Covering Letter to Certificate Application for John J. Noble as descendent of Daniel Smith the Loyalist

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1 Covering Letter to Certificate Application for John J. Noble as descendent of Daniel Smith the Loyalist (by John Noble UE) I am pleased to submit the attached two completed copies of the Certificate Application for my Loyalist ancestor Daniel Smith Sr., who arrived in Saint John on May 11, 1783 aboard the ship Union. All documentation is submitted in reverse order in accordance with the proofs of lineal descent requested on page 9 of the Certificate Application. Daniel Smith Sr. and his wife, Ruth Fitch, originated respectively in Norwalk and New Canaan, Connecticut. They were married in New Canaan (originally part of Norwalk) on 22 May The marriage and date are recorded in "Early Connecticut Marriages: Fourth Book -Stamford-New Canaan New Haven Second Church page 23. (Copy attached). The marriage record indicates that Daniel was from Norwalk. Daniel s parents were Nehemiah Smith and Elizabeth Clapham from Norwalk and Daniel s wife Ruth Fitch was the daughter of Theophilus Fitch and Lydia Kellogg and was born in Norwalk on 1 April 1739 (copies from the 1903 Kellogg genealogy The Kellogg s in the Old World and the New by Timothy Hopkins, page 88, and page 241 of the Genealogical Record of Norwalk attached. Also attached is a copy of The American Genealogist" 1949 (volume 25 issue 2 page 82) which states the parents of the Daniel Smith who married Ruth Fitch were Elizabeth Clapham and Nehemiah Smith, son of Samuel. Samuel was a very early settler in Norwalk and owned property on the East side of the river near Strawberry Hill. He was involved in several undertakings with the Fitch family. Donald Lines Jacobus is the author of the TAG article and probably the foremost genealogical authority on early Fairfield County Connecticut. Also attached is an article by George H. Hayward Daniel Smith s Ancestors and Children from the Spring 2009 issue of Generations. Children followed in rapid order: Orlo was born in 1761, Clapman in 1762 (see below), Daniel Jr. was born in 1765, Lydia was born in 1766 in New Preston near New Milford, Ruth and Mary at later dates. Some time prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution and probably between 1760 and before 1766, Daniel Sr. and his wife and family moved to New Milford, Connecticut where he was a publican and had considerable land. During the Revolution he served as a guide to British forces in the raids on New Haven, Fairfield, Green's Farms and Norwalk, and he also brought out Loyalist supporters from Connecticut to New York City which remained in British hands throughout the Revolution. His activities in support of the British during the Revolution are detailed in his claim for losses to the Loyalist Commissioners (see below) and are also mentioned in various publications as follows: In the Royal Society of Canada paper The Refugee Loyalists of Connecticut by Professor W. H. Siebert of the Ohio State University, presented by W. D. LeSueur, LLD, F.R.S.C. (read May Meeting, 1916), it mentions that Daniel Smith of New Milford, Litchfield County, operated under a warrant, or commission, during the winter of , and secured "a good many". (p. 77). It also says: "On June 16, 1779, Fanning's King's American Regiment sailed for New York, and accompanied Tyron's last expedition to Connecticut, which occurred in the early days of the next month. The expedition was directed against New Haven, Fairfield, Green's Farms and Norwalk, and like the earlier one, was piloted by Tory guides, William and Thomas 1

2 Chandler, sons of Joshua Chandler of New Haven, two brothers of Amos Botsford of the same town, and Daniel Smith of New Milford, serving in this capacity" (pp ). In March 1777, the Litchfield County Court issued the following order: "The personal estate of Daniel Smith, Justin Sherman, Nathan Daton and Thomas Noble, all of New Milford, in the County of Litchfield, they being inimical, was ordered to be disposed of for the use of the state." ( from Lucius M. Boltwood The History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass 1878, page 43 copy attached). There is a 26 October 1779 classified ad in the Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (copy attached) which reads as follows: We the Subscriber being appointed (by the Hon. Court of Probate for Woodbury District) Commissioners, to receive and examine Claims of the Creditors of the Estates of John Benedict, Justin Sherman, Daniel Smith, and Samuel Miles, all late of New Milford, in Litchfield County, and now gone over and joined the Enemies of the United States; do hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said business at the Dwelling House of Col. Samuel Canfield, in said New Milford, on the 4th Tuesday of instant October, and on the 3rd Tuesday of November and December next, from the Hour of One to Six o'clock in the Afternoon on each Day. Creditors are desired to attend with their Accounts properly authenticated. Isaac Bostwick, Noble Hine, Elisha Bostwick, Commissioners, New Milford, October 6, Colonel Josiah Starr petitioned that Daniel Smith's property in New Milford be seized to pay wages of the men under his command. By a court decision of June 1781 this was done. (Copy attached). Connecticut's Loyalists by Robert A. East, Pequot Press, Chester, Connecticut 1974, Connecticut Bicentennial Series, VI, contains the following on page 36: "An interesting "New Claim" was made by a former public house keeper of New Milford, one Daniel Smith, who swore that he had been "confined" by a committee in 1776, but was nevertheless employed all that winter recruiting men in Connecticut, but had been apprehended, jailed and escaped. More particularly Smith noted that he owned 2,000 acres in "Susquehanna" which he had purchased for pounds 12 five years previously, but that settlers there had "been drove off by the Indians". Daniel Smith of New Milford is listed on page 41 of Connecticut's Loyalists as being on the Union which arrived with the Spring Fleet in Saint John Harbour on May 11, The same information about Daniel Smith Sr. arriving on the Union is found on page 419 of The King s Loyal Americans: the Canadian Fact, by B. Holt-Wood, 1990 and also on page 14 of Kingston and the Loyalists of the Spring Fleet of 1783 by Walter Bates, Saint John NB, Daniel Smith Sr. was among the 1459 Loyalists to receive a grant of land in Parr Town (Saint John) on 27 of August 1784 by Governor John Parr of Nova Scotia. The grant was re-registered in New Brunswick on 2 January There was no land petition for this grant which was among the first given to arriving Loyalists. Smith s grant is listed as Lot number 981 (photocopy and partial transcription of document attached. There is no indication on the NB Land Grant Maps CD-ROM for Saint John of where Lot 981 was located). Daniel Smith is listed on page 329 of Esther Clark Wright s The Loyalists of New Brunswick as being a farmer from Litchfield County Connecticut who was given grant P981" and settled in Burton which is on the Oromocto River in Sunbury County (copy attached). On the 1 st of October 1784, just one month after his initial grant, Smith joined with 11 other Loyalists (described as such in their petition) who had already received land but were dissatisfied with it, to ask for land on the Oromocto River in Sunbury County (copy of petition and transcription attached). This grant was authorized on the 8 th of June 1787 (copy of grant and transcription attached). In a later 2

3 petition (see below) Smith says he had been settled on the Oromocto since 1785, which suggests he occupied the land before the grant was finalized. This is also supported in his February 16, 1787 petition to the Loyalist Commissioners which says he first came to Majorfield (Maugerville) and then moved to Burton (Oromocto River) by the time of his petition. Smith submitted his claim for losses during the Revolution to the Loyalist Commissioners (Commissioner Pemberton) in Saint John. This claim is found on pages of the First Report of the Commissioners on United Empire Loyalists: Enquiry into the Losses and Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty. Evidence in the Canadian Claims which was reprinted by the Ontario Archives in 1904 as: Second Report: Ontario Bureau of Archives (copy of claim attached. It is also reproduced in George H. Hayward s article in the Spring 2009 issue of Generations about Daniel Smith, already referenced and attached). There is no indication on this claim of whether Commissioner Pemberton accepted it. In the book Loyalists of the American Revolution by Gregory Palmer, 1984 page 796 it is stated: "SMITH, Daniel Lived in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, where he kept a public house and had a farm of 115 acres. Smith also had a farm consisting of ninety seven acres in Kent Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He was summoned to appear before a Whig Committee in Smith joined the British on Long Island in 1776, and was employed rescuing Loyalists and raising men in Connecticut for the British service. He was apprehended in March 1777, but escaped and served occasionally as a guide on expeditions. Smith settled afterwards in Burton, New Brunswick. He estimated his loss at 1000 sterling, and was awarded 487 sterling". (copy attached). On the 14 th of August 1789 Daniel Smith Sr. petitioned for an additional 500 acres of land in close proximity to his 1787 grant on the Oromocto (copy of petition and transcription are attached). The grant issued on the 14 th of June 1790 was for 787 acres almost four times the normal amount of 200 acres allotted for married families (as spelt out in the reaction to the 1785 petition in which the petitioners had asked for 500 acres per family and 300 acres per unmarried man and the limit of 200 acres per family was set out) and fifty percent more than he had asked for in his petition. Copy of the 1790 grant and a transcription as well as a copy of the relevant part of Land Grant Map # 147 from Services New Brunswick are attached). You can see on the map the proximity of his first grant to his second grant and also the proximity to the grants of his sons Orlo and Clapman. I understand from the introductory comments in the Report of the Commissioners on United Empire Loyalists that the normal means of compensation for claims was by land grants. The book Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution with An Historical Essay by Lorenzo Sabine (1864) has the following information regarding Daniel Smith: Smith, Daniel. Of Connecticut. Arrived at St. John, New Brunswick, in 1783, in the ship Union, and was the grantee of a city lot. He died in that Province, in 1834, aged seventy. I believe this information is incorrect and confuses and mixes information with respect to Daniel Smith Sr. with that of Daniel Smith Jr. As proved above, it was Daniel Smith Sr. who arrived on the Union. Daniel Smith Jr. arrived on the Two Sisters with his brother Clapman (see below). Daniel Smith Sr. died in 1816 aged approximately 80 or older. Daniel Smith Jr. died in 1834 at which time he was 70 years old, 3

4 but he was not living in Saint John, but in Lincoln on the Oromocto River in Sunbury County. Furthermore Daniel Jr. stated in an 1815 land petition (see below) that the only grant he ever received was for land in Gage Township. Daniel Smith Sr. had three sons: Orlo, Clapman and Daniel Jr., who were all born in Connecticut. I have not been able to find any record of their births. One researcher attributes this to some Norwalk records having been eaten by mice. There is a record of Daniel Smith Sr. s marriage to Ruth Fitch on 22 nd May The ages of sons Clapman and Daniel Smith Jr. were stated in their 1815 land petition (copy attached with transcription) as 53 and 50 respectively. That would put Clapman s birth date as 1762, which is the date inscribed on his grave (photo of gravestone attached) and Daniel Jr. s as Since Orlo was the oldest he can be presumed to have been born in Daniel Smith Sr. arrived on the Union by himself (according to the manifest). Clapman and Daniel Smith Jr. came on the Two Sisters in the fall of Page 419 of The King's Loyal Americans: the Canadian Fact by B. Wood-Holt lists Daniel Smith Jr. from Connecticut a shoemaker by trade sailing to Saint John on board the "Two Sisters", the same ship that his brother Clapman sailed on. I have no information on how and when his wife Ruth, son Orlo and his daughters, also born in Connecticut arrived, nor how the two slaves which he brought at some point to New Brunswick arrived. Daniel Jr. was immediately granted one half of a 200 acre lot in Gage Township along with 66 others on June 14, 1784 by Governor John Parr of Nova Scotia (this was six weeks before his father received his grant in Saint John). (Copy of grant attached). There was no petition for this grant. It was re-registered in New Brunswick on January 20, Daniel Jr. received Lot 15 which he shared with Hezekiah Kierstead. Daniel Jr. sold his half share in this lot on November 2, 1786 to Nathaniel Hubbard for the sum of 25 pounds. Daniel Smith Sr. was a witness to this Indenture (copy attached), perhaps because Daniel Jr. may not have been of the age of majority at that time (he was either 20 or 21, according to his 1815 petition). The purchaser Nathaniel Hubbard may have been the same person who was one of the other petitioners who signed Daniel Smith Sr. s 1785 petition and who was granted Lot number 13 while Daniel Smith Sr. was granted Lot number 8 on the Southwest branch of the Oromocto River. According to the 1815 petition for land signed by Daniel Smith Jr. and Clapman Smith, Daniel Jr. was not granted land on the Oromocto up to that time and he only mentions the 100 acre grant he had received in Queens County (but not its subsequent sale). On the 28 th of February 1785 Orlo and Clapman Smith petitioned for land on the Oromocto above Mr. Mersereau's and Doctor Clark (two of the petitioners in Daniel Smith Sr. s 1785 petition mentioned above and who were granted Lots numbers 12 and 7 respectively). (Copy of petition and transcription attached). In the petition they indicate they have been waiting for eighteen months for a grant of land, which puts their arrival as September In the instructions given by Governor Carleton to the Surveyor General on March 19, 1785 in response to Clapman and Orlo s petition, he instructed the Surveyor General to lay out for James Scofield and five others (including the named Orlo and Clapman Smith) six Lots of two hundred acres each on the Southern Branch of Oromocto beyond lands owned by Samuel Peabody and others on such unappropriated land as shall be pointed out by Daniel Smith, (another indication that Daniel Smith Sr. was already settled on his land on the Oromocto long before it was formally granted in 1787). The grants to Orlo and Clapman were made on November 9, 1787 (copy 4

5 attached along with transcription and relevant portion of Map #147 of the Land Grant Maps of Services New Brunswick. They received Lots 1 and 2 respectively on the east side of the South West Branch of the Oromocto). This is only a few months after the grant was formally made to their father Daniel Sr. on June 20, 1787 in the same area (as shown on the attached map). They are the only grants to Smiths in the immediate area and this is a strong support that they were indeed sons of Daniel Smith Sr. In the 1789 petition which Daniel Smith submitted requesting 500 acres of land he said that he has been now four years settled on Land granted him on the Oromocto and that He also wishes to inform your Excellency that he has settled three of his sons on farms, each of which is now under very considerable improvements. Daniel Sr. did not mention his sons names in this petition, but it can be presumed that they were indeed Clapman, Daniel Jr. and Orlo since when Daniel Smith Sr. died in June 1816 the Administration of his estate was given to Clapman Smith, Daniel Smith Jr. and Orlo Smith (photocopy of article in Royal Gazette and from NB Vital Statistics in Newspapers. You will note that NB Vital Statistics transcribed Clapman s name as Chapman, while it is clearly Clapman in the Royal Gazette). While I have not been able to locate any documents which specifically spell out the names of Daniel Smith Sr. s sons, I would submit that the above provides sufficient proof that they were. The Spring 2009 issue of Generations had an article entitled Daniel Smith s Ancestors and Children (copy attached) which says that Daniel Smith was born about 1736 the son of Nehemiah Smith and Elizabeth Clapham. Hayward quotes two sources: Donald Lines Jacobus, in the American Genealogist, Vol. 2, Issue 3, 1949, said: Daniel Smith, b. (say 1728); probably married at New Canaan, 22 May 1760, Ruth Fitch; and Ancestry.com subscription service, "Early Connecticut Marriages, Fourth Book, Stamford- New Canaan, New Haven Second Church, p. 23: "Daniel Smith of Norwalk & Ruth Fitch, May 22, 1760". Daniel Smith Sr. and Clapman Smith and their families are listed in the New Brunswick Genealogical Society s First Families of New Brunswick as follows: SMITH: Daniel Smith b. probably in Litchfield County, CT, d. 26 Jun 1816, m. 22 May 1760 at Norwalk, CT, Ruth Fitch b. 1 Apr 1739 d/o Theophilus Fitch and Lydia Kellogg: they settled in Burton Parish, Sunbury County: Children: 1) Orlo Smith b m. Hannah Thomas: 2) Clapman Smith b. 1762, d. 1843, married Susannah Bailey b. 1775: they had ten children: 3) Daniel Smith m. Nancy Kellogg: had issue: 4) Ruth Smith: 5) Mary Smith married George Hayward: 5

6 6) Lydia Smith married Mr. Ward. Sources: MC1/Smith #19, 2 pages: see also MC80/2706 Sharon Knorr s Hoyt pioneer cemetery, pages SMITH: Clapman Smith b probably at New Milford, CT, d. 1843, s/o Daniel Smith and Ruth Fitch: father and son came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled on the Oromocto River, Blissville Parish, Sunbury County: married Susannah Bailey b. 1775, d. 1856: Children: 1) Clapman Smith Jr. b. 1794, died 1871, married Gertrude DeWitt b d/o John DeWitt, d. 1896: first lived in Mill Settlement, Blissville Parish and then in 1836 moved to Presque Isle, ME: 2) Benjamin Smith born 1800, d. 1870, m. Amelia Clarke b. 1797, d. 1850: settled near Hoyt, Blissville Parish: 3) Daniel Smith born 1802, d. 1861, married Phoebe Hartt b. 1809, d. 1883: family settled near Blissville, NB: 4) Joseph Smith born 1803, d. 1880, m. Harriet M. Lounsbury b. 1800, died 1891: family settled near Blissville: 5) Samuel Smith born 1805, died 1861, married Abigail Balmain: 6) William Smith b. 1808, d. 1861: 7) Israel Smith b. c1809: went to West Saint John, NB: 8) Theophilus Smith b. 1810, m. Lucy Hudson: 9) Ezekiel Smith: 10) Ammon Smith: 11) James Smith born 1814, d. 1896, m. Anne - b. 1826, d. 1882: 12) Lydia Smith born 1815, died 1856, m. John Seely: 6

7 13) Thatcher Smith: 14) John Smith b. 1825, d. 1903, married Elizabeth - born 1835, d Sources: MC1/Smith #1, 20 pages: Daniel Smith b at Danbury, CT, died 1815, married Ruth Fitch, b. 1730, d. 1813: came to NB and settled in Burton, Sunbury County: data on Joseph Smith and Harriet M. Lounsbury is found in MC1/Smith #14. The dates of birth for Daniel Smith Sr. and for his son Clapman are not the same as contained in the documents quoted by Hayward for Daniel Sr., nor the same as Clapman s stated age in 1815 (53) and the date of birth engraved on his tombstone. I have not been able to track a tombstone for Daniel Smith Sr. There is some suggestion he was originally buried on his land and subsequently transferred to the Baptist Cemetery in Blissville. Since Daniel Sr. was an Anglican (as witnessed by his signature regarding Lot 15 in Sheffield in 1793 ), I doubt the accuracy of this information. It is clear that Clapman s wife Susannah Bailey was a Baptist and since they are both buried together in the Baptist Cemetery in Blissville (copy of photo of gravestones attached), it is reasonable to assume that he changed from his Anglican upbringing to the Baptist faith to please his wife. Clapman did not sign the 1793 petition regarding Lot 15 in Sheffield as did his father and brother Orlo. Daniel Smith Jr. also became a Baptist and is buried in the Baptist Cemetery in Blissville. A separate Preponderance of Evidence regarding Clapman Smith as a son of Daniel Smith Sr. is submitted. Clapman s link to his son Benjamin Smith is found in an 1819 timber petition signed by Clapman Smith Jr. John Smith, Benjamin Smith, who say they are sons of Clapman Smith of Oromocto, Esquire. (copy of petition and transcription attached). Benjamin married Amelia Clark on 4 September 1822 in Sunbury County. i Amelia died on 11 September 1850 and is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Hoyt (photo of gravestone attached). When Benjamin s son George Frederick moved north to Wakefield Parish Carleton County sometime after the 1861 census, Benjamin moved with him and died there on May 31, 1871 after the 1871 census which had him living with his son George F. Copy of gravestone photo and death notice from Vital Statistics from NB Newspapers attached. Here is the story from the "Hoyt Pioneer Cemetery" booklet: "There happens to be a story to go along with Benjamin Smith: The husband of Amelia (Clark) Smith had a tragic experience in the woods near Fredericton Junction. Benjamin had been working in the woods with his brothers and decided to come home for the weekend. As he was walking home he met up with a panther. Acting to save his life he climbed a tree but opposite to the tree he climbed, there was another tree which the panther had climbed. With the panther trying to claw him, Benjamin tied his clasp knife to this boot and started kicking the panther. While kicking the panther, he hollered for his brothers to come. Finally, the panther gave up and left, then his brothers came. When Benjamin climbed down the tree he fainted from the loss of blood, because the panther scratched and cut him badly. He needed special attention for about six weeks. Benjamin Smith wore bandages on his legs and was crippled for the rest of his life, but at least he saved his life from the panther." 7

8 There is also another mention of Benjamin Smith and this is regarding his Wife's grave. "After Amelia had been buried, Benjamin put concrete walls around her grave so cows could not walk on it. These walls are still there today although they are starting to deteriorate." Pictures of Amelia's and Benjamin's gravestones are attached. Benjamin s link to his son George Frederick is found in his last will and testament which names George F. as a son, beneficiary and executor of his will. (Copy attached with transcription). George Frederick was a lumberman in Victoria Corner who married Ruth Amelia Mitchell (a distant cousin also descended from Daniel Smith Sr. via his daughter Mary and George Hayward). Ruth Amelia Mitchell was first married to Oran James Seeley with whom she had two daughters Annie J. and Bertha Jane. He died on 1 July 1854 and between then and 1859 she married George Frederick Smith. She is listed as George Frederick s wife in the 1861 census for Blissville, and Annie and Bertha are listed as step-daughters aged 5 and 6, while Valinda is listed as a daughter aged 2 and John G is listed as a son aged seven months. By the time of the 1871 census the family had moved to Wakefield Parish, Carleton County and the family increased to include sons Hartley age 8, Frank (Benjamin Franklin) Smith aged 5, Elizabeth aged 3 and Howard aged one month as well as step daughters Annie and Bertha Seeley. Ruth died 20 March 1878 and is buried in the Victoria Corner Cemetery. George appears to have remarried a Martha A. Smith who is listed in the 1881 census as his wife aged 40. George died on 14 March 1887 and his obituary lists his survivors as including a wife, who was not Ruth Amelia. George and Ruth Amelia and two of their sons, John Gilbert and Hartley, who died in their 20 s are buried in the Victoria Corner cemetery (copies of gravestone photos attached). George Frederick s link to his son Benjamin Franklin Smith is found in the 1871 and 1881 census (where he is listed as Frank Smith ). See also: Daniel F Johnson : Volume 68 Number 469 Date : December 19, 1887 County : Saint John Place : Saint John Newspaper : Saint John Globe "Between 12 and 1 o'clock today as B.F. SMITH, about 22 years of age, who keeps a retail grocery store on Winslow St., Carleton (St. John) was unharnessing a horse belonging to his uncle, Israel E. SMITH, the animal kicked out with one of its feet striking Mr. Smith on the forehead. Mr. Smith was taken to Dr. Musgrove who examined the wounds and dressed them. He is a son of late Geo. F. SMITH of Carleton County." The Saint John Register of marriages for B.F. Smith s wedding to Catherine May McLellan lists Benjamin F. s parents as George and Amelia Smith (copy attached). 8

9 Benjamin Franklin Smith s links to his son George Franklin are found in several places: The 1891 census for Albert Ward, Saint John City, lists George F. Smith as the 1 year old son of Benjamin Franklin Smith and his mother Catherine Smith ; the 1901 census lists George F. Smith as the 11 year old son of B. F Smith and Catherine M. Smith; the 1911 census lists George Smith as living in East Florenceville, Carleton County with his parents B Frank Smith and Kathleen Smith. George Franklin s 1916 Attestation Paper for enlistment in the Canadian Army lists his next of kin as B. Franklin Smith; George Franklin s death certificate (he died before his father) lists Benjamin F. Smith as the father. (Copies all attached). Benjamin Franklin Smith used several variations of his name as witnessed by the examples found in the 1871 and 1881 census Frank ; the 1901 census Benjamin Franklin, the 1911 census B. Frank ; a December 19, 1887 article in the Saint John Globe used B.F. Smith; the March 21, 1889 Saint John Daily telegraph used B. Frank regarding his wedding, while the March 21, 1889 Saint John Globe reporting the same event referred to him as Benjamin F. and the March 30, 1889 Carleton Sentinel also reporting on his wedding referred to him as Benjamin Franklin. The Saint John record of marriages lists him as Benjamin F ; his obituary in the March 23, 1944 Hartland Observer refers to him as B.F. in the headline and Benjamin Franklin in the article. (Photocopies attached to show they are same person). Benjamin Franklin Smith was a produce supplier in East Florenceville, NB, very active in provincial and federal politics. He served as an MLA for many years and was briefly a Minister in the provincial government in He was a central figure in the Great Potato scandal during WWI which is documented in Michael Doyle's book Front Benches and Back Rooms, and in the Commission of Inquiry which found that he had benefitted from the scheme to the extent of $2500. He lost the 1911 federal election in Victoria-Carleton by 11 votes, refused to run in the 1916 federal election as his Liberal opponent, Frank Carvell, was the New Brunswick Minister in PM Borden s Union Government. He was finally elected to the House of Commons in 1930 and appointed to the Senate in 1935 by PM RB Bennett where he remained until his death in After the death of his first wife, Catherine May McLellan in 1935 he married Clarisse A. McEachran on 18 December 1936 in Ottawa. She died on 19 November 1966 and is buried in the Union Cemetery, Thornbury, Ontario. Benjamin Franklin Smith, his first wife Catherine and his son George Franklin and his wife Mary Judith Sale Cope Smith are all buried in a family plot in the United Baptist Cemetery in East Florenceville, NB. (photo of gravestone attached). B.F Smith s obituary in the Hartland Observer details the number of other members of the wider Smith family who were involved in New Brunswick politics. George Franklin Smith s link to his daughter Marion Cope is found on her marriage certificate to Ronald Harding Noble in George Franklin served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI in the Canadian Postal Corps and while hospitalized he met his future wife, Mary Judith Sale Cope. They were married on Feb 4, 1919 in the old Saint Mary's Church, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland, where her father was serving in the British Army. After the war George Franklin worked as a postal clerk in a CPR railway mail car between St. Stephen and Edmunston and later for his father in the produce business. George died on February 12, 1932 in hospital in Toronto, age 42 leaving his wife and seven children ranging in age from 11 to several months in East Florenceville, NB. (Copy of marriage certificate attached as well as copy of her birth certificate) 9

10 Marion Cope Smith Noble s link to John Joseph Noble is found on his birth certificate. She was a teacher, mother of six children and married to a Baptist Minister for almost 60 years. She and her family lived in Newton, Mass, Moncton, NB, West Acton, Mass, Saint John, NB, Bridgewater, NS, and Kingston, ON, where she currently resides. John J. Noble was born in Newton, Mass. He attended Prince Charles Intermediate School in Saint John, NB, high school in Bridgewater, NS and received his BA Honours (Political Science) at Acadia University in He did his officer training (COTC) at Camp Shilo, Manitoba and received his commission as a 2 Lt in He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1966 and remained there throughout a career which last more than 35 years. He served abroad in Dakar, Senegal; Ankara, Turkey; Geneva, Switzerland and in Ottawa was Director of the Press Office and Official Spokesman for the Minister and the Department; Director of US Relations; Director General of the US Relations Bureau, the International Security and Arms Control Bureau and the International Organizations Bureau. He was named Ambassador to Greece in 1993; Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Paris in 1994, with concurrent accreditation as Consul General of Canada to Monaco; Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 1998, with concurrent accreditation as Permanent Observer of Canada to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He retired in 2001 and was named a Fulbright Scholar at Michigan State University in From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of Research and Communications at the Centre for Trade Policy and Law. He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University; a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University; a Senior Associate at the Centre for Trade Policy and Law; and a Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of Canadian foreign policy and from 2007 to 2009 served as a Chief Federal Negotiator and Minister s Special Representative for land claims in British Colombia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nunavut. From 2006 to 2009 he served as President of the Retired Heads of Mission Association (RHOMA). He is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants via his paternal grandmother Sarah (Snow) Noble. He is a member of the New Brunswick Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada and has received a certificate proving his links to his Loyalist ancestor, Daniel Smith via his mother. He married Linda June Hilton Styan on August 20, 1966 and they have three children and two grandchildren. He and his wife reside in Ottawa. 10