SMITH, Timothy

Notes:

Thomas Smith, eldest son of Robert and Phebe, became the owner of the homestead farm under the will of his father. An apple tree of natural fruit grew up wild near a fence in one of his fields. The tree proved to be a prolific bearer, and developing apples of superior quality for eating and cider, became well known in the neighborhood, and was kept closely trimmed of scions for grafting. The same apple, which has been brought down by successive grafting, is the well known Smith cider apple of today." (from "The Genealogy of Robert Smith" by Josiah B. Smith, 1885).
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Abstracts of Bucks Co, PA, Wills, 1785 - 1825.
Page 92. Timothy Smith, Buckingham. January 28, 1795. Proved May 28, 1798. Wife Sarah. Son Joseph exr. Son Robert. Daus. Sarah Atkinson, Mary Beans and Jane ---.
Wits: Thomas Smith Junr., David Smith, Jonathan Wilkinson.
Pot House in possession of Loran Thorn.

Timothy married KINSEY, Sarah 17/17 Feb 1744/1745, Buckingham Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of KINSEY, Edmund and OGBURN, Sarah) was born 13 Nov 1724, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 17 May 1812, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States. [Group Sheet]

1. SMITH, Mary
2. SMITH, Jane
3. SMITH, Robert
4. SMITH, Phebe
5. SMITH, Joseph was born 7 Jul 1753, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 19 Oct 1826, Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania.
6. SMITH, Sarah was born 9 Nov 1755; died 19 Oct 1830.

Notes:

Robert Smith was a carpenter by trade, and removed, with his wife Phebe, soon after their marriage, to a farm in Buckingham, on the southeastern line, adjoining the Windy Bush farm of William Smith, where he lived during the remainder of his life. He was the progenitor of the Buckingham family of Smith, which has become very large, embracing many of the most familiar names in Bucks County at the present time and spread over a wide extent of the country. He was not of any known kindred to William Smith, progenitor of the Smiths of Wrightstown. The descendants of inter-marriages between the two families are so numerous, as well as so many marriages of cousins in the first, second, third, and fourth degree, it will be found very convenient for them to have the genealogy of the two progenitors.
In 1738 Robert Smith built a stone addition to his log house, which is yet standing, a good substantial structure, and has been occupied as a dwelling house by six generations of the family. Robert Smith died 6 mo. 26, 1745, leaving a widow and eight children. His death was not only a serious loss to his family, but was also felt very sensibly by Buckingham meeting of Friends, of which he was a highly esteemed member. The first monthly meeting held at that place was 10 mo. 6, 1720, and he was soon after appointed one of the overseers. It was said he was a good man, better known in his own meeting than in the civil affairs of the province. His widow, Phebe Smith, a recommended minister, married Hugh Ely [Sr.], 5,6,1753. Her second husband, Hugh Ely, died 1772. She remained about one year at his late residence, and subsequently lived with her sons Thomas and Joseph. Her death occurred at the old homestead, at the residence of her son Thomas, 1 mo., 1774". (from "The Genealogy of Robert Smith" by Josiah B. Smith, 1885)
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Abstracts of Bucks Co, PA, Wills, 1685 - 1785
Page 56. Robert Smith, of Buckingham. 5 mo 15th day, 1745. Proved
September 26, 1745.
Wife Phoebe. Sons Thomas (eldest), Timothy, Robert, John, Joseph,
Benjamin, Samuel, and Jonathan. Thomas and Timothy, exrs. Land, late
Launcelot Gibson's, adj. Eleazer Doan.
Wit: Wm. Blackfan, Jeffrey Burgess, Thomas Ross.

Robert married CANBY, Phebe 30 Sep 1719, Falls Quaker Meeting House, Buckingham Townshipp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Phebe (daughter of CANBY, Thomas and JARVIS, Sarah Jervis Or) was born 19 Jul 1699, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died 19 Jan 1774, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Phebe m. Robert Smith (EAQG Falls MM v.2, p.987)
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Got married same day as her sister, Sarah.
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Had 8 children (Buckingham MM, PA)

Notes:

John Smith, b. 1656, was of Hayworth. He was the eldest son of Joseph and Ann Smith, of Stanbury, in the parish of Haworth, Yorkshire, England. They were members of the Religious Society of Friends. Joseph Smith was prosecuted by the magistrates for the West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1665, for joining the Quakers. At the time of his marriage to Ellen Kellet on February 22, 1686, John Smith's residence was at Chaigley in the parish of Mittion, Lancashire, England, and his occupation was that of a glazier. About 1699 he and his family came to America on the ill-fated ship "Britania", Richard Nicholas, commander, from Liverpool, England. John Smith died on the passage and was buried at sea, leaving a will dated "ye Twenty ninth day of July Anno Dom 1699" [See Appendix] which was proved at Philadelphia, the 9th of September, 1699. His widow, Ellen Smith, survived him and married again in 1702, John Merrick, at Abington Meeting house, in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pa. She was living after 1710." [From the collection of Charles F. Jenkins, Genealogical Data Relating to Robert Smith and Related Families of Bucks Co., Pa.", 1946, FHL film #0020434].
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Their children were: Isaac, Timothy, Robert, Ann and Margaret.

John married KELLET, Ellen 22/22 Feb 1687/1688, Chaigley, Lancaster, England. Ellen was born 1665, Chartmel, Lancaster, England; died , Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Ellen Kellet b. 1665 in C(h)artmel. She married John Smith 22 Feb. 1686 in Chaigley. John Smith died in 1699 on the "Britania" on the way to Bucks Co, PA. Ellen survived and married John Merrick, with whom she is an ancestor of US Pres Herbert Hoover.
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Nothing is known concerning Ellen's nativity and her parents. She is supposed to have come from the Kellets of Cartmel, Lancashire, England, who at that time were numerous in that county. Kellet is an ancient name, they being descended from Orm, a Saxon, who owned the manor of Kellet in Lancashire in the 11th century." (from the collection of Charles F. Jenkins, 1946).

Notes:

Thomas Canby, was a distinguished member of the Society of Friends, and many years a member of Colonial Assembly. (A Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families, p. 284).
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CANBY, Thomas (1668-1742; Son of Benjamin Canby, m Mary Baker), from Eng. in the "Vine," arriving September 17, 1684 in the Delaware River. The ship sailed from Dolgelly, Wales. He then went to Bucks Co., Pa. as an indentured servant of his uncle Henry Baker.; mem. Pa. Assembly and justice several yrs.; m 1709, Mary Oliver, she came from wales in the Welcome," with William Penn, 1682. (ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM, Frederick Virkus, p. 3463) and (The Compendium of American Genealogy, 1600s-1800s
Volume VI, Immigrant Ancestors, Biographies, Page 762).
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Emigrated to America 7th month,17,1684 on "The Vine" from Yorkshire, England.
Bonded to Uncle Henry, brother of his mother.

From the History of Bucks County: Thomas was an orphan of 16 years of age when in 1683 he came with his uncle and guardian to Bucks county. The family were Friends, and the youth, in connection with his guardian and Bucks quarterly meeting, settled a claim of five years' service due in payment of his passage over. After the expiration of this service young Canby settled near Jenkintown, Montgomery county, and in 1693 married Sarah Jarvis, by whom he had nine children. His wife died in 1708, and about two years thereafter he married Mary, daughter of Evan Oliver, who came from Radnorshire, in Wales. By her he had eight children. She died in 1721. He moved from Abington shortly after and purchased land below Centerville, in Bucks county. He remained there some time, but finally disposed of it and purchased three hundred acres on the Street road, in Solebury township. We find him again marrying his third wife, Jane Preston, a widow, and living at the mill on the Great spring above New Hope, on the Delaware. It does not appear that he had any children by his third wife. Some time afterward he removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where some of his children had located, but returned to Solebury, where he died in 1742, aged 75 years. In the life of Thomas Canby there is much to admire. Starting in the humble walks of life a poor and friendless orphan boy, we find him working his way by industry and perseverance into general confidence, while his sterling character, his usefulness as a citizen, and his many acts of Christian kindness and charity endeared him to the community at large. In the home circle and the religious society, of which he was an active member, his influence for good was widely felt. He and his descendants served Buckingham monthly meetings as clerks almost continuously after its establishment in 1720 for a period of over one hundred years, and in important appointments in church matters the name of Canby often appears. The Canby name is not very common in our county at the present day. This is partly owing to the fact that of Thomas Canby's seventeen children twelve were girls. Most of them changed their names and were blessed with large families.
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Will: Thomas Canby of Solebury Twp., Yeoman. 9th mo., (November)18, 1742. May 25, 1750. Wife Jane. Sons Benjamin and Oliver, exrs. Son Thomas. Daus. Sarah Hill, Elizabeth, Mary, Phebe, Esther, Lydia, Rachel, and Ann. Martha, Jane and Rebecca
Wilson. Son Benjamin, Real estate in Partnership with Anthony Morris, Land, Mill, and Saw Mill. Benj. being December'd. and Oliver a non-resident and also having renounced Executorship. Letters granted to Wm. Hill, Wm. Yeardley, and Thos.
Yeardey (sic), Jr., exrs. of Benj. Canby.
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Benjamin left to his son Thomas, his land in the Parish of Thornes in the county of York and in the Parish of Roote in County Lancaster(His son to be tutored by his wife Jane (second wife) & if not inclined to follow the calling of distillation, he could choose a more fitting one.--Canby of Thorne, Yorkshire.
(Delaware Quaker Records: New Castle County, p. 74.)

Thomas married JARVIS, Sarah Jervis Or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of JARVIS, John and BAKER, Sarah) was born 1673, Thorne, Yorkshire, England; died , Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; was buried 1708, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah was Irish and a sister of Charles Jarvis, London artist and Painter to the King of England. She had 9 children.
[source:Family History, by Henry Seidel Canby,p.19]

Sarah was Irish and a sister of Charles Jarvis, London artist and Painter to
the King of England. She had 9 children.
[source:Family History, by Henry
Seidel Canby,p.19]

Notes:

July 29, 1693 - Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Elizabeth Kelly and Mary Sibthorp having presented Thomas Canby and Sarah Jervass to this meeting in order to take each other in marriage, and it being the first time, friends here have received a Certificate concerning the ypung man, and were well satisfied therewith.
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August 27, 1693 - Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Elizabeth Kelly and Mary Sibthorp presented Thomas Canby and Sarah Jervis who declared their intentions for marriage a second time, and there appearing nothing to hinder the same, they are left to their liberty to consummate their said intentions.
(The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1-39, 1650-1900s
Volume IV, Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Page 176).

Joseph — Ann. Ann was born Abt 1636, Stanbury, Yorkshire, England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Benjamin Canby was a distiller at Liverpool, England and executed his will
October 24, 1681, proved January 31, 1682, wherein he directed his body
buried in the Friends' Burying place in Flintshire, Whilford Parish,
England, according to the discretion of the people of God called Quakers. To
his son Thomas he left his land in the Parish of Thornes in the county of
York and in the Parish of Roote in County Lancaster (?). His son to be
tutored by his wife Jane (second wife) and if not inclined to follow the
calling of distillation, he could choose a more fitting one. Ref: "Canby of
Thorne Yorkshire"; Alfred R. Justice Collection, Geneological Data Co. -
Clark Gen Jn 5, p 13; Sup pages 1-9, collections of the Geneological Society
of Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Canby was a distiller at Liverpool & executed his will October 24, 1681, proved January 31, 1681/2, wherein he directed his body buried in the Friends Burying place in Flintshire, Whilford Parish, according to the discretion of the people of God called Quakers.
m. ca 1663 Mary Baker who d. before 3-26-1678
m Jane
Only ch of Benjamin to live:

Thomas, bapt. 4-9-1668 & d. 9-20-1742
m Sarah Jurvis b. ca 1672 & d. 2-3-1708
m 4-2-1709 Mary Oliver who was b 1671
m 8-9-1722 Jane Preston

Ref: "Canby of Thorne Yorkshire"; Alfred R Justice Collection, Geneological Data Co - Clark Gen Jn 5, p 13; Sup pages 1-9, collections of the Geneological Society of Pennsylvania.
This article gives the parentage of Thomas (1) Canby as Edward & Jane Canby and names his grandfather, George Canby, of Eckington, church warden(?) with wife, Janet.
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Benjamin Canby was a distiller at Liverpool & executed his will October 24, 1681, proved January 31, 1681/2, wherein he directed his body buried in the Friends Burying place in Flintshire, Whilford Parish, according to the discretion of the people of God called Quakers.

Benjamin married BAKER, Mary 1663, England. [Group Sheet]

John — BAKER, Sarah. [Group Sheet]