Henry SMITH
Birth:
1588
of Suffolk, England
Death:
1648
Cambridge, Ma
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
He emigrated from near Norwich, County Norfolk, England, in about 1636, and was the first ordained minister of Wethersfield Conn..
Dorothy
Birth:
13 Mar 1615
Bramford, Suffolk, England
Death:
8 Jul 1642
Cambridge, Ma
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
1636
Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Death:
1706
Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
After John's death, Dorothy was married three times. Quoting The Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County Conn.; `Concerning Dorothy Smith Blakeman, She appears to have possessed remarkable charms, either of person, intellect or heart, for, besides passing through a case of litigation in court for her hand, she was married a total of four times; twice agter she was over fifty years of age. After the death of her first husband, John, she apparently had a suitor named John Thomas. Rev. Adam Blakeman, who survived his son, John, in his will of 1665, says: ` I give to my darghter [in law] Dorothy Blakeman, if she marry not John Thomas and shall continue a widow, five pounds.' The General Court, Oct. 10, 1665, recorded: ` The magistrates do order that, in case John Thomas and the widow Blakeman do not issue their difference now included on that, the said Thomas shall make good his claim to that woman at the best court at Fairfield, otherwise the widow shall have liberty to marry upon this.' John Thomas seems to have abandoned his claims, for Francis Hall, who had been the attorney for the widow of Rev. Adam Blakeman in this case before the court, became encharmed with his opponent and married her that same month." Francis Hall died in 1690, and Dorothy, still possessing charms too attractive to be confined to widowhood, married Mark St. John of Norwalk, Conn., the same year. He died in 1693, after which she married Deacon Isaac Moore of Farmington, Conn., in 1694."
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Henry Smith - Dorothy
Henry Smith
was born at of Suffolk, England 1588.
He married Dorothy . Dorothy was born at Bramford, Suffolk, England 13 Mar 1615 .
They were the parents of 1
child:
Dorothy Smith
born 1636.
Henry Smith died 1648 at Cambridge, Ma .
Dorothy died 8 Jul 1642 at Cambridge, Ma .