1680 Jeremiah Smith Jun. y'e Son of Jeremiah Smith Sen. was born y'e 8th of Nov. 1680 & was baptised y'e: 16th of March ffollowing Ano Dom 1680-1" [1]
1683 On 11 October, Jeremiah Smith was named on a rates list for Hempstead "which have not brought in their valluations", with value £130. [2]
Research Notes:
1725 I, Jeremiah Smith, of Herricks, in the bounds of Hempstead, in Queens County, being this 23 day of October 1725 ancient in years but through the goodness of almighty God, pretty well in health. proved 3 September 1726. leaves to his wife Anne the largest room in my dwelling house, and what cellar room she shall have occasion for, and one third of the apples in the orchard yearly, during the time she remains my widow and no longer, also one half of my movable estate and her diet and washing and lodging to be furnished by my sons Thomas Smith and James Smith, and they shall pay her in lieu of dower, five pounds yearly. I leave to my eldest son Jeremiah Smith five shillings over and above what I have given him by deed. to my son John Smith five shillings over and above what I have given him by deed and the same to my son Richard Smith. leaves to his two grand-children Elizabeth Cornell and Ann Cornell, being the children of my eldest daughter Hannah deceased wife of Cornell twenty shillings. leaves to his grand-children Elizabeth Cornell and Hannah Cornell, being the children of my second daughter Elizabeth wife of Cornell, the sum of twenty shillings. leaves to his two daughters, viz. Ruth wife of Wilkes (Cornelius Wiltsee?) and Ann Smith, the sum of forty shillings. leaves to his son James Smith, 7 acres of land lying north of the orchard, for which he has already the deed. leaves to his son Thomas Smith my dwelling house and orchard containing about four acres, and as much more as to make it seven acres. all the rest of my land in Hempstead, both divided and undivided, I leave to my sons Thomas Smith and James Smith. also all my salt and fresh meadows, and one half of my moveable estate. they are my two youngest sons. intimates he had a wife who is deceased. executors my wife Anne Smith and my two sons Thomas Smith and James Smith. witnesses Benjamin Seaman Jr, and Joshua Carman and William Willis. [transcribers] Note - he was a son of Thomas and Patience Smith of Jamaica. He was Captain Jeremiah Smith who married first about 1682 Hannah __, daughter Elizabeth Smith married 1690 William Cornell. daughter Hammah Smith married (John?) Cornell his son James Smith married about 1724 Marya (Wiltsis?) Herricks was 3 miles from Mineola and named for William Herrick, a brother of James Herrick of Southampton, Long Island. [3]
[1] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 326, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] Christopher Morgan and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (1850), 528, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].
[3] 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 2 (Brooklyn, New York: 1918), 75, citing Abstracts of Wills, liber C, page 121, [AncestryImage].