CHILDREN OF Hezekiah5 SMITH and Hepsibah KIMBALL
i. Hezekiah6 born April 12, 1772, Haverhill, Mass; he was a farmer in Northumberland, NH, where he died before 1860. He married Grizzel PORTER born in 1775, in Derry NH, died February 08, 1859, in Haverhill, Mass. Burial: Pentucket Cemetery. Their children were:
(a) Jane P. born in 1801, in Northumberland; she was by trade a milliner and died unmarried, March 08, 1859 and is buried in Pentucket Cemetery in Haverhill, Mass.
(b) Rebecca born____; died May 18, 1837 unmarried.
ii. Jonathan Kimball born January 28, 1774, in Haverhill, Mass, he died October 12, 1843, at the home of his son-in-law, Rev. Samuel Francis SMITH, in Newton Center, Mass. On October 19, 1797, he married (1st) in Haverhill, Judith Thurlow b July 27, 1774, in Newbury, Mass, died November 02, 1810, aged 36 yrs. in Haverhill a daughter of Samuel & (Little) THURLOW. They had one daughter:
(a) Sarah born July 11, 1798, died June 15, 1824, aged 26 yrs. in Portland, ME. On December 16, 1817, married Newburyport, Mass, as his first wife, Charles BRADLEY born December 17, 1792, in North Andover, Mass died October 14, 1874, in Portland, ME, a son of Jonathan & Sally (Ayer) BRADLEY and their children were:
(aa) Charles Smith Bradley born in Newburyport July 18, 1819, married Charlotte BROWN of Bradford, Mass.
(bb) Sarah Ann Bradley born in Portland, April 05, 1823.
(cc) Susan Mary Bradley born in Portland, April 05, 1823, died September 18, 1846, in Jonesville, Michigan, unmarried and is buried in Linwood Cemetery in Haverhill.
Mr. BRADLEY married (2nd), December 26, 1826, in Portland, Sarah E. CUMMINGS Born June 15, 1798, in Waterford, ME, died February 11, 1875, in Portland, a daughter Of Dr. Stephen & Elenor (HEALD) CUMMINGS. (Bradley of Essex County, 1915, pp. 117-18)
Mr. SMITH married (2nd), November 28, 1811, in Methuen, Mass., Anna WHITE born There July 28, 1786, a daughter of Capt. John & Mrs. Elizabeth (HAYES) WHITE, one Of the founders of that community. By his marriage (which is also recorded in Haverhill), Mr. SMITH, had one daughter born there:
(a) Mary born February 08, 1813, died May 04, 1903, aged 90 years. On September 16, 1834, she married Rev. Samuel Francis SMITH born October 21, 1808, in Boston, Mass. Died there November 16, 1895, a son of Samuel & Sarah (BRYANT) SMITH. Educated at the Boston Latin School he entered Harvard College from Which he was graduated in 1829, one of his classmates being Oliver Wendell Holmes. He continued his studies at Andover Theological Seminary and graduated In 1832. Ordained to the Baptist ministry on November 12, 1834, he became a clergyman of distinction, holding pastorates in Waterville, ME., 1833-42 and in Newton Center, MASS., from 1842 to 1854, when he resigned to become editorial secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. He continued to live in Newton Center until his death which occurred suddenly in a train at the railroad station in Boston, while on his way to fill a preaching engagement. He was a writer of (bo?) prose and verse and is best known as the author of the song, America, beginning, "My Country, tis of thee", which was first published in the "The Choir" in 1832.
At the time, "Samuel F. SMITH, the author, was a student at the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1895, Dr. Smith wrote the Reverend C.C. Carpenter of Andover: 'America was written in my room at the house of Mrs. HITCHINGS; while standing before the front window, nearest the front door of the house, in the north parlor.'
One dismal day in February 1832, Smith was in his room looking over a collection of German music sent him by Lowell Mason, a noted composer and choir leader. Since Mr. Mason did not understand German, he asked Smith to translate the verses or to write a few original poems to go with the music. As Mr. Smith glanced through the collection he was struck by a tune which appeared to him both simple and spirited. He noted that the German words were patriotic and as he relates it, 'I instantly felt the impulse to write a patriotic hymn of my own, to the same tune. Seizing a scrap of waste paper I put upon it, within half an hour, the verses substantially as they stand today.' Slipping the paper carelessly among his translations, the youth returned them to Lowell Mason'.
Signed presentation of the complete four 4 stanza lyric to the song "America" by Samuel Francis Smith, arranged around an engraving of the lyricist of the 19th century patriotic hymn more popularly known as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", the opening line of the first stanza. Holograph lyric written in Smith's own hand is signed "S.F. Smith" and dated 1892, the 60th anniversary of his writing the words to one of America's most popular and beloved songs.
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The verses were first publicly sung at a Sunday School rally, in 1832, at the Park Street Church, Boston. Although Dr. Smith stated, "I did not propose to write a national hymn; I did not know I had done so, his anthem caught the attention of the public and rapidly spread throughout the country." (Historic Houses in Andover, Mass, 1946, p. 11; Dict. Of Amer. Biog. V.17, pp. 342-42: Haverhill and Newton V.R.; William Cathcart, edit., Bap. Ency, 1881).
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The children of Rev. Samuel Francis SMITH and his wife Mary all born in Newton Center were:
(aa) Daniel Appleton White Smith born___; married Sarah Lincoln STEVENS, August
19, 1863. This couple left for Burma as missionaries soon after their marriage.
(bb) Caroline Edwards Smith born August 19, 1843, married James Ferdinand MORTON.
(cc) Charles B. Smith born June 14, 1845
(dd) Ewing Q.V. Smith born March 02, 1849
(ee) Samuel Francis Smith born___, married Mary REED
(ff) Sarah Bryant Smith born___, married John Dutton CANDEE, a son of Benjamin & Almira Clementian (Dutton) CANDEE.
(gg) Mary White Smith born___, married Howard Malcolm JONES (Haverhill, Newbury, Methuen & Newton V.R.)
iii. William born November 19, 1777, in Haverhill, and at one time was engaged in maritime pursuits. He married Rebecca POTTER of Plymouth, NH and they had two children:
(a) Caroline born May 13, 1803 in Plymouth, NH died in Haverhill June 15, 1893, burial: Pentucket Cemetery, unmarried. She left her estate to the Haverhill Baptist Church and also wrote a book of verse which is in the library of the Historical Society at Topsfield, MASS.
(b) George William born___, died July 01, Plymouth, NH. On July 03, 1893 Married Mary COX born there June 23, 1811, died there June 30, 1893, a daughter of Thomas & Miriam (Dearborn) COX. At the time of his marriage he is referred to as of New Hampton, NH and there is an oil portrait of him in the Haverhill Historical Society (Ezra S. Stearns, Hist. Of Plymouth, NH 1906, v.2, p. 150)
iv. Peter born July 27, 1781, died October 30, 1781, burial; Pentucket Cemetery, aged 9 weeks and 3 days in Haverhill.
v. James born July 27, 1781, died October 30, 1781, burial: Pentucket Cemetery, aged 9 weeks and 3 days. The death dates of both of these children are recorded in Haverhill and from their respective ages at the time of death they must have been born twins.
vi. Rebecca born October 09, 1783, in Haverhill, married (1st), September 26 1809, Thomas WENDELL "for many years a highly respected Deacon of Dr. Sharp's Church in Boston."
(Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, v.6, p. 101). She married (2nd.) Rev. R.A. FIFE of Canada.
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