. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . Smith and several generations be-fore him, it is said, lived on the Turnielief homestead,which afterward became a part of the domain of the Earlof Errol. Dr. James Smiths father was William Smith,who was born in 1620, the only son of Sir William Smith,who died in the year 1631. Sir Williams father, John moved and I am afraid Registers were not then kept in your partof the country. Dr. Smith, who acted as correspondent for theaged mother, writes on March 25, 1805: Your mother says shewas married
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . Smith and several generations be-fore him, it is said, lived on the Turnielief homestead,which afterward became a part of the domain of the Earlof Errol. Dr. James Smiths father was William Smith,who was born in 1620, the only son of Sir William Smith,who died in the year 1631. Sir Williams father, John moved and I am afraid Registers were not then kept in your partof the country. Dr. Smith, who acted as correspondent for theaged mother, writes on March 25, 1805: Your mother says shewas married in the end of Octr 1744 and you were born inOctr 1745—so it would appear that your Brother the Dr hadbeen right about your age. This letter also gives the dateof her own birth. Dr. Peter Smith is the physician mentioned byBoswell in his Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, as educated by the Earlof Errol. Thomas Smith, Senior, is not in the list of rebels of by Lord Rosebery for the Scottish Historical Society in1890, although there are many other tenants of the Countess ofErrol Coat-of-ArmsOK Thomas Smithfrom only known impression,in possession of\V. J. DeRenne, Esq.,Wormsloe, Savannah, ; an unicorn headerased armed proper; on achief wavv gules threemasclesof the first. Crest: Adexter arm in armour, em-bowed, proper, holding alance. Motto: Virtute sinetimore HIS SCOTTISH ORIGIN 3 Smyth—afterward Smith—who married Agnes Charnockof an ancient family of Lancaster, was a descendant of SirRoger Clarendon, son of Edward, the Black Prince/ Like Sir Williams father, Thomas Smith, Senior, alsomarried into an ancient family. His first wife was Eliza-beth Duncan, of the celebrated Camperdown family, andit was at their home on the banks of the Don, not farfrom Aberdeen, that their sons Charles and William wereborn, the latter on September 7, 1727, almost exactly eight-een years before the birth of their half-brother, ThomasSmith, Junior. When Mrs. Thoma
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