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Your excellent list of information seems to show the birth in 1699/1700 of Ann Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith and Ann Petty, in two different places (you repeat her info from page 57 of the Parish Register). You show her info for the second time in the same section as the Thomas Smith who married Elizabeth Clayboor. Do you know for certain who the father of the Thomas Smith who married Elizabeth Clayboor was (was the father the Thomas Smith who had married Ann Petty)?
I note from your information that the Thomas Smith who married Ann/Anne Petty was APPARENTLY the father of a Gregory Smith (unless there were two different Thomas Smiths in the area who had each married a woman named Ann/Anne). I believe that there was a later man named Thomas Gregory Smith, and a still later man named John Augustine Smith, supposedly out of a Thomas Smith and Gregory Smith, per some records, who was the President of the College of William and Mary. The name "Augustine," however, had been used earlier in another (POSSIBLY unrelated) family that was headed by the John Smith of "Purton" in Gloucester Co., VA (and this family was later known as the "Smiths of Shooter's Hill" in Middlesex Co., VA). There is apparently no proof as to whether or not these two Smith families are related.
The daughter of Thomas and Ann (Petty) Smith named Ann Smith married her NEIGHBOR John Smith. That John Smith was the son Lt. John Smith and his wife Jane Cocke, and the grandson of Alexander Smith and his unknown wife (though some apparenly unsubstantiated records claim that Alexander's wife was also a Cocke). There is apparently nothing to prove that these Smith neighbors were related, but some have CLAIMED that Alexander Smith and the John Smith who was the grandfather of the Thomas Smith who married Ann Petty were brothers, with both being sons of a Joseph Smith.
Note: The above John Smith was married to a Margaret Unknown, and they had: Margaret (married John Vivion "I"), Ann (married Joshua Lawson), James (married Ann Cary), Thomas (married Ann Petty) and Captain John (married Phebe/Phoebe Unknown).
We have two male Smiths who trace back to the Alexander Smith family, but we do not have any male Smith donors who trace back to any of the other Smith families mentioned above. If a male Smith from each of these families would step forward and take the test, we could determine once and for all if these famlilies were or were not related.
I note that you have other posts that discuss the Gatewood, Doggett and Nalle families. My maternal Brown family was associated with all of those families (as well as the George family in Caroline Co., VA). Around the late-1820s/early-1830s in Essex Co., VA a Christopher T. Brown became the guardian of a young man named Kemp Gatewood. I have yet to find anyone who knows who the parents of this young man were. My Brown family was associated with a Thomas Kemp who was married to a Jane Gatewood, so I assume that this couple were somehow "connected" to this person named Kemp Gatewood.
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