Giles Smith

Other Events:

• moved: Bankside, Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Immigration: Massachusetts; from England
• Occupation: Professor
• Resided: 1639, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
• Will: 16 Jun 1662
• Will Proved: 05 Mar 1663

Notes:

Settled in Hartford CT in 1639
moved to Bankside, Fairfield Co, CT.
His will was dated June 16, 1662 and proved March 5, 1663

History of Fairfield, CT
From time to time they were joined by a few other planters among whom were Giles Smith Simon Couch Henry Plaistead Joseph Lockwood Robert Rumsie Robert Meaker and Thomas Barnum The Bankside farmers appear to have lived in a luxurious manner for those days Some of them owned slaves and with the cheap hire of Indian labor they reaped large and valuable crops The inventories of their estates exhibit an accumulation of handsome fortunes In the month of November the General Court ordered that as Fairfield had not rendered a just & perfect list of the estates of her inhabitants according to the order of the Court that the sd town should pay twenty nobles as a fine for their neglect & contempt thereof & that they should pay rate for the present year according to the estates they had formerly given
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GILES SMITH, Hartford, Conn., 1639, received land "by courtesie of the town"; his home lot was on Maine Street, on the corner of what is now Charter Oak Street.
He sold 20 acres to Thomas Hosmer, March 6, 1642; later Philip Davis bought his house and land.
He was one of the earliest settlers of New London, but removed to Fairfield by 1651, and died there, 1669.
He left a second wife, Eunice (not the mother of his children), whose first husband was Jonathan Porter of Huntington, L. I. Anna Smith, his daughter, married Francis Andrews.
Memorial History of Hartford. Trumbull, p. 25g. Hartford in Olden Time, p. 31.
http://dunhamwilcox.net/ne/puritan4.htm

Giles married Maria "Mary" Wheeler in 1623 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Maria (daughter of Thomas Wheeler and Ann Halsey) was born on 20 Oct 1605 in Boume End In, Cranfield, Bedford, England; died after 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ellen Smith was born about 1634 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut; and died.
2. Elizabeth Smith was born on 22 Oct 1644 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 06 Oct 1703.
3. A. Smith
4. Samuel Smith was born in 1636; died on 21 Mar 1698 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
5. John Smith was born about 1638; died on 30 Oct 1690.

Other Events:

• Immigration: from England

Henry married Frances Sanford in Dorchester, Dorset, England. Frances was born about 1580 in Dorchester, Dorset, England; died on 10 Oct 1657 in Wraisbury, Buckingham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]