Individual Details

Joseph Smith

(1670 - January 13, 1749)

Joseph Smith was born in Rhode Island, the 3rd generation of his family, his grandfather John and his wife Sarah Whipples grandfather being original settlers with Roger Williams etc. Joseph married Lydia Gardiner they had six sons and three daughters. Joseph was a weaver and in 1700 was given a land grant -in the right of his deceased father-.

Events

Birth1670Providence, British America
MarriageApril 4, 1689Providence, British America - Lydia Gardiner
CivilDecember, 1700Providence, British America
DeathJanuary 13, 1749Providence, British America
OccupationWeaver

Families

SpouseLydia Gardiner (1669 - 1723)
ChildIsrael Smith (1689 - 1726)
ChildSarah Smith (1694 - 1762)
FatherJohn Smith (1641 - 1681)
MotherSarah Whipple (1641 - 1687)
SiblingJohn Smith (1661 - 1737)
SiblingSarah Smith (1663 - 1725)
SiblingAlice Smith (1665 - 1736)
SiblingBenjamin Smith (1672 - 1751)
SiblingWilliam Smith (1682 - 1753)

Notes

Marriage

Vpon the 4th day of Aprill in ye yeare 1689 Joseph Smith (the weaver) and Liddea Gardiner, (after lawfull publication) were both joyned together in Marriage by Richard Arnold Assistant, both partyes belonging to Providence.

Civil

Records show that Joseph Smith, weaver, another son of the miller, was granted three acres of land near Wanskuck, in the right of his deceased father.

Endnotes

1. Arnold, James N., Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, a family register for the people Narragansett Historical, Providence, Rhode Island 1891, Volume 2 page 171 Providence marriages.

2. Arnold, James N., Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, a family register for the people Narragansett Historical, Providence, Rhode Island 1891, Volume 2 page 77 Providence Marriages .

3. Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners. The Early Records of the Town of Providence, V. I-XXI. Providence, Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892, Volume 5 page 279 Joseph Smith and Lidea Gardiner married 4 April 1689.

4. (2008). || Volume 2 page 1400.

5. Field, Edward, 1858-1928. State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations At the End of the Century: a History. Boston: Mason Pub. Co., 1902, Volume 3 page 337 Industrial Development.

6. Arnold, James N., Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, a family register for the people Narragansett Historical, Providence, Rhode Island 1891, Volume 2 page 274 Providence deaths.

7. Miller, Clara Gardner. Gardiner-Gardner Genealogy: Including the English Ancestry of George Gardiner, Immigrant Ancestor of Newport, R.I.,Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1901, Page 28.

8. Field, Edward, 1858-1928. State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations At the End of the Century: a History. Boston: Mason Pub. Co., 1902, Volume 3 page 337 Industrial Development.

9. Robinson, Caroline E. The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner, the Colonist, 1638, Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co, Page 8 The Second Generation.

10. Arnold, James N., Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, a family register for the people Narragansett Historical, Providence, Rhode Island 1891, Volume 2 page 171 Providence marriages.