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Thanks. Per my chart, your Clara Smith (daughter of John Smith and Ann Smith) married both George Blakey and Garrett Daniel. Do you have any idea why this Mr. Daniel had the given name of "Garrett?"
I am a Garrett descendant, since my maternal gg-grandfather, Smith W. Brown (who was really a "blood Smith" versus a "blood Brown;" he was born about 1817), married Susan Hill Garrett, a daughter of Richard Garrett (Richard's parents are not known/proven) and Nancy Taff. Richard Garrett married Nancy Taff in Middlesex Co., VA in 1812.
Maybe someday a living male Smith who is a "direct-line Smith descendant" of the John Smith who died in Middlesex Co., VA in 1669 (who was married to a Margaret Unknown) will take the DNA test, so we will can see once and for all if that family is or is not related to the Alexander Smith (died 1696 in Middlesex....some CLAIM that he was married to a Mary Ann Cocke) family. Either way, however, it appears that you and I are descendants of BOTH of these "Smith groups," since they intermarried.
I don't know what your records show, but it APPEARS to me that the Ruth who married the above Thomas Smith....after Ann Petty died....was Ruth SMITH....a daughter of the John Smith who married (apparently) Elizabeth Berry and second (apparently) Mrs. Martha (Butcher) Parsons....and Ruth was apparently a daughter of this John Smith and his second wife Martha Butcher. Any comments on this Ruth and/or this "third Smith group" that was in the same general area of VA?
I don't know how/if the John Smith who married a Miss Berry and a Miss Butcher was related to "our" Alexander Smith (died 1696) and/or to "our" John Smith (died 1669), but I note that an unknown (to me, anyway) Edward Smith was a witness on the 1723 will of the Thomas Smith (apparently married to an Anne Gregory) who was a son of the above John Smith and Elizabeth Berry.....and this same (almost certainly) Edward Smith was also a witness on the 1727 will of the John Smith who was a son of "our" John Smith (died 1669) and Margaret Unknown. This son of John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith named John Smith (who left his will in 1727 in Middlesex) is typically "styled" as Captain John Smith, and he was supposedly married to a Phoebe/Phebe Unknown....who APPARENTLY had been married earlier to a George Reeves. I have yet to find any proof as to who this Edward Smith, who was a witness on BOTH of the above-referenced wills, was. Any comments on this Edward Smith?
A later Thomas Smith in the John and Elizabeth (Berry) Smith family married a Mary Smith from yet another/fourth "Smith group" that included the Smiths of "Purton" (when they were still in Gloucester Co., VA) and "Shooter's Hill" (when they were later in Middlesex Co., VA). This "fourth Smith group" married into the well-known Warner family, and it is my understanding that they were a part of the large Christopher Smith, Major Lawrence Smith, Colonel Lawrence Smith etc., family. While much has been written about this "Christopher/Lawrence Smith family," it does not appear to me that the Smith DNA Project has ANY donor who claims to "trace back" to this "fourth group." In any case, we know that "group one" (Alexander died 1696) and "group two" (John died 1669) intermarried, and that the above "groups three and four" also intermarried. In addition, IF I am correct about Ruth being a Smith who was out of John and Martha (Butcher) Smith, then "group two" also married into "group three" (when Thomas Smith....out of John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith....married second to Ruth).
Note: My records show that Thomas and Ruth (Smith?) Smith had a son named John Smith on 24 Jan 1704, and this John Smith married Elizabeth Aldin.
At one point in time, both "my" Colonel Maurice Smith and an Augustine Smith from the above "fourth/"Shooter's Hill" group" were clerks of the court in Middlesex Co., VA. One of the male descendants of "our" John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith had the middle name of "Augustine," but that descendant was not born until around 1800, and the use of that name by that "late date" could have just been a coincidence...but who knows?
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