Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Richard Jr. SMITH

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Richard Smith Jr., born in Burlington in 1699, was a prominent member of Burlington Friends' Meeting, and a prosperous merchant, being extensively engaged in the West India trade, and owning a number of vessels, some of which were built at his own shipyard at Burlington. His extensive wharves were at Green Bank, where he received grain, lumber, and other products of New Jersey for shipment to the West Indies in exchange for sugar, rum, molasses and other products of those isles. He erected in 1720, shortly after his marriage to Abigail Raper, a spacious town house, on Main street, Burlington, not far from the river, and also owned a country seat, near Green Hill, once the seat of Governor Samuel Jennings. He was for nearly twenty years a member of New Jersey Assembly, and was held in high respect by the prominent men of the Province. According to James Alexander, one of the Councillors of New Jersey, Governor Belcher relied chiefly on his counsel in state affairs, and he was "by much the Man of the best Sense and Interest in the Assembly."

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