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Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth

Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth

Male 1737 - 1788  (51 years)    Has 4 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth 
    Birth 1737  New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1788  Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 6 Siblings 
    Person ID I251208  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2007 

    Father Benjamin Smyth,   b. 1700, Woolpack, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1769, Knowlton, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Catharina Schoonhaven   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Abt 1725-1730 
    Family ID F210081  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Georgina Caroline Pitt Pilkington,   b. 1758   d. 11 Aug 1838 (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 1780 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Anne Smyth,   b. 1787   d. 1838 (Age 51 years)
    +2. Admiral William Henry Smyth,   b. 21 Jan 1788, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Sep 1865 (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F101646  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2007 

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  • Notes 
    • descendant of Captain John Smith, the principal founder of the Jamestown, Virginia colony. ???

      lived in East Jersey (now New Jersey), but, as a loyalist family, they emigrated to England after the American War of Independence/Revolution, where their son was born

      Said by Lord Colchester to be "the worthiest man" he had ever known.
      Claimed to be a merchant and land owner in Knowlton, Sussex, NJ
      Escaped to Niagara at the start of the American Revolution Jan 1777
      Commissioned as Lt in King's Royal Regt of New York
      Nov 78 sailed for New York, but was captured. He eventually reached Falmouth, Cornwall, in Jan 1779 "in a most forlorn condition", destitute and suffering from fever and smallpox
      He was in Niagara in 1788
      His claim was rejected after evidence given on 28. 4.89, so he may have been alive then. see "The Loyalists of New Jersey" E Alfred Jones, NJ Hist Soc 1927 p 204
      Resid. leg. & Exctor to father aged 46 in 1783 therefore b ca 1737
      Fought for the King as Lieut in Johnston's Regt against the rebels. d between Feb & July 1788



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