SMART ROOTS - Our Family Origins
Our Scottish/English History (1597 - 1684)This history of our Smart family goes back to the late 16th Century in the highlands of northern Scotland. But our recorded family history only reaches back in time to 1597 when John Smart Senior's father was born somewhere in Scotland. It is thought he was Roman Catholic (assumed due to later America immigration via Maryland). Immigration Search Doc John Smart Sr., moved to England sometime during his life
(1623-80) probably because of religious/political pressures.
His son, John Smart Jr., was born in 1663 at Warwick, Middleton, England. After losing his young wife and only child during labor, John Jr. immigrated to America in 1684 at the age of 21. He immigrated to the New World in order to create a new life. He carried letters of introduction from prominent friends and associates in England. They recommended that, after arriving, he contact prominent "exiles" already settled in America, to see where he could best secure a living. One such man, Joseph Reed, lived in Maryland, where John's ship landed. |
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