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Elizabeth-Lydia Shearing m. 1669 Chowan Precinct NC b. 1650? d. 1690? Chowan Precinct NC |
John b. 1670? Albemarle Co. NC d. Dec 1696 Chowan Precinct NC |
Edward Jr. b. 1675? Albemarle Co. NC d. 1719? Edenton NC |
Elizabeth b. 1678? Albemarle Co. NC |
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?Susannah b. 1682? Albemarle Co. NC |
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Africa (widow of David Jones) m. 1694? Chowan Precinct NC d. 1703? |
Asia b. 1695? Albemarle Co. NC |
Edmund b. 1699? Chowan Precinct NC d. 1774 Martin Co. NC |
Sarah b. 1701? Albemarle Co. NC d. 1708? |
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Samuel b. 1703? Chowan Precinct NC |
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Sarah Philpot Joyner Woollard Gilliam
(widow) m. 1702 Chowan Precinct NC b. VA d. 1709? |
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Jane
(widow) m. 1709? Chowan Precinct NC |
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Edward's father moved from Norfolk Co. VA to Albemarle Co. NC in the 1660's.
His land was in Shaftesbury Precinct, later Chowan Precinct and was bounded on
the south by Albemarle Sound, on the west by Edenton Bay, and on the north by
Mattacomack Creek (now Queen Anne's Creek). |
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Albemarle County was formed in 1664 but by 1670 part of it had been split into Chowan and
Perquimans Precincts. Bertie County was formed in 1722 from Chowan.
Tyrrell County was formed in 1729 from Chowan, Bertie and
other parts of the Albemarle Sound region. See
Map of the North Carolina
Counties in 1740. |
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Edward was an attorney and owned over 4,000 acres of land. During the 1680s and
1690's he was commissioner on court and surveyor (1682). He was a member of the
House of Burgesses (1703, 1711, 1712). In 1710 he testified (at age 61)
regarding the Virginia - North Carolina boundary line. |
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Edward had at least three wives. Africa was his second wife and she may have
been the widow of David Jones who died by 1694. The order of his wives and
children is indicated by Edward's
will dated Jan 21 1715,
which is after his first two wives and maybe his third have died leaving him
with the children and grandchildren mentioned in the will as heirs. |
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In the 1690's, Edward, Thomas Gilliam and Captain William Woollard were
neighbors. Thomas Gilliam and Capt. Woollard and his wife Sarah all came to the
area on the same transport in 1673 from VA. After Captain Woolard died, his wife
married Thomas Gilliam and in 1693 sued Edward over a land dispute, attempting
to have him leave her land. By 1702, Thomas Gilliam had died leaving his
land to Sarah. Sarah then married neighbor Edward. |
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On Dec 15, 1701, at the house of Thomas Gilliam, Edward Smithwick donated
an acre of his land for a church building, creating the first parish in the
North Carolina colony. This land was on the current Hayes Plantation one
mile SE of the town of Edenton. His name is inscribed on a
marble plaque, now on the rear wall
of the sanctuary of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1736
and still standing, in Edenton NC. The original site is just across the Queen
Anne's Creek from the present church. History of the Church from
the church website. |
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Sources: Bennett, William Doub, Hugh Smithwick Descendants, Martin County Historical Society, Williamston, NC, 1997. Corbitt, D. L., The formation of the N.C. counties, 1663-1943, Dept. Arch. & Hist, Raleigh NC, 1950, 323pp. Gracy, Alice Duggan, Thomas Hinds Duggan, Descendant and Ancestor, privately publ., Austin, TX, 1976, pp. 152-164. Greer, George Cabell, Early Virginia Emigrants, 1623-1666, Richmond, 1912. "Hugh Smithwick ... ", in W.P. Jacocks Papers, #3120; Southern Hist. Coll., UNC Chapel Hill, NC. Johnston, Coy K., Thomas Hooks, 1730-1803, His Antecedents and Descendents and Allied Families of Harrison, Duggan and Smithwick, publ. by author, Atlanta GA, 1976, pp. 115-122. Journal North Carolina Genealogy, 10:1379, 1382, 1383. Nugent, Nell M., comp., Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Baltimore MD, 1934. Smithwick, Edmund, family papers, NC Archives Search Room, Coll. PC 113.1. Notes taken by LMHolloway, VII-12-1978. Will of Edward Smithwick Sr., Jan 21, 1715, North Carolina Wills 1663-1789, NC Historical Commision. |
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