Richard Smith

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Name Richard Smith Suffix Of Virginia Birth Abt 1589 Gloucestershire, England Gender Male FSID L5V6-F89 Death Bef 30 Jan 1660 Accomack, Virginia, United States Person ID I25308 footsteps Last Modified 1 Jul 2025
Father John Thomas Smith, b. Abt 15 Jun 1566, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England Relationship natural Mother Thomsina Mannynge, b. Abt 1548, Bovey Tracy, Devon, England d. 1620, England, United Kingdom
(Age 72 years)
Relationship natural Marriage 9 Apr 1585 Devon, England Family ID F24821 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Welburn, b. Bef 24 Aug 1598, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d. Abt 1664, Accomack, Virginia, United States
(Age > 65 years)
Marriage Abt 1621 Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States Children + 1. Susan Smith, b. Abt 1615, Accomack County, Virginia, United States d. 1689, Accomack County, Virginia, United States
(Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
Family ID F14062 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Jul 2025
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Notes
Richard Smith was a Jamestown colonist and is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society
He was born about 1589 in England and his parents were Mary (Browning) and John Thomas Smith of Gloucester, England. [
On 18 November 1618, Richard Smith of England, received a grant for land on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He emigrated from England to Virginia on the ship "London Marchant" [sic] in March 1619/20.
After a stop off in Rhode Island, where he married Elizabeth Welburn, He soon took up his 1618 land grant on the Eastern Shore. On 23 September 1639 Richard possessed 200 acres of land in Accawmack County, Virginia.
The area where he resided became Northampton County, Virginia.
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