Re: TRUMAN FAMILY IN ENGLAND
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Re: TRUMAN FAMILY IN ENGLAND
Mollie Kidwell Thurston 3/22/03
I don't know about any Henry Kidwell but I assume you meant Henry Truman? His wife was very young when she married him. He was a great deal older than her. This is confirmed in Henry Peden's book on the Trumans. Peden says Henry married late in life (about 1680)to Jane Smith, the very young daughter of Richard and Eleanor Smith ,and sister of Richard, Walter and John Smith of Maryland.(Mallory, p 11) Peden shows Jane as being born about 1662.
Henry was born in England but I am not sure where Jane was born. It would appear from the biography below that she was likely born in Maryland. Here is a little about her father.
Maryland Genealogies, Volume 2, Smith Family of Calvert County, Page 373
Enters rights for himself in 1649 and his wife in 1651. He lived in Calvert Co and owned land in St. Leonard's Creek and Lyons Creek. He was a lawyer by profession. He was Attorney General of the Province in 1657 and held office under Fendells adm. until 1660. In the commission he was called "Lieutenent Richard Smith" indicating he held this rank in the provincial militia. he was elected in 1658 one of the Burgesses of Calvert Co.
No record is found of a will or the administration of his estate.
After Henry's death in 1696 Jane married a young Thomas Taney. Henry and Jane had four sons and Jane and Taney had two sons.
Here is Richard Smiths descendency:
Descendants of Richard Sr. Smith
1 Richard Sr. Smith d: Aft. 1689
.. +Eleanor Unk
........ 2 Richard Jr Smith b: Abt. 1653 d: 1714
............ +Barbara Morgan
........ *2nd Wife of Richard Jr Smith:
............ +Marie Johanna Somerset
........ *3rd Wife of Richard Jr Smith:
............ +Elizabeth Brooke b: 1655 d: Aft. 1679 m: 1671
........ 2 John Smith d: Unknown
........ 2 Jane Smith b: 1662 d: Aft. 1718
............ +HENRY TRUMAN b: 1628 d: 1696 m: Abt. 1680
................... 3 EDWARD TRUMAN b: Aft. 1680 d: Aft. 1729
....................... +Elizabeth Hutchinson b: Abt. 1685 d: Aft. 1735 m: 1710
................... 3 Thomas Truman b: 1684 d: 1717
....................... +Sarah Briscoe b: 1685 d: 1735 m: Abt. 1717
................... 3 Henry Trueman b: 1686 d: Unknown
................... 3 Richard Truman b: 1690 d: Abt. 1754
....................... +Elizabeth d: Unknown
................... *2nd Wife of Richard Truman:
....................... +Mary Woodson b: 1707 d: 1783 m: Abt. 1735
........ *2nd Husband of Jane Smith:
............ +Thomas Taney b: 1671 d: 1712 m: 1696
........ 2 Walter Smith d: 1711
............ +Rachel Hall b: 1670 d: 1730 m: 1686
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Re: TRUMAN FAMILY IN ENGLAND
Mollie Kidwell Thurston 3/23/03