John Smith

- Aft 1687

• Name	John Smith  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 16 Mar 1687  [3]
  Person ID	I42862	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth   d. Abt 1706
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor Smith   d. Bef 25 Aug 1722
  Family ID	F25062	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Called "The Mason" by Richard H. Benson (citation details below), presumably to disambiguate him from 5,271,009 other early colonial Johns Smith. His will, as quoted in Austin (citation details below), refers to Eleazar Arnold as one of his sons-in-law.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8397] The Arnold Family of Smithfield, Rhode Island by Richard H. Benson. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978.