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!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 222, 382.
!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:2-3. Presumably born in England. Lived in "Dorchester, Massachusetts, when he joined Roger Williams and four others in the spring or summerof 1636 to make the first settlement in Providence.
!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003. Adds that John was probably married in England.
!OCCUPATION: "The Miller." --Genealogies of R.I. Families
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