70. Smith. Anna Smith's father, with marriage
supposition to a Marshall. He was married to Marshall. "In 1677,
the ship Kent arrived at New Castle with 230 passengers, mostly Friends of good
estates. They landed at Raccoon creek, where they found some Swedish houses:
but not being well accomodated, they with the commissioners who came in the ship,
went up to Chygoe's island, (now Burlington,) so called then after the name of
the Indian Sachem who dwelt there. The town plot was purchased and called New
Beverly. Directly afterwards a fresh supply of inhabitants went there from Wiccacoa.
"The first ship that ever visited Burlington was the Shield, from Hull,
in 1678. Then the scite [sic] of the present Philadelphia was a bold and high
shore called Coaquanock, but more properly spelt [sic] Kuequenaku. This ship
in veering there, chanced to strike the trees with her sails and spars. It was
then observed, (as the historians have preserved the tradition,) that the passengers
were induced to exclaim, "what a fine place for a town!" A fine coincidence,
considering that none then purposed a Philadelphia city there!
"Other vessels continued to follow to Jersey. In 1682, as many as
360 passengers came out in one vessel. Thus Burlington and the adjacent country
settled rapidly, the settlers fully believing it would 'become a place of trade
quickly,' none then foreseeing the possibility of an overwhelming rival in the
future Philadelphia." - Annals of Philadelphia.
"The demolition in 1926 of the ancient dwelling at the northwest corner
of High and Broad Streets to provide a site for the new home of the Mechanics
National Bank, recalls the 'gentle and scholarly Smiths,' who figured so largely
in the ripening years of Burlington's history, and whose descendants, the Motts,
Gummeres, Allisons, Wetherills, Morrises, Hydes and others, adorned the social
life of the community in after years. The Burlington Smiths were descended from
a substantial Quaker family, resident since the sixteenth century at Bramham,
in the West Riding of Yorkshire [England].
"The house at High and Broad Streets was built by Daniel Smith twelve
years after his arrival in America, and seven years after his marriage to Mary
Murfin. Its quaint architecture and the legend 'D.S.M., 1703," set in the
south gable in glazed brick to identity [sic] the date of its erection and the
original occupants of the house, remained for more than two centuries an interesting
memorial of a dead and gone past. For several years Daniel Smith sat in the
Assembly of the town of Burlington, and for a time he and his brother, Samuel,
were its sole representatives. As an elder in the Society of Friends he was
held in High estimation for many years before his death in 1742.
"Mary Murfin, who became the wife of Daniel Smith, survived him but
four years. She is an interesting character in the history of the Smith house.
Her parents came from Eaton, in Nottinghamshire, England. When Mary arrived
with them in the ship Shield she was but a child of three or four years. Having
come to America at such a tender age she gained no other schooling than that
which her mother could give her in their pioneer home among the Indians. It
is said she became as proficient in the language of the red man as she did in
her parents' English tongue. She was twenty-one years of age when she married
Daniel Smith. They lived together in great harmony nearly fifty years and nine
children were born to them. It is recorded that she was 'a notable housewife
and a distinguished minister in the Society of Friends'.
"There remains [1927] to Burlington one memorial of the Burlington Smiths.
It is the house, No. 320 High Street, built in 1720 by Richard Smith, Jr., another
of the family of Bramham Smiths, who came to America in 1694 and located at Burlington.
...."
"... the following anecdote: 'Governor Franklin having for sale his
country place at Burlington, with its herd of one hundred deer, the bellman going
about the streets of the town very early in the morning disturbed John Smith,
whose health had become impaired so that sleep was a rare pleasure to him. Putting
his head out of the window, John asked what was for sale. 'The Governor's Park,'
was the reply. 'Put up your bell and go home, and I will buy the property at
the owner's price,' exclaimed the Councillor, as he closed the window and tried
to resume his disturbed slumbers.' John Smith died March 16, 1771, in the forty-ninth
year of his age."
71. Marshall. This is tentative,
based on Boyd's letter and Anna Smith Rodman's daughter's name of Anna Marshall
Rodman. Children were:
35 i.
Anna Smith.
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