Brief Life History of James Taylor
When Capt James Taylor Smith was born in 1788, in Danbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Peter Smith, was 27 and his mother, Mary "Molly" Taylor, was 23. He married Rachel Hoyt on 16 April 1809, in Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. He died on 23 September 1858, in Danbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Baptist Cemetery, Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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- James Smith, "United States Census, 1850"
- James Smith, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- James Taylor Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
1796
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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