John Smith alias Bland ca. 1590-after 1663

1. John SMITH alias BLAND, b. ca. 1590, of Watertown, Mass., d. after 2 November 1663, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., m. before 1615, Isabel DRAKE, b. ca. 1589, buried Watertown, Mass. 12 October 1639, daughter of William and Joan (Merrylls) DRAKE.
2. Annabel SMITH, b. ca. 1615, d. Watertown, Mass., before August 1683, m. before 1635, William BARSHAM, b. ca. 1610, d. Watertown, Mass., 3 July 1684.
3. John BARSHAM, b. Watertown, 8 December 1635, d. Portsmouth, N.H., 1698.  Harvard Class of 1658, schoolmaster of Portsmouth, N.H., m. before 1670, Mehitable (---), d. Portsmouth, N.H. after April 1678.
4. Sarah BARSHAM, b. Portsmouth, N.H., 11 August 1676, d. New Castle, N.H., 23 June 1752, m. first ca. 1694, Benjamin BICKFORD, b. Durham, N.H., 20 October 1672, d. between November 1697 and 1698, son of John and Temperance (HULL) Bickford, half sister of Reuben HULL (see Starr family descent).  Sarah m. second, Jotham ODIORNE, Esq., b. New Castle, N.H., ca. 1675, d. there 16 August 1748, merchant, son of John and Mary (Johnson) ODIORNE.
5. Temperance BICKFORD, b. Durham, N.H., ca. 1694, d. Kittery, Me., December 1786, m. first before 1718, John UNDERWOOD, b. ca. 1693, d. New Castle, N.H., before May 1727.  Temperance m. second soon after 1727, George WALTON, b. New Castle, N.H., 24 December 1702, d. Portsmouth, N.H., before May 1784.

 From here I wrote an article on the preponderance of evidence that this couple had a daughter who was the wife of Reuben Heard, son of Tristram and Jane (Snell) Heard who appear in the previous descent chart. Jane, Wife of Reuben⁴ Heard of Rochester, New Hampshire: Was she a Walton? An Enigma, New Hampshire Genealogical Record 23 (2006): 97-103.

 Sources:

 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Vol. 1 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) 1:108-111. [Barsham sketch]

“John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts” by Robert Charles Anderson, TAG 61 (1985):18-31.

Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-35 Vol. VI (R-S) (Boston, NEHGS, 2009). [Smith alias Bland sketch]

Genealogical Dictionary of ME and NH by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis (Portland, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1988).

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis by Walter Goodwin Davis (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996), 3: 523-33.

Comments

[Northwoods]

Hello there,

I just read what you have on John Bland Smith, and I am confused. I have traced our Smith line back to him, and was surprised to see that he's not a "genetic"Smith but assumed the name from his stepfather. What I'm wondering about is that I have now seen numerous different birth and death dates for him, but with the same wives names and b. and d. dates and same children and moving to the same area. You have his b. date as 1590, I've had it as 1572 and d.1/6/1668 for a while now. I have Isabel Drakes b.date as 1579, but noticed you have it listed as 1589, but same d. date and same parents and same areas. Are there 2 couples with these same names and close dates?

[Martin Hollick]

The sources at the bottom are there so that you can look up where I got this information. You should NEVER EVER believe anything on the Internet without checking up on it. The 1590 birth date of John Smith is based on his first marriage date to Isabel Drake ca. 1615. Isabel Drake's birth date of 1579 is based on her burial record which states that she was 60 in 1639. However, that information is believed to be inaccurate and inflated by more than a decade. Read the sources I cited.