Edward Smithwick
1642/1647
Hugh Smithwick is among those listed by William
Eyres as persons he had brought into the district (Norfolk Virginia) 1642.
(Shaftesbury
Precinct)
A Henry Smithwick had come into Virginia in 1635, but Elizabeth had found
no connection between the two men.
Hugh Smithwick was one of the earliest settlers in NC. There is proof
that he was in North Carolina before 1661.
He left property in Chowan County to sons Edward and John .
John Smithwick died in 1696, and left his property : half to his wife
Hannah and half to his daughter Sarah .
Edward Smithwick seems to be the ancestor
of all the North Carolina Smithwicks. He was born in 1647, was very active
in the affairs
of the community and seems to have been quite wealthy.
Edward (wife, Africa) had sons: Edward, John, Edmond and Samuel, and
a daughter Sarah.
(re. Edward's will Jan.21, 1715-16).
By 1746 the part of the country in which John Smithwick lived had become
Bertie County.
Found in Bertie County Deed Book F, page 267, record giving plantation
and tract of land to
William Duggan, husband of John's daughter Mary.
[NCBERTIE] mailing list - Excerpts from MANNING AND ALLIED FAMILIES by
Elizabeth Wright, printed 1956.
1661
Hugh Smithwick was one of the earliest settlers
in NC. There is proof that he was in North Carolina before 1661.He
left property
in Chowan County to sons Edward and John
1748
Edgecombe Edgecombe County NC Fishing River District Land Grant witnessed
by J. Blacker
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PKB11-124 Robert Brinkley 24 June 1748
200 in Edge es Conway Crk adj Brinkley’s line
Surveyed 2 Mar 1747 by James Connor
@ J. Blacker, Edwd Smithwick
Cc James Lett, Wm
Gilbert
(source: Louise Fuller)
.