1624 "Octob: 6 Samuel Smyth & Elizabeth Smyth were maryed" at St Margaret, Whatfield, Suffolk, England. [1] [2]
1625 "Octob: 6 Samuel sonne of Samuel Smith was baptized" at St Margaret, Whatfield, Suffolk, England. [3] [4]
1626/27 "Elizabeth Smyth D. to a glover Samuel" was baptized on January 28 at St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. [5][6]
1628 "Mary Smyth D. to ______" was baptized on October 19 at St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. [7][8]
1632 "Phillip Smyth S. to Samuel" was baptized on November 25 at St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. [9][10]
Research Notes:
1634 Samuel Smith came to Watertown in the ship Elizabeth from Ipswitch, England with wife Elizabeth and four children. [11]
1634 Samuel Smith came to Watertown in the ship Elizabeth in 1634, from Ipswich, England then by custom-house record aged 32, with wife Elizabeth, 32, and children Samuel, 9; Elizabeth, 7; Mary, 4; and Philip, 1. Was admitted as freeman 3 Sep 1634. Was first, perhaps, at Watertown, where most of the passengers of that ship plant, but in a few years removed with many of them to the banks of the Connecticut. Was representative 1641-1653 almost all the sessions, more than any other man. Was in 1658 exempt from training. Next year he removed with many of Rev. Henry Smith's opponents (who support. his success. Rev. John Russell's side of the Hartford controversy) to Hadley, where he was in very high repute, representative often from 1661 to 1673. lieut. in com. of the military from 1663 to 1678, then honorable discharge and his son Philip made lieut. and a capt. was appointed for the first time. Made a magistrate for the town. [12]
"Lieut. Samuel, 'the Fellmonger' as he is always spoken of in Weth. Recs., but whom we must follow other authorities, in supposing to be Samuel Smith, always called on Hadley Recs. 'Lieutenant.'" Samuel Smith "was a dealer in hides." Samuel Smith "was part owner of the Tryal the first ship built in the Conn. colony." [13]
1649 "In November, 1649, the General Court authorized Samuel Smith 'and the rest of the owners of the shipp at Wethersfield, to get and make so many pipestaves, as will freight out the said shipp the first voyage, provided they doe it out of the bounds of any of the Townes vppon the Riever within this Jurisdiction.'" [14]
[1] Parish Registers for Whatfield, 1558-1875, FB76/D1/1, Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch, Suffolk, England, FHL film 919634, Item 4, [FHLCatalog], [FamilySearchImage].
[2] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 31 (1956), 202-203, citing the parish register of St. Margaret, Whatfield, co. Suffolk, England, [AmericanAncestors].
[3] Parish Registers for Whatfield, 1558-1875, FB76/D1/1, Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch, Suffolk, England, FHL film 919634, Item 4, [FHLCatalog], [FamilySearchImage].
[4] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 31 (1956), 202-203, the date mistakenly stated as Feb. 8, 1625 [1625/6?], citing the parish register of St. Margaret, Whatfield, co. Suffolk, England, [AmericanAncestors].
[5] Hadleigh, Suffolk, Parish Register, 1558-1875, FB81/D1/1-10, 12-17, 22-23, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, FHL film 919574, [FHLCatalog], [FamilySearchImage].
[6] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 31 (1956), 202-203, citing the parish register of St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, co. Suffolk, England, and noting that Hadleigh is three miles south of Whatfield and that the date "Jan. 28, 1627" was "probably" new style, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] Hadleigh, Suffolk, Parish Register, 1558-1875, FB81/D1/1-10, 12-17, 22-23, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, FHL film 919574, [FHLCatalog], [FamilySearchImage].
[8] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 31 (1956), 202-203, the date mistakenly stated as October 9, citing the parish register of St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, co. Suffolk, England, [AmericanAncestors].
[9] Hadleigh, Suffolk, Parish Register, 1558-1875, FB81/D1/1-10, 12-17, 22-23, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, FHL film 919574, [FHLCatalog], [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Paul W. Prindle, "The Wife of Lt. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield," The American Genealogist 31 (1956), 202-203, the date stated as November 1632 (day not stated), citing the parish register of St Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, co. Suffolk, England, [AmericanAncestors].
[11] Harold Clarke Durrell, "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 94 (1940), 381-390, at 390, [AmericanAncestors].
[12] James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing three generations, Vol. 4 (Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1861), 131-132, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut, Volume II, Genealogies and Biographies (New York: Grafton Press, 1904), 646, [HathiTrust].
[14] Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut, Volume I, History (New York: Grafton Press, 1904), 540, [InternetArchive].