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- U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994
Name John Smith
Birth Date 31 Jan 1752
Birth Date on Image 31 First 1752
Birth Place Newberry, South Carolina
Father William Smith
MotherJean Smith
Event Type Birth
Monthly Meeting Bush River Monthly Meeting
Historical Meeting Data Bush River Monthly Meeting
Yearly Meeting North Carolina Yearly Meeting
Meeting State South Carolina
Meeting County Newberry
Household Members John Smith
1800 Pendleton District, SC lists a John Smith on page 39.
1800 United States Federal Census
Name: John Smith
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Pendleton District, South Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 3
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Slaves: 2
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 10
John and Elizabeth Smith moved to Bedford County, Tennessee from Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1810. Apparently the Smiths and John Smith, Jr. died of a common illness.
He was from Pendleton County SC in 1812. (Richmond) He bought land in Bedford Co., TN in 1810. From Bedford Co. Deed Book C, pg 556, Bedford Co, TN. He was deceased by 1816.
North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
Name: John Smith
Record Date: 18 Aug 1808
Location: Bedford, Tennessee
Warrant Number: 372
The family was in North Carolina in 1774 and moved to Pendleton District, SC before 1792.
While researching Smith lines in Bedford County, the author found the following: In 1792 a man by the name of John Smith received 50 shillings for the scalps of two grown wolves. In 1803 a Jacob Smith received $2.50 for one wolf puppy. In 1809 Jacob Smith received $26 for one grown and six puppy wolves. In 1816 Jonathan Smith was rewarded with sixty-five cents for two red fox scalps. In that same year Charles Smith received ten shilling for one old and eight young foxes. In 1817 Jacob Smith, of Bethel Township, received $26 for one grown and six puppy wolves, the same amount that the man by the name of Jacob Smith had received in 1809 for the same number of animals. In 1820 Jacob Smith of Bethel Township received $54 for two grown and six puppy wolves. In 1826 David Smith was given thirty-nine cents for one red fox scalp. In the next year John Smith received the same amount for a red fox scalp he brought to the court house. Although the amounts do not seem very much now, it must be remembered that that was possibly the only hard cash those men were able to come by. And although the fox and wolf scalp orders do not provide a wealth of genealogical information, they do provide evidence of the hard life that our ancestors had to endure in Old~Bedford.
During the Colonial and Revolutionary War periods, and on into the late-1800s, the common farmer had very few ways that he could acquire cash. The farmer did not need much cash for the basic necessities of life, such as shelter, food and clothing. He had ample trees and stones in order to construct his house and outbuildings. Being a farmer, he raised his own vegetable and grain crops and maintained enough cows for milking and to provide meat when needed. Every farmstead bred sheep and chickens and other domestic animals for food. The farmer could always supplement his family’s diet with wild game that he could shoot in the nearby woods and forests. The farmer’s wife and daughters made most, if not all, of the family’s clothing from cloth woven from the yarn they spun on their home spinning wheels. The farmer grew flax and raised sheep for the linen and woolen yarn spun by the farmer’s wife. The somewhat isolated farmsteads had to be self-sufficient in order for the settlers to survive.
But there were some things that the farmer and his family might not have been able to produce themselves. Not every farmer had his own blacksmith shop on the farm, nor was every farmer skilled in the making or repairing of shoes. As a result, skilled artisans and craftsmen settled in the vicinity of the farmsteads and offered their products and services for sale. These craftsmen would accept food and clothing as barter for their products and services, but there were times when currency, in the form of printed money or milled coinage was necessary.
The county courts provided the means for the settlers in their regions to obtain the currency they could seldom otherwise obtain. The frontier of Pennsylvania abounded in natural wildlife. Among those animals were many fox and wolves. Being carnivorous and predatory animals, the fox and wolf would attempt, and sometimes succeed, in killing and eating the domesticated animals on the local farmsteads. To curb the population of the predatory wild animals, the county courts offered what were known as fox and wolf scalp orders. The court would pay a certain amount of currency to a farmer who would bring to the court the scalps of the various animals he had killed. The courts would pay for the animal pelts also, but they were not so much interested in them for the sake of the fur trade as they were to simply have proof that the farmer had actually killed the animals he as claiming to.
The rates that the courts paid varied from one county to the next, and from one type of animal to another. Some examples can be seen in the Bedford County Court House. There are boxes of the fox and wolf scalp orders stored in the Vault #1 in the court house’s basement.
In the Bedford Co. Family
What I have is John Smith married Elizabeth Smith probably in NC and had my Nancy Smith, born Feb 17, 1783. The other children were William, Sarah, Rachel, John, Jr (1779-1816), Rezin, Mary, Elizabeth, and Ruth. Nancy Smith married John Ingle, born about 1760 in Germany. He died Nov 27, 1816 in Bedford county. They married about 1798 in Pendleton Dist., SC. their children were William, John, George, Rezin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lucretia, Nancy, and James, the latter being born in 1815 in Bedford Co. This John was born before 1800 probably in SC. Nancy Smith Ingle's brother, John Smith, Jr. I have a little info from deeds which is: Land Deeds of Bedford Co 1807-1852 by marsh, Deed Book BB, p. 182: NOV 6, 1830 Rezin Ingle, Sally Ingle and Lucretia hatley who was Lucretia Ingle and Mack Hatley sold to Rezin Smith, all of Bedford Co., TN, whereas John Smith, Jr, brother of Nancy Ingle who was mother of Rezin Ingle and Sally and Lucretia.John Jr. died leaving 100 acres on Sinking Creek near Phillips and Campbell. Deed Book W, 1827-1828, page 28: Aug 1, 1825: Rezing Smith bought more or same of late brother's land.
Evidently he, his wife, and John Jr. all died from an influenza plague in 1816.
!BIRTH: Family Bible of Rezin SMITH copy in possesion of Patsy WEST.
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1752 - 1816 (64 years)
