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1646 John Smith "Nan" and Anna Gildersleeve, were married about 1646. Frederick Hart proposes that John's mother married Anna's father Richard Gildersleeve as her second husband and as his second wife. [1]

1657 A "list of owners and numbers of calves in Hempstead listed "sargant gilderslieve seven[, and] t[w]o more," followed by "John smith sargants sune[,] one. [2] [3]

1657 Hempstead town records included rules about fencing and management of cattle. "John Smith nan" had "seaven 6 of his owne one of rodese" reported in a listing of cattle ownership. [4]

1657-1658 John Smith Nan. was listed in an accounting of gates, cattle, and land in Hempstead, Long Island. [5] [6] [7] [8]

1659 On 3 June, "Anna the wife of John Smith nants of Hemsteede" testified that "Mr. Wood of Middleborrow [Newtown] Lately deceased" had spoken of a deed being made when he [Wood] was "at ye house of her father Mr Richard Gildersleve." [9] [10]

The depocition of Anna the wife of John Smith nants of Hemsteede taken before me under written ye 3rd of June 1659. This deponent saith that Mr. Wood of Middleborrow lately deceased being at ye house of her father Mr. Richard Gildersleeve ...

1659 John Smith nants was listed among "persons that are to fense and Inclose Rockoway w'th ye Nomb'r of their gates donn at A full town-meeting the 17th of Aprill 1659." [11]

1659 On November 11, John Smith Nan was taxed at Hempstead for "one anker anise on retail" as a seller of wine, beer ... "one half to be used to buy ammunition for the town, the other half to pay for the schooling of orphans and poor children." [12]

1664 On May 12, John Smith Nan. and others, "Inhabitants of Hempstead made freemen of Connecticut." [13]

1672 John Smith Nan entered an action of debt for his son Jonathan. [14]

May 1.— John Smith N., in behalf of his son Jonathan, enters an action of debt against John Chew. The Court order Smith to have his debt out of a bill which he hath attached, which Joshua Jaeocks passed to John Chew. The debt that Chew owes him being seven and a half yards of Kersey and a pair of worsted stockings, and ithe bill attached is fifteen yards of serge. — B., 325.

1676 Hempsted the 28 of March 1676 To all Christian Peopell to whome this: instrament of Righting shall Came Griting. be it knowne to all men that I John smith of Hempsted of Long Hand in New England and in the North Riding of New Yourkchere have Given unto My sonn Jeremiah one lot of Medow lying on the littell Neck: estward of the townd and allso I have Given him one Eight in the Comons which did belong unto Thomas fostors lot with all upland out land that doth or shall belong unto that Eight of Comons. This I dwo owne that I have given from me my Ehirs or assigns unto My sonn to him his eairs or assigns for Ever to InJoy as theire owne Proper intrust Navar to bs Molested by me Nor any from nie as witnis my hand the day and yere first above: wrighen and in the Presents of us, John Townsend John Smith, This is a trew Copy Extrackted oiit of the deed of Gift by me Nathaniell Peaesall Clarck. [15] [16]

1678 "At a Jenerall townd Meting held in Hempsted the 25 day of desember in the yere of our Lord 1678" "it was agred on by the majer Vote that the layers out of the medow shall begin to lay first at the Esturmost Comon Medow on the south sid of Rocoway lots drane for the Medow at Eocoaway" [list of names] John smith Nan. [17] [18]

1679 On 16 January, two land records were recorded for John Smith Nan. "Hempstead Janu 16: 1679 The Record off John smitth Nan his Hundre Acor llott and a two and tweenty acor lying witth it bounded on the east side by James pines and Moris Emry there lands on the North end by the lands of Nathanill Persalle John williams on the west by Captt John Seman and on the south against Tannors pond. Hempstead January 16: 1679. The Record of John Smith Nan his ffifty Acor lott in lenth beeing Neere on hundred perch Nortth and south and ffourscore perch in breadth Eastt and westt with an alouance ffor a hieway ffor his owne privatt euse downe to y'e harbor this ffifty acors of land Liing and beeing against the head of hempstead harbor Swamp." [19]

1683 On 11 October, John Smith, Nan was named on a rates list for Hempstead with 1 heads, 50 [acres or morgens?] land and meadows, 6 oxen, 5 cows, 3 hogs, 40 sheep, and 2 horses. [20]

1683 On 9 December, Ambrose Sutton of Hempstead [sold land to] John Smith, the son-in-law of Mr. Richard Gildersleeve [Richard Gildersleeve and Experience (of Crab Meadow, Northport 1687), Note John Smith of Nantucket married Anna Gildersleeve][Jamaica deeds, Liber B, part 2, page 375] [21]

1671 Afther the death of her husband, RIchard Townsend, Elizabeth (WIckes) Townsend made a deposition on 8 April 1671 concerning their children and the setlement of his estate. She refers to "my brother John Wickes" and "my husband's Brother Henry Townesend, & John Townesend his Cussen," calling herself "Elyzabeth Townsend Wido of ye Late deaseased Richard Townsend, of Lusum neare Oyster Bay in ye North Riding of Long Island." She names her sons "John Townesend, when he comes of Eadge," and Richard Townesend nowe Twelve weekes old," her late husband's "two Eldist daughter and her daughters Dinah and Leah," and her "youngest daughters" Hannah, Mary, and Deliverence."[22] [23]

John Smithe married widow Elizabeth (Wickes) Townsend.

1681 October 31, "John Smith Rock and Jonathan Smith Nan were chosen to gather the town rate, and are to have £3.5 for their pains." [24]

1682 April 1, "John Smith Rock is chosen constable; Jonathan Smith Nan and John Pine, overseers." [25]

1685 John Smith Nan signed an annoucement that certain lands were not to be accounted part of the town commons. [26]

1685, May. — This may inform all persons concerned that the eight divisions formerly laid out on our plains are not to be accounted part of the town commons, but are to remain to the proprietors to whom they were first laid out, as well as all the former allotments and hollows on the plains and ox-pastures. Signed, John Seaman, Nathaniel Pearsall, Richard Gildersleeve, John Smith Blue, George Hewlett, John SmithNan, Jonathan Smith, John Jackson.

1686 John Smith Nan was joined with patentees to defend their interests. [27]

1686, June 2. — John SmithNan, John Smith Blue, John Treadwell, George Hewlett, Joseph Smith, Jonathan SmithNan, Henry Willis and John Ellison, Sr., are appointed to be joined with the patentees to defend our interest in our lands against any claimants, especially at the head of Matagaret's bay. — C, 134.

1694 John Smith "son-in-law of Mr. Gildersleeve, deceased" made his will on July 2, 1694, giving a life estate to his wife, Elizabeth, and mentioning his son Jonathan, his son's sister Meriam, his son Jeremy, "except what I have given to my son-in-law Richard Townsend," daughters Elizabeth Smith and Hannah Merwin [sic, Marvin] and grandson Samuel Denton. The will was presented for probate a little over three months later on 6 September 1694. [28] [29] [30]


Footnotes:

[1] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "James Smith of Newtown, Long Island, His Descendants in Huntington,and his Brother John Smith of Hempstead," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 134 (2003), 163-174, 289-299, at 164 and 169-174.

[2] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 21, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[3] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "James Smith of Newtown, Long Island, His Descendants in Huntington,and his Brother John Smith of Hempstead," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 134 (2003), 163-174, 289-299, at 169, citing Hempstead Town Records, 1: 21, citing original A:9.

[4] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 18, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[5] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 38, [HathiTrust].

[6] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 28, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[7] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 21, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[8] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 31, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[9] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 111, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[10] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "James Smith of Newtown, Long Island, His Descendants in Huntington,and his Brother John Smith of Hempstead," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 134 (2003), 163-174, 289-299, at 169, citing Hempstead Town Records, 1: 111-12, citing original A:161.

[11] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 81, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[12] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 18, right column and footnote, [HathiTrust].

[13] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 44, citing Trumbull's Conn. Rec, i., 429, [HathiTrust].

[14] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 26, [HathiTrust].

[15] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 319, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[16] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 322, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[17] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 319, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[18] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 321, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[19] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 204, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[20] Christopher Morgan and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (1850), 527, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].

[21] William Applebie Eardeley, Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York 1680-1781. Wills and Administrations Guardians and inventories, Volume 1 (Brooklyn, New York: 1918), 48, [AncestryImage].

[22] John Cox, Oyster Bay Town Records, Volume 1, 1653-1690 (New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1916), 61-63, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[23] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "James Smith of Newtown, Long Island, His Descendants in Huntington,and his Brother John Smith of Hempstead," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 134 (2003), 163-174, 289-299, at 169.

[24] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 53, citing O, 15, [HathiTrust].

[25] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 53, citing C, 6, [HathiTrust].

[26] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 59, [HathiTrust].

[27] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 59, [HathiTrust].

[28] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "James Smith of Newtown, Long Island, His Descendants in Huntington,and his Brother John Smith of Hempstead," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 134 (2003), 163-174, 289-299, at 173, citing Queens Co. Deeds/Wills A [wills section]:87-88, original Liber.

[29] Henry B. Hoff, Long Island Source Records from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987), 132, which states Hannah's surname as Morgan rather than Merwin, [AncestryImage], [GoogleBooks].

[30] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_91, Queen's County Clerks Office Deeds & Wills, Liber A-87, which states the probate date as Sept. 20, 1694, Hannah's surname as Marvin, adds "of Hempstead" before Son-in-law of Mr. Gildersleeve, and mentions overseers neighbors Simon Sharing and John Jackson, [AncestryImage].