SMITH, Robert

1693 - 1745  (52 years)

• Name	SMITH, Robert
  Born	29 Apr 1693	Chaigley, Lancashire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Jun 1745	Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I10775	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	SMITH, John,   b. 1656, Stanbury, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1699, Aboard the Britania While Crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Pennsylvania  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	KELLET, Ellen,   b. 1665, Chartmel, Lancaster, England ,   d. Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States
  Married	22/22 Feb 1687/1688	Chaigley, Lancaster, England
  Family ID	F3596	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CANBY, Phebe,   b. 19 Jul 1699, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 19 Jan 1774, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 74 years)
  Married	30 Sep 1719	Falls Quaker Meeting House, Buckingham Townshipp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  Children	1. SMITH, Thomas,   b. 13 Jun 1720, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 Mar 1806, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 85 years)   2. SMITH, Timothy,   b. 29/29 Jan 1721/1722, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 May 1798, Pennsylvania  (Age 76 years)   3. SMITH, Robert,   b. 11 Dec 1724, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 8 Jul 1798, Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 73 years)   4. SMITH, John,   b. 12 Dec 1726, Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. SMITH, Joseph,   b. 8/08 Jan 1727/1728, Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 16 Aug 1729, Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 1 years)   6. SMITH, Joseph,   b. 1 Aug 1731, Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1777, Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 45 years)   7. SMITH, Benjamin,   b. 1735, Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 5 Sep 1771, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States  (Age 36 years)   8. SMITH, Samuel,   b. 2 Apr 1737, Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1 Sep 1817, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania  (Age 80 years)   9. SMITH, Jonathan,   b. Abt 1739, Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F3590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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) - 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.