Brief Life History of Abijah
When Abijah Smith Sr. was born on 3 December 1738, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Timothy Smith, was 36 and his mother, Esther Webster, was 31. He married Elizabeth Goodrich on 19 January 1769, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1800. He died on 13 September 1800, in Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Abijah Smith, "United States Census, 1800"
- Abijah Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Abijah Smith in entry for Asa Smith, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Timothy Smith and his son Edward
“Timothy Smith, born at Hadley, Mass., in June 1702, was the first of the family to settle in Hanover, and was a descendant of Lieut. Samuel Smith, who came to Hadley, Mass., which town he named, from …
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