Richard Smith, Of Virginia

Abt 1589 - Bef 1660  (< 71 years)

• 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	I25766	footsteps
  Last Modified	21 Apr 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 (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	9 Apr 1585	Devon, England
  Family ID	F25573	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	F14252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 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.