alexander, born Axtell, widow of John Alexander and daughter of Landgrave Daniel Axtell and Rebekah, his wife, who was sister to Elizabeth Axtell, who married, first, Francis Turgis, and married, second, Governor Joseph Blake. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. The high standing of members of the family in the community is shown by the number of them selected to guarantee the solvency of the paper money issued by the government. Among them we may name: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Roger Moore Smith, eldest son of Thomas Smith and Sarah Moore. He was a merchant of high standing and credit, living in handsome style. He married Miss Mary Rutledge, sister of Gov. John Rutledge, who married his sister, Sarah Smith. He was the father of a large family, including the talented Thomas Rhett Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. John Ernest Poyas, M. D., was another signer. He married a daughter of Henry Smith, third Landgrave, Catherine Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Benjamin Waring, another signer, was a cousin and connection of the family. He was a planter in the neighborhood of St. George, Dorchester; one of the first settlers of Columbia, S. C. He married a daughter of Archer Smith and Edith Waring, Archer was a grandson of first Landgrave Smith. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. Thomas Waring, another signer, was first cousin and brother-in-law of Benjamin Smith, having married a sister of his wife. He was a naval officer at Charleston, and was a famous hunter. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. History. A navy board was established in 1778 with power to fill vacancies in the navy and marine corps of the State. Among the commissioners were Roger Smith, Josiah Smith, and. George Smith, all members of the family. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. The history of Exeter, England, shows members of the Smith family almost continuously- father, son, grandson, and great-grandson-in various corporation offices. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Of the earlier Smiths very little is known and much is conjectural. At the time when the city of Chard returned a member to Parliament it was represented by one of the Smiths, and, seeing that from the earliest records we find the family prominent in the district, it may fairly be supposed that the Chard Smiths were ancestors. The last members of Parliament for Chard were John Le Smythe and Richard Le Duke, 1327-8. The first member of the family we can place definitely is Sir Robert Smith, Knighted by Edward IV, Mayor of Exeter 1459-69, and Bailiff in 1453-1456-1458. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. In Izaack's "History of Exeter" we find this incident recorded: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. The King (Edward IV) was pleased to visit this city and was well entertained by the Mayor, to whom the King at his departure hence gave a sword, commanding that it should always be carried before the Mayor, and his successors. The keys and mace he re- delivered to the Mayor to be used as previously. The queen and the prince were likewise here. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. At this period, for more than a century, the members of the family were all engaged in the wool trade, the majority of them being serge makers. They were scattered about in the surrounding towns of Devon and Somerset Counties: Exeter, Crediton, Taunton, Chard, Ilminster, Ilchester, and many other places. By virtue of a kind of clanship in the family they united in designating as Chief or Headman, Sir George Smith, of "Madworthy," who had the genius for accretion in accumulation of wealth. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. There is no documentary proof that the knighthood of Sir Robert Smith, conferred by Edward IV, extended to his successors in the office of Mayor, as does the Mayor of London, Dublin, and other cities, but they were all called "Sir," as was Sir George Smith, from the time he occupied the office of Mayor. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. From the best data found, we can say that Robert Smith, Mayor of Exeter, 1459 to 1469, was the grandfather of Robert, Bailiff of Exeter, 1522, who was the father of William Smith, Mayor of Exeter in 1553. Robert had other children, Richard and John, of Holditch, County Dorset, formerly County Devon. John died in 1560. He married twice: first, Christian; second, married Alice. This Alice was the daughter of Alexander Muttleberrie, of "Jordans," County Somerset, and Katherine Bevin. John Smith and Alice Muttleberrie, his wife, had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. I. John Smith, of Smith Harpe, in "Yarcomb," County Devon, Mayor of Exeter in 1567. His will was proved November, 1606. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. II. Robert Smith, of "Crediton," Devonshire. Will proved at Exeter, May, 1590. Had children: Grace, Aaron, of "Credition." Died 1631. Married Agnes -. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. III. Nicholas Smith, of Holditch, died 1596-7. Had issue: George Smith, of Holditch, buried March 4, 1591-2. Married Aug. 18, 1579. (She died and was buried July 1, 1584.) Married, second (July 15, 1585), Margaret, by whom he had issue: Benjamin Smith, of "Otterford." Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. IV. Thomas Smith, of South Chard. Married Alice Atkins, and was ancestor of the Burrage Smiths. He died 1609. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. V. Sir George Smith, of Madworthy, or Mt. Radford, d. 1619. Married, first, Joan, daughter James Walker, of Exeter, by whom he had issue: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. I. Sir George Smith, knighted June 12, 1604. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. II. Elizabeth Smith. Married Sir Thomas Monk, and was mother of George (Monk), Duke of Albemarle. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. III. Sir Nicholas Smith, of "Larkbeare," buried Nov. 10, 1622. Married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Ralph Horsey. After Sir Nicholas Smith's death she married, second, Sir George Parry. She was buried, Exeter, June 17, 1655. Sir Nicholas Smith was knighted at Whitehall, July 23, 1603. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. IV. Richard Smith. Married Jane Henning. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Sir George Smith, of Mt. Radford, after the death of his first wife, Joan Walker, married, second, Grace, daughter of William Neil (living Dec. 16, 1629), and by her had a daughter, Grace Smith, who married Sir Bevil Grenville, and they had a son, Richard Grenville, Earl of Bath. Sir Bevil Grenville was a son of Sir Bernard Grenville. The father of Grace Neil was William Neil, and her mother Jane, daughter of Arundel, of Trevise. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Sir George Smith was Bailiff of Exeter 1575-82. In 1585 he was Sheriff; Mayor in 1586, 1597, 1607, and Sheriff of Devonshire 1615 to his death in 1617. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Richard Smith, Constable of Chardstock, was executed by Judge Jeffreys, September 7, 1685. He was grandson of Thomas, brother of Sir George Smith, of Mt. Radford. (See Western Martyrology, London, 1873.) Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. In "Playfair's Baronetage," 1811, the account of the family is as follows: Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. The more immediate ancestor of the family was Sir George Smith, who was sheriff of Exeter in 1583. He made considerable purchase of land in Devon and Somerset. He also inherited landed property from his ancestors, who had long been residents there. He had one son, George, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Sir Thomas Monk, of Podderidge, Knight, by which marriage came the famous General Monk, the restorer of royalty, who was afterwards created by King Charles II, Duke of Albemarle, Knight of the Garter, etc., etc. Volume IV Chapter VII Mills Family. The Smiths of Exeter, England. Sir George was succeeded by his son, Sir George Smith, Knight, who was Sheriff of the County of Devon in the 12th year of King James I, and represented the City of Exeter in several parliaments. Sir William Pole's History of Devon says that he purchased many manors and left them to his eldest son: