This individual came from England with Richard, his father, to Boston i» 1630; and by his first wife, Sarah, had issue, Jonathan, Obadiah, Richard, Job, Adam, Samuel, Daniel, Elizabeth and Deborah. Job, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Thompson and had issue, Job (second), Richard, Timothy, Adam, James, Joseph and Elizabeth. Joseph, son of Job (first), married Mary Aldrich, and had issue, Joseph, David, Stephen, Gershom, Gilbert, Rhuhamah, Jane, Mary and Mahitible. Joseph, son of Joseph, married Sarah Saxton ; their children were Eliphalet, Joseph, William, Daniel, Selah, Catharine. Rhuhamah and Sarah. William, son of Joseph (second), married Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Hawkins, and had issue, Benjamin Smith. Benjamin Smith moved from Long Island to Rye, Westchester County ; from whence he removed to this town about 1740, and became, as we have already seen, one of the patentees in connection with Joseph Quinby and Caleb Fowler. Benjamin Smith married Deborah Harker and had issue, Morris, Abel, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Isaac (killed in discharge of his duty as sheriff6 ), Richard, James, Elizabeth, Sarah, Deborah and Esther. Abel, son of Benjamin, married Bersheba Hutchings and left issue, John, Benjamin, Abel, James, Isaac, Charity, Deborah, Jerusha, Bersheba, Sarah, Abigail and Elizabeth. Abel, son of Abel, married first, Esther Purdy ; issue, William, Joseph and Johl ; secondly, married Mary Waterbury, issue, Isaac, Julia, Ann, Thomas, Elizabeth, Abel, David. W., Mary and Sarah. David W., son of Abel, married Hannah Barnes; their children are Annie B., Abel, Mary Elizabeth, Samuel B. and Naomi.

Benjamin Smith, the Patentee, represented the county in the Legislature for a number of years; and was Supervisor of this town, from 1747 to 1754. Abel Smith, son of Benjamin, was a man of considerable influence in the county, which he represented in the State Legislature for about eight years, and was supervisor for a number of years, between 1790 and 1800.