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- "Alexander Smith was in the War of 1812 and recieved an honorable discharge and a land-warrant." His wife received a pension."
[Biographical and Historical Record, Adams County, Indiana]
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On 11 May 1818, Alexander Smythe, Jr. sold his 75 acres which contained the saw mill for $440 to Michael Rooney of Fairfax County, Virginia. [BCDB 19, p. 382].
[Wood, Berkeley Journal, 1997, p. 40]
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"His paternal grandparents, Alexander and Margaret [Mock] Smith, were natives of Virginia. The grandfather removed to St. Mary's Township [Adams County} in the fall of 1832 and entered 610 acres of land, upon which he removed his family the following spring. His son Robert was married soon after and settled upon 140 acres, a gift from his father. The land was unimproved, but soon a log house with clapboard roof and the conventional puncheon floor was finished, and thus comfortably situated, the parents of our subject began their home life. Acre after acre was cleared and improvements were made until the forest was converted into a valuable and productive homestead. Jehu's mother died here in October, 1866. The parents had six sons - Alexander, Jehu, Samuel, Archibald, Robert and William. They also had one daughter - Nancy Jane. After the death of his wife, Robert moved upon a sixty-acre tract south of the St. Mary's River. In 1879 the father died, and his son William inherited the farm. The father was of Dutch ancestry and the mother of Irish. They were pioneers in the township, and were land-owners."
[Biographical and Historical Record, Adams County, Indiana]
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1784 - Abt 1806 (22 years)
