Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Samuel SMITH
Samuel Smith, (1720-1776) the historian, member of Provincial Assembly and Council, and with his brother John, and Charles Read the Custodian of the seal and acting Governor during the absence in England of Governor William Franklin, and subsequently Provincial Treasurer. His "History of New Jersey", issued in 1765, is still the standard history of the state during Colonial times. He was also in a sense the first historian of Pennsylvania, as the final compiler of the "History of the Quakers in Pennsylvania", authorized by Philadelphia yearly meeting from which Proude and later historians drew largely in compiling their works. He was further associated with Pennsylvania by his marriage with Jane Kirkbride, in 1741, daughter of Joseph Kirkbride, one of the largest land owners and most prominent men of Bucks county.
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