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Name: 's of Long Island Smith
Sex: M
Birth: 1580/1750 in of Long Island
Death:
Person Id: I1
Tree Id: 231736

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Married: smith .
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Note: k.geneanet.org/cgi-bin/search-fr.cgi?cc=1&URL=http:%2F%2Fwww.longislandgenealogy.com%2Fsmith%2Fsurnames.htm&q=smith">Smiths</a>
This is a compilation of the different early Smith lineages on Long Island.

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Individual Long Island
Smith Family Information
In eighteenth century Brookhaven
nearly one in ten residents bore the surname "Smith." - Theodore M.
Sanford III SCHS #262 Intro to "The Two Benjamin Smiths of Ronkonkoma"</center>
<center><table border="1" cols="3" width="100%" background="http://longislandgenealogy.com/bg0232.gif">
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<td><a href="quake001.htm">Arthur
"The Quaker" Smith
</a>
<a href="QuakerSmith.htm">Arthur Smith, Early Long Island Quaker</a> - Osborn Shaw</td>
<td><a href="jsmith.html">John
Smith (1801- 1896)-</a> From Ireland to NY City</td>
<td><a href="wait0001.htm">William
"Wait" Smith</a></td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="blue0001.htm">John
"Blue" Smith</a></td>
<td><a href="sever001.htm">Nicholas
Seversmith</a> (Smith) of Huntington</td>
<td><a href="http://www.acun.com/dentons/Smith.htm">The
Smiths of Nassau. - John Smith, Rock</a>
by Martha Bockee Flint -
October 1899 Off Site Link - Denton Family Genealogy by <a href="mailto:iamsue@acun.com">Sue
Montgomery-Cook</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="nan00001.htm">John
"Nan" Smith</a></td>
<td><a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/%7Egen2/peter1.htm">Peter
Smith of Jamaica</a> - Off site link provided by <a href="mailto:lolagf@aol.com">Jean
Hehn</a>, <a href="mailto:Jetoo@aol.com">Judy Tooman</a>, and <a href="mailto:suestine@juno.com">Sue
Stine</a>.</td>
<td><a href="whig0001.htm">William
"Whig" Smith</a></td>
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<td><a href="rock0001.htm">John
"Rock" Smith</a></td>
<td><a href="bull0001.htm">Richard
"Bull" Smith</a></td>
<td><a href="http://longislandgenealogy.com/UniqueMonument.html">John
"Rock" Smith's Descendants</a>
Unique Monument in Cedar
Grove Cem., Patchogue</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="http://longislandgenealogy.com/raynorrock.html">Raynor
Rock Smith</a> Hero Life Saver of the Wreck "Mexico"</td>
<td><a href="tangi001.htm">William
"Tangier" Smith</a></td>
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</tbody></table></center>
<center>Long Island "Smith Families"
From Long Island Antiquities by Gabriel
Furman</center>

Upon this island, and especially
in the central portions of it are very many families of the name Smith,
and so numerous did they become at an early period of this settlement,
that it was thought necessary to distinguish the various original families
by some particular name. thus we have the Black Smiths; the Blue
Smiths; the Bull Smiths; the Weight Smiths, and the Tangier Smiths.

 Of the
Rock
Smiths there are two distinct families. One originally settled between
Rockaway and Hempstead, some ten or fifteen years before the settlement
of the first white inhabitant in Setauket, who derived their name from
the contiguity to Rockaway. The other located themselves in Brookhaven
and obtained their appellation from their ancestor erecting his dwelling
against a large rock which still remains in the highway of that town.

 The Blue
Smiths were settled in Queens county and obtained their peculiar designation
from a blue cloth coat worn by their ancestor; whether because a cloth
coat was then an uncommon thing in the neighborhood, or that he always
dressed in a coat of that color, does not appear.

 The Bull
Smiths of Suffolk County are the most numerous of all the families of the
name of Smith upon this island. It is said there are now at least
one thousand males of that branch on this island. The ancestor of
this branch of the Smith family was Major Richard Smith who came from England
to New England with his father Richard in the early part of the seventeenth
century; and afterwards came to this island, and became the patentee of
Smithtown. The sobriquet of this class of Smiths is said to have
arisen from the circumstance of the ancestor having trained and used a
Bull in place of a horse for riding.

 The Weight
Smiths derived their name from being possessed of the only set of scales
and weights in the neighborhood of their residence, to which all the farmers
of the country around resorted for the purpose of weighing anything they
wished to sell or buy; at least so says the tradition.

 The Tangier
Smiths owe their origin to Colonel William Smith, who had been the English
Governor of Tangier, in the reign of Charles the Second, and emigrated
to this colony in the summer of the year 1686, where he settled in the
town of Brookhaven on the Neck known as Little Neck and afterwards as Strong's
Neck, which together with his other purchases, were erected into a manor
by the name of St. George's Manor, by a patent granted to him in 1693,
by Governor Fletcher. Most of the Tangier Smiths are now in that
town, scattered through it from the north to the south side of the island.
(Tangier, in Africa, was about that period an English colony, having come
to the British Crown as part of the dowry of Queen Catherine of Portugal;
and was, in 1683, abandoned by the English to the Moors, in consequence
of the great expense and small value of the colony.)

 These
different appellations of the families of the Smiths became as firmly settled
as if they were regular family names, so that when any inquiry was made
of any person on the road, man, woman or child, for any particular Smith,
they would at once ask whether he was of the Rock breed, or the Bull breed,
etc. And if the person desiring the information could say which breed,
he at once was told of his residence. In truth, there are so many
of the same name in that most numerous family of the Smiths upon this island,
that without adopting some such plan it would be almost impossible to distinguish
one from the other.

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Additional Smith Information
available on Long Island Genealogy
</center>

Submitted by the granddaughter
of Charles Smith and great-granddaughter John A. Smith, <a href="mailto:rdenton3@tampabay.rr.com">Mary
Jane Denton</a> who has the photo in her living room.</center>
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<td>3. <a href="ms1.html">Genealogy
of Mary (Brush) Smith</a></td>
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Note: For the designation of the different Smith lines on Long Island, see <a href="http://geneasee

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